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This book takes a fresh look at the connection between history and policy, proposing that historians rediscover a sense of ‘public purpose’ that can embrace political decision-making – and also enhance historical practice. Making policy is a complex and messy affair,...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2016-05-28
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This book provides insight into the remarkable life and work of the Italian economist Antonio de Viti de Marco (1858-1943).This book presents eleven interviews with American and Italian scholars from various disciplines that provide a profile of this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-05-27
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In a seventeenth-century English landscape populated with towering political and philosophical figures like Hobbes, Harrington, Cromwell, Milton, and Locke, William Penn remains in many ways a man apart. Yet despite being widely neglected by scholars, he was a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-05-27
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While the importance of migration in contemporary society is universally acknowledged, historical analyses of migration put contemporary issues into perspective. Migration is a phenomenon of all times, but it can take many different forms. The Roman case is of real...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-05-27
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In the early sixteenth century, a young English sugar trader spent a night at what is now the port of Agadir in Morocco, watching from the tenuous safety of the Portuguese fort as the local tribesmen attacked the 'Moors'. Having recently departed the familiar environs...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-05-27
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'A Napoleonic triumph of a book, irresistibly galloping with the momentum of a cavalry charge' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Simply dynamite' Bernard CornwellFrom Andrew Roberts, author of the bestsellers The Storm of War and Churchill: Walking with Destiny, this is the...
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Penguin
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2016-05-27
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Media practices and the everyday cultures of transnational migrants are deeply interconnected. Mediating Migration narrates aspects of the migrant experience as shaped by the technologies of communication and the social, political and cultural configurations of...
Editeur :
Polity
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2016-05-27
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Global Media and Communication
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Der Band versammelt die Beiträge der Vortragsreihe Geteilte Erinnerungen – deutsche Geschichten, die im Wintersemester 2009/2010 an der TU Braunschweig stattfand. Sie spürt jenen deutsch-deutschen Geschichten nach, die sich im Schatten der Mauer zugetragen haben und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-05-27
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THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OFTHE YEAR 2017WINNER OFTHE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE andTHE JQ-WINGATE LITERARY PRIZETHE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER'A monumental achievement: profoundly personal, told with love, anger and great precision' John le Carré'One of...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2016-05-26
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Sarajevo’s Holiday Inn on the Frontline of Politics and War charts the rich history of the city’s famous Holiday Inn hotel. Describing in detail the tumultuous events that took place within its walls and in its immediate environs, this book explores the opening of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-26
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This book explores the ways through which Korean American men demonstrate and navigate their manhood within a US context that has historically sorted them into several limiting, often emasculating, stereotypes. In the US, Korean men tend to be viewed as passive,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-26
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While the importance of migration in contemporary society is universally acknowledged, historical analyses of migration put contemporary issues into perspective. Migration is a phenomenon of all times, but it can take many different forms. The Roman case is of real...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-05-26
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When Woodrow Wilson was elected as a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in 1897, his preacher father allegedly remarked, "I would rather that he held that position than be president of the United States." Fifteen years later he was both. Easily one of the most...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-05-26
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When Woodrow Wilson was elected as a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in 1897, his preacher father allegedly remarked, "I would rather that he held that position than be president of the United States." Fifteen years later he was both. Easily one of the most...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-05-26
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The story of the British Army has many sides to it, being a tale of heroic successes and tragic failures, of dogged determination and drunken disorder. It involves many of the most vital preoccupations in the history of the island - the struggle against Continental...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2016-05-26
Collection :
Brief Histories
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Juliet Gardiner's critically acclaimed book - the first in a generation to tell the people's story of the Second World War - offers a compelling and comprehensive account of the pervasiveness of war on the Home Front. The book has been commended for its inclusion of...
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Headline
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2016-05-26
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'An energetic, ambitious, provocative work by a young historian of notable gifts, which deserves a wide readership' Max Hastings, The Sunday Times'Bold and breathtaking... I have never read a more daringly panoramic survey of the period' Jonathan Wright, Herald...
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Penguin
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2016-05-26
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El Alamein was one of the pivotal battles of the Second World War, fought by armies and air forces on the cutting edge of military technology. Yet Alamein has always had a patchy reputation - with many commentators willing to knock its importance.
This book explains...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-05-26
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Queer Love in the Middle Ages points out queer themes in the works of the French canon, including Perceval , the Romance of the Rose and the Roman d'Eneas . It brings out less known works that prominently feature same-sex themes: Yde and Olive , a romance with a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-24
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As home to 1920s excess and Hitler's Final Solution, Berlin's physical and symbolic landscape was an important staging ground for the highs and lows of modernity. In Cold War Berlin, social and political boundaries were porous, and the rubble gave refuge to a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-23
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