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This book evaluates the current and future state of fascism studies, reflecting on the first hundred years of fascism and looking ahead to a new era in which fascism studies increasingly faces fresh questions concerning its relevance and the potential reappearance of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-11-11
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Referencing more than 40 ancient works as well as 70 books and papers of contemporary scholars, this book opens up the civilization, society, culture and communication of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang period represented unprecedented prosperity in the ancient world....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-11
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This book examines the most important Czech women philosophers and scientists. It highlights the lives and achievements of a group that has often not received the recognition they deserve. Chapters provide a systematic description and critical evaluation of the impact...
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Springer
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2020-11-11
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This book recounts the reception of selected films about the Great War released between 1918 and 1938 in the USA and Great Britain. It discusses the role that popular cinema played in forming and reflecting public opinion about the War and its political and cultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-10
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“A journey as epic, and varying, as the Silk Road itself...[The Fabric of Civilization is] like a swatch of a Florentine Renaissance brocade: carefully woven, the technique precise, the colors a mix of shade and shine...
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Basic Books
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2020-11-10
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Master storyteller Brad Meltzer counts down and decodes the world’s top 10 most intriguing conspiracies stories. Wanted: the truth. In a riveting collection, Brad Meltzer guides us through the 10 greatest conspiracies of all time, from Leonardo da...
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Workman Publishing Company
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2020-11-10
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“A Nazi resistance story like none you’ve ever heard or read.” —Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate Ground"Every page is gripping, and the amount of new research is nothing short of mind-boggling. A brilliant book for...
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Algonquin Books
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2020-11-10
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A COMPANION TO ANCIENT AGRICULTURE An authoritative overview of agricultural development in the ancient worldA Companion to Ancient Agriculture investigates the history and development of agriculture in the ancient world, focusing primarily on the Near East and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-11-10
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico.The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the...
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Basic Books
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2020-11-10
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The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology offers a comprehensive survey of the entire study of ancient Egypt from prehistory through to the end of the Roman period. It seeks to place Egyptology within its theoretical, methodological, and historical contexts, indicating how the...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-11-10
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The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology offers a comprehensive survey of the entire study of ancient Egypt from prehistory through to the end of the Roman period. It seeks to place Egyptology within its theoretical, methodological, and historical contexts, indicating how the...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-11-10
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An authoritative and extensive resource for British and Irish history Quickly access basic information on the history of the British Isles from this reliable resource. A Dictionary of British and Irish History provides concise information covering all periods of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-11-10
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This book highlights the pivotal roles of individuals in England’s complex sixteenth-century reformations. While many historians study broad themes, such as religious moderation, this volume is centred on the perspective that great changes are instigated not by themes,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-10
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In this book the emergence of schools in urban Sweden between the seventeenth and the nineteenth century provides the framework for a history of children and of childhood. It is a study through the lens of the changes in early modern education, spatial aspect of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-07
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
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This book defies long standing assumptions about indigenous societies in the Americas and shows that non-heteronormative sexualities were already present among native peoples in different regions of what is now Latin America before the arrival of European colonizers....
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Springer
Parution :
2020-11-06
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This book presents a new model for understanding the collection of ancient kingdoms that surrounded the northeast corner of the Mediterranean Sea from the Cilician Plain in the west to the upper Tigris River in the east, and from Cappadocia in the north to western Syria...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-11-06
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Diese geoarchäologische Untersuchung zu den vor- und frühgeschichtlichen Siedlungen im Großraum Susiana (SW Iran) und ihrer Flusslandschaft stellt die traditionelle kulturhistorische Sicht der „Uruk-Expansion“ in Frage und präsentiert eine neue Erklärung für die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-11-06
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Hybrid Hate is the first book to study the conflation of antisemitism and anti-Black racism. As objects of racism, Jews and Blacks have been linked together for centuries as peoples apart from the general run of humanity. In this book, Tudor Parfitt investigates the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-11-06
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The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine the ancient world produced.The Roman Empire depended on soldiers not just to win its wars, defend its frontiers and control the seas but also to act as the engine of the state. Roman legionaries and auxiliaries came from...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2020-11-05
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'The best single-volume study of the Enlightenment that we have' Literary ReviewThe Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial. It is often seen as the fountainhead of modern values...
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Penguin
Parution :
2020-11-05
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