This book sheds light on the history of Greek eugenics during the post-war period. At this time, eugenics had already been condemned by international declarations. Alexandra Barmpouti, however, challenges the assumption that eugenics disappeared and confirms the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-02-09

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Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.- Who was Æthelflæd?- What role did she play in the founding of England?- How has her legacy lasted to this day?DISCOVER the epic history of England's forgotten queen. Planting cities, sponsoring learning and defeating her...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2019-02-07
Collection : The Ladybird Expert Series
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Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES- Why was the Battle of the Nile so decisive in the French Revolutionary Wars?- Why did the French believe they were unassailable?- And why did Nelson and the British win?TRACK the revolutionary roots and dramatic turning points...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2019-02-07
Collection : The Ladybird Expert Series
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The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's great epics - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before.Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2019-02-07

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE AND THE HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE A journey told through stories and songs into Doggerland, the ancient region that once joined the east coast of England to HollandTime Song tells of the creation, the existence and the loss of a country...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2019-02-07

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Democracy and Political Culture: Studies in Modern British History attempts to give a total picture of the political-social culture of Great Britain in the twentieth century. To do so it chooses a number of particular subjects which nonetheless stand for this culture as...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-02-07

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Shakespeare Between the World Wars draws parallels between Shakespearean scholarship, criticism, and production from 1920 to 1940 and the chaotic years of the Interwar era. The book begins with the scene in Hamlet where the Prince confronts his mother, Gertrude. Just as...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-02-06

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Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300 contains an analysis of the experience of married life by men and women in Christian medieval Europe, c. 900-1300. The study focusses on the social and emotional life of the married couple rather than on the institutional...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-02-06

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This book is a critical study of the development of a racialised nationalism in China, exploring its unique characteristics and internal tensions, and connecting it to other forms of global racism. The growth of this discourse is contextualised within the party-state’s...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-02-06

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Die Geschichtswissenschaft in Europa, so hat es den Anschein, gestaltet ihre Methodologie aus einer Abgrenzung gegenüber nicht-europäischen Tendenzen und verpasst damit die Chance, ihren eigenen Reichtum zu verdeutlichen und neue Argumente in...

Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2019-02-06

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This book analyses the significance of the special correspondent as a new journalistic role in Victorian print culture, within the context of developments in the periodical press, throughout the second half of the nineteenth century. Examining the graphic reportage...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-02-06

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A comprehensive review of World War II that offers a global-level analysis Written for academics and students of history, World War II in Global Perspective, 1931-1953 presents a dynamic and global account of the historical events prior to, during, and after World War...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2019-02-05
Collection : Wiley Short Histories
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Karl der Große steht auf dem Höhepunkt seiner Macht als sich der Einfluss des expandierenden Frankenreichs bis nach Dänemark ausweitet. Dort, am südlichen Vorposten Skandinaviens, treffen die Karolinger auf widerspenstige Herrscher, machthungrige Thronanwärter und...

Editeur : Springer Gabler
Parution : 2019-02-02

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China's Belt and Road strategy is acknowledged to be the most ambitious geopolitical initiative of the age. Covering almost seventy countries by land and sea, it will affect every element of global society, from shipping to agriculture, digital economy to tourism,...

Editeur : Hurst
Parution : 2019-02-01

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This book examines how the fall of France in the Second World War has been recorded by historians and remembered within society. It argues that explanations of the fall have usually revolved around the four main themes of decadence, failure, constraint and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-02-01

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This book examines the impact that Athenian Old Comedy had on Greek writers of the imperial era. It is generally acknowledged that imperial-era Greeks responded to Athenian Old Comedy in one of two ways: either as a treasure trove of Atticisms or as a genre defined by...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2019-02-01

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Winner of the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2019Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize and the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award 'Astonishing, staggering' Ben Okri, Daily TelegraphA groundbreaking new history that will transform our view of West...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2019-01-31

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Selected as a Book of the Year in the TLS and SpectatorThe final decade of the Cold War, through the eyes of a laconic and elegant observerIn 1979 Richard Bassett set out on a series of adventures and encounters in central Europe which allowed him to savour the last...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2019-01-31

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WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY AWARDNow a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period.For centuries, Mary, Queen of Scots has been a figure of scholarly debate. Where many have...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2019-01-31

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This book is a microhistory of eleventh-century Byzantium, built around the biography of the state official Michael Attaleiates. Dimitris Krallis presents Byzantium as a cohesive, ever-evolving, dynamic, Roman political community, built on traditions of Roman governance...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-01-31

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