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Since unification in 1860, Italy has remained bitterly divided between the rich North and the underdeveloped South. This book examines the historical, literary, and cultural contexts that have informed and inflamed the debate on the Southern Question for over a century....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-07-18
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This book shows how a stormy parliamentary debate over the sale of German properties in Nigeria on 8 November 1916 began the process which brought down Asquith and made Lloyd George prime minister. The colonial secretary, Bonar Law, who was also leader of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-07-18
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The essays in this edited collection offer incisive and nuanced analyses of and insights into the state of British cities and urban environments in the twenty-first century. Britain’s experiences with industrialization, colonialism, post-colonialism, global capitalism,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-07-18
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Viele berühmte Männer und Frauen haben die Geschichte geprägt. Christa Pöppelmann erweckt sie in diesem Buch zum Leben, stellt ihre berühmten Taten und Werke, ihre Bedeutung und Schattenseiten vor. Dabei blickt sie nicht nur auf Politiker und Herrscher, sondern...
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Wiley-VCH
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2018-07-17
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Für Dummies
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As an age of empire and industry dawned in the wake of American Civil War, Southerners grappled with what it meant to be modern. The fair expositions popular at this time allowed Southerners to explore this changing world on their own terms. On a local, national, and...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-07-17
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The discourse of political counsel in early modern Europe depended on the participation of men, as both counsellors and counselled. Women were often thought too irrational or imprudent to give or receive political advice—but they did in unprecedented numbers, as this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-07-16
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Evil Lords uses the prism of bad rule or tyranny to enhance our understanding of political discourse from the ancient world to the Renaissance, elucidating premodern notions of sovereignty as well as the relation between ethics and politics, the individual and society,...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-07-16
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Was the Partition of India inevitable?Was it a ‘clash of civilizations’ between Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs of the Indian subcontinent?Was the Partition a momentous event or a long-drawn-out messy process? Were the experiences of uprooting, violence, and rehabilitation...
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OUP India
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2018-07-16
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The history of eastern European is dominated by the story of the rise of the Russian empire, yet Russia only emerged as a major power after 1700. For 300 years the greatest power in Eastern Europe was the union between the kingdom of Poland and the grand duchy of...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-07-16
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The sequel and companion volume to C.A. Bayly's ground-breakingThe Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914, this wide-ranging and sophisticated study explores global history since the First World War, offering a coherent, comparative overview of developments in politics,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2018-07-16
Collection :
Blackwell History of the World
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When the Nazis seized power in Germany in 1933 they promised to create a new, harmonious society under the leadership of the Führer, Adolf Hitler. The concept of Volksgemeinschaft - 'the people's community' - enshrined the Nazis' vision of society'; a society based on...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-07-16
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Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.____________Why was North Africa such a key component in Britain's success over Mussolini and his Italian Army?How did they blunt Italy's actions?What challenges did they face?And what new technologies were brought to bear?When...
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Penguin
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2018-07-12
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The Ladybird Expert Series
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The Philippine Research Colloqium series offer highly specialized works from the Philippine humanities and social sciences.In many cases, these are award-winning dissertations by promising young scientists.
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Galda Verlag
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2018-07-12
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This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of factors that transform a prima facie non-international armed conflict (NIAC) into an international armed conflict (IAC) and the consequences that follow from this process of internationalization. It examines in...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-07-12
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Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World examines the ways material things--objects and pictures--were used to reason about issues of morality, race, citizenship, and capitalism, as well as reality and representation,...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-07-12
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The orthodox view of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean holds that Greece and Rome were its only 'genuine slave societies', that is, societies in which slave labour contributed significantly to the economy and underpinned the wealth of elites. Other societies,...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-07-12
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The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy explores the rich devotional life of the Italian household between 1450 and 1600. Rejecting the enduring stereotype of the Renaissance as a secular age, this interdisciplinary study reveals the home to have been an important site of...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-07-12
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This collection focuses on generations of early women historians, seeking to identify the intellectual milieu and professional realities that framed their lives. It moves beyond treating them as simply individuals and looks to the social and intellectual forces that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-07-11
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The field of cultural heritage is no longer solely dependent on the expertise of art and architectural historians, archaeologists, conservators, curators, and site and museum administrators. It has dramatically expanded across disciplinary boundaries and social...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-07-11
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This book concludes The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, an authoritative account of the Soviet Union’s industrial transformation between 1929 and 1939. The volume before this one covered the ‘good years’ (in economic terms) of 1934 to 1936. The present volume has a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-11
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