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This edited collection brings together varying angles and approaches to tackle the multi-dimensional issue of anti-Catholicism since the Protestant Reformation in Britain and Ireland. It is of course difficult to infer from such geographically and historically...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-24
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Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000
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“This volume is interesting both because of its global focus, and its chronology up to the present, it covers a good century of changes. It will help define the field of gender studies of humanitarianism, and its relevance for understanding the history of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-24
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This book explores the Paris Ecole Militaire as an institution, arguing for its importance as a school that presented itself as a model for reform during a key moment in the movement towards military professionalism as well as state-run secular education. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-24
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A compendium of original essays and contemporary viewpoints on the 1917 Revolution The Russian revolution of 1917 reverberated throughout an empire that covered one-sixth of the world. It altered the geo-political landscape of not only Eurasia, but of the entire globe....
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-08-21
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
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A captivating new book from Wade Davis - winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Into the Silence - that brings vividly to life the story of the great Río Magdalena, illuminating Colombia's complex past, present, and future.For Wade Davis, Colombia was the first country...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2020-08-20
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When Julie Welch called in her first ever football report at the Observer, an entire room of men fell silent. Heart in her mouth, Julie waited for the voice on the other end of the line to declare it passable. She'd done it. She was the first ever female football...
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Trapeze
Parution :
2020-08-20
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The Tupac Amaru rebellion of 1780-1783 began as a local revolt against colonial authorities and grew into the largest rebellion in the history of Spain's American empire-more widespread and deadlier than the American Revolution. An official collector of tribute for the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-08-20
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The richest and most politically complex regions in Italy in the earliest middle ages were the Byzantine sections of the peninsula, thanks to their links with the most coherent early medieval state, the Byzantine empire. This comparative study of the histories of Rome,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-20
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The richest and most politically complex regions in Italy in the earliest middle ages were the Byzantine sections of the peninsula, thanks to their links with the most coherent early medieval state, the Byzantine empire. This comparative study of the histories of Rome,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-20
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The American Civil War lasted from 1861 to 1865, killing nearly 700,000 Americans and costing the country untold millions of dollars.The events of this tragic war are so steeped in the collective memory of the United States and so taken for granted that it is sometimes...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-08-20
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?This book examines the role of memory in animation, as well as the ways in which the medium of animation can function as a technology of remembering and forgetting. By doing so, it establishes a platform for the cross-fertilization between the burgeoning fields of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-20
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This book tackles cultural mobilization in the First World War as a plural process of identity formation and de-formation. It explores eight different settings in which individuals, communities and conceptual paradigms were mobilized. Taking an interdisciplinary...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-19
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‘In this compelling and thoroughly researched book, Benjamin Huskinson demonstrates that just as there is broad diversity within evangelicalism, so too there is broad diversity among “creationists.” His work on the Intelligent Design movement is superb, and he prompts...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-19
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This book examines attitudes towards German held captive in Britain, drawing on original archival material including newspaper and newsreel content, diaries, sociological surveys and opinion polls, as well as official documentation and the archives of pressure groups...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-19
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From journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a examination of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly United States should be broken up. "A powerful revisionist account." —Eric Foner, American historian and author...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2020-08-18
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This book explores the Romanian Orthodox Church’s arguments on national identity to legitimize its own place in a post-communist Romania. The work traces the clergy’s deployment of the concepts of Christian Orthodoxy and Latin legacy as part of an uncharted...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-17
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Indian writing in English (IWE) is now a widely recognized and awarded genre, boasting of world renowned authors in its ranks. The ‘fathers’ of IWE, Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, and Raja Rao, have now been canonized and their works widely studied. Yet, very little...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2020-08-14
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In The Sum of Our Dreams, Louis P. Masur offers a sweeping yet compact history of America from its beginnings to the current moment. For general readers seeking an accessible, single-volume account, one that challenges but does not overwhelm, and which distills and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-08-14
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This is not a book about Winston Churchill. It is not principally about his politics, nor his rhetorical imagination, nor even about the man himself. Instead, it addresses the varied afterlives of the man and the persistent, deeply located compulsion to bring him back...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-14
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This is not a book about Winston Churchill. It is not principally about his politics, nor his rhetorical imagination, nor even about the man himself. Instead, it addresses the varied afterlives of the man and the persistent, deeply located compulsion to bring him back...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-14
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