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In this collection of essays, James Howard-Johnston evaluates historical sources from across the entire existence of the Byzantine empire. Byzantium was peculiarly well endowed for the writing of history, given a relatively high degree of literacy, a large governing...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-03-06
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Governing Islam in Austria and Germany argues that the foundations of contemporary policies towards Islam in Austria and Germany are deeply rooted in colonial practices from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author Farid Hafez traces how colonial knowledge and...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-03-06
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A vivid and visceral portrayal of the most famous naval battle in history, focusing on the human cost of war, by a brilliant military historian‘A gripping read, full of fascinating insights … deeply moving … Brilliant’ Adam Zamoyski'A striking success' The Times'Fresh,...
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Vintage Digital
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2026-03-05
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Why did democracy emerge in ancient Greece? How did Spain conquer South and Central America? And what caused the fall of the Berlin Wall?Part of DK’s indispensable Big Ideas series, this fully revised and updated new edition of The History Book answers these questions...
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Dk
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2026-03-05
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Der vorliegende Sammelband beinhaltet Beiträge deutscher, polnischer und ukrainischer Forscher:innen, die Erinnerungsorte und -kulturen in interdisziplinärer Perspektive beschreiben, um diese für einen internationalen Austausch im Hinblick auf interkulturelle...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2026-03-05
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This volume explores the multiple perceptions of Hellenic antiquity in modern Greece, a central yet contested aspect of modern Greek national identity ever since the foundation of the Greek state in 1830. How did the various disciplines of modern Greek classical...
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École française d'Athènes
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2026-03-04
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Mondes méditerranéens et balkaniques (MMB)
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Histories of International Law in China: All Under Heaven? offers a groundbreaking exploration of China's engagement with international law over the past two centuries. Written by an interdisciplinary group of international law scholars and legal historians, it provides...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-03-04
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From the award-winning author of American Sirens and A Thousand Naked Strangers comes a real-life thriller about the most daring rescue in air-medical history. JULY 2014. Two American medical volunteers who joined the fight against the deadliest Ebola outbreak in world...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2026-03-03
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Dive into the riveting world of revolutionary France with Hilaire Belloc’s insightful biography, «Robespierre: A Study.» This compelling work captures the essence of one of history’s most enigmatic figures, Maximilien Robespierre. Renowned for his influence during the...
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Metvox Publications
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2026-03-03
Collection :
Metvox Histoire
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This open access book will provide an overview of predominantly geographical and historical discourses connected with mountain landscapes in Montenegro and Slovenia. Very few countries, even considerably larger ones, can boast the mountain landscape diversity found in...
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Springer
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2026-02-28
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Octavia Minor (c. 69--11 BCE) was the elder sister of the first Roman Emperor Augustus, the fourth wife of his ally and subsequent rival Mark Antony, and ancestor of the emperors Caligula, Claudius, and Nero. Such a genealogy positions her squarely at the center of...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-02-27
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Body Size in Early Modern Germany uncovers the significance of fatness and thinness in early modern German society and culture. It explores how early modern people conceived of fat and thin bodies, in terms of both the cultural meanings attached to body size and...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-27
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At the turn of the twentieth century Colorado's coalfields were the site of the nation's most violent labor conflicts. The remote mountains were home to mining companies that provided workers and their families with supervised housing, education, health care, and...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-02-27
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In August 1940, a man walked into Leon Trotsky's study in Mexico City and drove an ice pick into his skull. The killer? Ramón Mercader - an aristocratic Spaniard turned Soviet assassin. The mastermind? Joseph Stalin.But this was no simple hit. It was the climax of a...
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John Murray
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2026-02-26
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THE WAR AND PEACE TRILOGY BUNDLECombining three books by the million-copy bestselling author Giles Milton, the War and Peace Trilogy bundle offers a thrilling chronological account of the Second World War.'The master of narrative history' Sunday TimesBOOK 1: D-DAY:THE...
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John Murray
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2026-02-26
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From the acclaimed writer and journalist, a vivid and wide-ranging portrait of love, sex and loneliness in contemporary JapanNo sex. No kids. No future?When Tom Feiling moved to Tokyo as a student in the early nineties, Japan was a beacon of the future: a rising...
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Penguin
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2026-02-26
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How The Solar System Shaped Human History – And May Help Save Our Planet'A stunning history of how we've come to understand environmental change on Earth...A rich, eye-opening tapestry, and beautifully told!' LEWIS DARTNELL'Masterfully shows that our understanding of...
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Penguin
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2026-02-26
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In 1815, the Russian vessel Rurik set off on a three-year voyage through the Pacific and Arctic oceans in a quest to find the world's most elusive geographic feature, the Northwest Passage. Financed by a wealthy Russian count and commanded by a fame-seeking captain, the...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-02-25
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Thinking with Dogs in Roman Britain: Lived Experience, Inequality, and Ritual in a Roman Province argues that in Roman Britain, where little written evidence survives, some aspects of the past are more visible when we look not at people but instead focus on the dogs...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-25
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Germany and Russia: two countries whose turbulent and interlocking histories have profoundly shaped the world in which we live today. The long twentieth century was in many ways a German-Russian century. In 1917, imperialGermany became the birthplace of Russia's October...
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Polity
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2026-02-25
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