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'The great book on 1966 that needed writing.'PAUL HAYWARD, OBSERVER'Panoramic and polemic.'JONATHAN NORTHCROFT, SUNDAY TIMES-A vivid portrait of the world in 1966, centred around the storied World Cup tournament and its backdrop, published to mark the 60th...
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Transworld Digital
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2026-05-28
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This open access volume explores the history of short-term employment and precarious work in pre-industrial Northern Europe. Contrary to popular belief, stable, long-term employment—potentially lasting decades—was uncommon in Northern Europe until the advent...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-05-28
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The story of Winston Churchill's long relationship with the Crown—from radical liberal under Edward VII to his last premiership as an old man under the young Queen Elizabeth II.
Winston Churchill was born in a palace and was given a funeral worthy of a king....
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OUP Oxford
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2026-05-28
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Throughout the reign of Sultan Selîm III (1789-1807), Ottoman officials complained about the destruction of a notorious criminal named Kara Feyzî and thousands of his followers: they pillaged, slaughtered, and burned down communities throughout the Balkans. But these...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-05-28
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This edited volume examines the legal and economic world of the Romans through concepts, structures, and objects that reveal practices of standardization and localism. It explores the myriad ways in which the Roman Empire became an integrated political, social and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-05-27
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This book gathers vital contributions examining rhetoric in the Middle Byzantine Period, focusing on the ‘corpus Hermogenianum.’This much-read compendium of treatises and exercises was first consolidated in the fifth and sixth centuries CE, then successively...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-05-27
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Dieses Buch bietet eine detaillierte Untersuchung des deutschen Neoliberalismus zwischen 1924 und 1963. Es argumentiert, dass bereits in der Zwischenkriegszeit ein neoliberales Netzwerk entstand – Jahrzehnte bevor Elitennetzwerke in Großbritannien und den...
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Springer VS
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2026-05-27
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Convinced that crusade expeditions were failing 'because of our sins', Paris-trained reformers targeted 'corrupt' clergy and 'loose women' (meretrices) in campaigns against prostitution, clerical marriage and concubinage, and lay fornication. Moral theologians tied new...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-05-27
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This volume, the fifth in A General History of Chinese Wushu, offers a comprehensive and empirically grounded account of the development of Chinese Wushu from the First National Wushu Working Conference in 1982 to 2019. Integrating historical narrative with theoretical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-05-27
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This volume explores emerging patterns of migration from Central Asia to underrepresented destinations such as Australia, Japan, South Korea, Nordic countries, and Türkiye. It critically examines diverse dimensions of mobility—labor migration, student...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-05-27
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This book tells the historical journey of migrant ballroom dancers from post-Soviet countries to North America, supported by interviews with these dancers about education, identity, and social integration. Through movement analysis, author David Outevsky dissects their...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-05-27
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The story of the United States, from Revolutionary War to Donald Trump
The Oxford Illustrated History of the United States offers a completely fresh account of the founding and development of the American republic. Lavishly illustrated, drawing upon the latest...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-05-26
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The riveting story of the ring of spies known as the Cambridge Five, who infiltrated the highest levels of the British establishment and helped Stalin cement a half century of Soviet domination over Eastern Europe. “A brilliant book. Deep research and dazzling...
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PublicAffairs
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2026-05-26
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“In this insightful, meticulously researched study, Capano reveals the complexities of Italian nationalist ideology and advocacy in the contested Yugoslav-Italian border regions, making sense of the cacophony of voices that shaped local relations and Italian foreign...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2026-05-25
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This book explores how urban spaces and imagery serve as vessels for artistic creation, conveying cultural identity and heritage, by focusing on Macau as a case study. The book examines the role of city imagery in the contexts of World Heritage and intangible cultural...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-05-25
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A tribute to the distinguished diplomatic historian, Professor Michael Dockrill (1936-2018), this collection provides a comprehensive overview of the field of twentieth-century British foreign and strategic policy. With contributions from the most esteemed academic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-05-24
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The short-lived Ministry of Information (MoI, 1939–1946) had an outsized impact. It played a key role in the Allied war effort, and its work has reverberated in British culture ever since: from its much darker version (as the 'Ministry of Truth') in Orwell's Nineteen...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-05-24
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Many of the first Holocaust testimonies involved music. Yet despite the central role that music played in the traumatic aftermath of the Third Reich, it was not perceived as testimonial. Audible Testimonies: Surviving the Third Reich in Music and Media explores the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-05-22
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The sauces we eat evoke emotions, define our meals, direct our conversations over those meals, and influence the way we think about ourselves and each other. Sauces, through their consumption and rejection, create bonds between peoples and distinguish outsiders. This...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-05-22
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This volume gathers different disciplinary, methodological and thematic perspectives on architecture understood as a cultural, critical and design practice. Through an articulated dialogue between history and contemporaneity, theory and practice, design and teaching,...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-05-22
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