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Das Buch entschlüsselt ein für das Geschlecht der Wettiner sonst untypisches Handeln: Während der Zeit der deutschen Ostsiedlung begründen Dietrich der Bedrängte und sein Sohn Heinrich der Erlauchte zahlreiche Klöster in ihren Herrschaftsbereichen neben einer...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-03-18
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Karl Hanssen’s memoirs provide an invaluable outsider’s view of life in New Zealand prisons and a unique perspective on German Samoa under New Zealand occupation. In October 1915, Hanssen, manager of the DHPG, a large German copra production company, was sent from Samoa...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-03-18
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2.20am on 15th April 1912, the Titanic is plunging 12,000 feet to the ocean floor.Machinery, coal, crystal goblets, pianos and jewellery all tumbled through the dark water. Hundreds of passengers and crew remained trapped below decks – hundreds more would perish on the...
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Short Books
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2016-03-17
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In a series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini explores aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present. Common Writing focuses chiefly on writers, critics, historians, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-03-17
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In a series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini explores aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present. Common Writing focuses chiefly on writers, critics, historians, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-03-17
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"Everything you know about Indians is wrong." As the provocative title of Paul Chaat Smith's 2009 book proclaims, everyone knows about Native Americans, but most of what they know is the fruit of stereotypes and vague images. The real people, real communities, and real...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-03-16
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All the Facts presents a history of the role of information in the United States since 1870, when the nation began a nearly 150-year period of economic prosperity and technological and scientific transformations. James Cortada argues that citizens and their institutions...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-03-16
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Peace in the Ancient World: Concepts and Theories conducts a comparative investigation of why certain ancient societies produced explicit concepts and theories of peace and others did not. Explores the idea that concepts of peace in antiquity occurred only in periods...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2016-03-16
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Ancient World: Comparative Histories
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The notion of Central Asia emerged at a late stage, replacing that of “Tartary”, often associated with the Mongol Terror, in 1825 only. Two twentieth-century archaeological currents profoundly contributed to the revival of studies on this region: the French school led...
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Collège de France
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2016-03-16
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Leçons inaugurales
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How does one think of history on a world scale? Should one turn to the intellectuals of the past or the historians of the present? Universal history as it was practised from Antiquity started to change from the sixteenth century in varied contexts, from East Asia to...
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Collège de France
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2016-03-16
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Leçons inaugurales
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Sir Philip Gibbs was one of the most widely read English journalists of the first half of the twentieth century. This coverage of his writing offers a broad insight into British social and political developments, government and press relations, propaganda, and war...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-03-16
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This book tells the untold story of the fight to defend slavery in the British Empire. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from art, poetry, and literature, to propaganda, scientific studies, and parliamentary papers, Proslavery Britain explores the many ways in which...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-03-15
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Mecca of Revolution traces the ideological and methodological evolution of the Algerian Revolution, showing how an anticolonial nationalist struggle culminated in independent Algeria's ambitious agenda to reshape not only its own society, but international society too....
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Oxford University Press
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2016-03-15
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In popular stereotypes, local grocers were avuncular men who spent their days in pickle-barrel conversations and checkers games; they were backward small-town merchants resistant to modernizing impulses. Cornering the Market challenges these conventions to demonstrate...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-03-15
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A small, non-Slavic nation located far from the Soviet capital, Georgia was more closely linked with the Ottoman and Persian empires than with Russia for most of its history. One of over one hundred officially classified Soviet nationalities, Georgians represented less...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-03-15
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Marcus Antonius, Augustus, Arminius die Politiker und Heerführer, Konsuln und Kaiser, die legendären Könige und die großen Familien Roms werden in diesem kleinen Lexikon in knappen und zuverlässigen Artikeln beschrieben, dazu die wichtigsten Persönlichkeiten der Goten,...
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J.B. Metzler
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2016-03-14
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This volume explores more than two centuries of literature on the First Ladies, from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama, providing the first historiographical overview of these important women in U.S. history. Underlines the growing scholarly appreciation of the First...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2016-03-14
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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This study explores the confluence of economy and ecology in British India, showing that Britain initiated economic development strategies in India in order to efficiently extract resources from it. It looks specifically at how state railway construction and forest...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-03-14
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This book discusses various aspects of World War I. It focuses on topics proposed by contributors resulting from their own research interests. Nevertheless, as a result of common efforts, re-visiting those chosen aspects of the Great War of 1914–1918 enables the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-11
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