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This book examines the efforts of the Confederation of Latin American Workers (CTAL) in generating workers’ unity across the continent from 1938-1963. Emerging in 1938 during a period of geopolitical instability, CTAL was systemically and actively preoccupied with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-10-03
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This volume brings together essays on a wide range of topics, from the popular notion of ‘climacterical’ years believed to recur every seventh year, and the origins and development of the concept of ‘palliative’ care in premodern medicine, to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-10-03
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This book examines the critical role played by colonial peripheries, specifically British India, in shaping the development of zoology and other disciplines emerging from 19th-century natural history. Through an analysis of publications such as the monumental Fauna of...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-03
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This book delves deep into China's World Heritage - listed urban sites: Pingyao, Lijiang, Macao, and Kulangsu (Gulangyu), which cities, as living cultural heritage, offer a rich vein of research material. The book uncovers how these cities have evolved over time,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-10-03
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A thrilling and unprecedented account of the radicalism and political extremism that gripped the 1970s – a seismic decade that transformed the modern world.‘Dazzling . . . a fabulously gripping read’ DOMINIC SANDBROOK, The Times Books of the Year‘As compelling as the...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2025-10-02
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*A Jacobin Best Book of 2025**A Spectator Best Book of 2025, as picked by Sam Leith*From the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of Black Spartacus, a revelatory history of enslaved people's resistance to Atlantic slavery.The ending of the slave trade and abolition of...
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Penguin
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2025-10-02
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Lee Lawrence was just eleven when his mother, Cherry Groce, was shot by police during a raid on the family's south London home. It was an event that would spark a violent uprising and dominate his life for the next 30 years as he fought for justice and for the police to...
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Abacus
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2025-10-02
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From the first steam trains to the high-speed bullet trains of today, Rise of the Railway tells the hidden stories of railway history – the inspired engineering, technical ingenuity, and sheer determination that forged the world’s railways.Award-winning writer and...
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Dk
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2025-10-02
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Rulers and Raptors argues that by studying animal biographies we gain a new perspective on early modern court society. Combining court studies and historical animal studies, it brings together two vibrant but rarely combined fields of research and shows how the presence...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-01
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Eleventh-century Europe was diverse and fast-changing. Historians have often debated this change through two sets of competing arguments, one about the shifting role of the Church and the Papacy, and the other about the rise of castellan lords and a proliferation in...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-01
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Eleventh-century Europe was diverse and fast-changing. Historians have often debated this change through two sets of competing arguments, one about the shifting role of the Church and the Papacy, and the other about the rise of castellan lords and a proliferation in...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-01
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The history of the twentieth century in Italy is marked by industrial unrest. And yet, our knowledge of the cultures that informed those protests and, equally important, of the forms they took is still limited, leaving important questions unanswered on their meanings,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-30
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The history of the twentieth century in Italy is marked by industrial unrest. And yet, our knowledge of the cultures that informed those protests and, equally important, of the forms they took is still limited, leaving important questions unanswered on their meanings,...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-30
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Modern Hertford is one of Oxford's least famous colleges. Its chief claims to attention are its pioneering egalitarian reforms of its admissions system in the 1960s and 70s, its early embrace of co-residence in 1974, and its deliberate transformation from a poor,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-30
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Modern Hertford is one of Oxford's least famous colleges. Its chief claims to attention are its pioneering egalitarian reforms of its admissions system in the 1960s and 70s, its early embrace of co-residence in 1974, and its deliberate transformation from a poor,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This book, for the first time, comprehensively examines the relationship between tea and various aspects of social life in the Song Dynasty, pioneering a new field in the study of Song history. In the field of tea culture research, it is the first to clearly point out...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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Dieses Buch konzentriert sich auf die politischen Entwicklungen der österreichischen Monarchie in den Jahren 1861-1867, in denen viele Weichen gestellt wurden. Nach dem Scheitern des „Neoabsolutismus“ verfügte das Kaisertum Österreich seit 1861 wieder über ein...
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Springer VS
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2025-09-30
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This edited collection examines the violence experienced by non-combatants during the civil wars which took place in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. The determinants of violence in civil wars are highly complex and variable. By focusing on both the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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“A devastating, passionate takedown of Chief Justice John Roberts's Supreme Court by a Washington insider.” —Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money In the last twenty years the US Supreme Court has radically curtailed voting rights, undermined...
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Bold Type Books
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2025-09-30
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Over the last 150 years, activists and policymakers...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-30
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