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This book offers a holistic re-evaluation of the Spithead and Nore mutinies of 1797, which immobilised the two Royal Navy fleets responsible for Britain's defence at a time when invasion seemed likely. The mutinies represent two of the most serious manifestations of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-02
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This book considers the position and historiography of the western Balkans in modern Europe. It challenges the linear narrative that the region was 'Europeanised' in the twentieth century - that is, brought into a wider fold of European countries through political,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-01
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This open-access book examines student migration in the twentieth century, focusing on the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris. Established in 1925 by the French government with support from a diverse coalition of international public and private actors, this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-31
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This book offers a new perspective on the parliamentary battle for British entry into the European Community (EC) – the forerunner of the EU. It provides a historical case study of how the whipping operation, overseen by the Chief Whip Francis Pym, played a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-30
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Come Pompei, circa 2000 anni prima, in un momento avanzato dell’antica età del Bronzo, il primitivo cono vulcanico del Vesuvio, l’attuale Monte Somma, si risvegliò con una forte eruzione che noi oggi chiamiamo delle “Pomici di Avellino” in relazione all’area di ricaduta...
Editeur :
Publications du Centre Jean Bérard
Parution :
2025-08-29
Collection :
Collection du Centre Jean Bérard
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The untold story of how women made the world rich from historian Victoria BatemanHumanity's journey from poverty to prosperity is filled with men who have become household names, but how many female entrepreneurs, merchants and industrialists can you name? You would be...
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Headline Press
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2025-08-28
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Bestselling author Harry Sidebottom takes readers on a thrilling journey through a day in the life of the most iconic figure of the ancient world: the Roman gladiator‘Magnificent… Was I not entertained? I absolutely was’Dominic Sandbrook, Times Books of the...
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Penguin
Parution :
2025-08-28
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This Palgrave Pivot examines a key area of the Korean Wave or Hallyu, which stands for the global popularity of South Korean popular culture that started in the 1990s. While K-dramas (Korean dramas) have found many viewers throughout Asian countries and some Western...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-28
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In May 1894, President Grover Cleveland gave a speech thanking those who gathered “to worship at this national shrine.” He was not referring to the battlefields at Gettysburg or Antietam, nor to Mount Vernon, but to the gravesite of Mary Ball Washington, mother of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-08-28
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Embark on a captivating photographic journey beyond Earth, from the dawn of human space exploration, through the untold story of the Mercury and Gemini missions'Wickedly exciting' Tom Hanks'Experience the same incredible awe as we astronauts did on those very first...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2025-08-28
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This book analyzes the inferiors in the Qing Dynasty society, offering a comprehensive examination of their place within the feudal hierarchy. In autocratic eras, the distinction between nobility and inferiors was a cornerstone of social order, and the existence of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-28
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THE MOST IMPACTFUL LESSONS OF SUN TZU PAIRED WITH THOUGHTFUL ANALYSIS AND MODERN APPLICATIONS IN AN ELEGANT AND ACCESSIBLE FORMATSun Tzu's The Art of War is a timeless masterpiece of strategy and leadership, celebrated for its profound insights into preparation,...
Editeur :
John Murray One
Parution :
2025-08-28
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Concise Classics
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'Phillips O'Brien is one of the keenest observers of modern strategy, and his new book takes a deep historical look at the evolution of warfare and its implications for conflicts like the ongoing one in Ukraine' Francis Fukuyama--------------------War and power are two...
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Penguin
Parution :
2025-08-28
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This book sets forth the historical lines from primitive society, through slave society, feudal society and capitalist society, to socialist society, and from Stone Age to information era with brief words and colorful images, and also clarifies the evolution from the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-27
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This book reconstructs the first attempts to integrate Europe and Asia in terms of newspaper distribution, reception, and news coverage during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The East India Companies shared news via the “overland route” from Aleppo...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-27
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The culminating volume in the acclaimed Gotham series, Gotham at War delivers an unforgettable portrait of America's greatest city during history's most catastrophic conflict.
Gotham at War unveils the history of New York and the Second World War, from isolationism and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-08-27
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This book analyses the liberation struggles that took place in the Portuguese colonies of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea, Cabo Verde, and São Tomé e Príncipe during the second half of the twentieth century, highlighting how they unravelled and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-26
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Lectures on Chinese Historical Geography is a landmark work that bridges a three-decade gap in English-language introductions to China’s historical geography. This comprehensive volume offers profound insights into how the dynamic interplay between geography,...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-26
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The Great Western Schism (1378-1417) is considered the deepest crisis of the late medieval Church.The contested election of Pope Urban VI in 1378 divided the Catholic Church into two competing factions: the Roman papacy under Pope Urban VI and the French papacy under...
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Publications de l'École française de Rome
Parution :
2025-08-26
Collection :
Collection de l'École française de Rome
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Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes sind von ausgewiesenen ExpertInnen der politikwissenschaftlichen Osteuropaforschung formuliert und bieten einen umfassenden Überblick über die politische Geschichte der Ukraine.Die AutorInnen analysieren dabei das...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-08-25
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