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Tiny Histories is a fond, fun and informative look at the seemingly insignificant coincidences, decisions and tiny moments that triggered major events and changed the course of British history.It might be difficult to believe when watching the news but the world we live...
Editeur :
Quadrille
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2017-10-19
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A Times History Book of the Year The voyage of the Mayflower is one of the seminal events in world history. But the story did not end with her arrival on the frozen coast of New England in 1620. In an epic history, Rebecca Fraser relates one ordinary family’s...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-10-19
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From the 1950s to the 1990s, John Walsh ran his photography business out of a small shop on 50 Francis Street in inner city Dublin. For over forty years, he took thousands of photos on all aspects of Dublin life - funerals, communions, weddings, christening, concerts,...
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Hachette Books Ireland
Parution :
2017-10-19
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This book is a vivid history of racism in post-apartheid South Africa, focusing on how colonialism still haunts black intraracial relationships. In 2008, sixty-four people died in a wave of anti-immigrant violence in the Alexandra township of Johannesburg; in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-18
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With its filigreed, formidable representations of tears and suffering, sentimentalism has remained a divisive genre and category of analysis. On Sympathetic Grounds offers a new interpretation of the sentimental by mapping its grounds in North America. During sweeping...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-10-18
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The two-volume A Companion to Sparta presents the first comprehensive, multi-authored series of essays to address all aspects of Spartan history and society from its origins in the Greek Dark Ages to the late Roman Empire. Offers a lucid, comprehensive introduction to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-10-18
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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This book explores the theme of violence, repression and atrocity in imperial and colonial empires, as well as its representations and memories, from the late eighteenth through to the twentieth century. It examines the wide variety of violent means by which colonies...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-17
Collection :
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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This book examines the ways in which scholarly expertise was mobilized during the First World War, and the consequences of this for the inter-connected academic world that had developed in the late nineteenth century. Adopting a strong international approach, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-17
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Would you pass the government’s test to become an American citizen? Take the 100-question quiz and see! As millions of people know, becoming an American citizen isn’t easy. It involves a lengthy application process, including a tough two-part naturalization...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2017-10-17
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A comprehensive account of World War II by America’s preeminent military historian. “Breathtakingly magisterial.” —Wall Street Journal World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2017-10-17
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In a series of candid conversations, Romila Thapar, a widely read, discussed, and cited historian of our times, muses on a range of issues that impact history writing in modern India. Apart from exploring Thapar’s far-reaching influence as an authority on the history...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2017-10-17
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The book explores the intersection between the Great War and patriotism through an examination of the effects of both on Australia’s most popular football code.The work is chronological, and therefore provides an easy path by which events may be followed. Ultimately it...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-16
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This book combines the approaches of history and criminology to study parricide and non-fatal violence against parents from across traditional period and geographical boundaries, encompassing research on Asia as well as Europe and North America. Parricide and non-fatal...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-16
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How did the United States move from a position of nuclear superiority over the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1960s to one of nuclear parity under the doctrine of mutual assured destruction in 1972? Drawing on declassified records of conversations three presidents...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-10-16
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Once the envy of the world for its quality and variety, Indian cotton today is mired in uncertainty and despair. Though India is the largest producer of cotton, its farmers are trapped in debt, and thousands choose to kill themselves than face an ignominious fate....
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2017-10-16
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In 1945, soon after the liberation of Auschwitz, Soviet authorities in control of the Kattowitz (Katowice) camp in Poland asked Primo Levi and his fellow captive Leonardo De Benedetti to compile a detailed report on the sanitary conditions they witnessed in Auschwitz....
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-10-16
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This book examines the life-cycle of Victorian working-class marriage through a study of the hitherto hidden marital bed. Using coroners’ inquests to gain intimate access to the working-class home and its inhabitants, this book explores their marital, quasi-marital, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-16
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This book provides an account of how, in the years 1800-1825, enlightened entrepreneur and budding reformer Robert Owen used his cotton mill village of New Lanark, Scotland, as a test-bed for a set of political intuitions which would later form the bedrock of early...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-16
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This book is the first study to engage with the relationship between cosmopolitan political thought and the history of global conflicts. Accompanied by visual material ranging from critical battle painting to the photographic representation of ruins, it showcases...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-14
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This book challenges a common historical narrative, which portrays medieval Jews as moneylenders who filled an essential economic role in Europe. It traces how and why this narrative was constructed as a philosemitic narrative in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-14
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