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An erudite and entertaining history of Moscow, a city whose rich past offers crucial insight into contemporary global politics'A marvellous book' HELEN RAPPAPORT, author of The Rebel Romanov‘Every page pulses with individual stories and historical insights' MARK...
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Vintage Digital
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2026-03-26
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A new history of the idea of Europe from Ancient Greece to the present'A magisterial history, written with great panache, that is both enlightening and deeply readable.A true tour de force - Peter Frankopan What do we talk about when we talk about Europe? Is it defined...
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Penguin
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2026-03-26
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The Gesta Francorum Ierusalem expugnantium is a history of the First Crusade and the first years of Latin rule in the kingdom of Jerusalem (1095–1106) written before 1120, probably in Flanders.The anonymous author acknowledged that he had based his work on that of...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-03-25
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Explores the evolving historiography of the Second World War across cultures and continents A Companion to the Second World War, Second Edition is a foundational reference for understanding how scholars have interpreted, debated, and revised the history of the Second...
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Wiley
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2026-03-24
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
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Europäische Nachbarschaft ist jenseits des Politischen kaum denkbar. Dies gilt auch für Polen und Deutschland einschließlich ihrer Literaturen und literarischen Felder. Im vorliegenden Sammelband wird daher u. a. der Frage nachgegangen, ob die Verleihung eines...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2026-03-24
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Walk your way through Jewish history, life, and culture—from Abraham to today Jewish History For Dummies provides unbiased, factual history of Jewish life, culture, and history. You’ll take a look at the roots of Jewish history, beginning in 2000 B.C.E. with Abraham...
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For Dummies
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2026-03-22
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An estimated 200,000 Latvian soldiers—ten percent of the total prewar population of Latvia— served on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Since the Republic of Latvia had been occupied and annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, then occupied by Nazi Germany in...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-03-19
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*Shortlisted for Footnote x Counterpoints Writing Prize* A moving and personal memoir telling the story of a family grappling with trauma and identity in the wake of the Holocaust.A finely honed journey across time and place, affecting and powerful, and deeply relevant...
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Penguin
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2026-03-19
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In this collection of essays, James Howard-Johnston evaluates historical sources from across the entire existence of the Byzantine empire. Byzantium was peculiarly well endowed for the writing of history, given a relatively high degree of literacy, a large governing...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-03-18
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Tracing the moments after its creation, this groundbreaking book follows how news of the Declaration of Independence spread to people throughout the thirteen United States and the Atlantic world.
In 1776 people could hear the Declaration of Independence proclaimed in...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-03-17
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Markets of Pain offers a sweeping history of the business of licit opium--following cultivators, merchants, scientists, and policymakers--and shows how this potent crop reshaped global trade, medicine, and geopolitics.
For centuries, opium has been a source of both...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-03-16
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My previous book in the Exile Studies series, Vanished Lands: Memory and Postmemory in North American Lithuanian Diaspora Literature, explored the collective intergenerational trauma of the past. This companion volume, Heritage, Connection, Writing: Conversations with...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2026-03-16
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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 at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Domesticated uses novel archaeological methods to...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-03-13
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This volume, the third in A General History of Chinese Wushu, offers a historically substantiated and analytically focused account of the development of Wushu from 1900 to 1949, a period characterized by accelerated political and social transformation. Integrating...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-03-13
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‘Portable City: Modern Glasgow’s Transatlantic Connections is a gem of a book. Like the modern city at the centre of its multi-faceted gaze, this wonderful volume offers us a highly original set of chapters on modern Glasgow's many different faces and facets. From an...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2026-03-12
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How could a barely literate peasant from Siberia determine the fate of the world? Undoubtedly, the so-called 'mad monk' Rasputin bewitched Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra. Yet their strange and scandalous relationship conceals a riddle , one that casts an...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2026-03-12
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Body Size in Early Modern Germany uncovers the significance of fatness and thinness in early modern German society and culture. It explores how early modern people conceived of fat and thin bodies, in terms of both the cultural meanings attached to body size and...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-03-11
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Thinking with Dogs in Roman Britain: Lived Experience, Inequality, and Ritual in a Roman Province argues that in Roman Britain, where little written evidence survives, some aspects of the past are more visible when we look not at people but instead focus on the dogs...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-03-11
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Victorian Architecture presents a new and refreshing overview of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century architecture in Britain and the wider British world.
TheVictorian period witnessed the beginnings of what today would be described as the global architectural...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-03-11
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