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This volume collects twenty-six previously unpublished studies on Republican history by the late Sir Ronald Syme (1903-1989), drawn from the archive of Syme's papers at the Bodleian Library.This set of papers sheds light on aspects of Republican history that were either...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-24
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In ad 330 the Emperor Constantine consecrated the new capital of the eastern Roman Empire on the site of the ancient city of Byzantium. Its later history is well known, yet comparatively little is known about the city before it became Constantinople and then Istanbul....
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-24
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In Search of the Way is a history of intellectual and religious developments in Japan during the Tokugawa period, covering the years 1582-1860. It begins with an explanation of the fate of Christianity, and proceeds to cover the changing nature of the relationship...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-24
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In Search of the Way is a history of intellectual and religious developments in Japan during the Tokugawa period, covering the years 1582-1860. It begins with an explanation of the fate of Christianity, and proceeds to cover the changing nature of the relationship...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-24
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Dystopia: A Natural History is the first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia. Taking the term to encompass both a literary tradition of satirical works, mostly on totalitarianism, as well as real despotisms and societies in a state of disastrous collapse, this...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-24
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Between 1942 and 1944 the Germans sealed and completely emptied at least 38,000 Parisian apartments. The majority of the furnishings and other household items came from 'abandoned' Jewish apartments and were shipped to Germany. After the war, Holocaust survivors...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-24
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Written by specialists from various fields, this edited volume is the first systematic investigation of the impact of imperialism on twentieth-century Britain. The contributors explore different aspects of Britain's imperial experience as the empire weathered the storms...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-24
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This book examines the U. S. Army’s presence in Germany after the Nazi regime’s capitulation in May 1945.This presence required the pursuit of two stated missions: to secure German borders, and to establish an occupation government within the assigned U.S. zone and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-23
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This book is a historical narrative covering various periods in Sierra Leone’s history from the fifteenth century to the end of its civil war in 2002. It entails the history of Sierra Leone from its days as a slave harbor through to its founding as a home for free...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-22
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African Histories and Modernities
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This pioneering volume focuses on the scale, territorial trajectories, impact, economic relationships, identity and nature of the Scottish-Asia connection from the late seventeenth century to the present. It is especially concerned with identifying whether there...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-11-22
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The definitive biography of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, leader of the only successful slave revolt in world history Toussaint Louverture's life was one of hardship, triumph, and contradiction. Born into bondage in Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti),...
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Basic Books
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2016-11-22
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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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2016-11-21
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Die Stadt Ekaterinodar in der südrussischen Provinz des Russischen Reiches steht im Mittelpunkt dieses Buchs; sie stellte in vielen Aspekten unter den Provinzstädten einen Sonderfall dar. Der Autor untersucht den Veränderungsprozess von staatlicher Administration zu...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-11-21
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Die out-of-area-Debatte der NATO wurde im untersuchten Zeitraum vom Ausgreifen des Kalten Krieges auf Afrika und Asien sowie von der Kolonialpolitik fünf ihrer Partnerstaaten erfasst.Die Debatte belastete das Bündnis und übte einen maßgeblichen Einfluss auf die Struktur...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-11-21
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This book offers a new perspective on Chinese urban history by exploring cities as habitable spaces. China, the world’s most populous nation, is now its newest urban society, and the pace of this unprecedented historical transformation has increased in recent...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-21
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Slavery in Small Things:Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits isthe first book to explore the long-range cultural legacy of slavery through commonplace daily objects. Offers a new and original approach to the history of slavery by an acknowledged expert on the topic...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-11-21
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This book is about the relationship of food and food practices to discourses and depictions of domestic and political governance in early modern women’s writing. It examines the texts of four elite women spanning approximately forty years: the Psalmes of Mary Sidney...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-21
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This book provides an original and multidisciplinary approach on Magna Carta (1215) as a joint heritage, a source of inspiration both for long established democracies and countries which only recently experienced the Rule of Law. Far from simply extolling the virtues...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-18
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In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written. Throughout the post-war...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-11-17
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This book reconstructs how claims to know ‘the lessons’ from past wrongdoings are made useful in the present. These claims are powerful tools in contemporary debates over who we are, who we want to be and what we should do. Drawing on a wide range of spoken and written...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-17
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