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The 1960s in Europe saw the emergence of social protest, newly confident center-left parties, Cold War détente, and frustrations with the pace and direction of European integration.The Federal Republic of Germany experienced these upheavals from a special position: on...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-01-08
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Gewaltige Mengen an Alkohol gelangten in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts auf dänischen Schiffen nach Indien. Wein, Madeira, Bier und Branntwein halfen, einen steten Silberstrom nach Asien zu reduzieren. Ebenso prägten sie weit über die dänischen Handelsplätze am...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-12-18
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When a process popularly known as the Industrial Revolution first took hold in Germany in the mid-nineteenth century, many contemporaries were stunned by the scale and ferocity of the transformation. While Germany had long been considered a promising place to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-27
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History and Decolonization: Essays from Southern Europe takes a fresh approach to world history by integrating the historical experience of Southern Europe into debates on colonialism, racism and patriarchy. To approach Europe from its southern fringes can open new...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-08-04
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Shakespeare stellt in seinen Dramen diverse politische Regime mit ihren jeweiligen Vorzügen und Defiziten dar. Er präsentiert dabei die Monarchie als eine der geeignetsten Staatsformen, sieht aber durchaus auch deren Schwierigkeiten. So entwickelt er die Idee, die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-05-27
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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
Parution :
2025-03-20
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Mehr als drei Jahrzehnte nach dem Fall der Berliner Mauer und der deutschen Einheit lebt die DDR weiter – nicht nur in der (lebendigen) Erinnerung von Zeitzeug:innen und Erb:innen, sondern auch in vielfältigen kulturhistorischen, künstlerischen, literarischen und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-03-06
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THE TIMES BOOK OFTHE WEEKNamed one of The Telegraph's 'Best Biographies of the Year 2024'Queen Victoria had forty-two grandchildren but the four Princesses of Hesse were held in her particular favour. After the sudden death of her daughter Alice, Queen Victoria took an...
Editeur :
Short Books
Parution :
2024-11-07
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Il 20 giugno 1953, sotto la presidenza del radicalsocialista francese Yvon Delbos, venne fondato il gruppo transnazionale dei Libéraux et apparentés (Lib) comprendente inizialmente 11 membri, per la maggioranza francesi.
Linea guida di questa ricerca, basata...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2024-10-21
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80th ANNIVERSARY EDITIONProduced in collaboration with Imperial War MuseumsRelive the day that changed the course of history. On 6 June 1944, D-Day marked the beginning of a campaign that involved more than a million men and helped seal the fate of Hitler's...
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Welbeck
Parution :
2024-05-30
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One of the Second World Wars most brutal and dramatic campaigns brought to life in this vivid and epic historyIt could have all been over much quicker. In this gripping account, bestseller John Strawson analyses how the slow, bloody and fiercely fought Italian campaign...
Editeur :
Canelo
Parution :
2023-11-30
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Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2023-04-27
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In the 1790s an extraordinary group of friends changed the world. Disappointed by the French Revolution's rapid collapse into tyranny, what they wanted was nothing less than a revolution of the mind. The rulers of Europe had ordered their peoples how to think and act...
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John Murray
Parution :
2022-09-01
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'In this fascinating, panoramic account, Levi Roach brings an expert eye and page-turning energy to the telling of their extraordinary story' Helen Castor, bestselling author of She Wolves'A fresh retelling of the story of the Normans . . . written with enthusiasm and...
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John Murray
Parution :
2022-06-23
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The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - BerlinThroughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world. This history is often viewed as separate acts:...
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Penguin
Parution :
2022-05-26
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This volume presents a selection of David Gauthier's writings on Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and the theory of political contractarianism. The eight essays on Hobbes, written over four decades, represent the author's changing understanding of the moral and political...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-18
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This volume presents a selection of David Gauthier's writings on Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and the theory of political contractarianism. The eight essays on Hobbes, written over four decades, represent the author's changing understanding of the moral and political...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-18
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A concise history of the Caribbean's long and fascinating history, from pre-contact civilisations to the present day This is a concise history, intended for travellers, but of inestimable value to anyone looking for an overview of the Caribbean and its mainland coastal...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2021-11-18
Collection :
Brief Histories
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This innovative book challenges many of the widely held assumptions about the place of religion in Victorian society and in London, the world's first great industrial and commercial metropolis. Against the background of Victorian London it explores the religiosity of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-09-01
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This innovative book challenges many of the widely held assumptions about the place of religion in Victorian society and in London, the world's first great industrial and commercial metropolis. Against the background of Victorian London it explores the religiosity of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-09-01
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