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'They were fifty miles to victory and defeat, fifty miles to collapse and renewal, and fifty miles to a new place for Australia among the nations of the world. They were among the most significant fifty miles in our history.'March, 1918. The young Australian nation is...
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E-Penguin
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2016-06-27
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This book challenges the premise that a ‘military revolution’ prompted the major European powers to enter into an era of global hegemony during the early modern period, and suggests that this theory is not supported if we closely examine contemporary historical events....
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-06-25
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This book explores how the women’s orchestra at Auschwitz-Birkenau has been remembered in both media and popular culture since the end of the Second World War. In particular it focuses on Fania Fenelon’s memoir, Playing for Time (1976), which was subsequently adapted...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-25
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This book shows how bubonic plague and smallpox helped
end the Hittite Empire, the Bronze Age in the Near East and later the
Carthaginian Empire. The book will examine all the possible infectious diseases
present in ancient times and show that life was a daily struggle...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-06-25
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This book concerns one of early modern England’s most prolific female authors, Jane Lead (1624–1704). Well-researched and clearly written, these essays focus on aspects of Lead’s thought including her attitudes towards Calvinism, mysticism, androgyny and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-25
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This book analyzes the multi-faceted phenomenon of Finnish military effectiveness in the Winter War (1939–40). Drawing on a wide array of primary and secondary sources, Pasi Tuunainen shows how by focusing on their own strengths and pitting these against the ...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-25
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This book offers an empirically informed understanding of how identity and agency become wholly embedded within practices of media-remembering. It draws upon data collected from the British military, the BBC and Falkland Islanders during the 30th Anniversary of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-23
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The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901 considers the history of the libraries that the East India Company and Regular Army respectively established for soldiers during the nineteenth century. Drawing upon a wide range of material, including archival...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-23
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Civil war has been a recurring feature of human societies throughout history - and an essential catalyst for major international conflict. And since 1945 the number of civil wars in the world has grown steadily, bringing devastation on a scale more traditionally...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-23
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In 1958 Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts proclaimed at the University of New Brunswick that "Canada and the United States have carefully maintained the good fences that help make them good neighbours." He could not have foreseen that his presidency would be...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-20
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Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae holds a prominent position in modern studies of the emperor Julian as the fullest extant narrative of the reign of the last 'pagan' emperor. Ammianus' Julian: Narrative and Genre in the Res Gestae offers a major reinterpretation of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-17
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The relationship between migration and mental health is controversial, contested, and pertinent. In a highly mobile world, where voluntary and enforced movements of population are increasing and likely to continue to grow, that relationship needs to be better...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-17
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This volume has been produced to mark the retirement of Roy Foster from the Carroll Professorship of Irish history at the University of Oxford, and to mark his extraordinary career as a historian, literary critic, and public intellectual. It consists of twenty three...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
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2016-06-17
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This book analyzes the events
that impacted the structure and competitive processes of the two dominant
Cypriot political factions while under the watchful eye of British rule. Based
on new archival research, Alecou addresses the social and political environment
in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-16
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Fragile Memory, Shifting Impunity is an interdisciplinary study of commemorative sites related to human rights violations committed primarily during dictatorial rule in Argentina (1976–1983) and Uruguay (1973–1985). Taking as a departure point the ‘politics of memory’ –...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-16
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Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae holds a prominent position in modern studies of the emperor Julian as the fullest extant narrative of the reign of the last 'pagan' emperor. Ammianus' Julian: Narrative and Genre in the Res Gestae offers a major reinterpretation of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-16
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The first day of the Somme has had more of a widespread emotional impact on the psyche of the British public than any other battle in history. Now, 100 years later, Robert Kershaw attempts to understand the carnage, using the voices of the British and German soldiers...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2016-06-16
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This lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of China during a period of dramatic shifts and surprising transformations, from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) through to the present day.
The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China promises to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-16
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No conflict better encapsulates all that went wrong on the Western Front than the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The tragic loss of life and stoic endurance by troops who walked towards their death is an iconic image which will be hard to ignore during the centennial...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2016-06-16
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A gripping account of the Second World War, from the perspective of a young tank commander.In 1944, David Render was a nineteen-year-old second lieutenant fresh from Sandhurst when he was sent to France. Joining the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry five days after the D-Day...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2016-06-16
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