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The mass imprisonment of over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II was one of the most egregious violations of civil liberties in United States history. Removed from their homes on the temperate Pacific Coast, Japanese Americans spent the war years in...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-08-02
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WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018'A masterpiece of history and memoir' Evening Standard'Superb. This is a necessary book - painful, harrowing, tragic, but also uplifting' The...
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Penguin
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2018-08-02
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Did you know that a child can be cured of the whooping cough by passing it under the belly of a donkey?The history of medicine in Britain is filled with the most bizarre and gruesome cures for many common ailments. Although enthusiastically supported by doctors of the...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2018-08-02
Collection :
Tom Thorne Novels
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What should states do with the bodies of suicide bombers and other jihadists who die while perpetrating terrorist attacks? This original and unsettling book explores the host of ethical and political questions raised by this dilemma, from (non-)legitimization of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-08-01
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In the wake of Brexit, the Commonwealth has been identified as an important body for future British trade and diplomacy, but few know what it actually does. How is it organised and what has held it together for so long? How important is the monarch?s role as Head of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-08-01
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In a world dominated by the British Empire, and at a time when many Europeans considered black people inferior, Sierra Leonean writer A. B. C. Merriman-Labor claimed his right to describe the world as he found it. He looked at the Empire's great capital and laughed.
In...
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Hurst
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2018-08-01
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This book explores Soviet influences on Yugoslav gender policies, examining how Yugoslav communists interpreted, adapted and used Soviet ideas to change Yugoslav society. The book sheds new light on the role of Soviet models in producing Yugoslav family and reproductive...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-01
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With only 1.3 million inhabitants, Estonia is one of Europe's least populous nations--yet it boasts one of the continent's fastest growing economies. In the first serious English-language history of this small Baltic state, Neil Taylor charts Estonia's long, arduous...
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Hurst
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2018-08-01
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This book explores the manifold ways of knowing—and knowing about— preternatural beings such as demons, angels, fairies, and other spirits that inhabited and were believed to act in early modern European worlds. Its contributors examine how people across the social...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-31
Collection :
Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
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Im Kontext von Nachrüstungsdebatte und Friedensbewegung kam zu Beginn der 1980er Jahre in einigen Städten die Forderung nach der Errichtung von Denkmälern für Deserteure auf. Das kontrastierte scharf mit der bisherigen Sichtweise auf Deserteure: Bis dato wurden sie in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2018-07-31
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This comparative and transnational study of landscapes in the First World War offers new perspectives on the ways in which landscapes were idealised, mobilised, interpreted, exploited, transformed and destroyed by the conflict. The collection focuses on four themes:...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-30
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An authoritative overview of the developing field of public history reflecting theory and practice around the globe This unique reference guides readers through this relatively new field of historical inquiry, exploring the varieties and forms of public history, its...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2018-07-30
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
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How to Do Things with History is a collection of essays that explores current and future approaches to the study of ancient Greek cultural history. Rather than focus directly on methodology, the essays in this volume demonstrate how some of the most productive and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-07-30
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Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: Summer 2018The recent changes in assessment for National 5 History have been fully incorporated in this new edition, as have changes in subject content which affect some but not...
Editeur :
Hodder Gibson
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2018-07-30
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Global history locates national histories in the context of broader processes, in which the West is not necessarily synonymous with progress. And yet it often suffers from the same Eurocentrism that plagues national history, accepting Western categories and values...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-07-27
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Since the nineteenth century, the political thought of the French Catholic League (1585-1595) has been considered to be mere plagiarism of Calvinist monarchomach texts written after the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572). Based on the original manuscript of the most...
Editeur :
Librairie Droz
Parution :
2018-07-27
Collection :
Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance
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'Engrossing ... eye-opening ... an enormously refreshing treat' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesSince Europeans first reached Brazil in 1500 it has been an unfailing source of extraordinary fascination. More than any other part of the 'New World' it displayed both...
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Penguin
Parution :
2018-07-26
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This book critically explores the development of radical criminology through a range of written Ancient Greek works including epic and lyrical poetry, drama and philosophy, across different chapters. It traces the development of political power and the concepts of law,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-26
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This book explores the politics of artistic creativity, examining how black artists in Africa and the diaspora create art as a procedure of self-making. Essays cross continents to uncover the efflorescence of black culture in national and global contexts and in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-26
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Gender, Family, and Politics is the first full-length, gender-inclusive study of the Howard family, one of the pre-eminent families of early-modern Britain. Most of the existing scholarship on this aristocratic dynasty's political operation during the first half of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-07-26
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