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This book surveys the lives and careers of naval officers across Europe at the height of the age of sail. It traces the professionalization of naval officers by exploring their preparation for life at sea and the challenges they faced while in command. It also...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-06
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This collaborative multi-authored volume integrates interdisciplinary approaches to ethnic, imperial, and national borderlands in the Iberian World (16th to early 19th centuries). It illustrates the historical processes that produced borderlands in the Americas and...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-11-06
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This book re-visits the history of the Korean War of 1950-1953 from a Chinese perspective, examining Chinese strategy and exploring why China sent three million troops to Korea, in Mao’s words, to “defend the homeland and safeguard the country”—giving rise to what...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-05
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From UFOs to Dr. Strangelove, LSD experiments to Richard Nixon, author Brian Brown investigates the paranoid, panicked history of the Cold War.In Someone Is Out to Get Us, Brian T. Brown explores the delusions, absurdities, and best-kept secrets of the Cold War, during...
Editeur :
Twelve
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2019-11-05
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This stunning visual guide is a journey of discovery through fashion's fascinating history, one day at a time.Beginning on January 1st and ending on December 31st, Worn OnThis Day looks at garments worn on monumental occasions across centuries, offering capsule fashion...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2019-11-05
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Words of Her Own situates the experiences and articulations of emergent women writers in nineteenth-century Bengal through an exploration of works authored by them. Based on a spectrum of genres—such as autobiographies, novels, and travelogues—this book examines the...
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OUP India
Parution :
2019-11-05
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A riveting, edge-of-your seat account of how a battalion of Marines faced off against the most brutal of Al Qaeda at its most desperate and vicious moment--and how the Marines decisively crushed the terroristsWhen the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Marine Regiment ("2/3")...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2019-11-05
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The fully-revised second edition of the bestselling textbook—an original interpretation of the entire span of California historyThe rich history of California can best be told through its connection with the Pacific Basin. From the geological origins of the land and its...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-11-05
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Three Gold Star women, linked forever by unimaginable loss, share their inspiring, unlikely journey that began on the worst day of their lives.What happens when tragedy knocks on your front door? For us, it was a literal knock, with two men standing in crisply pressed...
Editeur :
Center Street
Parution :
2019-11-05
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This book discusses the emergence of care for orphaned, abandoned and poor children in Lithuania from the early twentieth century to the beginning of the Second World War. In particular, it focuses on how such practices were influenced by nationalist and political...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-05
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As the twentieth century dawned and France entered an era of extraordinary labor activism and industrial competition, an insistently romantic vision of the Parisian garment worker was deployed by politicians, reformers, and artists to manage anxieties about economic and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-05
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One of the most highly regarded special operations soldiers in American military history shares his war stories and personal battle with PTSD.As a senior non-commissioned officer of the most elite and secretive special operations unit in the U.S. military, Command...
Editeur :
Center Street
Parution :
2019-11-05
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'Punctuation is not only an important part of our language code; an advanced system of punctuation has been a driving force in our entire Western Civilisation. Nothing less.'With the invention of printing, reading books moved from being an act only performed by priests...
Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2019-11-04
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This book explores concepts of decolonisation, identity, and nation in the white settler society of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) between 1964 and 1979. It considers how white settlers used the past to make claims of authority in the present. It investigates the white...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-02
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This book considers literary images of Japan created by David Mitchell, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Tan Twan Eng to examine the influence of Japanese imperialism and its legacy at a time when culture was appropriated as route to governmentality and violence justified as root to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-02
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This book explores contemporary debates surrounding Poland’s 'war children', that is the young victims, participants and survivors of the Second World War. It focuses on the period after 2001, which saw the emergence of the two main political parties that were to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-02
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During the 1930s, no event was more absorbing or galvanizing to Ernest Hemingway than the Spanish Civil War. Hemingway was passionately devoted to the cause of the democratically elected Spanish Republic and he spent much of the war reporting from its front lines,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-01
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This book argues that a vibrant, ever-changing Atlantic community persisted into the nineteenth century. As in the early modern Atlantic world, nineteenth-century interactions between the Americas, Africa, and Europe centered on exchange: exchange of people,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-01
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The rediscovery of Babylon and Assyria in the 1840s transformed Western views on the origins of civilisation.The excavation of Nineveh proved that even the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians together did not constitute the ancient world. These peoples had nothing to do with...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2019-11-01
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The 1960s are remembered as a time of change and upheaval throughout the Western world, including Australia. No part of the country changed more in that decade than the remote pastoral regions of the north. But in these tropical parts the winds of change did not bring...
Editeur :
Magabala Books
Parution :
2019-11-01
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