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Während der westeuropäische Humanismus im zaristischen Russland nur wenig Resonanz fand, ging er seit den dreißiger Jahren als proletarischer und später als sozialistischer Humanismus in die politische Rhetorik der Sowjetunion ein und wurde...
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Springer VS
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2025-04-07
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Historik ist eine systematisch angelegte Reflexion auf die Grundlagen und soziokulturellen Voraussetzungen sowie auf die Funktionen der Geschichtswissenschaft. Sie thematisiert die maßgebenden Sinnkriterien des historischen Denkens und dessen disziplinäre...
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Springer VS
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2025-04-04
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Libya and the West: What Everyone Needs to Know® is a welcome update to the literature on Western diplomatic relations with Libya. It specifically analyzes the complicated relationships that Italy, Britain, the United States, and France developed withLibya beginning in...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-04-03
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The Iron Horse in Indian Country examines the relationships between Indigenous peoples and railroads that unfolded in the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Historians have long pondered the railroad's profound and far-reaching role in...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-04-03
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Celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE Day in this fully illustrated insight into the final months of the Second World War.From the long-awaited opening of the second front in the West on D-Day, 6 June 1944, to the final surrender of Germany on 8 May 1945, the Allied...
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Welbeck
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2025-04-03
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Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: Myth and History discusses four different stories told in antiquity about the meeting betweenAlexander the Great and the Judeans of Jerusalem. In history, this meeting passed without noticeable events. Into the historical void stepped...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-04-03
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The dissolution of the Order of the Temple and the persecution of the Knights Templar are still fresh in people's minds. Why did King Philip the Fair and Pope Clement V set out to destroy them? What secrets did the Knights Templar hold?Just as the Da Vinci Code revealed...
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Max Milo Éditions
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2025-04-03
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This open access book presents the main theme which advances the significance of cultural dialogue between China and Europe. The essence of the historical ties between China and Europe has resurfaced, much because of the Belt and Road Initiative launched in 2013 by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-04-02
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Louis XIII's court has long been a fixture of popular culture, thanks in part to the many movie and TV adaptations of Alexandre Dumas's novel, The Three Musketeers. Yet it remains misunderstood, commonly mischaracterized as unimportant, or wholly subservient to the...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-04-02
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Few know that the president’s desk in the Oval Office plays a part in one of the world’s most extraordinary sagas; in Resolute, noted historian Martin Sandler brings the story to light. After Sir John Franklin and his ships disappeared in the Arctic...
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Union Square & Co.
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2025-04-01
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Garden of Wisdom: Timeless Teachings in an AI Era is a transformative exploration of the intersection between ancient wisdom and modern technology. This book offers a comprehensive framework for the ethical evolution of artificial intelligence, integrating timeless...
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Springer
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2025-03-31
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„Burmeister habe die Republik Argentinien wissenschaftlich urbanisiert“. Diese Aussage tätigte der argentinische Innenminister Joaquín Victor Gonzáles auf dem 17. Amerika-Kongress im Mai 1910 in Buenos Aires. Von dieser Aussage abgeleitet,...
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Springer VS
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2025-03-31
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Until recently, historians tended to...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-03-30
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This book provides a detailed examination of the questions that preoccupied British alienists throughout the second half of the nineteenth century. Was insanity one disorder with different forms or a set of distinct natural kinds that each had different causes,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-03-30
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This book explores intermedial compositional processes in later Byzantium, building on the Akathistos Hymnos. The relationship between the hymn’s text, music, and illustrations has yet to be explored in detail. The contributions here argue that these painted cycles...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-03-28
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This book traces the genesis of the indebtedness of the nation-state in the West, arguing that it is a phenomenon which preceded the emergence of capitalism. Even prior to the emergence of the capitalist mode of production, the ruling class of feudal landowners in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-03-28
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Galen of Pergamum (AD 129--c. 210), physician and philosopher, anatomist, logician, clinical and pharmacological theorist and researcher, and personal doctor to the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was the most influential and versatile medical author of the Graeco-Roman world....
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Oxford University Press
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2025-03-28
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Vietnam: The Unwinnable War is a dramatic guide to the suffering, sacrifice and heroism of one of the most significant and debated periods in twentieth-century history. Expertly retold with searing imagery and accounts of the events that unfolded, this definitive visual...
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Welbeck
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2025-03-27
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In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. Almost fifty women and girls from eleven nations were drafted into a hurriedly assembled band that would play marching music to other...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2025-03-27
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A global and comprehensive history of a modern institution of inhumanity.
In popular perception concentration camps are synonymous with genocide and Nazi racial extermination. Yet concentration camps were and are a global phenomenon, not restricted to Nazi Germany,...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-03-26
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