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Korea and Japan must work together to open a new era for true peace and prosperity in East Asia. It is our reality, however, that the memory of the invasion, Japan’s forced annexation ofKorea in 1910 and the scars of exploitation are still important obstacles to new...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-04-30
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John Churchill was born in 1650, the son of a defeated Cavalier captain, in a household which had been ravaged and rendered almost destitute by the English Civil War. Yet by the time of his death in 1722 he was among the richest men in the country, with a dukedom, a...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2015-04-30
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GREAT COMMANDERS
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Vyvyen Brendon's evocative, at times heart-tugging book, runs from the 18th century and the East India Company, through the Afghan wars, the Indian mutiny and the more settled era of the Queen Empress, and culminates in the conflict leading to Britain's hurried exit in...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2015-04-30
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This provocative volume stimulates debate about lost 'heritage' by examining the history of the hundreds of great houses demolished in Britain and Ireland in the twentieth century. Seven lively essays debate our understanding of what is meant by loss and how it relates...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2015-04-29
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Between 1939 and 1945, over two hundred German and forty-five Allied servicemen were interned in neutral Ireland. They presented a series of extremely complex issues for the de Valera government, which strove to balance Ireland's international relationships with its...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2015-04-29
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This study offers an in-depth examination of Porphyrian soteriology, or the concept of the salvation of the soul, in the thought of Porphyry of Tyre, whose significance for late antique thought is immense. Porphyry's concept of salvation is important for an...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-04-28
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This book offers a unique and fascinating examination of British and Irish responses to Italian independence and unification in the mid-nineteenth century. Chapters explore the interplay of religion, politics, exile, feminism, colonialism and romanticism in fuelling...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-04-28
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With peerless talent and unrivalled international presence, few stars shone brighter in the heady firmament of the Jazz Age than Josephine Baker and Paul Robeson. Electric, charismatic, and unforgettable, both ignited the modern imaginations of cosmopolitan centers...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-04-27
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In 1939 London was not merely the greatest city in the world, it was the most tempting and vulnerable target for aerial attack. For six years it was the frontline of the free world's battle against Fascism. It endured the horrors of the Blitz of 1940 and 1941, the...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-04-24
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Drawing on examples from Britain, France, and the United States, this book examines how scholars and scholarship found themselves mobilized to solve many problems created by modern warfare in World War I, and the many consequences of this for higher education which have...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-04-24
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It is the most famous speech Lincoln ever gave, and one of the most important orations in the history of the nation. Delivered on November 19, 1863, among the freshly dug graves of the Union dead, the Gettysburg Address defined the central meaning of the Civil War and...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-04-24
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Ionescu examines the process of economic Romanianization of Bucharest during the Antonescu regime that targeted the property, jobs, and businesses of local Jews and Roma/Gypsies and their legal resistance strategies to such an unjust policy.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-04-24
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The story of the reign of Charles I - through the lives of his people.
Prize-winning historian David Cressy mines the widest range of archival and printed sources, including ballads, sermons, speeches, letters, diaries, petitions, proclamations, and the proceedings of...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-04-24
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'A soaring account of the months that transformed a messy feudal squabble into Magna Carta...his crisp storytelling, based around short chapters and rolling rhetoric, is extremely entertaining.' Dan Jones, Mail on Sunday'I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Good history is...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2015-04-23
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In association with the flagship BBC2 series.This is the story of the men and women of a truly remarkable generation. Born into a world still reeling from the earth-shattering events of the Great War, they grew up during the appalling economic depression of the 1930s,...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2015-04-23
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The story of the reign of Charles I - through the lives of his people.
Prize-winning historian David Cressy mines the widest range of archival and printed sources, including ballads, sermons, speeches, letters, diaries, petitions, proclamations, and the proceedings of...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-04-23
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Ettore Lepore, pendant les travaux du Congrès VII des études sur la Grèce antique, a ouvert un colloque sur l'histoire de Sibaritide entre les Ve et VIe siècles avant J.C. qui a produit au cours des trente dernières années de nombreuses contributions, avec des...
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Publications du Centre Jean Bérard
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2015-04-22
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Études
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L’idea di questo Convegno viene da lontano: ognuna delle istituzioni che lo hanno organizzato ha accumulato infatti un patrimonio di riflessioni su questo tema: per il Centre Jean Bérard questo precede la sua stessa nascita, trovando la sua origine in Rhégion et Zankle,...
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Publications du Centre Jean Bérard
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2015-04-22
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Collection du Centre Jean Bérard
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Ce fut le grand exploit et la fierté des Empereurs romains que d’avoir fondé l’approvisionnement de Rome sur des bases nouvelles et plus sûres. Pour expliquer leur succès, il ne faut certes négliger ni l’acquisition d’importantes nouvelles sources d’approvisionnement...
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Publications du Centre Jean Bérard
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2015-04-22
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Collection du Centre Jean Bérard
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L'idea di questo lavoro nacque più di un decennio addietro quando, studiando la gran massa di piccole terracotte di argomento teatrale rinvenute a Lipari, abbiamo potuto riscontrare la corrispondenza fra i tipi liparesi riferibili alla Commedia nuova e quelli descritti...
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Publications du Centre Jean Bérard
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2015-04-22
Collection :
Cahiers du Centre Jean Bérard
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