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Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make America a more democratic country. In this definitive biography, Rosalind...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-04-03
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In 1917, the year the United States entered the Great War, Colonel Moorhead C. Kennedy, one of the most powerful men in the state of Pennsylvania and now the Deputy Director General of Transportation for the American Expeditionary Force, asked his African American valet...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-04-03
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This book offers a detailed investigation of the influence of public opinion and national identity on the foreign policies of France, Britain and the Netherlands in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The quarter-century of upheaval and warfare in Europe...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-04-03
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Against Harmony traces the history of progressive and radical experiments in Japanese Buddhist thought and practice, from the mid-Meiji period through the early Showa. Perhaps the two best representations of progressive Buddhism during this time were the New Buddhist...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-04-03
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This is the first major study in English of the queens of the Ottonian dynasty (919-1024). The Ottonians were a family from Saxony who are often regarded as the founders of the medieval German kingdom. They were the most successful of all the dynasties to emerge from...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-31
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Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era. It focuses on the ecological dimensions of the explosive growth of...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-31
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Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era. It focuses on the ecological dimensions of the explosive growth of...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-31
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Slavery After Rome, 500-1100 offers a substantially new interpretation of what happened to slavery in Western Europe in the centuries that followed the fall of the Roman Empire. The periods at either end of the early middle ages are associated with iconic forms of...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-30
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This book provides the first comprehensive history of Afro-Eurasia during the first millennium BCE and the beginning of the first millennium CE. The history of these 1300 plus years can be summed up in one word: connectivity. The growth in connectivity during this...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-03-30
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEThe extraordinary and essential story of how China became the powerful country it is today.Even at the high noon of Europe's empires China managed to be one of the handful of countries not to succumb. Invaded, humiliated...
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Penguin
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2017-03-30
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Die Studie befasst sich mit der Strafrechts- und Kriminalitätsgeschichte Kiels im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert. Als Quelle gibt das Varbuch Aufschluss über vor Gericht verhandelte Fälle von Kapitalverbrechen. Aus dem Vergleich normgebender Rechtsquellen mit der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-03-30
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Between 1830 and 1914 in Britain a dramatic modification of the reputation of Edmund Burke (1730-1797) occurred. Burke, an Irishman and Whig politician, is now most commonly known as the 'founder of modern conservatism' - an intellectual tradition which is also deeply...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-29
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This book brings a renewed critical focus to the history of novel writing, publishing, selling and reading, expanding its viewing beyond national territories. Relying on primary sources (such as advertisements, censorship reviews, publisher and bookstore catalogues),...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-28
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The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena, from the author of Pulitzer Prize finalistThe Pentagon's Brain and international bestseller Area 51. This is a book about a team of scientists and psychics with top...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2017-03-28
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The Cold War left indelible traces on the city, where polarities on the global stage crystallized and intersected with political and social dynamics predating and bypassing the Blocs. This collection taps into the rich fabric of memories, histories and cultural...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2017-03-27
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A massively destructive and transformative event, the First World War left in its wake many legacies. Beyond 1917 explores both the consequences of the war for the United States (and the world) and American influence on shaping the legacies of the conflict in the...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-03-27
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This is the first major study in English of the queens of the Ottonian dynasty (919-1024). The Ottonians were a family from Saxony who are often regarded as the founders of the medieval German kingdom. They were the most successful of all the dynasties to emerge from...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-24
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Ever since the Industrial Revolution of...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-24
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No other German has shaped the history of early-modern Europe more than Martin Luther.
In this comprehensive and balanced biography we see Luther as a rebel, but not as a lone hero; as a soldier in a mighty struggle for the universal reform of Christianity and its role...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-24
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This book explores the development and viability of Germany’s sub-national monarchies in the decades before their sudden demise in 1918. It does so by focusing on the men who turned out to be the last ones to inherit the crowns of the country’s three smaller kingdoms:...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2017-03-24
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