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This book traces the word ‘progressive’ through modern British history, from the Enlightenment to Brexit. It explores the shifting meanings of this term and the contradictory political projects to which it has been attached. It also places this political language in its...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-02-09
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This edition is the first to reproduce John Addington Symonds's Memoirs in its entirety. It offers a panoramic view of middle-class Victorian life, shedding light upon sexual cultures and life histories too often hidden from history. Symonds (1840-93) began writing his...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-02-09
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Volume XXIX/2 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. This special issue, guest edited by Alexander Broadie, particularly...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-02-09
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South Asian History has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance over the past thirty years. Its historians are not only producing new ways of thinking about the imperial impact and legacy onSouth Asia, but also helping to reshape the study of imperial history in general.
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OUP Oxford
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2017-02-09
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This book explores the complex ways in which people lived and worked within the confines of Benito Mussolini’s regime in Italy, variously embracing, appropriating, accommodating and avoiding the regime’s incursions into everyday life. The contributions highlight the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-02-08
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Colonial security strategies and the postcolonial vestiges they left both in the global South and in former metropoles have recently attracted renewed academic attention. Policing inColonial Empires is a collection of essays reflecting current, ongoing research and...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2017-02-08
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The Statesman's Yearbook , now in a new, enlarged format, contains profiles of every country in the world and includes 20% new content. All print purchases now receive online access at no extra cost, with a single-user licence giving access to the full text online,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-07
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The Statesman's Yearbook
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Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and accessibility....
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Hodder Education
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2017-02-06
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Bring out the best in every student, enabling them to develop in-depth subject knowledge and historical skills with the market-leading series for WJEC Eduqas, fully updated for 2016 to help you navigate the new content and assessment requirements with ease.- Maps the...
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Hodder Education
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2017-02-06
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Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP)Level: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbookLet SHP successfully steer you through the OCR B specification with an exciting, enquiry-based series, combining best...
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Hodder Education
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2017-02-06
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This book draws on original material and approaches from the developing fields of the history of emotions and childhood studies and brings together scholars from history, literature and cultural studies, to reappraise how the early modern world reacted to the deaths...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-06
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Create a stimulating, well-paced teaching route through the 2016 GCSE History specification using this tailor-made series that draws on a legacy of market-leading history textbooks and the individual subject specialisms of the author team to inspire student success.-...
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Hodder Education
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2017-02-06
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This volume examines the international impact of Lysenkoism in its namesake’s heyday and the reasons behind Lysenko’s rehabilitation in Russia today. By presenting the rise and fall of T.D. Lysenko in its various aspects, the authors provide a fresh perspective on one...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-06
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This book breaks with three common scholarly barriers of periodization, discipline and geography in its exploration of the related themes of heresy, magic and witchcraft. It sets aside constructed chronological boundaries, and in doing so aims to achieve a clearer...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-04
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Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
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Ab 1915 entwickelte sich innerhalb eines Segments des Offizierskorps ein politischer Ordnungsanspruch, der in der Weimarer Republik seine Wirkung entfaltete. Dieser Vorgang wird in der Studie mithilfe des biografischen Ansatzes anhand der drei zentralen Offiziere...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-02-03
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At the beginning of each decade for 200 years the national census has presented a self-portrait of the British Isles.The census has surveyed Britain from the Napoleonic wars to the age of the internet, through the agricultural and industrial revolutions, possession of...
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Little, Brown Book Group
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2017-02-02
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GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017**Winner of best memoir at the Parliamentary Book Awards**'Compelling ... She has guts to spare ... An important story ... Role model? You bet' Tim Shipman, Sunday Times'So human and inspiring, and my favourite book of...
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Penguin
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2017-02-02
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'The greatest history of an event I know' - C.L.R. JamesRegarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of the Russian Revolution offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history....
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Penguin
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2017-02-02
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Die Frauen der spätmittelalterlichen Ratsherren und Hansekaufleute wurden in der sozial- und wirtschaftshistorischen Forschung bisher kaum berücksichtigt. Ausgehend von diesem Defizit beschäftigt sich die Studie mit den Testamenten von drei Lübecker Ratsherrenwitwen....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-02-02
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Richard Wright's memoir of his childhood as a young black boy in the American south of the 1920s and 30s is a stark depiction of African-American life and a powerful exploration of racial tension.‘A compelling indictment of life in the Deep South between the wars’ Daily...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-02-02
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