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Arabs and Empires before Islam illuminates the history of theArabs before the emergence of Islam, collating nearly 250 translated extracts from an extensive array of ancient sources. Drawn from a broad period between the eighth century BC and the Middle Ages, the...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-30
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What did it mean - in terms of social, cultural, and literary negotiations - to publish one's own work in Rome at the end of the first century CE?What kinds of traces has the author's work as editor left on the text as we read it? How can we interpret them?What kind of...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-30
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A cold winter morning in the Ardennes Forest, 1944, and Hitler launches his last and most audacious attack on the unprepared Allies. Standing between the German forces and the desperately regrouping Allies were just eighteen young Americans, hidden in fox holes.In a...
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Penguin
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2015-07-30
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Avi Shlaim's The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World is the outstanding book on Israeli foreign policy, now thoroughly updated with a new preface and chapters on Israel's most recent leadersIn the 1920s, hard-line Zionists developed the doctrine of the 'Iron Wall':...
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Penguin
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2015-07-30
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This book explores the continuous British fascination with the American Civil War from the 1870s to the present. Analysing the War's place in British political discourse, military writing, intellectual life and popular culture, it traces the sources of Britons' appeal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-07-28
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Amazing revelations and extraordinary exploits of Australia's elite secret warriors.There was something unique about Australians and New Zealanders in war that prompted World War II Allied commanders to turn to ANZAC soldiers, sailors and airmen to carry out the most...
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Hachette Australia
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2015-07-28
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This volume explores post-2000s artistic engagements with Holocaust memory arguing that imagination plays an increasingly important role in keeping the memory of the Holocaust vivid for contemporary and future audiences.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-07-28
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The Holocaust and its Contexts
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This unique volume examines how and to what extent former victims of Stalinist terror from across the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were received, reintegrated and rehabilitated following the mass releases from prisons and labour camps which came in the wake of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-07-28
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There can be few military victories so complete, or achieved against such heavy odds, as that won by Henry V on 25 October 1415 against Charles VI's army at Agincourt. In the words of one contemporary French chronicler, it was the 'most disgraceful event that had ever...
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Robinson
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2015-07-27
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Brief Histories
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A new book for Paper 1, Prescribed Subject 3: The Move to Global WarThe 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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2015-07-24
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This is the untold story of how some of Germany's top aristocrats contributed to Hitler's secret diplomacy during the Third Reich, providing a direct line to their influential contacts and relations across Europe -- especially in Britain, where their contacts included...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-24
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Anlässlich seines 90. Geburtstages vereinigt dieser Band 16 bisher unveröffentlichte Aufsätze und acht Rezensionen des Osteuropahistorikers Peter Hoffmann zur Kultur- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte sowie zu den deutsch-russischen Beziehungen im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Das...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-07-24
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By taking on a long-term perspective, a large geographical scope and moving beyond the homogeneous treatment of single people, this book fleshes out the particularities of urban singles and allows for a better understanding of the attitudes and values underlying this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-07-23
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Written by over 100 specialist contributors, this dictionary describes the people and events that have shaped and defined domestic, political, social, and cultural life in Britain since 55 BC. New entries to this edition include Diamond Jubilee 2012, Ed Miliband,...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-23
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Since the time of Aristotle, there had been a clear divide between the three kingdoms of animal, vegetable, and mineral. But by the eighteenth century, biological experiments, and the wide range of new creatures coming to Europe from across the world, challenged these...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-23
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Since the time of Aristotle, there had been a clear divide between the three kingdoms of animal, vegetable, and mineral. But by the eighteenth century, biological experiments, and the wide range of new creatures coming to Europe from across the world, challenged these...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-23
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On 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War, the Light Brigade of the British Cavalry Division made the most magnificent and most brutal charge in military history. Almost 700 men armed with sabre and lance, charged straight at the muzzles of Russian cannons. This vivid...
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Penguin
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2015-07-23
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The British-led Mediterranean Expeditionary Force that attacked the Ottoman Empire at Gallipoli in 1915 was a multi-national affair, including Australian, New Zealand, Irish, French, and Indian soldiers. Ultimately a failure, the campaign ended with the withdrawal of...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-23
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The British-led Mediterranean Expeditionary Force that attacked the Ottoman Empire at Gallipoli in 1915 was a multi-national affair, including Australian, New Zealand, Irish, French, and Indian soldiers. Ultimately a failure, the campaign ended with the withdrawal of...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-23
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This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing....
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-23
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