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The adventurous, the ambitious and the brave coveted its throne.One invader after another crossed the mighty Himalayas to seek a fortune here.A pivot of power down the ages, it fascinated both settlers and rulers, to become the capital of mighty empires.Across...
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Hachette India Children's Books
Parution :
2024-10-17
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The interconnectedness between sport and colonialism has long been a matter of interest to sport historians. Consequently, a large number of scholarly works exist on physical education and physical culture history, but there is no significant work on this within a South...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-17
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Why do some countries hold elections that meet global democratic standards, while other countries do not? Electoral Commissions and Democratization in Africa makes a novel contribution to this question. In a departure from the typical story about the “boring”...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-10-16
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Travel back in time to 20th century Montmartre and immerse yourself in the vibrant artistic and cultural atmosphere of post-war Paris. Follow the story of a young boy as he navigates the cobblestone streets, encounters iconic figures, and witnesses the flourishing...
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Metvox Publications
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2024-10-16
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It was a bold, ambitious and wildly arrogant idea: extending the reach of communism into space. Spurred on by the defeat of Hitler and the competitive rivalry with the United States, the Soviet space programme saw a frenetic surge of scientific activity focused on the...
Editeur :
Polity
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2024-10-15
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Brexit, populism, and Euroscepticism seem to have challenged old assumptions about European integration and raised the prospect of disintegration. This book re-examines why the European Union and its forerunners were created and investigates how and why they have...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-10-14
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This volume provides a reconstruction of the history of Judea and its neighboring regions from 334 BCE, when Alexander's eastward conquests brought Judea into the Greek empire, through 135 CE, when Hadrian re-founded Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina and banished Jews from...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-10-11
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Available in this new hardback edition for the first time in decades, Sweet Soul Music was hailed by Newsweek on publication as 'a stunning chronicle.... a panoramic survey of a lost world [and] one of the best books ever written on American popular music'.Since then it...
Editeur :
White Rabbit
Parution :
2024-10-10
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Deep Cuts
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While the 1914 Christmas truces have a mythological status in British culture, intimate interactions with the enemy are, this interdisciplinary edited collection shows, a staple of modern warfare. Spanning multiple conflicts around the world, from the nineteenth century...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-09
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The Uley Tablets is the first full publication of the eighty Roman lead writing-tablets found in the excavation of a Romano-British temple in the Cotswolds, the temple of the god Mercury at Uley, Gloucestershire, together with two from the nearby site of Tarlton. Like...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-09
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A provocative, irreverent biography of Anton Szandor LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, BORN WITHA TAIL chronicles a time when Americans welcomed a macabre showman into their living rooms via TheTonight Show, before a ginned-up hysteria known as the Satanic Panic...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2024-10-08
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This book is an acknowledgement and celebration of Professor Carl Bridge’s key contributions to the British World approach to history. His pioneering work was first published in several co-authored essays which appeared in 2003. Much of this grew out of a series of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-10-08
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The migration between Mexico and the United States is the largest emigration of people between two states in modern history. Today, thirty-six million Mexican Americans call the United States home.The Bracero period and recent Mexican migration have been well explored,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-10-08
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Thanks to their economic and military strength, the European empires had achieved global supremacy by 1900, with large parts of the world under their dominance in the wake of colonial expansion. This situation fuelled ideas of Europe's permanent, almost natural global...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-08
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A core tenet of the Soviet Communist Party's ideology was the belief that religion was an oppressive tool, wielded by the exploiting classes. With help of the secret police, they attempted to eliminate it completely from Soviet society by, in part, imprisoning believers...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-10-08
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The rapid proliferation and growing sophistication of aerospace weapons--rockets, missiles, and drones--have altered the landscape of warfare.The influence of these weapons on the battlefield is felt profoundly, yet the mechanism of coercion by which these weapons alter...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-10-08
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This book explores museum crises. Through an investigation into the experience of the Imperial War Museum during the Second World War era, 1933-1950, it considers how crises disrupt museums and the contrasting defensive and revolutionary strategies which museums must...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-08
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Das Buch hat Brief einer Unbekannten, Stefan Zweigs Novelle aus dem Jahr 1922, und die hierauf basierenden internationalen Verfilmungen der Jahre 1929–2017 zum Gegenstand. Es sind Adaptionen u. a. aus der VR China, aus Deutschland, Finnland, Frankreich, Griechenland,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-10-07
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Das Buch hat zum Ziel, das Vorkommen der Burgherrschaft (châtellenie französischen Typs) in Deutschland aufzuzeigen und dabei die innere Struktur der Burgherrschaft zu untersuchen. Konkret greift der Autor vier Burgen, nämlich Neuburg, Falkenstein, Hartmannsberg und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-10-07
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On July 22, 1847, a group of about forty refugees entered the Salt Lake Valley. Among them were three enslaved men, two of whom shared the religion, Mormonism, that had caused them to flee. The valley was also home to members of the Ute tribe, who would sometimes barter...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-10-04
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