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Terezín, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East. Terezín was the last...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-11-05
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Almost sixty years after the signature of the Treaty of Rome in 1957 creating the European Community), a Member-State, the United Kingdom, has for the first time in history decided to leave the European Union. The "yes" to leave vote during the British referendum on 26...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2020-11-04
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From the acclaimed military history author, this action-packed World War II history describes the Allies' brutal naval engagements and daring harbor raids to destroy the backbone of Hitler's surface fleet.The sea had become a mass grave by 1941 as Hitler's four capital...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2020-11-03
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This book explores the notions of space and extension of major early modern empiricist philosophers, especially Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Condillac. While space is a central and challenging issue for early modern empiricists, literature on this topic is sparse.This...
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Springer
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2020-11-03
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This open access book considers a pivotal era in Chinese history from a global perspective.This book’s insight into Chinese and international history offers timely and challenging perspectives on initiatives like “Chinese characteristics”, “The New Silk Road” and “One...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-02
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
This book provides a historiographic...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-11-01
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This volume explores the relationship between place, traumatic memory, and narrative. Drawing on cases from Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and North and South America, the book provides a uniquely cross-cultural and global approach. Covering a wide range of cultural and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-31
Collection :
Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
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It was not so long ago that the dominant picture of Kant’s practical philosophy was formalistic, focusing almost exclusively on his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and Critique of Practical Reason. However, the overall picture of Kant’s wide-ranging philosophy...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-30
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To date, the history of military and war has focused predominantly on men as historical agents, disregarding gender and its complex interrelationships with war and the military. The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600 investigates how...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-10-30
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The most important collection of essays on American Women's History This collection incorporates the most influential and groundbreaking scholarship in the area of American women's history, featuring twenty-three original essays on critical themes and topics. It...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-10-30
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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England's Islands in a Sea of Troubles examines the jurisdictional disputes and cultural complexities inEngland's relationship with its island fringe from Tudor times to the eighteenth century, and traces island privileges and anomalies to the present. It tells a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-30
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England's Islands in a Sea of Troubles examines the jurisdictional disputes and cultural complexities inEngland's relationship with its island fringe from Tudor times to the eighteenth century, and traces island privileges and anomalies to the present. It tells a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-30
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Bourbons. Custard Creams. Rich Tea. Jammie Dodgers. Chocolate Digestives. Shortbread. Ginger snaps. Which is your favourite? British people eat more biscuits than any other nation; they are as embedded in our culture as fish and chips or the Sunday roast. We follow the...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2020-10-29
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“This book brings fresh light to previously marginalized subject in German history. It is an original approach, up-to-date written without scholarly jargon, easily accessible to students, both at undergraduate and graduate. It is highly focused departing from the usual...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-29
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2021AN ECONOMIST AND HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'Compelling and highly original ... The Asia that we see today is the product of the 'underground' which Harper describes with skill and empathy in this monumental work'...
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Penguin
Parution :
2020-10-29
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A fascinating and hilarious gallop through twentieth-century British history, by comedian Al Murray.An awful lot has happened in the last 100 years or so. In fact, when you look at how much went on in the 20th century, it's amazing it didn't take longer than that.And...
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Quercus
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2020-10-29
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An innovative approach to the history of the First Persian Empire, offering an accessible historical narrative for students and general readers alike A History of the Achaemenid Empire considers archaeological and written sources to provide an expansive, source-based...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-10-29
Collection :
Blackwell History of the Ancient World
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This book explores 500 years of poetry, drama, novels, television and films about Anne Boleyn. Hundreds of writers across the centuries have been drawn to reimagine the story of her rise and fall. The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn tells the story of centuries of these...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-28
Collection :
Queenship and Power
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Since its first publication in 2007, John H. Arnold’s What is Medieval History? has established itself as the leading introduction to the craft of the medieval historian. What is it that medieval historians do? How – and why – do they do it? Arnold discusses the...
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Polity
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2020-10-28
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This book explores the history of banditry in the medieval Balkans between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. While several scholars have recognized the problems which various outlaw groups caused in the region during the Middle Ages, few have given much attention to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-28
Collection :
New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
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