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Beginning with Etan Patz's disappearance in Manhattan in 1979, a spate of high-profile cases of missing and murdered children stoked anxieties about the threats of child kidnapping and exploitation. Publicized through an emerging twenty-four-hour news cycle, these cases...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-05-01
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The Merovingian era is one of the best studied yet least well known periods of European history. From the fifth to the eighth centuries, the inhabitants of Gaul (what now comprises France, southern Belgium, Luxembourg, Rhineland Germany, and part of modern Switzerland),...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-05-01
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A major new history of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, set in a larger global context than previous accounts
Previous accounts of the fall of the Inca empire have played up the importance of the events of one violent day in November 1532 at the highland Andean...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-05-01
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'They will have to choose between giving us freedom or giving us death'So said,in 1913 ,the brilliant orator and suffragette ,Emmeline Pankhurst, just one of the inspiring women who won the vote for women. She remains a heroine for those determined to go to any lengths...
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Virago
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2020-04-30
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'This captivating account . . . is the story of an ordinary soldier, but an extraordinary man. I commend this book most warmly.'Richard Dannatt, General The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL, Chief of the General Staff 2006-9'The amazing account of a young man, Neville...
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Robinson
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2020-04-30
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Demetrius the Besieger offers the first historical and historiographical biography ofDemetrius Poliorcetes (336-282 BC) to be published in English. Also known as 'The Besieger of Cities',Demetrius is an outstanding, yet enigmatic figure who presided over the...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-29
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Demetrius the Besieger offers the first historical and historiographical biography ofDemetrius Poliorcetes (336-282 BC) to be published in English. Also known as 'The Besieger of Cities',Demetrius is an outstanding, yet enigmatic figure who presided over the...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-29
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This is the first modern study of the Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers - England's most important trading company of the sixteenth century - in its final century of existence as a privileged organisation. Over this period, the Company's main trade, the export of cloth...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-29
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Among the imperial states of the ancient world, the Roman empire stands out for its geographical extent, its longevity and its might. This collective volume investigates how the many peoples inhabiting Rome’s vast empire perceived, experienced, and reacted to both the...
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Publications de l'École française de Rome
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2020-04-29
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Collection de l'École française de Rome
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The book assembles case studies on the human dimension of the Holocaust as illuminated in the academic work of preeminent Holocaust scholar Deborah Dwork, the founding director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, home of the first doctoral...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-04-28
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Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide
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The "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine during World War I.A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett...
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Basic Books
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2020-04-28
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Exam board: AQALevel: 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 30...
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Hodder Education
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2020-04-27
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The Crusader States and their Neighbours (Winner,The Verbruggen Prize,The Society for Medieval Military History) explores the military history of the Medieval Near East, piecing together the fault-lines of conflict which entangled this much-contested region. This was an...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-24
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The Crusader States and their Neighbours (Winner,The Verbruggen Prize,The Society for Medieval Military History) explores the military history of the Medieval Near East, piecing together the fault-lines of conflict which entangled this much-contested region. This was an...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-24
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Lacing cultural criticism, Victorian literature, and storytelling together, Too Much explores how culture corsets women's bodies, souls, and sexualities - and how we might finally undo the strings.Written in the tradition of Shrill, Dead Girls, Sex Object and other...
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Sphere
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2020-04-23
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The division of Germany separated a nation, divided communities, and inevitably shaped the life histories of those growing up in the socialist dictatorship of the East and the liberal democracy of the West. This peculiarly German experience of the Cold War is usually...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-23
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This book assesses the legacy of Dick Hebdige and his work on subcultures in his seminal work, Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979). The volume interrogates the concept of subculture put forward by Hebdige, and asks if this concept is still capable of helping us...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-04-22
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What is commonly called the kingdom of Pontos flourished for over two hundred years in the coastal regions of the Black Sea. At its peak in the early first century BC, it included much of the southern, eastern, and northern littoral, becoming one of the most important...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-04-22
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Between 1914 and 1918, the Western Front passed through some of Europe's most populated and industrialised regions. Large towns including Nancy, Reims, Arras, and Lens lay at the heart of the battlefield. Their civilian inhabitants endured artillery bombardment,...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-22
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Between 1914 and 1918, the Western Front passed through some of Europe's most populated and industrialised regions. Large towns including Nancy, Reims, Arras, and Lens lay at the heart of the battlefield. Their civilian inhabitants endured artillery bombardment,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-04-22
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