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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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2025-03-24
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Trust the power of cognitive science to help students to understand more, remember more and feel more confident about their exams.This textbook is guaranteed to make learning more effective. The approach was created by author and teacher Dale Banham, who has amazing...
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Hodder Education
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2025-03-24
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This book examines the legacy of one of the most influential members of Spanish society in the seventeenth-century Philippines, Dominican scholar Juan de Paz. Using a unique manuscript from the collections of the Archivo de la Universidad de Santo Tomás in Manila,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-03-22
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This open access book explores how Italy experienced the crucial period of transition that has come to be known as the ‘Shock of the Global’ during the 1970s.This decade marked a change between the prevailing socio-political and economic structures of the post-war world...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-03-21
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The Oxford Handbook of Tourism History provides an essential reference resource that consolidates innovative research into the history of tourism while mapping new trajectories that embrace scholars working in a variety of national contexts.The collection's original...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-03-21
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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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2025-03-21
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From the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century Europe-Elisabeth, empress of Austria, and Eugénie, empress of France-and their efforts to rule amid the...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2025-03-20
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Explore the good, the bad, and the ugly of the United States history Looking for the essentials of more than 200 years of United States history? Starting at the early civilizations, U.S. History For Dummies covers the growing pains of a new nation. Brush up on the major...
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For Dummies
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2025-03-20
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The First World War transformed modern politics. No example demonstrates this more powerfully than the enactment and use of emergency powers by all belligerents. Wartime governments passed extensive emergency legislation that allowed them to pursue their war efforts...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-03-19
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In an urgent and personal new book, Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, the highest-elected Jewish official in America, sheds light on the Jewish American experience and sounds the alarm about the troubling resurgence of antisemitism. For...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2025-03-18
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This book explores the dynamic interplay between memory and history during the crucial period from the 8th to the 14th century in medieval India. It takes up an interdisciplinary approach and includes contributions from seasoned scholars and emerging...
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Springer
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2025-03-18
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This book provides the first detailed historical account of British public opinion and party policy towards European integration from 1973 (the year in which the UK joined the European Community) to 2016 (the year in which the UK voted to leave the European Union). It...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-18
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This open access book is an ambitious study about how to use comparative methods to analyze contemporary military strategy in the maritime domain. Based on the three strategic concepts of area denial, sea control and power projection, this book analyzes the intensive...
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Springer
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2025-03-17
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This volume presents the first comprehensive study in English of the Roman History by Appian of Alexandria. Appian was an Egyptian Greek and Roman citizen, who wrote his history of Rome in twenty-four books, covering the period from the foundation of the city to...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-03-17
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The Silk Road may be one origin of globalization, but the Indian Ocean is another. Barry Cunliffe examines the beginning of maritime trade using the evidence of archaeology and the tales of great travellers such as Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, and the Chinese Admiral, Zheng...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-03-14
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Until recently the Russian Federation used to be one of the largest markets for outbound travel. Among Russians’ favourite destinations were cities that used to be part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and are now located in the independent nation-states...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-03-14
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In the nineteenth century, as Britain became the world's most powerful industrial empire, Ireland starved. The Great Famine fractured long-held assumptions about political economy and 'civilisation', threatening disorder in Britain itself. Ireland was a laboratory for...
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Robinson
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2025-03-13
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A fascinating compendium of reported alien sightings, encounters and abductions, such as the mysterious Belgian UFO wave, the unusual Lubbock lights, and the infamous Roswell incidentWhat did Kenneth Arnold see flying above Mount Rainier?What were the Phoenix...
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Summersdale
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2025-03-13
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Drawing on a quantitative analysis of hundreds of printed and archival sources from 77 towns, The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval England is the first cross-regional investigation into the history of urban customs since Mary Bateson's seminal, two-volume work...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-03-12
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