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Positioned on the fault line between two competing Cold War ideological and military alliances, and entangled in ethnic, cultural and religious diversity, the Balkan region offers a particularly interesting case for the study of the global Cold War system. This book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-02-02
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From the Wright brothers' first powered flight, to Concorde's final voyage and the tragic crash of the Columbia, Flight takes you on a sky-high journey through the history of aviation. Charting the trailblazers, jet test pilots and constant progress at the cutting-edge...
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Dk
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2017-02-01
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In Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson, prize-winning historian Christina Snyder reinterprets the history of Jacksonian America. Most often, this drama focuses on whites who turned west to conquer a continent, extending "liberty" as they...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-02-01
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Acquired by the United States from Spain in 1898, Puerto Rico has a peculiar status among Latin American and Caribbean countries. As a Commonwealth, the island enjoys limited autonomy over local matters, but the U.S. has dominated it militarily, politically, and...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-02-01
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This book examines the historical and current state of health and the health of the African people, including the Arab North, impacted by such factors as geography and natural elements, cultural and colonial traditions, and competing biomedical and traditional systems....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-01-30
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The Classical Age of Greece produced some of history's best-known generals and commanders. They include the Spartan king Leonidas, who embodied his countrymen's heroic ethos in the battle of Thermopylae; the Athenian leader Themistocles, credited as the architect of...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-01-30
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Was können wir wissen? Führende Philosophiehistoriker unserer Zeit stellen prägnant vor, welche Antworten die antike Philosophie auf diese Frage gegeben hat - von den Vorsokratikern und Sophisten über Platon und Aristoteles bis zu den Skeptikern, Stoikern und...
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J.B. Metzler
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2017-01-28
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Bislang gibt es in der Literatur keine umfassende Untersuchung des Betrugsstrafrechts in England und den Vereinigten Staaten. Dieses Buch bietet die erste umfassende Untersuchung der Ursprünge des englischen und des gliedstaatlichen amerikanischen Betrugsstrafrechts von...
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Centaurus Verlag & Media
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2017-01-27
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In elf Beiträgen befasst sich dieser Band mit der Entstehung der »Humanität im Kriege in der Gründungs und Etablierungsphase des Roten Kreuzes. Die Autoren nehmen die ambitionierten Bestrebungen in den Blick, eine staatenübergreifende Organisation zur Linderung des...
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Centaurus Verlag & Media
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2017-01-27
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„Die beiden Gefängnisse … sind dagegen unsicher, weil die eisernen Fenstergitter darinnen fehlen.“ Der Grund: der Kostenanschlag wäre beim Bau überschritten worden, so der BauConducteur. Was heute wie eine Groteske wirkt, war zwischen 1793 und 1806/07 in Süd- und...
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Centaurus Verlag & Media
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2017-01-27
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Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact. From the Qu'ran to Shakespeare, this city with three names - Byzantium, Constantinople,Istanbul - resonates as an idea and a place, and...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2017-01-26
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THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE ACCOUNT OFTHE HOLOCAUST FOR 30 YEARSTwo fundamental questions about the Holocaust must be asked:How did it happen? And why? More completely than any other single work of history yet published, Laurence Rees's Holocaust definitively answers...
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Penguin
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2017-01-26
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Paul Kennedy's classic naval history, now updated with a new introduction by the authorThis acclaimed book traces Britain's rise and fall as a sea power from the Tudors to the present day. Challenging the traditional view that the British are natural 'sons of the...
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Penguin
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2017-01-26
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'A superb book...genuinely innovative' Jack Spence OBE, King's College LondonOver the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many. Histories that have intertwined, converged and diverged. They have involved a continuing process of...
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Penguin
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2017-01-26
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A LIGHT-HEARTED, INTIMATE AND EMPHATICALLY FEMINIST HISTORY OF DATING 'A new approach to romance . . . The heroines of Regency novels could teach today's young women a trick or two' Sunday Times'Entertaining and well-researched' The Lady'Pacey, intelligent and...
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Robinson
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2017-01-26
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'This generation's Wild Swans' Daily TelegraphXiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her.When she is born in 1973, her parents hand her over to a childless peasant couple in the mountains. Aged two, and suffering...
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Vintage Digital
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2017-01-26
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It is commonly held that the inter-war era marked little more than a ceasefire between two world wars, with the improvement in German-Allied relations forged at Locarno in 1925 cut short by the global economic turmoil that followed the 1929 Wall Street Crash. A Vision...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-01-26
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