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For three hundred years the ghetto defined Jewish culture in the late medieval and early modern period in Western Europe. In the nineteenth-century it was a free-floating concept which travelled to Eastern Europe and the United States. Eastern European “ghettos”, which...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-08-27
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For three hundred years the ghetto defined Jewish culture in the late medieval and early modern period in Western Europe. In the nineteenth-century it was a free-floating concept which travelled to Eastern Europe and the United States. Eastern European “ghettos”, which...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-08-27
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Wer hat noch nicht erlebt, dass er auf neugierige Fragen ausländischer Freunde nur äußerst vage antworten konnte oder an kniffeligen Quiz-Fragen rund um Schwarz-Rot-Gold gescheitert ist? Obwohl man glaubt, Deutschland zu kennen, entspricht das gefühlte Wissen nicht...
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Wiley-VCH
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2020-08-26
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Für Dummies
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Under the Soviet regime, millions of zeks (prisoners) were incarcerated in the forced labor camps, the Gulag. There many died of starvation, disease, and exhaustion, and some were killed by criminals and camp guards. In 1939, as the Nazis and Soviets invaded Poland,...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-08-26
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The definitive history of the Vikings—from arts and culture to politics and cosmology—by a distinguished archaeologist with decades of expertiseThe Viking Age—from 750 to 1050—saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the...
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Basic Books
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2020-08-25
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A powerful, character-driven narrative of the Korean War from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who helped uncover some of its longest-held and darkest secrets.The war that broke out in Korea on a Sunday morning seventy years ago has come to be recognized as a critical...
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PublicAffairs
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2020-08-25
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Learn to craft the perfect historical research paper with this approachable and practical guide Essaying the Past: How to Read, Write, and Think about History, 4th Edition continues the tradition of excellence established by the previous editions. Equal parts research...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2020-08-25
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This edited collection brings together varying angles and approaches to tackle the multi-dimensional issue of anti-Catholicism since the Protestant Reformation in Britain and Ireland. It is of course difficult to infer from such geographically and historically...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-08-24
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Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000
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“This volume is interesting both because of its global focus, and its chronology up to the present, it covers a good century of changes. It will help define the field of gender studies of humanitarianism, and its relevance for understanding the history of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-08-24
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This book explores the Paris Ecole Militaire as an institution, arguing for its importance as a school that presented itself as a model for reform during a key moment in the movement towards military professionalism as well as state-run secular education. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-08-24
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A compendium of original essays and contemporary viewpoints on the 1917 Revolution The Russian revolution of 1917 reverberated throughout an empire that covered one-sixth of the world. It altered the geo-political landscape of not only Eurasia, but of the entire globe....
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2020-08-21
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
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When Julie Welch called in her first ever football report at the Observer, an entire room of men fell silent. Heart in her mouth, Julie waited for the voice on the other end of the line to declare it passable. She'd done it. She was the first ever female football...
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Trapeze
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2020-08-20
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The Tupac Amaru rebellion of 1780-1783 began as a local revolt against colonial authorities and grew into the largest rebellion in the history of Spain's American empire-more widespread and deadlier than the American Revolution. An official collector of tribute for the...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-08-20
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The richest and most politically complex regions in Italy in the earliest middle ages were the Byzantine sections of the peninsula, thanks to their links with the most coherent early medieval state, the Byzantine empire. This comparative study of the histories of Rome,...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-08-20
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The richest and most politically complex regions in Italy in the earliest middle ages were the Byzantine sections of the peninsula, thanks to their links with the most coherent early medieval state, the Byzantine empire. This comparative study of the histories of Rome,...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-08-20
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The American Civil War lasted from 1861 to 1865, killing nearly 700,000 Americans and costing the country untold millions of dollars.The events of this tragic war are so steeped in the collective memory of the United States and so taken for granted that it is sometimes...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-08-20
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?This book examines the role of memory in animation, as well as the ways in which the medium of animation can function as a technology of remembering and forgetting. By doing so, it establishes a platform for the cross-fertilization between the burgeoning fields of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-08-20
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This book tackles cultural mobilization in the First World War as a plural process of identity formation and de-formation. It explores eight different settings in which individuals, communities and conceptual paradigms were mobilized. Taking an interdisciplinary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-19
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‘In this compelling and thoroughly researched book, Benjamin Huskinson demonstrates that just as there is broad diversity within evangelicalism, so too there is broad diversity among “creationists.” His work on the Intelligent Design movement is superb, and he prompts...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-08-19
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Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World
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This book examines attitudes towards German held captive in Britain, drawing on original archival material including newspaper and newsreel content, diaries, sociological surveys and opinion polls, as well as official documentation and the archives of pressure groups...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-19
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