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The soldiers who occupied Germany after the Second World War were not only liberators: they also brought with them a new threat, as women throughout the country became victims of sexual violence. In this disturbing and carefully researched book, the historian Miriam...
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Polity
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2016-12-20
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This volume comprises a selection of essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines that discuss the exchange relationship between Africa and the wider Indian Ocean world (IOW), a macro-region running from East Africa to China, from early times to about 1300 CE....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-19
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Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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This book makes a wide, conceptual challenge to the theory that the English of the colonial period thought of Native Americans as irrational and subhuman, dismissing any intimations to the contrary as ideology or propaganda. It makes a controversial intervention by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-16
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In an unscientific era when maps were rarities, how did ancient Romans envisage their far flung empire? This was done by various means for certain, including with the aid of an ingenious type of portable sundial that has barely attracted notice. As the Romans understood...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-12-16
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Kaisertum, Papsttum und Volkssouveränität im hohen und späten Mittelalter sind zentrale Aspekte des wissenschaftlichen Œuvres von Helmut G. Walther. Aus methodisch und inhaltlich ganz unterschiedlichen Perspektiven wenden sich die einzelnen Autoren in ihren Beiträgen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-15
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This volume brings together articles on the law of armed conflict and the use of force from the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, the definitive reference work on international law. It provides an invaluable resources for scholars, students, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-12-15
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Esref Kusçubasi remains controversial in Turkey over fifty years after his death. Elsewhere the man sometimes called the "Turkish Lawrence of Arabia" is far less known but his life offers fascinating insights into the traumatic, increasingly violent struggles that ended...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-12-15
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This volume presents fourteen papers by Roman archaeologists and historians discussing approaches to the economic history of Pompeii, and the role of the Pompeian evidence in debates about the Roman economy.
Four themes are discussed. The first of these is the...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-12-15
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This volume presents fourteen papers by Roman archaeologists and historians discussing approaches to the economic history of Pompeii, and the role of the Pompeian evidence in debates about the Roman economy.
Four themes are discussed. The first of these is the...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-12-15
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This is the first Handbook of the Reformations to include global Protestantism, and the most comprehensive Handbook on the development of Protestant practices which has been published so far. The volume brings together international scholars in the fields of theology,...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-12-15
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At the end of World War II, France discarded not only the Vichy regime but also the austere ideology behind it. Under the veneer of a conservative vision of family characterized by the traditional structure of a male breadwinner and female homemaker, the conception of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-12-15
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Guinea is rich, both materially and culturally, with the world's largest bauxite reserves, gold, diamonds and iron ore. It abounds in culture and traditions and has a remarkable, if often turbulent, history.Guinea is also exceptional in that it was the first French...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2016-12-15
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'War is the most important thing in the world', writes Martin van Creveld, one of the world's best-known experts on military history and strategy.
The survival of every country, government, and individual is ultimately dependent on war - or the ability to wage it in...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-12-15
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This volume provides new insights into gendered interactions over the past two centuries between Germany and Asia, including India, China, Japan, and previously overlooked Asian countries including Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, and Korea.This volume presents...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-12-14
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In ihrer Studie begibt sich die Autorin auf die Suche nach den Spuren einer vergangenen Religion aus den philippinischen Tagalog-Provinzen. Eine Verbindung von diskurs- und begriffsgeschichtlichen Ansätzen mit einer sprachwissenschaftlichen Analyse dient zur...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-14
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Exam board: OCRLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbookTrust Ben Walsh to guide you through the 9-1 GCSE specification and motivate your students to excel with his trademark mix of engaging narrative and...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2016-12-12
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A Companion to Chinese History presents a collection of essays offering a comprehensive overview of the latest intellectual developments in the study of China’s history from the ancient past up until the present day. Covers the major trends in the study of Chinese...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-12-12
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
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The Experience of History is a lively and passionate introduction to the field that encourages students to seek and appreciate history inside the classroom and beyond. This work: Defines history as a discipline and the role of historians within it Addresses the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2016-12-12
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This volume examines how numerous international transfers, circulations, and exchanges shaped the world of socialism during the Cold War. Over the course of half a century, the Soviets shaped politics, values and material culture throughout the vast space of Eurasia,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-10
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This book looks at the role of popular music in constructing the myth of the First World War. Since the late 1950s over 1,500 popular songs from more than forty countries have been recorded that draw inspiration from the War. National Myth and the First World War...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-09
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