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Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels establishes and explores connections between Greek imperial literature andLatin poetry. This work challenges conventional thinking about literary and cultural interaction of the period, which assumes that imperial Greeks were not...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-04-15
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Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels establishes and explores connections between Greek imperial literature andLatin poetry. This work challenges conventional thinking about literary and cultural interaction of the period, which assumes that imperial Greeks were not...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-15
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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'The best single-volume account of the Barbarossa campaign to date' Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny'A page-turning descent into Hell and back . . . this fresh and compelling account of Hitler's failed invasion...
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Penguin
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2021-04-15
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'The definitive back story of Mount Everest' Stewart Weaver, co-author of Fallen Giants 'Craig Storti has given us the Everest book that we've needed all along' Scott Ellsworth, author of The World Beneath Their FeetThe seventy-one-year quest to find the world's...
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John Murray
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2021-04-15
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During the years of the Early Republic, prominent Native leaders regularly traveled to American cities--Albany, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, Montreal, Quebec, New York, and New Orleans--primarily on diplomatic or trade business, but also from curiosity and...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-04-13
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An update of a popular work that takes on the myths of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas, featuring a new afterword.
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest reveals how the Spanish invasions in the Americas have been conceived and presented, misrepresented and...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-04-13
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*Shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History*'An enthralling account of a pivotal moment in modern history. . . replete with startling revelations about the deception and mutual suspicion that brought the US and Soviet Union to the brink of...
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Penguin
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2021-04-13
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This book presents seven diplomats, seven Slovaks. Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Štefan Osuský, Vladimír S. Hurban, Vladimír M. Palic, Juraj Slávik, Ivan Krno and Ján Papánek. They were also authors, poets, soldiers, politicians, and international lawyers. They represent a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2021-04-12
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Archives brought from Egypt to southern France in the early 19th century fell into the hands of a secret group whose own archives were confiscated by Occupation authorities during World War II. In 1942 some of these confiscated documents were appropriated by a young...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2021-04-12
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This book investigates the representation of the Axis War – the wars of aggression that Fascist Italy fought in North Africa, Greece, the Soviet Union, and the Balkans, from 1940 to 1943 – in three decades of Italian literature. Building on an innovative and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-11
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An exploration of the hidden history of camping in American life that connects a familiar recreational pastime to camps for functional needs and political purposes.
Camping appears to be a simple proposition, a time-honored way of getting away from it all. Pack up the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-04-11
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What can century-old advice columns tell us about the Internet today? This book reveals the little-known history of advice columns in American newspapers and the virtual communities they created among their readers.
Imagine a community of people who had never met...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-04-09
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL AND THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2022'A terrific read ... McMeekin is a superb writer' David Aaronovitch, The Times 'Gripping, authoritative, accessible and always bracingly revisionist' Simon Sebag...
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Penguin
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2021-04-08
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Humanity has often found itself on the precipice. We've survived and thrived because we've never stopped moving...'Stops you dead in your tracks ... An absolute revelation' Sue Black, bestselling author of All That RemainsIn this eye-opening book, Johannes Krause, Chair...
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Virgin Digital
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2021-04-08
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Policing Prostitution examines the complex world of commercial sex in the late Russian Empire. From the 1840s until 1917, prostitution was legally tolerated across the Russian Empire under a system known as regulation. Medical police were in charge of compiling...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-07
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Policing Prostitution examines the complex world of commercial sex in the late Russian Empire. From the 1840s until 1917, prostitution was legally tolerated across the Russian Empire under a system known as regulation. Medical police were in charge of compiling...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-07
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The book reflects upon the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the ensuing developments in Russia, the rest of the former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe and elsewhere in the world. It discusses the impact of the legacies of the Russian Revolution on political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-07
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During the 872-day siege of Leningrad from September 1941 to January 1944, civilians endured air raids, bread rations as low as 125 grams, food theft and speculation by opportunistic officials and shadow market traders, and death by starvation. As shocks of total war...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-04-06
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A handsome hardcover edition of Robin Waterfield’s definitive translation, with rich annotations providing everything readers need to understand this timeless masterpiece of practical philosophy. “A treat (and an eye-opening experience) … If you...
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Basic Books
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2021-04-06
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How has a game brought together Americans and defined separate ethnic communities? This book tells the first history of mahjong and its meaning in American culture.
Click-click-click. The sound of mahjong tiles connects American expatriates in Shanghai, Jazz Age white...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-04-05
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