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Queens of Poland are conspicuously absent from the study of European queenship—an absence which, together with early modern Poland’s marginal place in the historiography, results in a picture of European royal culture that can only be lopsided and incomplete. Katarzyna...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-18
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Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State investigates political thought under the conditions of the postwar welfare state, focusing on the Federal Republic of Germany (1949-1989). The volume argues that the welfare state informed and altered basic questions of...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-03-14
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Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State investigates political thought under the conditions of the postwar welfare state, focusing on the Federal Republic of Germany (1949-1989). The volume argues that the welfare state informed and altered basic questions of...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-03-13
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There is no single volume that encompasses an integrated social and cultural history of the Sámi people from the Nordic countries and northwestern Russia. Neil Kent's book fills this lacuna. In the first instance, he considers how the Sámi homeland is defined: its...
Editeur :
Hurst
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2019-03-01
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Democracy and Political Culture: Studies in Modern British History attempts to give a total picture of the political-social culture of Great Britain in the twentieth century. To do so it chooses a number of particular subjects which nonetheless stand for this culture as...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-02-21
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This book examines the Kemalist ideology of Turkey from two perspectives. It discusses major problems in the existing interpretations of the topic and how the incorporation of Soviet perspectives enriches the historiography and our understanding of that ideology. To...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-19
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Spannend und ergreifend, so blutig wie leidenschaftlich und eine der großen Erzählungen unserer Zeit: die deutsche Geschichte. Christian v. Ditfurth nimmt Sie mit auf eine Reise zu Horden, Königen, Kaisern, Ketzern und Kriegern. Er erzählt eine Geschichte von Heiligen,...
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Wiley-VCH
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2019-02-12
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Für Dummies
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Democracy and Political Culture: Studies in Modern British History attempts to give a total picture of the political-social culture of Great Britain in the twentieth century. To do so it chooses a number of particular subjects which nonetheless stand for this culture as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-02-07
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE AND THE HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE A journey told through stories and songs into Doggerland, the ancient region that once joined the east coast of England to HollandTime Song tells of the creation, the existence and the loss of a country...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-02-07
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Die Geschichtswissenschaft in Europa, so hat es den Anschein, gestaltet ihre Methodologie aus einer Abgrenzung gegenüber nicht-europäischen Tendenzen und verpasst damit die Chance, ihren eigenen Reichtum zu verdeutlichen und neue Argumente in...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-02-06
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This book analyses the significance of the special correspondent as a new journalistic role in Victorian print culture, within the context of developments in the periodical press, throughout the second half of the nineteenth century. Examining the graphic reportage...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-06
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This book examines how the fall of France in the Second World War has been recorded by historians and remembered within society. It argues that explanations of the fall have usually revolved around the four main themes of decadence, failure, constraint and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-01
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The War Guilt Problem and the Ligue des droits de l'homme is a significant new volume from Norman Ingram, addressing the history of the Ligue des droits de l'homme (LDH), an organisation founded in 1898 at the height of the Dreyfus Affair and which lay at the very...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-31
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The War Guilt Problem and the Ligue des droits de l'homme is a significant new volume from Norman Ingram, addressing the history of the Ligue des droits de l'homme (LDH), an organisation founded in 1898 at the height of the Dreyfus Affair and which lay at the very...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-31
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A poet's memoir of his mother that flows backwards through time, through a tumultuous period of European history - a tender and yet unsparing autobiographical journey.**RADIO 4's BOOK OF THE WEEK FROM 15 March 2021**"A truly remarkable book . . . fiercely compelling"...
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Maclehose Press
Parution :
2019-01-31
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For some time before his death in July 2015, former colleagues and students of Paul Langford had discussed the possibility of organising a festschrift to celebrate his remarkable contribution to eighteenth-century history. It was planned for 2019 to commemorate the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-31
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For some time before his death in July 2015, former colleagues and students of Paul Langford had discussed the possibility of organising a festschrift to celebrate his remarkable contribution to eighteenth-century history. It was planned for 2019 to commemorate the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-31
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Homicide has a history. In early modern England, that history saw two especially notable developments: one, the emergence in the sixteenth century of a formal distinction between murder and manslaughter, made meaningful through a lighter punishment than death for the...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-01-31
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Eighteenth-century London was teeming with humanity, and poverty was never far from politeness. Legend has it that, on his daily commute through this thronging metropolis, Captain Thomas Coram witnessed one of the city's most shocking sights-the widespread abandonment...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-01-31
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This book provides the first English study (comprehensive of introductory essays, translations, and notes) of five prominent Italian Renaissance utopias: Doni’s Wise and Crazy World, Patrizi’s The Happy City, and Zuccolo’s The Republic of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-25
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