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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The Victorian period may have come to an end over 120 years ago, but the Victorians continue to be a vital presence in the modern world. Contemporary Britain is still in large part Victorian in its transport...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-08-09
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This book presents a theoretical and empirical investigation of sustainable economic growth in Russia. The ill-planned transition in the 1990s from planned economy to market economy resulted in a sharp decline in national production; however, Russian economic growth was...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-25
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The story of the British army, from its inception in the late seventeenth century to the present.
This new concise history by one of Britain's leading military historians explores the British army from the creation of a permanent standing army in the seventeenth...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-25
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The Victorian period may have come to an end over 120 years ago, but the Victorians continue to be a vital presence in the modern world. Contemporary Britain is still in large part Victorian in its transport...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-25
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The expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both the colonizers and the colonized. Waiting on Empire focuses on a largely forgotten group in this story of movement and migration: South Asian travelling ayahs (servants and nannies), who...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-19
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Die Ukraine wird in Geschichte und Gegenwart beschrieben.Die Ost-West-Beziehungen, als Hintergrund des Krieges , werden analysiert – ebenso die innere Entwicklung Russlands zum Putinismus und Neo-Imperialismus. Das Kriegsgeschehen wird nachvollzogen und in seinen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2023-07-17
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This book provides an overview of the inception, development and achievements of British socialist and workers theatre – a feat which has not been attempted before. It explores the connections between politics and culture (specifically theatre) and between political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-07
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The story of the British army, from its inception in the late seventeenth century to the present.
This new concise history by one of Britain's leading military historians explores the British army from the creation of a permanent standing army in the seventeenth...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-07
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1932. The economic crisis in Germany was unprecedented—a severe recession, 6 million unemployed, and a collapse in the popularity of Chancellor Brüning, who was criticized for his lack of foresight and who stubbornly focused on a single objective—reducing public...
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Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2023-07-04
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The expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both the colonizers and the colonized. Waiting on Empire focuses on a largely forgotten group in this story of movement and migration: South Asian travelling ayahs (servants and nannies), who...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-04
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Rudolf Graf Hoyos-Sprinzenstein, Ferdinand Graf Piatti, Georg Graf Thurn-Valsassina stehen stellvertretend für Österreichs Adel. ...
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Springer VS
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2023-06-30
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Why does an entire society believe that there are witches who must be burned? What roles did the emerging 'state', the professions of clerics and jurists, and the public involved play in each case? And how could this project be completed?From a sociological point of...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-06-26
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Ireland has given the world so many wonderful things – Liam Neeson, of course, and loads of other stuff. Yes,Ireland is perhaps the most magical and mysterious nation on earth. No one would dare disagree – them would be fighting words.Ireland is the spiritual home – and...
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OH
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2023-06-22
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In Forging Nations, Blaazer studies the relationships between money, power, and nationality in England, Scotland, and Ireland from the first attempts to unify their currencies following the Union of the Crowns in 1603 to the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-21
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Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize 2023A Telegraph, Times, Spectator and Prospect Book of the YearOne of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French historyFew images more shocked the French population...
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Penguin
Parution :
2023-06-15
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Of the twelve Augustae who lived during the fifty years of the so-called “military anarchy” (235-284 A.D.), Ulpia Severina, wife of the “Illyrian” emperor Aurelian (270-275 AD), is certainly one of the most enigmatic and less known. The book focuses on Ulpia...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-15
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?This book provides a new military history of Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos's campaigns in the Balkans, during the first fourteen years of his rule. While the tactics and manoeuvres Alexios used against Robert Guiscard's Normans are relatively well-known, his...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-14
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This Open Access book uses Mary Kaldor’s concept of “New Wars” to explore how ethnic conflict reshaped the social and environmental landscape of the Southern Caucuses following the collapse of the Soviet Union. It relies on remote sensing data and qualitative historical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-12
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This book offers a spatial history of the decades in which women entered the universities as students for the first time. Through focusing on several different types of spaces – such as learning spaces, leisure spaces, and commuting spaces – it argues that the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-07
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In Forging Nations, Blaazer studies the relationships between money, power, and nationality in England, Scotland, and Ireland from the first attempts to unify their currencies following the Union of the Crowns in 1603 to the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-06
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