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An OCR endorsed textbookTrust 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...
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Hodder Education
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2017-06-26
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Der dritte Band einer ‚Geschichte professioneller Kontrolle’ untersucht die Entwicklung eines ständig wachsenden Psychiatrie-Komplexes. Nach einer langen Vorgeschichte beginnt sie staatsnah im langen 19. Jahrhundert mit forensischen Gutachten und dem Ausbau einer...
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Springer VS
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2017-06-23
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Munich 1919 is a vivid portrayal of the chaos that followed World War I and the collapse of theMunich Council Republic by one of the most perceptive chroniclers of German history. Victor Klemperer provides a moving and thrilling account of what turned out to be a...
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Polity
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2017-06-23
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Stalin's Defectors is the first systematic study of the phenomenon of frontline surrender to the Germans in the Soviet Union's 'Great Patriotic War' against the Nazis in 1941-1945. No other Allied army in the Second World War had such a large share of defectors among...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-23
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This study of prostitution addresses issues of female agency and experience, as well as contemporary fears about sexual coercion and the forced movement of girls/women, and police surveillance. Rather than treating prostitutes solely as victims or problems to be solved,...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-23
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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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2017-06-23
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The Historians of Angevin England is a study of the explosion of creativity in historical writing in England in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, and what this tells us about the writing of history in the middle ages.
Many of those who wrote history...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-23
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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
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2017-06-22
Collection :
500 Reflections on the RCP, 1518-2018
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This text is a timely and wide-ranging study providing essential background to the development of global modernity through the European encounter with China. Considering differing notions of peace, empire, trade, religion, and diplomacy as touchstones in the relations...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-06-21
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This book presents for the first time a full translation and analysis of a newly discovered bamboo divination manual from the fourth century BCE China, called the Stalk Divination Method (Shifa). It was used as an alternative to the better-known Zhouyi (popularly known...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-06-20
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First Martyr of Liberty explores how Crispus Attucks's death in the 1770 Boston Massacre led to his achieving mythic significance in African Americans' struggle to incorporate their experiences and heroes into the mainstream of the American historical narrative. While...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-06-20
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Stalin's Defectors is the first systematic study of the phenomenon of frontline surrender to the Germans in the Soviet Union's 'Great Patriotic War' against the Nazis in 1941-1945. No other Allied army in the Second World War had such a large share of defectors among...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-16
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Frequently perceived as a characteristic of modern culture, the phenomenon of celebrity has much older roots. In this book Antoine Lilti shows that the mechanisms of celebrity were developed in Europe during the Enlightenment, well before films, yellow journalism, and...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-06-16
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The Historians of Angevin England is a study of the explosion of creativity in historical writing in England in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, and what this tells us about the writing of history in the middle ages.
Many of those who wrote history...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-16
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDMussolini was not only ruthless: he was subtle and manipulative. Black-shirted thugs did his dirty work for him: arson, murder, destruction of homes and offices, bribes and intimidation. His opponents – including editors, union...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-06-15
Collection :
The Resistance Quartet
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Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female warriors. Equal to men in battle, legends claimed they cut off their right breasts to improve their archery skills and...
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Transworld Digital
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2017-06-15
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This collection puts the topic of Jewish Studies and Holocaust Studies in a new American Studies perspective.This perspective compares the similarities and differences in responses and their transatlantic interaction. As the Holocaust grew into an important factor in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-06-15
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Hans Sloane was a young doctor from Northern Ireland who made his way in London and eventually become physician to the king and much of London society. In his youth he made a defining visit to Jamaica, where he began collecting 'curiosities' of all kinds. He eventually...
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Penguin
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2017-06-15
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The City of London and Social Democracy examines the relationship between the financial sector and the state in post-war Britain.
The key argument made in Aled Davies's study is that changes to the financial sector during the 1960s and 1970s undermined the state's...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-15
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This book examines recent cinematic representations of the traumatic legacies of national and international events and processes. Whilst not ignoring European and Hollywood cinema, it includes studies of films about countries which have been less well-represented in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-14
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