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Booker T. Washington’s famous 1901 memoir, Up From Slavery, charts Washington’s rise from an enslaved child with a passion for learning to the nation’s most prominent Black educator and first president of Tuskegee University. A tireless advocate for...
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Union Square & Co.
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2023-05-09
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Signature Editions
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Brazil has long been an enigma to outsiders. Over the last two decades alone, Latin America’s largest and most populous country has been celebrated as a vibrant new democracy with a powerful economy, and derided as a nation in complete disarray heading toward the status...
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Polity
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2023-05-09
Collection :
Polity Histories
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Der Wiener Narrenturm, eröffnet 1784, steht am Beginn der modernen Anstaltspsychiatrie. Seine Geschichte blieb bis dato jedoch größtenteils unerforscht. Dieser Band widmet sich als erstes Werk der vollständigen Geschichte des Wiener Narrenturms und erforscht dabei das...
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Springer VS
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2023-05-08
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The story of Charles Stewart Parnell, one of the greatest Irish leaders of the nineteenth century and also one of the most renowned figures of the 1880s on the international stage, and John Dillon, the most celebrated of Parnell's lieutenants. As Paul Bew shows, the...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-04
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The 1980s’ most memorable sporting moments show how sport became fully entwined in our national story.Travel back to the 1980s - to Botham's Ashes and the Brixton riots; the Moscow Olympics and the miners' strike; the Crucible Theatre and the Falklands - to explore how...
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Vintage Digital
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2023-05-04
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'A stunningly good and surely definitive biography of one of the most fascinating British engineers ever to have lived' JAMES HOLLANDBarnes Wallis is remembered for contributions to aviation that spanned most of the 20th century, from airships at its start to reusable...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2023-05-04
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Greek tragedy parades, tests, stimulates, and upends human cognition. Characters plot deception, try to fathom elusive gods, and fail to recognise loved ones. Spectators observe the characters' cognitive limitations and contemplate their own, grapple with moral...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-04
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'Fascinating, masterful ... gems scattered throughout the book' Peter Frankopan, Spectator'Quirkily original but also scholarly and authoritative, to be read for pleasure and serious reflection' Telegraph*The dramatic history of Europe's shape-shifting centre, from the...
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Penguin
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2023-05-04
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As he prepared to embark for India in 1774, Alexander Mackrabie's excitement at the sights to be seen and novelties to be experienced was palpable. Mackrabie's journey was conducted under the auspices of the London-based East India Company and was one of the many...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-02
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?This book is a study of the representation of the Persian empire in English drama across the early modern period, from the 1530s to the 1690s. The wide focus of this book, encompassing thirteen dramatic entertainments, both canonical and little-known, allow it to trace...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-01
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This book examines how the Embassy members approached, selected, and represented information, and how, in doing so, they helped to shape European perceptions of China. The Macartney Embassy of 1793 was the first British diplomatic mission to China, seeking to open ties...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-04-30
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This open access book explores the history of pellagra, a vitamin deficiency disease brought about by a shift in agriculture to maize, and which was first identified in Italy in the 1760s. With a focus on the insanity that was caused by the disease, the authors examine...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-30
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The book traces the conceptual lens of historical-cultural ‘survivals’ from the late 19th-century theories of E.B. Tylor, James Frazer, and others, in debate with monotheistic ‘degenerationists’ and Protestant anti-Catholic polemicists, back to its origins in Jewish,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-30
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The book is a meticulous work in answering these questions which often occur to foreigners as well as modern Chinese themselves at the thought of the old China and its experience in modern times: What is Chinese civilization? How could it exist for several millennia and...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-04-29
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The late eighteenth century and subsequent Napoleonic Era witnessed a turning point in the establishment of agricultural science as a well-defined discipline in northern Italy. In this book, Martino Lorenzo Fagnani traces these developments by reviewing the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-29
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The relationship between alcohol consumption and liver cirrhosis has long been contested by doctors and medical professionals, creating numerous implications for the public reputation of alcohol in Britain. Despite this, it was not until the 1970s that cirrhosis came to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-28
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A novel exploration of the deeper political, economic, and geopolitical history behind Germany's daring campaign to restructure its energy system around green power.
Since the 1990s, Germany has embarked on a daring campaign to restructure its energy system around...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-04-28
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024Raw and radical, strange and beguiling - a love letter to Britain's breathtaking flatlands, from Orford Ness to Orkney, and a reckoning with the...
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Penguin
Parution :
2023-04-27
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'One of the best history books you will read this decade' History Today'Fascinating, suspenseful, revelatory, alive' The TimesThere can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848. As if by magic, in city after city, from...
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Penguin
Parution :
2023-04-27
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Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2023-04-27
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