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This book looks at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games as a complex nation-building project. Sports mega-events have been mostly studied as homogenous government-led strategies, but more work is needed around the diverse reception and performances. The preparation period for...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-25
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Based on five years of archival research, this book offers a radical reinterpretation of Britain and Spain’s relationship during the growth, apogee and decline of the British Empire. It shows that from the early nineteenth century Britain turned Spain into an ‘informal’...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-25
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This book is the first to present a comprehensive historical picture of the modern Catholic concern with the body and sexuality. The Catholic church is commonly believed to have always opposed birth control and abortion throughout the centuries. Yet the Catholic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-24
Collection :
Genders and Sexualities in History
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From the 1880s to the 1940s, an upsurge of explosive pogroms caused much pain and suffering across the eastern borderlands of Europe. Rioters attacked Jewish property and caused physical harm to women and children. During World War I and the Russian Civil War, pogrom...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-09-24
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A comprehensive history of the concept of freedom of therapeutic choice in the United States that presents a compelling look at how persistent but evolving notions of a right to therapeutic choice have affected American policy and law from the Revolution through the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-09-24
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This book sheds new light on the life and times of Theodore Roosevelt, drawing on a remarkable set of oral histories gathered in the 1950s from those who knew him. Remembering Theodore Roosevelt presents fourteen intimate interviews with Roosevelt’s friends, family, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-23
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During the Second World War, across the frontline as well as on the Home Front, millions of people recorded their thoughts of their experiences - whether in letters, their personal diaries or those prosecuting the war giving speeches. Much as Letters of Note celebrated...
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Headline
Parution :
2021-09-23
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This groundbreaking new collection addresses the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who should be celebrated, and what rewritten, are questions that have been asked recently not just within the history world, but by all...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2021-09-23
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From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's mongrel, magpie language - this is Britain's past. But, today, Britain is experiencing an acute trauma of identity, pulled simultaneously...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2021-09-23
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In the third century BCE, Macedon dominated mainland Greece, but was rapidly descending into chaos. One of the consequences was a massive invasion of Celts, who ravaged and plundered Macedon and northern Greece for several years. Antigonus Gonatas, son of one of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-09-23
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In the third century BCE, Macedon dominated mainland Greece, but was rapidly descending into chaos. One of the consequences was a massive invasion of Celts, who ravaged and plundered Macedon and northern Greece for several years. Antigonus Gonatas, son of one of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-09-23
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Unravel the mysteries of the Masons All the myths and rumors about Masonic organizations probably have you wondering "what do Masons really do?" Questions like this one are a natural by-product of being the oldest and largest "secret society" in the world. This book is...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2021-09-22
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The vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa—one of the most renowned women rulers in history—and three of her extraordinary daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France.Out of the thrilling and tempestuous eighteenth century...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2021-09-21
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We make sense of love with fantasies, stories that shape feelings that are otherwise too overwhelming, incoherent, and wayward to be tamed. For love is a complex, bewildering, and ecstatic emotion covering a welter of different feelings and moral judgments. Drawing on...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-09-21
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Das Buch befasst sich mit der 1889 gegründeten Bewegung Action Française und der gleichnamigen Zeitschrift, die in erster Linie für die Durchsetzung eines «integralen Nationalismus» als Voraussetzung von Frankreichs Wiedergeburt nach der Niederlage 1870/71 kämpfte.Das...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-09-20
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This book demonstrates that the common belief that humanity is naturally disposed to religion did not disappear with the emergence of the Enlightenment. Going beyond a narrow focus on John Locke’s empiricism, this vivid analysis reconstructs the vociferous, multivocal...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-20
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This book examines a diverse set of civic war memorials in North East England commemorating three clusters of conflicts: the Crimean War and Indian Rebellion in the 1850s; the ‘small wars’ of the 1880s; and the Boer War from 1899 to 1902. Encompassing a protracted...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-17
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An intimate history of an ordinary Parisian citizen and his neighbors that reflects on the origins and radicalization of the French Revolution.
What was it like to live through one of the most transformational periods in world history? In The Glory and the Sorrow,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-09-17
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Wang Fuzhi (1619-1692), a Ming loyalist, was forced to find solutions for both cultural and political crises of his time. In this book Mingran Tan provides a comprehensive review ofWang Fuzhi’s understanding of historical events and his interpretation of the Confucian...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-17
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ONE WOMAN, THE SECRETS OF A SMALL TOWN, AND A QUEST FOR JUSTICE THAT ROCKED A NATION. Catherine Corless could not have known where her interest in local history would lead her, as she began researching the Tuam Mother and Baby Home in Galway in 2010. Uncovering no less...
Editeur :
Hachette Books Ireland
Parution :
2021-09-16
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