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Soviet Jews lived through a record number of traumatic events: the Great Terror, World War II, the Holocaust, the Famine of 1947, the Doctors' Plot, the antisemitic policies of the postwar period, and the collapse of theSoviet Union. But like millions of otherSoviet...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-01-16
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This collection begins on the premise that, until recently, religion has been particularly influential in Ireland in forming a sense of identity, and in creating certain versions of reality. History has also been a key component in that process, and the historical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-12
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Social movements have shaped and are shaping modern societies around the globe; this is evident when we look at examples such as the Arab Spring, Spain’s Indignados and the wider Occupy movement. In this volume, experts analyse the ‘classic’ and new social movements...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-12
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In 1915, two men -- one a journalist agitator, the other a technically brilliant filmmaker -- incited a public confrontation that roiled America, pitting black against white, Hollywood against Boston, and free speech against civil rights. Monroe Trotter and D. W....
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PublicAffairs
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2017-01-10
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A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era presents a collection of new historiographic essays covering the years between 1877 and 1920, a period which saw the U.S. emerge from the ashes of Reconstruction to become a world power. The single, definitive resource...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-01-10
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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This book explores the historial role of the Balkan Wars. In Eastern Europe, the two Balkan Wars of 1912/13 had greater importance than the First World War for the construction of nations and states.This volume shows how these “short” wars profoundly changed the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-10
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In 431 BC, the long simmering rivalry between the city-states of Athens and Sparta erupted into open warfare, and for more than a generation the two were locked in a life-and-death struggle. The war embroiled the entire Greek world, provoking years of butchery...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-01-10
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This book offers much-needed insight into the Oxford and Cambridge Unions and the important role they have played in nineteenth-century British political culture. Despite this role, or perhaps for that very reason, the Unions have received very little scholarly...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-09
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This book examines what makes the United States an exceptional society, what impact it has had abroad, and why these issues have mattered to Americans. With historical and comparative evidence, Frank J. Lechner describes the distinctive path of American institutions and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-09
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This book examines what makes the United States an exceptional society, what impact it has had abroad, and why these issues have mattered to Americans. With historical and comparative evidence, Frank J. Lechner describes the distinctive path of American institutions and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-09
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Long before London and New York rose to international prominence, a trading route was discovered between Spanish America and China that ushered in a new era of globalisation. The Ruta de la Plata or ’Silver Way’ catalysed economic and cultural exchange, built the...
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E-Penguin
Parution :
2017-01-09
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This book is the first comparative study of early modern English and Dutch women writers. It explores women’s rich and complex responses to the birth of the public sphere, new concepts of privacy, and the ideology of domesticity in the seventeenth century. Women in both...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-09
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This book presents a historically and critically nuanced study of George Herbert's biblical poetics. Situating Herbert's work in the context of shifting ideas of biblical mystery, Gary Kuchar shows how Herbert negotiated two competing impulses within post-reformation...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-09
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Sie gehören seit Jahrtausenden zum Lesekanon der klassischen Literatur: Äsop, Aischylos, Herodot, Homer, Sophokles, Cicero, Horaz, Ovid, Plinius und Vergil. Das Lexikon porträtiert die wichtigsten 120 Schriftsteller der griechischen und römischen Antike. Ein Streifzug...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-01-06
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Nahezu jeder in Österreich kennt sie: Landesausstellungen. Doch weshalb und durch wen werden sie organisiert und was macht sie so besonders? Seit wann und an welchen Orten finden Landesausstellungen statt und welchen Nutzen bringen sie in der Peripherie? Auf welche...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-05
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In 1912, a group of ambitious young men, including future Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter and future journalistic giant Walter Lippmann, became disillusioned by the sluggish progress of change in the Taft Administration. The individuals started to band together...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-01-05
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Raum- und Landesplaner haben auf räumliche Entwicklungen bis in die 1970er Jahre hinein einen größeren Einfluss ausüben können. Um Raumordnung, Bevölkerung (vor 1945: um „Volk“ und „Rasse“) und Aspekte sozialer Ordnung kreiste ihr ganzes Denken und Planen. Ihre...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-01-04
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The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year byThe Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran rainforest in this riveting...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2017-01-03
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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
Parution :
2017-01-03
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In the heart of Europe's current crisis, one of the continent's foremost statesmen issues a clarion call to radically remake the European Union in the mold of the United States' own federal government Europe is caught in its greatest crisis since the Second World War....
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Basic Books
Parution :
2017-01-03
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