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Die Studie zeigt, wie hansische Tagfahrten durch Repräsentation und Zeremoniell zum Schauplatz von Rang und Ansehen wurden und sich die Kommunikation der Beteiligten um den Erhalt von Ehre drehte. Für Hansetage um 1500 liegen Reiserechnungen von Teilnehmern sowie...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-04-07
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A Companion to Dwight D. Eisenhower brings new depth to the historiography of this significant and complex figure, providing a comprehensive and up-to-date depiction of both the man and era. Thoughtfully incorporates new and significant literature on Dwight D....
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2017-04-07
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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We Know All About You shows how bulk spying came of age in the nineteenth century, and supplies the first overarching narrative and interpretation of what has happened since, covering the agencies, programs, personalities, technology, leaks, criticisms and reform....
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OUP Oxford
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2017-04-07
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It's the dawning of a new era for Alexandria and Cleopatra and her younger brother, Ptolemy are established on the throne. Long overlooked by his father in favor of his beguiling sister, eleven-year-old Ptolemy is desperate to assert himself as a man and as a king. But...
Editeur :
Sphere
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2017-04-06
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Eddie Chapman was a womaniser, blackmailer and safecracker. He was also a great hero - the most remarkable double agent of the Second World War. Chapman became the only British national ever to be awarded an Iron Cross for his work for the Reich. He was also the only...
Editeur :
Piatkus
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2017-04-06
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"Lyuba Vinogradova is a historian with a writer's dramatic eye. By personally interviewing many of the Russian women who as teenagers during WW2 took up arms to defend the motherland, her story becomes undeniably poignant and powerful" MARTIN CRUZ SMITH, author of Gorky...
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Maclehose Press
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2017-04-06
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The past is a foreign country: this is your guidebook.If you could travel back in time, the period from 1660 to 1700 would make one of the most exciting destinations in history. It is the age of Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London; bawdy comedy and the libertine...
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Vintage Digital
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2017-04-06
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Lesya Ivasyuk wirft zum ersten Mal einen umfassenden und interdisziplinären Blick auf die polnische Revolution von 1846. Sie zeigt auf, dass dieses 171 Jahre zurückliegende Ereignis – trotz seines geographisch gesehen engen Rahmens – ein Vorbote des „Völkerfrühlings“...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
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2017-04-06
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Braiding together strands of literary, phenomenological and art historical reflection, Modernism and Phenomenology explores the ways in which modernist writers and artists return us to wonder before the world. Taking such wonder as the motive for phenomenology itself,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-04-06
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'This is a miracle of a book' George Lamming'Compelling. Stuart Hall's story is the story of an age' Owen Jones 'Sometimes I feel I was the last colonial'This is the story, in his own words, of the extraordinary life of Stuart Hall: writer, thinker and one of the...
Editeur :
Penguin
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2017-04-06
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This book explores English single sheet satirical prints published from 1780-1820, the people who made those prints, and the businesses that sold them. It examines how these objects were made, how they were sold, and how both the complexity of the production process and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-06
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The book puts the current interest in historical Jesus research into a proper historical context, highlighting Gnosticism’s lasting influence on early Christianity and making the provocative claim that nearly all Christian Churches are in some way descended from Roman...
Editeur :
Springer
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2017-04-05
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The Warren Court of the 1950s and 1960s was the most liberal in American history. Yet within a few short years, new appointments redirected the Court in a more conservative direction, a trend that continued for decades. However, even after Warren retired and the makeup...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-04-05
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An expanded edition of a classic intellectual history of Zionism, now covering the rise of religious Zionism since the 1970s For eighteen centuries pious Jews had prayed for the return to Jerusalem, but only in the revolutionary atmosphere of nineteenth-century Europe...
Editeur :
Basic Books
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2017-04-04
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The definitive account of the Ghost Dance religion, which led to the infamous massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890Winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History In 1890, on Indian reservations across the West, followers of a new religion danced in circles until they...
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Basic Books
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2017-04-04
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From a distinguished literary historian, a look at Gustave Flaubert and his correspondence with George Sand during France's "terrible year" -- summer 1870 through spring 1871From the summer of 1870 through the spring of 1871, France suffered a humiliating defeat in its...
Editeur :
Basic Books
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2017-04-04
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Why are sex and jewelry, particularly rings, so often connected?Why do rings continually appear in stories about marriage and adultery, love and betrayal, loss and recovery, identity and masquerade? What is the mythology that makes finger rings symbols of true (or, as...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-04-03
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In the city of Puebla there lived an American who made himself into the richest man in Mexico. Driven by a steely desire to prove himself-first to his wife's family, then to Mexican elites-William O. Jenkins rose from humble origins in Tennessee to build a business...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-04-03
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The scholarly community has become increasingly aware of the differences between Roman myths and the more familiar myths of Greece. Early Rome: Myth and Society steps in to provide much-needed modern and accessible translations and commentaries on Italian legends. This...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2017-04-03
Collection :
Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History
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An Englishwoman of no particular fame living in World War I Brussels started a secret diary in September 1916. Aware that her thoughts could put her in danger with German authorities, she never wrote her name on the diary and ran to hide it every time the "Boches" came...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-04-03
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