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An illuminating biography of Alfonso X, the 13th-century philosopher-king whose affinity for Islamic culture left an indelible mark on Western civilization "If I had been present at the Creation," the thirteenth-century Spanish philosopher-king Alfonso X is said to have...
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Basic Books
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2015-12-01
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Political races in the United States rely heavily on highly paid political consultants. In Building a Business of Politics, Adam Sheingate traces the history of political consultants from its origins in the publicity experts and pollsters of the 1920s and 1930s to the...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-12-01
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The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature provides a broad-ranging introduction to some of the key critical fields, genres, and periods in Canadian literary studies.The essays in this volume, written by prominent theorists in the field, reflect the plurality of...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-12-01
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From award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy, The Gates of Europe is the definitive history of Ukraine that helps us understand the country's past and the current crisisLocated at the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, Ukraine has long been the meeting place of empires...
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Penguin
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2015-12-01
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What role did poetry, music, song, and dance play in the social and political life of the ancient Greek city? How did philosophy respond to, position itself against, and articulate its own ambitions in relation to the poetic tradition? How did ancient philosophers...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-12-01
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This is a pioneering study that examines the sale of sex in classical Athens from a commercial (rather than from a cultural or moral) perspective. Following the author's earlier book on Athenian banking, this work analyzes erotic business at Athens in the context of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-12-01
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A new book for Paper 1, Prescribed Subject 4: Rights and ProtestThe renowned IB Diploma History series, combining compelling narratives with academic rigor.An authoritative and engaging narrative, with the widest variety of sources at this level, helping students to...
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Hodder Education
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2015-11-30
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The fully updated third edition of "Farewell, My Nation" considers the complex and often tragic relationships between American Indians, white Americans, and the U.S. government during the nineteenth century, as the government tried to find ways to deal with social and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-11-30
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The American History Series
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The sixteenth-century changes wrought by expansion of Spanish empire into Peru shaped the ways of being a family in colonial Peru. Even as migration, race mixture, and transculturation took place, family members fulfilled obligations to one another by adapting custom to...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-11-30
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Pindar's Library is the first volume to explore how readers during the Hellenistic period encounteredPindar's poetry in book form, analysing in detail the role played byPindar's literary, cultic, and scholarly reception in affecting readers' engagement with his...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-11-26
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The nineteenth century is a key period in the history of the interpretation of the Greek gods.The Greek Gods in Modern Scholarship examines how German and British scholars of the time drew on philology, archaeology, comparative mythology, anthropology, or sociology to...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-11-26
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The specter of global war loomed large in President Franklin Roosevelt's mind as he prepared to present his 1941 State of the Union address. He believed the United States had a role to play in the battle against Nazi and fascist aggression already underway in Europe,...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-11-23
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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....
Editeur :
Hodder Education
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2015-11-23
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Access to History
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The environmental histories of the Arctic and Antarctica are characterised by contrast and contradiction. These are places that have witnessed some of the worst environmental degradation in recent history. But they are also the locations of some of the most farsighted...
Editeur :
Polity
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2015-11-20
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Environmental History
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The union of Poland and Lithuania was ruled by the Jagiellon royal house from 1385–1572, after which a political transition to an elective monarchy was undertaken. This book studies the political transition from the Jagiellon dynasty to an elective monarchy as a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-20
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The American President is an enthralling account of American presidential actions from the assassination of William McKinley in 1901 to Bill Clinton's last night in office in January 2001. William Leuchtenburg, one of the great presidential historians of the century,...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-11-19
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Using close readings of Shaw's plays and letters, as well as archival research, David Clare illustrates that Shaw regularly placed Irish, Irish Diasporic, and surrogate Irish characters into his plays in order to comment on Anglo-Irish relations and to explore the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-11-17
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The culmination of a lifetime's field work and research, William Lindesay selects fifty artefacts from around the world to tell the story of the Great Wall from the second century BC to the late-twentieth century.Abraham Ortelius' pioneering world atlas, the unexpected...
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E-Penguin
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2015-11-16
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The Vietnam War is an outstanding collection of primary documents related to America's conflict in Vietnam which includes a balance of original American and Vietnamese perspectives, providing a uniquely varied range of insights into both American and Vietnamese...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-11-16
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Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History
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Im Rahmen einer eintägigen Konferenz an der TU Darmstadt, deren Beiträge in diesem Band wiedergegeben sind, hat das Institut für Geschichte das Lebenswerk seines Gründers Karl Otmar Freiherr von Aretin in seinem ganzen Umfang ausgelotet. Der im März 2014 verstorbene...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-13
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