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Praise for Small's earlier work on Nightingale: 'Hugh Small, in a masterly piece of historical detective work, convincingly demonstrates what all previous historians and biographers have missed . . . This is a compelling psychological portrait of a very eminent (and...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2017-08-03
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Brief Histories
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It is often assumed that the national identity must be a matter of values and ideas. But in Robert Winder's brilliantly-written account it is a land built on a lucky set of natural ingredients: the island setting that made it maritime; the rain that fed the grass that...
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Little, Brown Book Group
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2017-08-03
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'A groundbreaking study ... a masterclass in how to do intellectual history, and one that nobody with an interest in radical Islam should miss' Tom Holland, New Statesman'Readers looking for a rigorous but lucid account of Islamic State's ideas will be well-served ...
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Penguin
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2017-08-03
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This collection brings together essays examining the international influence of queens, other female rulers, and their representatives from 1450 through 1700, an era of expanding colonial activity and sea trade. As Europe rose in prominence geopolitically, a number of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-03
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-01
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Russia's forceful re-entry into the Middle Eastern arena, and the accentuated continuity of Soviet policy and methods of the 1960s and '70s, highlight the topicality of this groundbreaking study, which confirms the USSR's role in shaping Middle Eastern and global...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-08-01
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Why is Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, involved in a costly and merciless war against its mountainous southern neighbor Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East? When the Saudis attacked the hitherto obscure Houthi militia, which they believed had...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-08-01
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For over forty years, Cold War concerns about the threat of communism shaped the contours of refugee and asylum policy in the United States, and the majority of those admitted as refugees came from communist countries. In the post-Cold War period, a wider range of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
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2017-08-01
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The China Relief Expedition, an eight-nation military effort, was organized to rescue foreign nationals in the country during the Boxer Uprising (1899–1901). In Thirteen Months in China, Thakur Gadadhar Singh, a British Indian soldier of the 7th Rajput Regiment,...
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OUP India
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2017-07-31
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This unique collection of essays contains a synthesis of recent works by distinguished archaeologists and historians in their field, illuminating extensive research in the Southern Gaul and on the territory of the Greek city of Marseille.Investigating the occupation of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-07-31
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In FIFTY YEARS ON, Roy Hattersley explores and explains the events which have shaped modern Britain. Combining acute analysis of domestic politics with a brilliant eye for the bigger picture, his 'prejudiced history' takes the reader from the high hopes of 1945 to the...
Editeur :
Abacus
Parution :
2017-07-27
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This book offers a fresh perspective on the Chinese diaspora. It is about the mobilisation of knowledge across time and space, exploring the history of Chinese market gardening in Australia and New Zealand. It enlarges our understanding of processes of technological...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-27
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The fortieth anniversary of the independence of the African countries colonized by Portugal presents a valuable opportunity to reassess how colonialism has been «imagined» through the medium of the moving image.The essays collected in this volume investigate Portuguese...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2017-07-27
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The restrictions applied to Catholics in the early eighteenth century to curtail their political and economic power in Ireland were gradually removed by the British government in response to changing circumstances. By 1800 the remaining restrictions related to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-07-27
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Suffering and Happiness in England 1550-1850 pays tribute to one of the leading historians working on early modern England, Paul Slack, and his work as a historian, and enters into discussion with the rapidly growing body of work on the 'history of emotions'. The themes...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-07-26
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This book shows how contagionism evolved in eighteenth century Britain and describes the consequences of this evolution. By the late eighteenth century, the British medical profession was divided between traditionalists, who attributed acute diseases to the interaction...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-25
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This book examines the Empire’s Patriotic Fund, established in Victoria, Australia, in 1901 to assist the dependants of the men serving in the Boer War and the men invalided home because of wounds or illness. Acting as an autonomous body and drawing on funds raised...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-25
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Der Sammelband behandelt die rechtliche und historische Bedeutung des Potsdamer Abkommens, das festlegt, wie die Alliierten ihre durch Debellation des Dritten Reiches erworbene oberste Regierungsgewalt über Deutschland wahrzunehmen gedachten. Die Intention war die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-07-25
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The long-awaited translation of the classic oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureBringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style,The Unwomanly Face of War is Svetlana...
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Penguin
Parution :
2017-07-25
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