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The book offers new perspectives on the history of China’s late imperial period and presents a much-needed novel explanation for China’s stagnation and decline in recent centuries. It begins by questioning all the conventional wisdom on the factors behind China’s...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-03-31
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From a former president of the United Nations Security Council, an authoritative look at the US, China, and the defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century “An excellent and important book on the biggest question in international affairs: how will...
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PublicAffairs
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2020-03-31
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In 2011 Michel Aberson, Maria Cristina Biella, Massimiliano Di Fazio and Manuela Wullschleger (two Italians and two Swiss, two archaeologists and two historians of antiquity) met in Geneva at the Fondation Hardt pour l'étude de l'Antiquite classique and decided to...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-03-31
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An innovative approach to the study of ten centuries of Jewish culture and history A Companion to Late Ancient Jews and Judaism explores the Jewish people, their communities, and various manifestations of their religious and cultural expressions from the third century...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-03-26
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Aerial warfare has dominated war-making for over 100 years, and despite regular announcements of its demise, it shows no sign of becoming obsolete. In this Very Short Introduction Frank Ledwidge offers a sweeping look at the history of aerial warfare, introducing the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-26
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Aerial warfare has dominated war-making for over 100 years, and despite regular announcements of its demise, it shows no sign of becoming obsolete. In this Very Short Introduction Frank Ledwidge offers a sweeping look at the history of aerial warfare, introducing the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-26
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This book offers a new interpretation of the place of periodicals in nineteenth-century Ireland. Case studies of representative titles as well as maps and visual material (lithographs, wood engravings, title-pages) illustrate a thriving industry, encouraged, rather than...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-26
Collection :
New Directions in Book History
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Sweet and Clean? challenges the widely held beliefs on bathing and cleanliness in the past. For over thirty years, the work of the French historian, George Vigarello, has been hugely influential on early modern European social history, describing an aversion to water...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-26
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Sweet and Clean? challenges the widely held beliefs on bathing and cleanliness in the past. For over thirty years, the work of the French historian, George Vigarello, has been hugely influential on early modern European social history, describing an aversion to water...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-26
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From the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people have been engaged in conflict - Catholic against Protestant, Republican against Unionist. The traumas of violence in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-26
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From the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people have been engaged in conflict - Catholic against Protestant, Republican against Unionist. The traumas of violence in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-26
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In a brilliant procession through the last 250 years, Ute Frevert looks at the role that public humiliation has played in modern society, showing how humiliation - and the feeling of shame that it engenders - has been used as a means of coercion and control, from the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-26
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In a brilliant procession through the last 250 years, Ute Frevert looks at the role that public humiliation has played in modern society, showing how humiliation - and the feeling of shame that it engenders - has been used as a means of coercion and control, from the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-26
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A "marvelous" (Sports Illustrated) portrait of the three men whose lives were forever changed by WWI-era Boston and the Spanish flu: baseball star Babe Ruth, symphony conductor Karl Muck, and Harvard law student Charles Whittlesey. In the fall of 1918, a...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2020-03-24
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The "scrupulously detailed" (Los Angeles Times) story of how the fight to build Dodgers Stadium, and transform Los Angeles into a big league city, came at the cost of everyday Angelenos Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But the story of how it came to...
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PublicAffairs
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2020-03-24
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Almost everyone has heard of Adam Smith, founding father of modern economics and author of Wealth of Nations. There is, however, much more to him than this. This new introduction gives a crystal clear overview of the entirety of Smith’s thought. It demonstrates how...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-03-23
Collection :
Classic Thinkers
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A superb study of one of the most important, romantic and dynamic figures of European history.'A fine book ... the web of political intrigue unfolds like an appetising detective novel' ScotsmanThe last king of Poland owed his throne largely to his youthful romance with...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2020-03-19
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The Moment of Liberation in Western Europe, 1943-1948, regards the final two years of World War II and the immediate post-liberation period as a moment in twentieth century history, when the shape and contours of postwar Western Europe appeared highly uncertain and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-19
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This is the story of Shirley Rosalyn Kraus Tydor, the American-born daughter of
early 20th-century Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Her father was an
atheist\communist and her mother a traditional Jew.
Shirley, the rebel, became a career woman and married her...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-03-17
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