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This book explores the social roots, character, and consequences of paramilitary violence in Europe in the 1940s. Paramilitarism had an impact on the lives of millions of Europeans, yet knowledge about this important topic is partial and fragmented.
The general...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-29
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History tells us that the Second World War broke Britain as a great power, diminishing its military strength, ruining its economy, and precipitating a striking wave of decolonization. Nationalists and new superpowers dominated the post-war landscape, and the country was...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-01-29
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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 on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The idea that a child is intellectually 'gifted' has...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-01-28
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A “brilliantly researched and surprising” (Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University) history of Southern segregationists’ long war against interracial relationships, and the century-long fight to restore the freedom to love, marry, and inherit Interracial...
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Basic Books
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2025-01-28
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A compassionate, practical guidebook for veterans transitioning from active duty to civilian life and for the loved ones supporting their journey. "Challenging yet reassuring....a key addition to every veteran’s packing list ." --Stan McChrystal,...
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Balance
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2025-01-28
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This book explores the entanglements among Spain, Portugal, and the Dutch Republic during the seventeenth century from a global perspective. It offers a compelling analysis of how Ibero-Dutch relations shifted from violence and conflict—during the Iberian Union...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-25
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National service was a defining feature for a generation of young men in post-war Britain. Around 2.3 million of them were called up between the end of World War Two and 1963, when conscription ended. However, national service was forgotten almost before it had ended, a...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-01-25
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'Mama, it's me.' I held her hand in mine, hoping it would give her the strength to hold on. Finally, she spoke, her voice barely above a whisper.'Do not cry when I die.''Quite simply the most important book you will read this year' Hazel Gaynor'An extraordinary read'...
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Seven Dials
Parution :
2025-01-23
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This book uncovers how during the origins of modernity in the nineteenth century the senses were mobilised to sell more, both through the popularisation of objects aimed at the senses (such as panoramas, optical boxes, automatons, music boxes and pianolas),...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-23
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Studiando le modalità con cui le élites italiane parteciparono alla gestione amministrativa, politica, militare e religiosa della Monarchia ispanica, questo libro evidenzia i vari gradi e forme del loro contributo all’egemonia spagnola. Lo studio si inserisce nei...
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Publications de l'École française de Rome
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2025-01-23
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Collection de l'École française de Rome
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Annemarie Schwarzenbach was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable women, possibly the greatest sexual and political radical of the 1930s. But until now she’s been largely ignored. Born to a wealthy family in Switzerland, as a teenager she rebelled against her...
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Polity
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2025-01-23
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Early in the modern period, prisoners of war with the rank of officer or equivalent had the right to petition for parole. By effectively pawning their personal honour, they were able to purchase freedom of movement and other privileges-in-captivity. Increasingly, other...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-01-22
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It is well-known that gender distinctions structure the modern labour market, but why is this so and how far back in time does the pattern extend? Gender, Work, and the Transition to Modernity in Northwestern Europe, 1720-1880 uses a unique method to map and explain how...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-22
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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 on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The end of Britain's empire in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-22
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This book investigates the beginnings of Spanish colonialism in Morocco in the mid-nineteenth century, focusing on the Spanish invasion of northern Morocco and the twenty-seven-month occupation of the city of Tetouan from 1859 to 1862. By homing in on specific events,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-21
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This is the first book-length treatment of the life and thought of the Communist intellectual A. L. Morton (1903–1987) who pioneered studies of utopianism, radical history, and English national identity. Morton is now best known for A People's History of England (1938)...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-21
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Utopianism
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Land and Trade in Early Islam discusses the latest developments in the field of early Islamic economic and social history, and explores the notion of polycentrism and the dialectic between global and local between 700 and 1050 CE. The volume explores the political...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-01-20
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The Scientific Sublime in Imperial Rome charts the role of the sublime in first-century debates about how and why we investigate the natural world. It shows how the sublimity of the study of nature--the scientific sublime--animates Manilius' Astronomica, Seneca's...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-01-20
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This book offers the first-ever scholarly study of Wilhelm I as Germany’s first Kaiser. For decades, Wilhelm has been dismissed by historians as a political nullity and an unwilling imperial figurehead, who was perpetually overruled by chancellor Otto von Bismarck. As a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-17
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy
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The eighteenth century saw more years of war than of peace. Though victimhood might jump most readily to mind when thinking about how this affected young people, it is only a small part of the picture.The Seven Years' War and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-15
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