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'A crucial and compelling read' NATALIE COLLINS @GodLovesWomen'The story of Josephine Butler is astonishing, shocking, inspiring, recounted here by a narrator who understands the very core of her subject. A powerful read.' CLAIRE GILBERT, author of I, Julian'When...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2024-09-12
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This book weaves together theories of pre-Columbian trans-Pacific contact between Oceania and the Americas and analyses them from a history of ideas perspective. Despite limited factual evidence, trans-Pacific contact theories between the Americas and Oceania have been...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-09-11
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Many are familiar with European modernists' interest in Chinese art and poetry, however less well known is that Russian literature and art at the turn of 20th century also flourished in a sustained dialogue with China. In Fin-de-siècle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics,...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-09-11
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Today, the majority of the peoples of the planet live in nation-states, based upon the idea, if never the reality, of a single people, a single culture, a single rule of law and a single source of sovereign authority. But will they continue to do so in the future? None...
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Polity
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2024-09-11
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This book is the first critical anthology in English on the history and legacy of race in the Caribbean. It brings together the major debates, lines of inquiry, and theories around race and racism that have emerged out of the Caribbean from the beginning of European...
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Polity
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2024-09-11
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Critical South
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From an award-winning historian, a new global history of Communism When the USSR collapsed in 1991, the world was certain that Communism was dead. Today, three decades later, it is clear that it was not. While Russia may no longer be Communist, Communism and...
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Basic Books
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2024-09-10
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'a master class in eyewitness storytelling . . . this gripping narrative chronicles one of history's darkest nightmare moments' - Annie Jacobsen, author of Nuclear War: A ScenarioOn the 80th anniversary of the devastating bombing of Hiroshima, the stories of the...
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Headline Press
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2024-09-10
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Klimonas is the oldest Mediterranean island village. Occupied ca. 8 800 cal BC, it postpones by several centuries the Neolithic presence in Cyprus, at that time located more than 80 km offshore. The village extended over more than 5,500 m2, facing the sea, 2 km from the...
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CNRS Éditions via OpenEdition
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2024-09-09
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Gallia Préhistoire Supplément
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For centuries, the Roman aristocracy encoded its social and cultural superiority in classical poetry. In the late Roman world, however, Christian poets--especially those in the outlying provinces of Gaul--began to experiment with poetry as a medium for exploring and...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-09-09
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The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism is the first detailed and critical study of the intellectual and political connections that existed between some German scholars specializing on India, non-academic 'India experts,' Indian anti-colonialists and various...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-09-09
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Hitlers Reden spielten eine entscheidende Rolle im Prozess der nationalsozialistischen „Machtergreifung“ und der späteren Durchsetzung ihrer Politik. Das Buch untersucht die Gründe für die enorme Wirkung vonHitlers Auftritten, indem es die 1,7 Millionen Wörter, die die...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-09-06
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BLACKWELL HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000–323 BC Fourth Edition “This marvelous book is a classic, and deservedly so. This new edition brings the history up to date with revelations from newly published cuneiform tablets and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2024-09-06
Collection :
Blackwell History of the Ancient World
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Um 1800 wird die Nachahmung aus dem Zentrum der schönen Künste in deren Peripherie verbannt. Mit der Durchsetzung des Originalitätskonzepts wird die regelgeleitete Imitation klassischer Vorbilder als minderwertige, dilettantische oder epigonale Kunst abgewertet. Dieser...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-09-06
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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...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
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2024-09-05
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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
Parution :
2024-09-04
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'A stunning book, a powerful investigation, utterly compelling,' James Holland, The Daily Telegraph, Five starsPonar, Lithuania. 1944. The Nazis have enslaved Jewish men to exhume and incinerate the bodies of more than 70,000 Jews previously shot to death in the forest....
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The Bridge Street Press
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2024-09-03
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The book analyses the development of Israel's national identity through the world of local Jewish Zionist historiography. Inspired by Norbert Elias’ historical and figurational sociology, the book examines the different phases and generations in Israel in light of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-03
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This book pays particular attention to the experiences of younger child survivors of the Holocaust, considering how they kept in touch with one another, and how they integrated into larger cohorts of survivors settling in postwar Britain. Digging deeper than ever before...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-03
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Latino USA represents the culmination of Ilan Stavans's lifelong determination to meet the challenges of capturing the joys, nuances, and multiple dimensions ofLatino culture within the context of the English language. In this cartoon history of Latinos, Stavans seeks...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2024-09-03
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Despite the multidirectional nature of modern research, the interpretation of the political history of thirteenth-century England has remained locked into a traditional framework bequeathed by the mid-twentieth-century historian, R. F. Treharne, and embellished by the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-09-03
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