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How do the things which connect us also serve to divide us? Electric News in Colonial Algeria traces how news circulated in a particularly divided society: Algeria under French rule in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It tells a different history of...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-08-08
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This book historicizes the debate over how democratic regimes deal with anti-democratic groupings in society. Democracies across the world increasingly find themselves under threat from enemies, ranging from terrorists to parties and movements that undermine democratic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-07
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History
The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations
Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-08-07
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In this news-breaking narrative, decades of women who brought down sexual predator Larry Nassar offer groundbreaking new insight, with the first known survivor and many others sharing their stories exclusively for the first time.We think of Larry Nassar as the...
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Seal Press
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2019-08-06
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This collection examines the afterlives of early modern English and French rulers. Spanning five centuries of cultural memory, the volume offers case studies of how kings and queens were remembered, represented, and reincarnated in a wide range of sources, from...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-08-06
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This book is a social history of Irish officers in the British army in the final half-century of Crown rule in Ireland. Drawing on the accounts of hundreds of officers, it charts the role of military elites in Irish society, and the building tensions between their dual...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-05
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From Benjamin Franklin to Ragged Dick to Jack Kelly, hero of the Disney musical Newsies, newsboys have long intrigued Americans as symbols of struggle and achievement. But what do we really know about the children who hawked and delivered newspapers in American cities...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-08-05
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Fürstliches Agieren nördlich und südlich der Elbe – die Dynastie der Welfen hat für eine überregional ausgerichtete Politik gleich mehrere Beispiele hervorgebracht, darunter Albrecht I. von Braunschweig, Urenkel Heinrichs des Löwen: Ausgehend vom 1235 neu begründeten...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-08-05
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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....
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Hodder Education
Parution :
2019-08-05
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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...
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Hodder Education
Parution :
2019-08-05
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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
Parution :
2019-08-05
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Exam board: AQA; Pearson Edexcel; 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...
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Hodder Education
Parution :
2019-08-05
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This book offers the first full-length study of the education of children living within the Gaeltacht, the Irish-speaking communities in Ireland, from 1900 to the present day. While Irish was once the most common language spoken in Ireland, by 1900 the areas in which...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-02
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When so much in Russia has changed, the banya remains. For over one thousand years Russians of every economic class, political party, and social strata have treated bathing as a communal activity integrating personal hygiene and public health with rituals, relaxation,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-08-02
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The friendship of the bachelor politicians James Buchanan (1791-1868) of Pennsylvania and William Rufus King (1786-1853) of Alabama has excited much speculation through the years. Why did neither marry? Might they have been gay? Or was their relationship a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-08-02
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This book examines the connections between the British Empire and French colonialism in war, peace and the various stages of competitive cooperation between, in which the two empires were often frères ennemis. It argues that in crucial ways the British and French...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-02
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This volume offers a critical re-examination of colonial and anti-colonial resistance imageries and practices in imperial history. It offers a fresh critique of both pejorative and celebratory readings of ‘insurgent peoples’, and it seeks to revitalize the study of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-01
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Drawing upon a diverse range of archival evidence, medical treatises, religious texts, public discourses, and legal documents, this book examines the rich historical context in which controversies surrounding the medical neglect of children erupted onto the American...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-01
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'An outstanding book of astonishing power . . . One finishes it with an ache in the heart'JON SWAIN, writer and foreign correspondent, author of River of Time'Through a profoundly moving tale that weaves together the connected stories of a victim, his surviving family,...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2019-08-01
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'Everything about this story is astounding' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times"Trinity" was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. Trinity is now also the extraordinary story of the bomb's metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls;...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2019-08-01
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