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When the Japanese began their brutal occupation of the Philippines in January 1942, 76,000 ill and starving Filipino and American troops tried to hold out on Bataan and Corregidor. That spring, after having been forced to surrender, most of those men were thrown into...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-11-13
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Paragon of English virtues or racist imperialist? Andrew Lycett (acclaimed biographer of Ian Fleming) has returned to primary sources to tell the intricate story of a misunderstood genius who became Britain's most famous and highest earning author. Among the many new...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2015-11-12
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The Atlantic slave trade was one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures. Between 1492 and about 1870, ten million or more black slaves were carried from Africa to one port or another of the Americas.In this wide-ranging book, Hugh Thomas...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2015-11-12
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Think that Ancient Egypt is just a load of old obelisks?Don't bet your afterlife on it.Ancient Egypt should be deader than most of our yesterdays. After all it was at its height 5,000 years ago. Yet we still marvel at its mummies and ponder over its pyramids. It's easy...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2015-11-12
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Dangerous Days
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This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before the nineteenth century.This book provides the first in-depth examination of perceptions of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-11-11
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In No Depression in Heaven, Alison Collis Greene demonstrates how the Great Depression and New Deal transformed the relationship between church and state. Grounded in Memphis and the Delta, this book traces the collapse of voluntarism, the link between southern religion...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-11-11
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The resurgence of regionalism is borne out of the current political logjams that have characterized the governance and operations of multilateral trading system over the past one decade and a half. Oloruntoba critically examines Euro-Nigeria relations within the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-11-10
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Anhand des Straßenbaus untersucht der Autor die Begründung und Durchsetzung von Raum im Département du Mont-Tonnerre in der Zeit der französischen Herrschaft von 1792 bis 1815. Er verwendet raumtheoretische Konzepte von Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey und aus der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-11-06
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Margarethe Billerbeck hat sich über Jahrzehnte hinweg unermüdlich für die Klassische Philologie eingesetzt. Generationen von Studenten der Fächer Latein und Griechisch hat sie als Ordinaria an der Universität Freiburg (Schweiz) nicht nur durch ihre wissenschaftliche...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-11-06
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A Companion to Intellectual History provides an in-depth survey of the practice of intellectual history as a discipline. Forty newly-commissioned chapters showcase leading global research with broad coverage of every aspect of intellectual history as it is currently...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-11-06
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
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Illuminations contains the most celebrated work of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and influential thinkers of the 20th Century: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', ‘The Task of the Translator’ and 'Theses on the Philosophy of History', as...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-11-05
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TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH THE BBC'S RUTH GOODMANWe know all about the dramas that played out in the Tudor court - most notably those of Henry VIII - but what was life really like for a commoner like you or me? To answer this question, the renowned "method historian" Ruth...
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Penguin
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2015-11-05
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A compelling account of the battle for Passchendaele from grand strategy at the highest levels right down to the experience of the ordinary infantrymen.In the autumn of 1917, after years of stalemate at Ypres, the British and French armies launched a massive offensive...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2015-11-05
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Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West provides an insight into how theArabic-Islamic world perceived medieval Western Europe in an age that is usually associated with the rise and expansion of Islam, the Spanish Reconquista, and the Crusades. Previous scholarship has...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-11-05
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The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas is the first edited collection to discuss the performance of Greek drama across the continents and archipelagos of the Americas from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present.
The study and interpretation...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-11-05
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The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas is the first edited collection to discuss the performance of Greek drama across the continents and archipelagos of the Americas from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present.
The study and interpretation...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-11-05
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A major new interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographiesAugustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know most. He is the author of an intimate masterpiece, the Confessions, which...
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Penguin
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2015-11-05
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This is the first full study of Roman strigillated sarcophagi, which are the largest group of decorated marble sarcophagi to survive in the city of Rome. Characterized by panels of carved fluting - hence the description 'strigillated', after the curved strigil used by...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-11-05
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The Raj was, for two hundred years, the jewel in the British imperial crown. Although founded on military expansionism and undoubted exploitation, it developed over the centuries into what has been called 'benign autocracy' - the government of many by few, with the...
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Abacus
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2015-11-05
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This special ebook has been created by historian Saul David from his acclaimed work 100 Days to Victory: How the Great War was Fought and Won, which was described by the Mail on Sunday as 'Inspired' and by Charles Spencer as 'A work of great originality and insight'....
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2015-11-05
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