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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
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2021-11-18
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Brief Histories
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'The astoundingly well reported and beautifully told story of the downfall of what was once a great American company. A must-read' Bethany McLean, bestselling author of The Smartest Guys in the Room 'Compelling and richly reported, Flying Blind is about so much more...
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Penguin Business
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2021-11-18
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A stunning tour de force and a remarkable achievement.- Alison WeirThis is Our Island Story for the modern age. - Charles Spencer'Not just a brilliant compendium of biographies, but the biography of an institution: a marvellous read' - Tom Holland'This royal throne of...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2021-11-18
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By any metric, Cicero's works are some of the most widely read in the history of Western thought. Natural Law Republicanism suggests that perhaps his most lasting and significant contribution to philosophy lies in helping to inspire the development of liberalism....
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Oxford University Press
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2021-11-17
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Palmyra has long attracted the attention of the world. Well before its rediscovery in the seventeenth century, the ancient city gained legendary status because of its Queen Zenobia, who in the third century CE rebelled against Rome and expanded Palmyra's territory into...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-11-17
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The extraordinary story of the Powhatan chief who waged a lifelong struggle to drive European settlers from his homeland “An accomplished work of scholarly detection... Swift, moving prose along a twisting storyline lends this brilliant book the feel of a...
Editeur :
Basic Books
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2021-11-16
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This book explores the Holocaust exhibition opened within the Imperial War Museum (IWM) in 2000; setting out the long and often contentious debates surrounding the conception, design, and finally the opening of an important exhibition within a national museum in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-16
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Based on dozens of shocking interviews with some of the most influential names in sports, this is the urgent and revelatory examination of racial inequality in professional athletics America has been waiting for.Commentators, coaches, and fans alike have long touted the...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2021-11-16
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Imperial and Local Citizenship in the Long Second Century CE offers a radical new history of Roman citizenship in the long century before Caracalla's universal grant of citizenship in 212 CE. Earlier work portrayed the privileges of citizen status in this period as...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-11-16
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Pandemic Re-Awakenings offers a multi-level and multi-faceted exploration of a century of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, arguably the greatest catastrophe in human history. Twenty-three researchers present original...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-16
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Pandemic Re-Awakenings offers a multi-level and multi-faceted exploration of a century of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, arguably the greatest catastrophe in human history. Twenty-three researchers present original...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-16
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This book presents a panoramic and extensive exploration of Chinese political philosophy, examining key political problems of the past, and the thinkers who addressed them. As the reader will discover, China’s traditional political philosophy is one with distinctive...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-11-16
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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism presents a revaluation of the major narratives in the history of terrorism, exploring the emergence and the use of terrorism in world history from antiquity up to the twenty-first century.
The essays collected in this...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-11-15
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This book provides an in-depth history of three US-based communal societies that operated in the late 1960s and 1970s—Soul City, Stelle and Twin Oaks—with an emphasis on their financing, marketing, and entrepreneurship processes. These communities reflect the diversity...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-13
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Prominent winkt Erich Honecker vom Cover der Biographie Manfred Gerlachs (1928-2011). Erst ein genauerer Blick lässt den Biographierten schräg hinter dem Staatschef der DDR erkennen. Dem damit versinnbildlichten Problem der politischen Akteure ‚zweiter Reihe‘, ihrer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-11-12
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Reflecting a growing interest in the history of knowledge, this book explores the importance of scholarly virtues during the late nineteenth century. The practice of science is moulded on notions of scholarly values, such as diligence, impartiality, meticulousness and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-12
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This book examines the making and breaking of peripheral selves in and from postsocialist Bosnia in an empirically rich self-reflexive account of politico-economic and ideological developments. Through world systems and postcolonial theory, historical and new...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-12
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A thrilling and perplexing investigation of a true Victorian crime at Dublin railway station.Dublin, November 1856: George Little, the chief cashier of the Broadstone railway terminus, is found dead, lying in a pool of blood beneath his desk.He has been savagely beaten,...
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Vintage Digital
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2021-11-11
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'Captivating, intimate, dazzling epic and revelatory' SIMON SEBAG-MONTEFIORE The story of the family who rose from the Frankfurt ghetto to become synonymous with wealth and power has been much mythologized. Yet half the Rothschilds, the women, remain virtually unknown....
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John Murray
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2021-11-11
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'A marvellously original slice of social history' Daily Mail (Book of the Week)'The facts and folklore of birdlife , and man's equivocal relationship with birds, are dissected in admirable detail in this handsome new book' Sunday TimesBirds are a joy and solace in...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2021-11-11
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