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Offers a broad range of texts spanning six centuries of imperial Roman history—Volume II of Empire of the Romans, from Julius Caesar to Justinian Empire of the Romans: From Julius Caesar to Justinian: Six Hundred Years of Peace and War, Volume II: Select Anthology is a...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-01-21
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The European Rescue of the Franco Regime, 1950-1975 explores how the governments of the founding members of the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community, acting collectively via the European Communities, assisted in the consolidation of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-21
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The European Rescue of the Franco Regime, 1950-1975 explores how the governments of the founding members of the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community, acting collectively via the European Communities, assisted in the consolidation of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-21
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Investigating the nature of Chinese modernity from the perspectives of social and intellectual history and inspired by Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities, this book reveals the ambiguity of nation as a modern concept and opens up a new possibility for the turn of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-01-21
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The final page in the political history of the Soviet Union was turned on March 19, 2019, when Nursultan Nazarbayev, the last former Chairman of a Soviet Republic who had managed to stay in power following the collapse of USSR, unexpectedly decided to resign. This...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-21
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A wide-ranging survey of the history of the Roman Empire—from its establishment to decline and beyond Empire of the Romans, from Julius Caesar to Justinian provides a sweeping historical survey of the Roman empire. Uncommonly expansive in its chronological scope, this...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-01-20
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What is Early Modern History? offers a concise guide to investigations of the era from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries and an entry-point to larger questions about how we divide and organize the past and how the discipline of history has evolved. Merry...
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Polity
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2021-01-20
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Explore the entire history of the ancient Egyptian state from 3000 B.C. to 400 A.D. with this authoritative volume The newly revised Second Edition of A History of Ancient Egypt delivers an up-to-date survey of ancient Egypt's history from its origins to the Roman...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-01-20
Collection :
Blackwell History of the Ancient World
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In this World War II military history, Rommel's army is a day from Cairo, a week from Tel Aviv, and the SS is ready for action. Espionage brought the Nazis this far, but espionage can stop them—if Washington wakes up to the danger.As World War II raged in...
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PublicAffairs
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2021-01-19
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A Wall Street Journal national security reporter takes readers into the lives of frontline U.S. special operations troops fighting to keep the Taliban and Islamic State from overthrowing the U.S.-backed government in the final years of the war in...
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PublicAffairs
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2021-01-19
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This handbook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume on the history and memory of the Holocaust in Britain. It traces the complex relationship between Britain and the destruction of Europe’s Jews, from societal and political responses to persecution in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-19
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Its unique ability to sway the masses has led many observers to consider cinema the artform with the greatest political force. The images it produces can bolster leaders or contribute to their undoing. Soviet filmmakers often had to face great obstacles as they...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-01-18
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The cultures of Nubia built the earliest cities, states, and empires of inner Africa, but they remain relatively poorly known outside their modern descendants and the community of archaeologists, historians, and art historians researching them.The earliest...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-01-15
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Prostitution played an important part in structuring gender relations in medieval Germany. Prostitutes were often viewed as an example of the extreme female sinfulness which all women risked falling into, yet their social role was also seen as vital to the unmarried men...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-15
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Prostitution played an important part in structuring gender relations in medieval Germany. Prostitutes were often viewed as an example of the extreme female sinfulness which all women risked falling into, yet their social role was also seen as vital to the unmarried men...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-15
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Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize,Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award &Winner of The Society of the Cincinnati Prize.
In the late summer and fall of 1777, after two years of indecisive fighting on both sides, the outcome of the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-01-15
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Throughout their shared history, Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches have lived through a very complex and sometimes tense relationship –-not only theologically, but also politically. In most cases such relationships remain to this day; indeed, in some cases the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-15
Collection :
Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue
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This book explores the concept of deference as used by historians and political scientists. Often confused and judged to be outdated, it shows how deference remains central to understanding British politics to the present day.This study aims to make sense of how...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-13
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This handbook addresses the methodological problems and theoretical challenges that arise in attempting to understand and represent humour in specific historical contexts across cultural history. It explores problems involved in applying modern theories of humour to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-12
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This book offers the first in-depth enquiry into the origins of 135 Indigenous Australian objects acquired by the Royal Navy between 1795 and 1855 and held now by the British Museum. In response to increasing calls for the ‘decolonisation’ of museums and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-12
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