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'Stunning. History at its very best: a blend of impeccably researched scholarship, genuinely revelatory primary sources, and a beautifully written narrative.' - James Holland'The sheer brutal intimacy of his descriptions of the fighting are extraordinary.' - Frederick...
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Constable
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2022-07-28
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Karen Pirie
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOARDMAN TASKER AWARD FOR MOUNTAIN LITERATUREChanging the narrative of mountaineering books, Sherpa focuses on the people who live and work on the roof of the world.Amid all the foreign adventurers that throng to Nepal to scale the world's...
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Cassell
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2022-07-28
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As the Nazis staged their takeover in 1933, instances of antisemitic violence began to soar.
While previous historical research assumed that this violence happened much later, Hermann Beck counteracts this, drawing on sources from twenty German archives, and focussing...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-07-28
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As the Nazis staged their takeover in 1933, instances of antisemitic violence began to soar.
While previous historical research assumed that this violence happened much later, Hermann Beck counteracts this, drawing on sources from twenty German archives, and focussing...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-07-28
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I decenni che precedettero la terribile epidemia di “Peste Nera” del 1348 in Europa sono stati a lungo presentati univocamente come un periodo di gravi difficoltà, dovute all’instabilità politica e, soprattutto, all’eccessiva crescita della popolazione rispetto alle...
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Publications de l'École française de Rome
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2022-07-27
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Collection de l'École française de Rome
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How did an unlikely group of peoples--Irish-speaking Catholics, Scottish Highlanders, and American Indians--play an even unlikelier role in the origins of the American Revolution?
Drawing on little-used sources in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, The Gaelic and Indian...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-07-26
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An immersive and mesmerizing narrative that reimagines the Mesopotamian myth of the Great FloodA long time ago, the gods grew tired of humans and decided to send a flood to destroy them. But Ea, the god of fresh underground water, didn't agree. He advised one of his...
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Penguin
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2022-07-26
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Apart from the fifteen years that Sher Shah Suri snatched upon defeating Humayun, the flag of the grand Mughal Empire flew over Delhi undefeated for over 300 years. But then, 1857 arrived and the mighty sword fell helpless in the face of a mightier British force. After...
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Hachette India
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2022-07-25
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The inspiring, uplifting true story of a group of London girls dispatched to a children's home in rural England during the Blitz, and meet the formidable nurse and Lady in Waiting who transformed their lives forever . . .'A heartwarming story of hope and kindness' Daily...
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Michael Joseph
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2022-07-21
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Illegitimacy, Family, and Stigma is the first full-length exploration of what it was like to be illegitimate in eighteenth-century England, a period of 'sexual revolution', unprecedented increase in illegitimate births, and intense debate over children's rights to state...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-07-21
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NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS'Killer in the Kremlin traces Putin's bloody career... a life littered with corpses' THE TIMES'An extraordinarily prescient and fascinating book' NIHAL ARTHANAYAKEA gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting...
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Transworld Digital
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2022-07-21
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This volume is an energy-tailored sequel to the research on the Arctic carried out at MGIMO University. Specifically, the proposed book is grounded in the profound academic and practical expertise of the specialized body of MGIMO University – International Institute of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-07-21
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Modernity and the Victorians diagnoses a disorder in the scholarship on Victorian Britain, and proposes an interpretative remedy. It argues that the 'modernization theory' beloved of twentieth-century social scientists cannot be made to fit the facts of...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-07-21
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Modernity and the Victorians diagnoses a disorder in the scholarship on Victorian Britain, and proposes an interpretative remedy. It argues that the 'modernization theory' beloved of twentieth-century social scientists cannot be made to fit the facts of...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-07-21
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This book is an interdisciplinary study aimed at re-imagining and re-routing contemporary migrations in the Mediterranean. Drawing from visual arts, citizenship studies, film, media and cultural studies, along with postcolonial, border, and decolonial discourses, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-07-20
Collection :
Mediterranean Perspectives
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This book examines the lives and tenures of all the consorts of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs of England between 1485 and 1714, as well as the wives of the two Lords Protector during the Commonwealth. The figures in Tudor and Stuart Consorts are both incredibly...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-07-20
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In the thirteenth century, mendicant orders introduced new ways of religious life that engaged the laity through preaching and conversion. Moreover, they founded new movements for religious women dedicated to prayer and contemplation, such as the Dominican nuns and the...
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Publications de l'École française de Rome
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2022-07-19
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Collection de l'École française de Rome
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The book deals with a historically unique case of international transfer of professionalknowledge and techniques in social care and social work.
Principles of modern social work were introduced to the Jewish Jishuv (pre-statecommunity) in Palestine largely by...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2022-07-18
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Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature is the first monograph devoted to the reception ofHerodotus among Imperial Greek writers. Using a broad reception model and focused largely on texts outside of historiography proper, the book analyzes the entanglements of...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-07-15
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Richly illustrated with citations from ancient authors, the book Sparta introduces the reader to the universe of a polis which in the fifth and fourth century BC was a Greek superpower. Part I describes Sparta’s political institutions and mechanisms of governance, the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2022-07-15
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