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North American edition with an exclusive afterword and photographs INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER | BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER | SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLER In early October 2023, Palestinian Plestia Alaqad was...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2025-09-30
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Why were the United States and its Western Allies so lenient after the most atrocious war of all times? Out of Hitler's Shadow answers this question, and considers why the Allies concluded that imposing unrealistic financial conditions on a defeated country would do...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-30
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Why were the United States and its Western Allies so lenient after the most atrocious war of all times? Out of Hitler's Shadow answers this question, and considers why the Allies concluded that imposing unrealistic financial conditions on a defeated country would do...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-30
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Following the death in 1789 of Abbé de l'Epée, the first teacher of deaf pupils renowned in France and beyond, revolutionaries committed to founding national institutes for the education of deaf pupils. There was little doubt about their ability to integrate as full...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-28
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Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, a 19th-century educationist and reformer, pioneered modern education among Indian Muslims. He founded the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental (MAO) College in 1875, which became Aligarh Muslim University in 1920, revolutionizing Muslim thought and promoting...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-27
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This book tells the story of the people who shaped the modern art market and its institutions to maximize the financial potential of their product.This transformation resulted in a fundamental and lasting redefinition of art. It is based on contemporaneous sources —...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-26
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The Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India was founded in 1820 by an English Baptist missionary, William Carey. He was part of a network of missionaries centred at Srirampur (Serampore), the Danish settlement close to Calcutta. This book explores the ways that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-26
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The introduction of the principle of women's reproductive liberty in France, tentatively by the family planning movement after 1960 and explicitly by the women's liberation movement after 1970, marked a deep shift, transforming public discourses. Yet this principle...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-26
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The ideal of the rule of law - that the law should protect all citizens from arbitrary exercises of power - can be traced from ancient Greece to the present day.The Roman contribution to the rule of law tradition has been largely overlooked, however, both in rule-of-law...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-26
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This book follows the thread of transportation development along a continuous timeline of historical dynasties, with a primary focus on presenting the factual accounts of transportation development, key events, and their evolving characteristics. It paints a fundamental...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-09-26
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This book examines whataboutism arguments within the United Nations Security Council, with a focus on the case of Russia’s rhetoric in the Council. In doing so, it highlights their dualistic effects of facilitating or undermining international diplomatic efforts,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-26
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This book offers an introduction to the history and course of the Russian war against Ukraine. Through this book, readers will:
- gain data, facts, and a general understanding of Russia’s current war against Ukraine;- understand the connections between...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-09-26
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This book provides a comprehensive review of the relationship between utopia and democracy, challenging the tendency in Western scholarship to assume that an ideal society is inherently democratic. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book covers an extensive range...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-26
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The passion play at Oberammergau in Bavaria is one of the oldest theatrical spectacles in the world, with a history of regular performance that dates back to 1634. By the dawn of the twentieth century, each season drew hundreds of thousands of spectators from Europe,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-26
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Gender history has alerted us to the fact that it is misleading to assume transhistorical features when it comes to issues such as childbearing, mother- and fatherhood, and gendered systems of labour division. Instead, all of these are culturally inflected and thus...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-26
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How did the 'quintessentially English' game of cricket come to be so important across Britain's Caribbean empire? As empire declined and gave way to complex patterns of migration, what part did cricket play in the life of the Windrush generation in post-war Britain?
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Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-26
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A provocative and original reinterpretation of modern Irish history.
There is a widespread misconception that Ireland became 'modern' much later than its neighbours, in the 1960s and 1970s. This is grounded in several enduring stereotypes and caricatures: of Ireland as...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-26
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A provocative and original reinterpretation of modern Irish history.
There is a widespread misconception that Ireland became 'modern' much later than its neighbours, in the 1960s and 1970s. This is grounded in several enduring stereotypes and caricatures: of Ireland as...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-26
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The world's eyes were on Austria-Hungary on June 28, 1914. But both inside and outside of Austria, few could imagine the dramatic consequences of the events in Sarajevo.The popular shock and anger that greeted the assassination did not mean war was a likely or necessary...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-26
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The world's eyes were on Austria-Hungary on June 28, 1914. But both inside and outside of Austria, few could imagine the dramatic consequences of the events in Sarajevo.The popular shock and anger that greeted the assassination did not mean war was a likely or necessary...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-26
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