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Organized in the immediate aftermath of World War Two by the victorious Allies, the Nuremberg Trials were intended to hold the Nazis to account for their crimes — and to restore a sense of justice to a world devastated by violence. As Francine Hirsch reveals in this...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-06-08
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Polish Literature and the Holocaust (1939–1968) scrutinizes literary and documentary testimonies produced during or after the extermination of Jews in the Second World War and rooted in that historical, political, and anthropological context. Whether someone wrote a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-06-05
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The book presents a record of oral accounts given by liquidators who participated in minimizing the effects of the Chernobyl disaster.The main research goal was to present the circumstances of actions taken in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in 1986–1988 from the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-06-05
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The volume will focus on a comparative level on a specific group of states that are commonly labelled as “empires” and that we encounter through all historical periods. Although they are very successful at the very beginning, like most empires are, this success is very...
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Springer VS
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2020-06-04
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'Defiant is both a stirring testament to the courage of the men who flew them and a welcome new examination of one of the Second World War's most famous conflicts'Alexander Larman, ObserverIn this startling new perspective on the Battle of Britain, Robert Verkaik...
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Robinson
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2020-06-04
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'A masterpiece of research, The Last Kings of Shanghai is a vivid and fascinating story of wealth, family intrigue, and political strategy on the world stage from colonialism to communism to globalized capitalism' Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies,...
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Little, Brown Book Group
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2020-06-02
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This book traces American engagement in the English-speaking Caribbean from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, and is the first to examine the policies of Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump in this context. Focusing on The Bahamas,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-01
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This edited collection focuses on the Roman empire during the period from AD 337 to 361. During this period the empire was ruled by three brothers: Constantine II (337-340), Constans I (337-350) and Constantius II (337-361). These emperors tend to be cast into shadow by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-05-30
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Worshippers of the Gods tells how the Latin writers who witnessed the political and social rise of Christianity rethought the role of traditional religion in the empire and city of Rome. In parallel with the empire's legal Christianisation, it traces changing attitudes...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-05-29
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Exam board: AQA; OCRLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better grades for over...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
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2020-05-29
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This book explores how Japanese views of nuclear power were influenced not only by Hiroshima and Nagasaki but by government, business and media efforts to actively promote how it was a safe and integral part of Japan’s future. The idea of “atoms for peace” and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-28
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This book focuses on Kolkata, formerly the colonial capital of and currently a major megacity in India, in terms of its extensive blue infrastructures, i.e., its rivers, canals and wetlands as an integrated composite whole. It unfolds ways in which this reclaimed urban...
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Springer
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2020-05-27
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Ancient Rome is the only society in the history of the western world whose legal profession evolved autonomously, distinct and separate from institutions of political and religious power. Roman legal thought has left behind an enduring legacy and exerted enormous...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-05-26
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Ancient Rome is the only society in the history of the western world whose legal profession evolved autonomously, distinct and separate from institutions of political and religious power. Roman legal thought has left behind an enduring legacy and exerted enormous...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-05-26
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Learn the core principles of socialism -- one of the world's most misunderstood ideologies -- with this easy-to-follow guide for today's political conversation.From Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal, the U.S. is...
Editeur :
Black Dog & Leventhal
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2020-05-26
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William Tecumseh Sherman, a West Point graduate and veteran of the Seminole War, became one of the best-known generals in the Civil War. His March to the Sea, which resulted in a devastated swath of the South from Atlanta to Savannah, cemented his place in history as...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-05-26
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This is the first book to address the history of psychiatry under Communism in Central and Eastern Europe, from the Soviet Union to East Germany. It brings together new research addressing understandings of mental health and disorder, treatments and therapies, and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-26
Collection :
Mental Health in Historical Perspective
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Exam board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Trust the power of cognitive science to help students to understand more, remember more and feel more confident about their exams.Dale Banham is not your average teacher....
Editeur :
Hodder Education
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2020-05-25
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When the Bloomsbury critics Roger Fry and Clive Bell introduced an aesthetically conservative English public to recent Parisian avant-garde painting, they explained its disconcerting imagery by way of a late nineteenth-century metaphysical tradition which had long...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-05-22
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In a sweeping account, Atlantic Wars explores how warfare shaped the experiences of the peoples living in the watershed of the Atlantic Ocean between the late Middle Ages and the Age of Revolution. At the beginning of that period, combat within Europe secured for the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-05-21
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