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'I loved this book!' - Alison Weir'[A] lively, gossipy forage through royal wardrobes' - Daily Mail'A sparkling history' - Dr Kate StrasdinPeek into the wardrobes of history's most fashionable royalsWhy did women wear such heavy and uncomfortable skirts in the...
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Headline
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2023-06-08
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'Masterful' David Price'McKinstry has done a fine job in rescuing Coastal Command from long neglect' Richard OveryThe remarkable story of the unsung RAF wing who made Allied victory possible.In 1943 Britain was engaged in an epic struggle for survival as deadly wolf...
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John Murray
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2023-06-08
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This interdisciplinary edited volume presents twelve papers by Roman historians and archaeologists, discussing the interconnected relationship between religion and the Roman economy over the period c. 500 BC to AD 350.
The connection between Roman religion and the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-07
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This interdisciplinary edited volume presents twelve papers by Roman historians and archaeologists, discussing the interconnected relationship between religion and the Roman economy over the period c. 500 BC to AD 350.
The connection between Roman religion and the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-07
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On July 25, 1943, news of Mussolini's resignation and subsequent arrest stunned Italians leaving them dumbfounded. After two decades, fascism had fallen without any advance warning. As festive events marked the incredible outcome and reminders of the past were...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-06-07
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This book offers a spatial history of the decades in which women entered the universities as students for the first time. Through focusing on several different types of spaces – such as learning spaces, leisure spaces, and commuting spaces – it argues that the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-07
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In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep in former slave dwellings—revealing the fascinating history behind these sites and shedding light on larger issues of race in America. Since founding the Slave...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2023-06-06
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The definitive story of the California redwoods, their discovery and their exploitation, as told by an activist who fought to protect their existence against those determined to cut them down. Every year millions of tourists from around the world visit...
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PublicAffairs
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2023-06-06
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Dan Stone tells the story of the last great unknown archive of Nazism, the International Tracing Service. Set up by the Allies at the end of World War II, the ITS has worked until today to find missing persons and to aid survivors with restitution claims or to reunite...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-06-06
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In Forging Nations, Blaazer studies the relationships between money, power, and nationality in England, Scotland, and Ireland from the first attempts to unify their currencies following the Union of the Crowns in 1603 to the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis....
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OUP Oxford
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2023-06-06
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As the most important ancient cultural relics in prehistory, rock art have become a direct basis for the reproduction of human history and ideological process. Since the late 1970s, Yinshan rock art have been found in large quantities. In this study, 2842 Yinshan rock...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-06-02
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In this volume, six experts from Europe and Africa present new insights from the field about various aspects of Germany’s colonial rule in Africa, raising doubt about the hitherto interpretations of some important events. The outbreak of violence in Rwanda 1904 was...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2023-06-02
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Der Autor legt eine Gesamtdarstellung zur deutschen Schulgeschichte vor. Mit der Behandlung wichtiger gesellschaftlicher Bezugsfelder der Schule rückt er jeweilige Erziehungs- und Sozialisationsverhältnisse in den Blick. In der institutionsgeschichtlichen Dimension...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2023-06-02
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Der Autor legt eine Gesamtdarstellung zur deutschen Schulgeschichte vor. Mit der Behandlung wichtiger gesellschaftlicher Bezugsfelder der Schule rückt er jeweilige Erziehungs- und Sozialisationsverhältnisse in den Blick. In der institutionsgeschichtlichen Dimension...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-06-02
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The Palatine Family and the Thirty Years' War examines the experience of exiled royal and noble dynasties during the early modern period through a study of the rulers of the Electorate of the Palatinate during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648). By drawing on a wide...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-06-01
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Peacebuilding and reconciliation between groups and entire nations that share a violent past are among the toughest, yet most important, challenges for modern societies. Opposing perspectives, disagreements about the interpretation of historical events or even entirely...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2023-05-31
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Economists in the Cold War is an account of the economic drivers and outcomes of the Cold War, told through the stories of seven international economists, who were all closely involved in theory and policy in the period 1945-73. For them, the Cold War was a battle of...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-31
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An edition and English translation of the Speculum Stultorum (The Mirror for Fools), a long Latin beast epic written near the end of the twelfth century by a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury. This was one of the most popular works of the Middle Ages, a favourite of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-05-31
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2024 PEN America E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award FinalistThe "high-stakes" true story of how an absent-minded inventor and a down-on-his-luck salesman joined forces to create a once‑in‑a‑generation lifesaving product:...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2023-05-30
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Exam board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First assessment: Summer 2018Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told...
Editeur :
Hodder Gibson
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2023-05-26
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