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In the Shade of the Golden Palace explores the work of the prolific Bengali poet Alaol (fl. 1651-71), who translated five narrative poems and one versified treatise from medieval Hindi and Persian into Bengali. The book maps the genres, structures, and themes of Alaol's...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-03-01
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This book deals with an aspect of the Great War that has been largely overlooked: the war reportage written based on British and American authors’ experiences at the Western Front. It focuses on how the liminal experience of the First World War was portrayed in a series...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-28
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This book explores the unprecedented surge or oceanic feeling in the aesthetic expression of the romantic century. As secular thought began to displace the certainties of a sacral universe, the oceans that give life to our planet offered a symbol of eternity, rooted in...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2018-02-28
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This book explores a vital though long-neglected clash between republicans and Catholics that rocked fin-de-siècle France. At its heart was a mysterious and shocking crime. In Lille in 1899, the body of twelve-year-old Gaston Foveaux was discovered in a school run by a...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-02-28
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This volume investigates the use of mortgages in the European countryside between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries. A mortgage allowed a loan to be secured with land or other property, and the practice has been linked to the transformation of the agrarian economy...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-27
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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The Roosevelt name conjures up images of powerful Presidents and dashing men of high society. But few people know much about the extraordinary network of women that held the Roosevelt clan together through war, scandal, and disease. InThe Roosevelt Women, Betty Boyd...
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Basic Books
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2018-02-27
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This book describes the life, times and science of the Soviet physicist Lev Vasilevich Shubnikov (1901-1937). From 1926 to 1930 Shubnikov worked in Leiden where he was the co-discoverer of the Shubnikov-De Haas effect. After his return to the Soviet Union he...
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Springer
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2018-02-27
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Guides students through a rich menu of American history through food and eating This book features a wide and diverse range of primary sources covering the cultivation, preparation, marketing, and consumption of food from the time before Europeans arrived in North...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-02-26
Collection :
Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History
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This book examines performative strategies that contest nationalist prejudices in representing the conditions of refugees, the stateless and the dispossessed. In the light of the European Union failing to find a political solution to the current migration...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-26
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What is good luck and what did it mean to the Romans?What connections were there between luck and childbirth, victory in war, or success in business?What did Roman statesmen like Cicero and Caesar think about luck? This volume aims to address these questions by focusing...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-02-23
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In late twentieth-century England, inequality was rocketing, yet some have suggested that the politics of class was declining in significance, while others argue that class identities lost little power. Neither interpretation is satisfactory: class remained important to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-02-23
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This book uses Viktor Frankl’s Existential Psychology (logotherapy) to explore the ways some professors use unusually personal scholarship to discover meaning in personal adversity. A psychiatrist imprisoned for three years in Nazi concentration camps, Frankl believed...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-23
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WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARD FOR GENERAL OUTSTANDING SPORTS WRITING A captivating account of the Nazi Olympics – told through the voices and stories of those who were there.'Compelling, suspenseful and beautifully done' Anna Funder, author of STASILANDFor...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2018-02-22
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The Royal College of Physicians celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2018, and to observe this landmark is publishing this series of ten books. Each of the books focuses on fifty themed elements that have contributed to making the RCP what it is today, together adding up...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2018-02-22
Collection :
500 Reflections on the RCP, 1518-2018
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John Tusa is a distinguished journalist, broadcaster and leader of arts organisations, best remembered for his times at the BBC, including creating Newsnight.Tusa's memoir is etched with candour. His account of two years of internecine warfare at the top of the BBC...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2018-02-22
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A history of the 1119 Battle of the Field of Blood, which decisively halted the momentum gained during the First Crusade and decided the fate of the Crusader states During the First Crusade, Frankish armies swept across the Middle East, capturing major cities and...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2018-02-20
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Is civilization teetering on the edge of a cliff? Or are we just climbing higher than ever? Most people who read the news would tell you that 2017 is one of the worst years in recent memory. We're facing a series of deeply troubling, even existential problems: fascism,...
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PublicAffairs
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2018-02-20
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A Timely Look Back at the Era That Shaped Our World Thousands of years of recorded history show that the main way in which human societies have been organized is as empires. Today, the evidence of recent European overseas empire’s lasting effects is all around us: from...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-02-19
Collection :
Wiley Short Histories
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Any visitor to Belgium or the Netherlands is immediately struck by the number of convents and beguinages (begijnhoven) in both major cities and small towns. Their number and location in urban centres suggests that the women who inhabited them once held a prominent role....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-02-17
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The Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, which provided the basis for the civil and Western ecclesiastical calendars still in use today, has often been seen as a triumph of early modern scientific culture or an expression of papal ambition in the wake of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-02-16
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