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In 1503, for the first time, a student in Paris was able to spend his entire university career studying only the printed textbooks of his teacher, thanks to the works of the humanist and university reformer Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (c. 1455-1536). As printed books...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-07-25
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In 1503, for the first time, a student in Paris was able to spend his entire university career studying only the printed textbooks of his teacher, thanks to the works of the humanist and university reformer Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (c. 1455-1536). As printed books...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-07-19
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The essays in this edited collection offer incisive and nuanced analyses of and insights into the state of British cities and urban environments in the twenty-first century. Britain’s experiences with industrialization, colonialism, post-colonialism, global capitalism,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-07-18
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The field of cultural heritage is no longer solely dependent on the expertise of art and architectural historians, archaeologists, conservators, curators, and site and museum administrators. It has dramatically expanded across disciplinary boundaries and social...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-07-11
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Gypsies, Egyptians, Romanies, and--more recently--Travellers. Who are these marginal and mysterious people who first arrived in England in early Tudor times? Are claims of their distant origins on the Indian subcontinent true, or just another of the many myths and...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-06-28
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Katharina Sara Hammas zeigt in dieser Arbeit, dass der Frankfurter Mediziner Johann Georg Varrentrapp (1809-1866) neben seiner Funktion als Leiter des Hospitals zum heiligen Geist jahrzehntelang ein Pionier auf dem Gebiet der öffentlichen Gesundheitspflege war. Er...
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Springer
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2018-06-20
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'A triumph' INDEPENDENT'A thought-provoking and indispensable book' DAILY MAIL'An instant classic ... I have been reading it with unalloyed admiration and delight' EVENING STANDARDRoy Strong has written an exemplary introduction to the history of Britain, as first...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2018-06-14
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Hitler's Collaborators focuses the spotlight on one of the most controversial and uncomfortable aspects of the Nazi wartime occupation of Europe: the citizens of those countries who helped Hitler. Although a widespread phenomenon, this was long ignored in the years...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-06-03
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Hitler's Collaborators focuses the spotlight on one of the most controversial and uncomfortable aspects of the Nazi wartime occupation of Europe: the citizens of those countries who helped Hitler. Although a widespread phenomenon, this was long ignored in the years...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-05-31
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Silence is not simply the absence of noise. It is within us, in the inner citadel that great writers, thinkers, scholars and people of faith have cultivated over the centuries. It characterizes our most intimate and sacred spaces, from private bedrooms to grand...
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Polity
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2018-05-29
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'Absorbing . . . an intelligent and clear-eyed account of much that goes on in our country' Sunday TimesGetting to grips with Great Britain is harder than ever. We are a nation that chose Brexit, rejects immigration but is dependent on it, is getting older but less...
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John Murray
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2018-05-03
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This book deals with the genre of geometric design in the Islamic sphere. Part I presents an overview of Islamic history, its extraordinary spread from the Atlantic to the borders of China in its first century, its adoption of the cultural outlook of the older...
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Birkhäuser
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2018-05-02
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A delightful history of Americans' obsession with advice -- from Poor Richard to Dr. Spock to Miss Manners Americans, for all our talk of pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, obsessively seek advice on matters large and small. Perhaps precisely because we believe in...
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Bold Type Books
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2018-04-03
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Die Kinder kommunistischer und/oder jüdischer Eltern, die aus Exilländern und Konzentrationslagern in ihre Heimat zurückgekehrt waren um ein neues demokratisches Österreich aufzubauen, lebten – geprägt von den Schicksalen und Erfahrungen ihrer Eltern – in einer...
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Springer VS
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2018-03-28
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Olympe de Gouges was the most important fighter for women's rights you've never heard of. An activist and writer in revolutionary Paris, she published 'The Declaration of the Rights of Women' in 1791, and was beheaded two years later, her articulate demands for...
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Ilex Press
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2018-03-08
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Italy 1636 is one of the most closely-researched and detailed books on the operation of early modern armies anywhere, and is explicitly inspired by neo-Darwinian thinking. Taking the French and Savoyard invasion of Spanish Lombardy in 1636 as its specific example, it...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-02-02
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This book examines the historic tensions between Jehovah’s Witnesses and government authorities, civic organisations, established churches and the broader public. Witnesses originated in the 1870s as small, loose-knit groups calling themselves Bible Students. Today,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-01-29
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Yorkshire is 'a continent unto itself', a region where mountain, plain, coast, downs, fen and heath lie close. By weaving history, family stories, travelogue and ecology, Richard Morris reveals howYorkshire took shape as a landscape and in literature, legend and popular...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2018-01-25
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This volume examines the social history of oil workers and investigates how labor relations have shaped the global oil industry during the twentieth century and today. It brings together the work of scholars from a range of disciplines, approaching the social,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-01-21
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The publishing industry in France in the years before the Revolution was a lively and sometimes rough-and-tumble affair, as publishers and printers scrambled to deal with (and if possible evade) shifting censorship laws and tax regulations, in order to cater to a...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-01-01
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