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This open access book uncovers one important, yet forgotten, form of itinerant livelihoods, namely petty trade, more specifically how it was practiced in Northern Europe during the period 1820–1960. It investigates how traders and customers interacted in different...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-06-15
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In 1839, the Abbé Jacques Suchet was sent to the Algerian city of Constantine, recently conquered by French forces, to minister to the new French colonial population there. He commented favorably on the Arabs' Muslim religiosity, perhaps seeing them as fertile ground...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-06-15
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Dive into this vibrantly illustrated history of everything humans have invented to entertain ourselves, from Chess and Nintendo to Drag Queen Story Hour and Burning Man.In The Book of Fun, Polygon co-founder Russ Frushtick divulges the hidden backstories and fascinating...
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Running Press Adult
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2022-06-14
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From a historian and senior editor at Atlas Obscura comes a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own terms. For a woman traveling without her husband in the late...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2022-06-14
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This book explains how six policies collectively called the North American Wildlife Conservation Model (NAWCM), put in place around the turn of the twentieth century, saved numerous iconic big game species from extinction. Rigid adherence to the NAWCM, however,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-06-14
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Are insects the food of the future, alleviating world hunger and ecological issues? In this book, based on extensive field research in Laos and Thailand, the author suggests otherwise. He describes local transformations in ‘entomophagy’ and explores differences between...
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Galda Verlag
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2022-06-11
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Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2018First exam: Summer 2019Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told narratives, academic...
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Hodder Gibson
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2022-06-10
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“This is a tour de force of sophisticated global erudition.” —Filippo de Vivo, University of Oxford, UK“In its wide global range and rich variety of studies, this expertly edited volume provides an unprecedented view into the scribal practices of diverse...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-09
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Learn about the rise of Adolf Hitler, Pearl Harbour and the D-Day Landings in The WWII Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format.Learn about World War 2 in this overview guide to the...
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Dk
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2022-06-09
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERRADIO 4 BOOK OFTHE WEEK'Excellent . . . thrilling . . . Freedland's book is rich in the kind of details that haunt you long after you have turned the last page' Sunday Times'A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and...
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John Murray
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2022-06-09
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The dazzling story of the Greenwich Village feminists who blazed the trail for the movement’s most radical ideasOn a Saturday in New York City in 1912, around the wooden tables of a popular Greenwich Village restaurant, a group of women gathered, all of them...
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Seal Press
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2022-06-07
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This is a translated autobiography of applied mathematician N. N. Moiseev, providing an insider’s view of the history of the Soviet Union from its founding in 1917 to its collapse in 1991, as well as a little of the aftermath.We see vividly the precariousness of...
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Birkhäuser
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2022-06-07
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This volume represents one of the first extensive studies that investigates the persistence of questions of race and racism in Italy from the liberal age to the present, through colonialism, Fascism and post-war Italy. It adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-06
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Between 1815 and the Duke of Wellington's death in 1852, the Battle of Waterloo became much more than simply a military victory. While other countries marked the battle and its anniversary, only Britain actively incorporated the victory into their national identity,...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-06-06
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This multiauthor volume presents thirteen case studies that showcase the scientific, analytical, and often archaeological study of historic buildings that is known in German as Bauforschung. Written by established and emerging experts in this field, the chapters focus...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-06-06
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Across Europe, from the dawn of print until the early twentieth century, the news of crime and criminals' public executions was printed in song form on cheap broadsides and pamphlets to be sold in streets and marketplaces by ballad-singers. Singing the News of Death:...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-06-03
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Immerse yourself in the stories behind the most shocking and infamous books ever published!Censorship of one form or another has existed almost as long as the written word, while definitions of what is deemed "acceptable" in published works have shifted over the...
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Dk
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2022-06-02
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This book tells the story of the Rev. Benjamin Colman (1673-1747), one of eighteenth-century America’s most influential ministers, and his transatlantic social world of letters. Exploring his epistolary network reveals how imperial culture diffused through the British...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-02
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