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This is the first full-length study of the relevance of the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) to the works of Samuel Beckett (1906-1989). Since the publication of his correspondence between 2009 and 2016, Beckett's interest in Sade has become more widely known and the...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-05-14
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Intrigue, espionage, and deception. The truth behind 8,000 once top-secret files, so explosive their authors never dreamed they would be released.
Fakers reveals the rise and fall of the mavericks running Britain's Cold War forgery empire. Their secret mission was...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-05-14
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'Fantastic! A must read for fans of Philip Kerr'STEVE CAVANAGH 'An excellent historical series'VASEEM KHAN THE BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE AWARD-WINNING OCCUPATION SERIESIn the city of light, some deals are only made in the shadows.When a corrupt art dealer is killed,...
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Orion
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2026-05-14
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This book offers the first historical summary in English and source text in Dutch of the Tayuoan Consistory Minutes recorded between 1643 and 1649 at the Castle Zeelandia in Formosa (today’s Taiwan). The minute recordings occurred at a crucial moment in the...
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Springer
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2026-05-13
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The story of Winston Churchill's long relationship with the Crown—from radical liberal under Edward VII to his last premiership as an old man under the young Queen Elizabeth II.
Winston Churchill was born in a palace and was given a funeral worthy of a king....
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OUP Oxford
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2026-05-13
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Throughout the reign of Sultan Selîm III (1789-1807), Ottoman officials complained about the destruction of a notorious criminal named Kara Feyzî and thousands of his followers: they pillaged, slaughtered, and burned down communities throughout the Balkans. But these...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-05-13
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Historians of sexuality agree that the binary divide between gay and straight is a relatively recent social invention, only becoming dominant around the mid-twentieth-century. But focus on this binary has oversimplified and skewed the history of sexuality.
Bisexuality...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-05-13
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From an award-winning historian, the definitive history of classical Greece and the rivalry between its two greatest cities. “Packed with intrigue and the politics of empire, revolution, and war, this accessible history of a tangled relationship between nations...
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Basic Books
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2026-05-12
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Convinced that crusade expeditions were failing 'because of our sins', Paris-trained reformers targeted 'corrupt' clergy and 'loose women' (meretrices) in campaigns against prostitution, clerical marriage and concubinage, and lay fornication. Moral theologians tied new...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-05-12
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A clear-eyed yet hopeful history of the United States, revisiting the state of the union every fifty years since America’s birth. “Brilliantly written and illuminating.” —Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Silent...
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PublicAffairs
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2026-05-12
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The representation of the ancient world in film has long been an established site of scholarly interest, but animation remains understudied. Given the medium's popularity and its role as an access point to ancient history for young audiences, it deserves more attention...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-05-12
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Bertrand Russell e Albert Einstein ebbero background culturali e personalità alquanto diverse. Ma nello stesso stesso tempo furono idealmente uniti nella loro tenace battaglia per la pace, iniziata con la Grande Guerra e culminata nel loro famoso Manifesto del 1955....
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2026-05-11
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Viele erinnern die Volkssolidarität als Träger von Seniorenklubs, Mittagsversorgung und Hauswirtschaftsdiensten, manche vielleicht auch als staatliche Massenorganisation. In der Sowjetischen Besatzungszone war die Volkssolidarität zunächst...
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Springer VS
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2026-05-10
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The short-lived Ministry of Information (MoI, 1939–1946) had an outsized impact. It played a key role in the Allied war effort, and its work has reverberated in British culture ever since: from its much darker version (as the 'Ministry of Truth') in Orwell's Nineteen...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-05-09
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Für Jahrhunderte war der Adel in der Kirche einflussreich, waren Konfession und Adel eng verbunden. In der Moderne sahen sich beide einem zunehmenden Wandel unterworfen. Die Adelsforschung hat die evangelische Kirche dennoch bislang kaum beachtet. Dabei ermöglicht die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2026-05-08
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In 1795, an attempted revolution in the British colony of Grenada took place, led by the enigmatic Julien Fédon. While ultimately unsuccessful, this bloody uprising shifted the balance of power in the Caribbean and fundamentally changed the way the British crown ran its...
Editeur :
Polity
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2026-05-08
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Encounters with Empire
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According to one article, eighty per cent of psychology undergraduate students are women. The same article reports that eighty per cent of clinical psychologists are also women.But when we think about the history psychology, who springs to mind? Jung, Freud, Pavlov,...
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Headline Press
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2026-05-07
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*Sunday Times Bestseller*'Britain's favourite German historian' Sunday Times'Superb... Hoyer finds the town of Weimar a perfect microcosm for a country teetering into darkness... intelligent, original and well-researched' Daily TelegraphFrom bestselling historian Katja...
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Penguin
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2026-05-07
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This revised and updated edition of The American Revolution offers an accessible and authoritative account of the war that forged a nation.From the first sparks of rebellion to the final treaty, this comprehensive visual history charts the key battles, political...
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Dk
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2026-05-07
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Discover the extraordinary story of the United States of America – from its fight for independence to its 250th anniversary.This captivating and richly illustrated book takes you on a year-by-year journey through US history, starting with the signing of the Declaration...
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Dk
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2026-05-07
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