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How do we make social democracy? Should we seize the unknown possibilities offered by the future, or does real change develop when we focus our attention on the immediate present? The modern tradition of social revolution suggested that the present is precisely the time...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-30
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How do we make social democracy? Should we seize the unknown possibilities offered by the future, or does real change develop when we focus our attention on the immediate present? The modern tradition of social revolution suggested that the present is precisely the time...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-30
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Seeking Sanctuary explores a curious aspect of premodern English law: the right of felons to shelter in a church or ecclesiastical precinct, remaining safe from arrest and trial in the king's courts. This is the first volume in more than a century to examine sanctuary...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-30
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The Fear of Invasion presents a new interpretation of British preparation for War before 1914. It argues that protecting the British Isles from invasion was the foundation upon which all other plans for the defence of the Empire were built up. Home defence determined...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-30
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Minoan Crete is rightly famous for its idiosyncratic architecture, as well as its palaces and towns such as Knossos, Malia, Gournia, and Palaikastro. Indeed, these are often described as the first urban settlements of Bronze Age Europe. However, we still know relatively...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-30
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500 years ago, Martin Luther nailed his ideas to a church door - and the Reformation began. Or maybe it was a little more complicated than that. Nick Page brings his skills as an unlicensed historian to bear on this key period in European (and world) history in order...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2017-06-29
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1950's Bordeaux. Even now, the Second World War is never far from people's memories, particularly in a city where the scars of collaboration and resistance are more keenly felt than ever. But another war has already begun. A war without a name, far away across the sea,...
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Maclehose Press
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2017-06-29
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MacLehose Press Editions
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The Second World War was one of the most catastrophic events in human history. But how did the experience and memory of bloodshed affect our relationships with each other and the world?The new order, as it emerged after 1945, saw the end of European empires and the...
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Penguin
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2017-06-29
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The War of Liberation of Bangladesh in 1971 reopened the barely healed wounds of the Partition of 1947. A third nation was carved out leaving in its wake a trail of violent experiences and memories. Murder, rape, arson, plunder, custodial torture, refugees, and bombings...
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OUP India
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2017-06-29
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'This extraordinary book brings to life an astonishing place. Beautiful prose renders brutality vivid' The Times - BOOK OF THE WEEK From Peter the Great to Putin, this is the unforgettable story of St Petersburg – one of the most magical, menacing and influential cities...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2017-06-29
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'The glories of the Age of Anne' -- the union of England and Scotland to form 'this island of Britain', and its establishment as a European and a global power -- were the achievements of two men above all: Queen Anne's captain-general, John Churchill, the first Duke of...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-29
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'The glories of the Age of Anne' -- the union of England and Scotland to form 'this island of Britain', and its establishment as a European and a global power -- were the achievements of two men above all: Queen Anne's captain-general, John Churchill, the first Duke of...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-29
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This book uses a previously overlooked Neo-Latin treatise, Cicero Illustratus, to provide insight into the status and function of the Ciceronian tradition at the beginning of the eighteenth century, and consequently to more broadly illuminate the fate of that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-06-28
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Die Studie befasst sich mit dem oberrheinischen Ausläufer des sonst eher im Nordseeraum wahrgenommenen Friesenhandels.Die friesischen Handelsaktivitäten als Vorgänger des Hansehandels annehmend analysiert der Autor die Handelsorganisation der Friesen fern ihrer...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-06-28
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The unknown story of how a fleet of Australian fishing boats, trawlers and schooners supplied US and Australian forces in the Pacific - and helped turn the course of World War II.Mid-1942: from China to New Guinea, the Pacific belonged to the Japanese. In this desperate...
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Hachette Australia
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2017-06-27
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Il a été entendu que pour le début de nos échanges de vues sur l’Eubée et la colonisation chalcidienne en Campanie je m’efforcerai de présenter un bilan des recherches archéologiques les plus récentes effectuées sur les grands sites de l’Eubée. Voilà dix ans que des...
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Publications du Centre Jean Bérard
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2017-06-27
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Cahiers du Centre Jean Bérard
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How could the newly authorized space shuttle help in the U.S. quest to build a large research station in Earth orbit? As a means of transporting goods, the shuttle could help supply the parts to the station. But how would the two entitles be physically linked?Docking...
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Springer
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2017-06-27
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This book analyses US and UK efforts to shut down Pakistan’s nuclear programme in the 1970s, between the catalytic Indian nuclear test of May 1974 and the decline of sustained non-proliferation activity from mid-1979 onwards. It is a tale of cooperation between...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-06-26
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Trust Ben Walsh to guide you through the new specification and motivate your students to excel with his trademark mix of engaging narrative and fascinating contemporary sources; brought to you by the market-leading History publisher and OCR's Publishing Partner for...
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Hodder Education
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2017-06-26
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Medieval London, like all premodern cities, had a largely immigrant population-only a small proportion of the inhabitants were citizens-and the newly arrived needed to be taught the civic culture of the city in order for that city to function peacefully. Ritual and...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-06-26
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