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Field Marshal Montgomery's battleplan for Normandy, following the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944, resulted in one of the most controversial campaigns of the Second World War. Carlo D'Este's acclaimed book gives the fullest possible account of the conception and...
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Penguin
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2015-05-28
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Corruption, Party, and Government in Britain, 1702-1713 offers an innovative and original reinterpretation of state formation in eighteenth-century Britain, reconceptualising it as a political and fundamentally partisan process. Focussing on the supply of funds to the...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-05-28
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For four centuries Britain was an integral part of the Roman Empire, a political system stretching from Turkey to Portugal and from the Red Sea to the Tyne and beyond. Its involvement with Rome started long before the Conquest launched by the Emperor Claudius in 43 AD,...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-05-28
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For four centuries Britain was an integral part of the Roman Empire, a political system stretching from Turkey to Portugal and from the Red Sea to the Tyne and beyond. Its involvement with Rome started long before the Conquest launched by the Emperor Claudius in 43 AD,...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-05-28
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This book offers a comparison of lay and inquisitorial witchcraft prosecutions. In most of the early modern period, witchcraft jurisdiction in Italy rested with the Roman Inquisition, whereas in Denmark only the secular courts raised trials. Kallestrup explores the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-28
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States without former colonies, it has been argued, were intensely involved in colonial practices. This anthology looks at Switzerland, which, by its very strong economic involvements with colonialism, its doctrine of neutrality, and its transnationally entangled...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-26
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Founded in 1893, the National League of the Blind was the first nationwide self-represented group of visually impaired people in Britain. This book explores its campaign to make the state solely responsible for providing training, employment and assistance for the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-26
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This book opens up histories of childhood and youth in South African historiography. It looks at how childhoods changed during South Africa's industrialisation, and traces the ways in which institutions, first the Dutch Reformed Church and then the Cape government,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-26
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Between September 1939 and June 1940, the British Expeditionary Force confronted the German threat to France and Flanders with a confused mind-set, an uncertain skills-set and an uncompetitive capability. This book explores the formation's origins, the scale of defeat...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-26
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Historically, Spain has often been represented as a financial failure, a state limited by its absolutist monarchy and doomed to fiscal and financial failure without hope of lasting growth. The collapse of the Spanish state at the beginning of the nineteenth century...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-25
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Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Sotto la direzione di John Scheid, Olivier de Cazanove, Filippo Coarelli e Adriana La Regina, lo studio dei luoghi di culto dell’Italia antica è un progetto di ampia portata che si concretizza nella pubblicazione della serie di fascicoli che vanno sotto il nome di Fana,...
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Collège de France
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2015-05-25
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Institut des civilisations
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Das Buch zeichnet die Geschichte von (Nord-)Aserbaidschan in den vergangenen 200 Jahren nach und setzt dabei einzelne Schwerpunkte, zu denen die russische Kolonialzeit, die interethnischen Konfrontationen zwischen Muslimen und Armeniern sowie die Konflikte der...
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Springer VS
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2015-05-22
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This is the first history of the bicycle to trace not only the technical background to its invention, but also to contrast its social and cultural impact in different parts of the world, and assess its future as a continuing global phenomenon.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-22
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In this Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling memoir that 'reads like a thriller', (Joanna Lumley) Colour-Sargent Kailash Limbu shares a riveting account of his life as a Gurkha soldier-marking the first time in its two-hundred-year history that a soldier of the Brigade of...
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Little, Brown Book Group
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2015-05-21
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From around 1800, particularly in Germany, Greek tragedy has been privileged in popular and scholarly discourse for its relation to apparently timeless metaphysical, existential, ethical, aesthetic, and psychological questions. As a major concern of modern philosophy,...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-05-21
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From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day comes the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.'Rich in detail and drama. Enthralling' Mail on Sunday ______________On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and...
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Penguin
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2015-05-21
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His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authority, Khubilai snatched the position of Great Khan, becoming the overlord of a Mongol federation that stretched from the...
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Robinson
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2015-05-21
Collection :
Brief Histories
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What did the cosmetic practices of middle-class women in the nineteenth century have in common with the repair of men's bodies mutilated in war?What did the New Woman of the Weimar years have to do with the field of social medicine that emerged in the same period? They...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-20
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It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people to invest as much as $30 million—upward of $400...
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Algonquin Books
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2015-05-19
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This book examines the experiences of gay and bisexual men who lived in Scotland during an era when all homosexual acts were illegal, tracing the historical relationship between Scottish society, the state and its male homosexual population using a combination of oral...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-18
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