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This volume collects twenty-six previously unpublished studies on Republican history by the late Sir Ronald Syme (1903-1989), drawn from the archive of Syme's papers at the Bodleian Library.This set of papers sheds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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2016-10-27
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Living the Revolution offers a pioneering insight into the world of the early Soviet activist. At the heart of this book are a cast of fiery-eyed, bed-headed youths determined to be the change they wanted to see in the world. First banding together in the wake of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-10-27
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE HESSELL-TILTMAN HISTORY PRIZE 2017AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Religious strife, civil conflict, waves of immigration, the rise and fall of industry, great prosperity and grinding poverty – the handful of streets that constitute modern...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2016-10-27
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Countless attempts at analyzing Russia’s actions focus on Putin to understand Russia’s military imbroglio in Ukraine, hostility towards America, and disdain of ‘Gayropa’. This book invites its readers to look beyond the man and delve into the online lives of millions...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-27
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New Security Challenges
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During World War Two, death and violence permeated all aspects of the everyday lives of ordinary people in Eastern Europe. Throughout the region, the realities of mass murder and incarceration meant that people learnt to live with daily public hangings of civilian...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-10-27
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The stigmatization as 'bastards' of children born outside of wedlock is commonly thought to have emerged early in Medieval European history. Christian ideas about legitimate marriage, it is assumed, set the standard for legitimate birth. Children born to anything other...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-10-27
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If there was one person who could be said to light the touch-paper for the epochal transformation of European religion and culture that we now call the Reformation, it was Martin Luther. And Luther and his followers were to play a central role in the Protestant world...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-10-27
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Scholars have long been divided on the question of whether the Amazons of Greek legend actually existed. Notably, Soviet archaeologists' discoveries of the bodies of women warriors in the 1980s appeared to directly contradict western classicists' denial of the veracity...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-10-27
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This book analyses the relationship between Fascist Italy and the League of Nations in the interwar years. By uncovering the traces of those Italians working in the organization, this volume investigates Fascist Italy’s membership of the League, and explores the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-27
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This book examines the seventeenth-century project for a "real" or "universal" character: a scientific and objective code. Focusing on the Essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language (1668) of the polymath John Wilkins, Fleming provides a detailed...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-26
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This book explains why more Jewish people survived in some German-occupied countries compared to others during World War II. Hollander demonstrates that collaborators sometimes played a surprising role in ensuring Jewish survival. Where high-ranking governing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-25
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The classic, “gripping” (New York Times) history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved peopleWinner of the Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians Winner of the Sidney Hillman Prize...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2016-10-25
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A vivid account of German-occupied Europe during World War II that reveals civilians' struggle to understand the terrifying chaos of warIn An Iron Wind, prize-winning historian Peter Fritzsche draws diaries, letters, and other first-person accounts to show how civilians...
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Basic Books
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2016-10-25
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Der systematisch und historisch angelegte Band stellt zunächst das Spektrum des aktuell debattierten, vielschichtigen Historisierungsbegriffs vor und untersucht dann die Genese und Gegenwart historisierenden Denkens vom 18. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert vermittels einer Reihe...
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J.B. Metzler
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2016-10-25
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A sweeping history of the conquest of India by the British, from the first faltering trading stations to the marbled imperial cities, emphasizing the violence of colonial rule and its chaotic inheritance The popular image of the British Raj—an era of efficient but...
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PublicAffairs
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2016-10-25
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A dramatic portrait of the innovative Special Forces commanders and FBI agents who wage war against America's hidden enemies With the planned withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, the longest conflicts in our nation's history were supposed to end. Yet we...
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Basic Books
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2016-10-25
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Kazunari Hata weist im vorliegenden Buch darauf hin, dass die traditionelle Charakterisierung der Naturwissenschaft Goethes mit den Begriffen wie „Anschauung“ oder „Qualität“ in Frage gestellt werden soll und zeigt, wie seine Methodik erneut formuliert werden kann....
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Springer VS
Parution :
2016-10-24
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Die Autorin befasst sich mit Uwe Johnsons bislang in der Forschung wenig beachteten Briefen. Sie untersucht seine Korrespondenzen mit dem Suhrkamp-Verleger Siegfried Unseld, den Schriftstellerkollegen Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Günter Grass, Max Frisch, Fritz J. Raddatz,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-10-21
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Wie eine Demokratie krank gemacht wird, indem sie als siech, Geschwür oder Virus bezeichnet wird, kann man am Beispiel der Weimarer Republik ablesen.
Dieses Buch nähert sich der Verbindung von Krankheit und Krise aus der Perspektive demokratischer Spitzenpolitiker...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-10-21
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Das Buch präsentiert eine Theorie der internen und externen Statthalterschaften und eine Reihe von Besatzungs- und anderer Statthalterstatuten. Die Beiträge beziehen sich im Kern auf Napoleons Generalgouvernements neuen Typs in Italien, den Niederlanden und Deutschland....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-10-21
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