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A thorough work of contemporary history and a distillation of the complex web of the Iranian Kurdish political world, this biography of Kurdish leader Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou depicts the character and passionate action of one of the twentieth century’s most exceptional...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-09-30
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Das politische System Athens erfuhr im Zeitraum zwischen 404 und 307 eine Neutarierung, die sich mit den Schlagwörtern „Niedergang“ oder „Krise“ nicht adäquat erfassen lässt. Die umfassende Analyse der öffentlichen Finanzen Athens eröffnet einen neuen Zugang zu dieser...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
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2019-09-27
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Schriften zur Alten Geschichte
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This book explores how fin de siècle Britain and Britons displaced spatially-charged apprehensions about imperial decline, urban decay and unpoliced borders onto Jews from Eastern Europe migrating westwards. The myriad of representations of the ‘alien Jew’ that emerged...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-09-27
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This book considers the role of civilian workers on U.S. bases in Okinawa, Japan and how transnational movements within East Asia during the Occupation period brought foreign workers, mostly from the Philippines, to work on these bases. Decades later, in a seeming...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-27
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LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCELONGLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN'A moving, powerful and highly innovative sidelight on the fall of Communism in East Germany through punk style and music. This is a complete original' HWA Non-Fiction Crown Judges...
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Dialogue Books
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2019-09-26
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This Palgrave Pivot explores the representation of sea kings, sinners, and saints in the mid-thirteenth century Chronicles of the Kings of Man and the Isles, the single most important text for the history of the kingdoms of Man and the Isles, c.1066-1300. The focus of...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-09-26
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'An incredible portal to our past' The Sunday TimesOn 7 January 1922, Ireland became a free state. Born into that era of turbulence and hope were the twenty-six women and men whose stories and memories of a lifetime are captured by cherished Irish journalist Valerie...
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Hachette Books Ireland
Parution :
2019-09-26
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Brilliant horsemen and great fighters, the Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC. Their steppe homeland bordered on a number...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-26
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In the highly politicized memory space of postwar South Korea, many families have been deprived of their right to mourn loved ones lost in the Korean War. Only since the 1990s has the government begun to acknowledge the atrocities committed by South Korean and American...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-09-26
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The Battle of Britain has held an enchanted place in British popular history and memory throughout the modern era. Its transition from history to heritage since 1965 confirms that the 1940 narrative shaped by the State has been sustained by historians, the media,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-26
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Lives Reclaimed tells an extraordinary story of resistance against the Nazi regime and help for Jews in the Third Reich. Still largely unknown today, 'The Bund' were a small left-wing group based in Germany's industrial heartland. Initially preoccupied with surviving...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-26
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This open access book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in British cattle.This question has plagued several professional generations of politicians, policymakers,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-25
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This book offers an institutional history of the British Legation in Kabul, which was established in response to the independence of Afghanistan in 1919. It contextualises this diplomatic mission in the wider remit of Anglo-Afghan relations and diplomacy from the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-25
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Swaziland—recently renamed Eswatini—is the only nation-state in Africa with a functioning indigenous political system. Elsewhere on the continent, most departing colonial administrators were succeeded by Western-educated elites. In Swaziland, traditional Swazi leaders...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-25
Collection :
African Histories and Modernities
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Economic repression became a keystone of the social exclusion policies of the Franco dictatorship from the stage of the coup d'état. Beyond its utility in provisioning the warfronts and for the proper functioning of the rearguard, it became a valuable deterrent and a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-09-24
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The untold story of the Christian missionaries who played a crucial role in the allied victory in World War II What makes a good missionary makes a good spy. Or so thought "Wild" Bill Donovan when he secretly recruited a team of religious activists for the Office of...
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Basic Books
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2019-09-24
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This book recounts France’s responses to refugees from the liberation of Paris in 1944 to the end of the civil wars in the former Yugoslavia in 1995. It questions whether France fulfilled the promise of asylum for those persecuted for the ‘cause of liberty’ made in its...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-23
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Beethoven-Bildnisse gibt es seit über 200 Jahren, und jenseits des omnipräsenten Titanenhauptes gibt es eine Vielfalt von Gestaltungen in gezeichneter, gemalter und plastischer Form, die viel über ihre jeweilige Zeit und über unsere Zugänge zu Beethovens Musik zu...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-09-19
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The Roman conquest of Italy in the Republican period (from c. 400 to 50 BC) led to widespread economic changes in which the conquered Italians played an important role. Italy's Economic Revolution analyses the integration of Italy during this period and explores the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-19
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The Roman conquest of Italy in the Republican period (from c. 400 to 50 BC) led to widespread economic changes in which the conquered Italians played an important role. Italy's Economic Revolution analyses the integration of Italy during this period and explores the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-19
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