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The must-have encyclopedia for all Tour de France fans.Celebrating the centenary of cycling's most iconic award,The Official Encyclopedia of the Yellow Jersey is a visually stunning and comprehensive look at all the wearers of the 'maillot jaune'. In this book,...
Editeur :
Hamlyn
Parution :
2019-06-13
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The illustrated book by Pierre Delorme,The wisdom of sake , includes nine stories that depict life in Japan in the sixteenth century.The protagonists are essentially samurai. But other characters appear as this African calledThe Black Tiger, who was the servant of a...
Editeur :
Metvox Publications
Parution :
2019-06-13
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This book examines Latin America's history of engagement with cosmopolitanisms as a manner of asserting a genealogy that links cultural critique in Latin America and the United States. Cosmopolitanism is crucial to any discussion of Latin America, and Latin Americanism...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-12
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This book explores the many facets of black urban life from its genesis in the 18th century to the present time. With some historical background, the volume is primarily a contemporary critique, focusing on the major themes which have arisen and the challenges the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-12
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In this engaging oral history, residents of California's scenic, sparsely-populated Owens Valley reflect on their varied experiences with the region's turbulent past. Contested themes of Native American removal, water transfers, and wartime internment are interwoven...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-12
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This book focuses on how Irish remembrance of the First World War impacted the emerging Irish identity in the postcolonial Irish Free State. While all combatants of the “war to end all wars” commemorated the war, Irish memorial efforts were fraught with debate over...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-12
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The Years of Alienation in Italy offers an interdisciplinary overview of the socio-political, psychological, philosophical, and cultural meanings that the notion of alienation took on in Italy between the 1960s and the 1970s. It addresses alienation as a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-11
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The definitive story of one American family at the center of a single, shocking act of international terrorism that "manages to capture the essence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict" (Dan Ephron).On October 3, 1985, Leon Klinghoffer, a disabled Jewish New Yorker, and...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2019-06-11
ePub
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ARMY MILITARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020 SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 BY THE SPECTATOR AND NPR'A superb, unique, and unforgettable story of war and death, fear and cruelty, above all the horrors and allure of combat' Simon Sebag ...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2019-06-11
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This book focuses on the significant role of West African consumers in the development of the global economy. It explores their demand for Indian cotton textiles and how their consumption shaped patterns of global trade, influencing economies and businesses from Western...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-10
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Pride Parade, this book offers inspiring words of wisdom on loving yourself as you truly are. These thoughtfully selected quotations are the perfect way to honor the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots and the...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2019-06-10
ePub
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This book explains compellingly that, despite common belief, in the early modern period, the intra-East Asian commercial network still functioned sustainably, and within that network, the Sino-Japanese trade can be seen as the most significant part which not only...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-06-08
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In 1917, women won the vote in New York State. Suffrage and the City explores how activists in New York City were instrumental in achieving this milestone. Santangelo uncovers the ways in which the demand for women's rights intersected with the history, politics, and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-06-07
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There was life before the fall.1989 was a year of astonishing and rapid change: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain. Bloc Life collects first...
Editeur :
Bbc Digital
Parution :
2019-06-06
ePub
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During the early years of the Cold War, England and the United States both found themselves reassessing their relationship with their former ally the Soviet Union, and the status of their own “special relationship” was far from certain. As Jeffrey P. Stone argues, maps...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-06
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The Chivalric Turn examines the medieval obsession with defining and practising superior conduct, and the social consequences that followed from it. Historians since the seventeenth century have tended to understand medieval conduct through the eyes of the writers of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-06-06
ePub
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The Chivalric Turn examines the medieval obsession with defining and practising superior conduct, and the social consequences that followed from it. Historians since the seventeenth century have tended to understand medieval conduct through the eyes of the writers of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-06-06
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Written by the Director of the Tokyo Trial Research Centre at China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University, this book provides a unique analysis of war crime trials in Asia-Pacific after World War II. It offers a comprehensive review of key events during this period,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-06
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Living in the Merry Ghetto reframes how people use music to build resistance. Author Trever Hagen addresses the social context of illegal music-making in Czechoslovakia during state socialism. He tells the story of a group of rock'n'roll musicians who went underground...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-06-06
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Journalist Julie Satow's thrilling, unforgettable history of how one illustrious hotel has defined our understanding of money and glamour, from the Gilded Age to the Go-Go Eighties to today's Billionaire Row. From the moment in 1907 when New York millionaire Alfred...
Editeur :
Twelve
Parution :
2019-06-04
ePub
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