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This book presents a comprehensive account of the history of the Grand Canal of China, which is over 6,000 miles long and more than 2,500 years old. The Grand Canal of China flows through Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang, connecting the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-26
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Following the defeat of the Paris Commune in May 1871, thousands of Commune militants fled France to avoid imprisonment, deportation, or death. As a result, and due in large part to Britain's liberal asylum policy, around 3500 refugees arrived in Britain in the early...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-26
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'A delightful exploration of one of our most important cultural figures in the community, the postman. Postal Paths journeys around the UK, unearthing forgotten stories... You will never look at a postman in the same way again.' -REBECCA SMITH, author of Rural: The...
Editeur :
Monoray
Parution :
2025-04-24
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Editeur :
Headline
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2025-04-24
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This book focuses on women’s participation in the Moravian Church during the eighteenth century, focusing on the intentional practice of international marriage and migration that supported their missionary work amongst enslaved populations in the Caribbean. It argues...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-24
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A new perspective on Japanese tactics during the Asia-Pacific War, using remarkable first-hand Japanese source material.Even after eighty years since the end of a conflict that killed at least thirty-five million people, there remains a deep well of bitterness and anger...
Editeur :
Wildfire
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2025-04-24
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This volume of essays explores how the global city is confronting new forms of crises and disruption. Examining cities in the Caribbean, North America, Africa, the Persian Gulf, Asia and Australia, the essays use literary and cultural analysis to examine the pasts,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-23
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This book revisits the history of the international garden city town planning movement in the early twentieth century, focusing on the significance of various forms of 'physical culture' - sport, recreation, leisure, and other active body practices - within...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-23
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Making Domesday presents a fresh interpretation of William the Conqueror's survey of England, made possible by a major collaborative study and a new online edition of Exon Domesday, the earliest of the three original manuscripts to survive from the Domesday survey. The...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-23
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A history of the dandy from below, from Beau Brummell and Baudelaire to Bowie and Bolan... and beyond.
The historical figure of the dandy has commonly been described as an upper-class gentleman, often exemplified by well-known men such as Beau Brummell, Charles...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-22
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'Rich and replenishing ... I felt lovesick for it after it was done' ELEANOR CATTON, Booker Prize-winning author'A fascinating, original story' TLS'I really loved this book' JENN ASHWORTH'A real treasure' ROWAN WILLIAMS, former Archbishop of Canterbury__________In the...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2025-04-17
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13,99€
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In the 1890s, the choice between the gold standard and the free coinage of silver upended American politics. The gold standard linked the United States to the larger international financial system, in which gold was the common denominator. The free coinage of silver...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-17
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An intergenerational story of war, forgiveness, and memory told through stolen and returned battlefield souvenirs. How do we remember war? How do we forgive? In Blood, Flowers Bloom illuminates one of the last untold stories of World War...
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PublicAffairs
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2025-04-15
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Der offene Überfall Russlands auf die Ukraine im Februar 2022 hat der westlichen Öffentlichkeit die Wichtigkeit der ukrainischen Kulturgeschichte bewusst gemacht. Es mangelt allerdings an grundlegenden Handbüchern. Auf Deutsch liegt keine ukrainische Literaturgeschichte...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-04-12
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Making Domesday presents a fresh interpretation of William the Conqueror's survey of England, made possible by a major collaborative study and a new online edition of Exon Domesday, the earliest of the three original manuscripts to survive from the Domesday survey. The...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-12
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An exploration of the mind of one of America's most beloved Founding Fathers and most brilliant minds, through the books he read and his social circles in the United States and Europe.
Arguably the most intellectual, creative, cosmopolitan, and curious of the Founding...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-04-11
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This open access book is an innovative history of community health practitioners’ responses to the seemingly intractable problem of men (and on rare occasions, women) sexually abusing children within the private family home. It is situated within a social...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-10
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'An instant classic'RICHARD CURTIS'A non-fiction Catch-22'MATT HAIG Readers are LOVING The Accidental Soldier:'One of the funniest books you will ever read' ?????'I absolutely loved it - it's so very funny but also very poignant in...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2025-04-10
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Joy of Leaving Your Sh*t All Over the Place, this is a hilarious and delightfully packaged celebration of womanhood and one-of-a-kind historical record of boobs—for women, and the people who love them. ...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2025-04-08
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Gulf South Rebels, Insurgents, and Revolutionaries is a collection of essays on the tangled yet variegated histories of rebellious actors in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuryGulf South and its linked environs. Following diverse rebels, revolutionaries, militants,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-07
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