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Following the general description of what is new Prehistory, this volume addresses what, always, put off researchers from all disciplines relating, that is to say impossible. But as the science evolves, problems eventually find solutions (or ...
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JePublie
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2015
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JePublie présente
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Following the common considerations of the previous volumes, this series of eight volumes has outlined the consequences of migration to large scale: migrations and settlements have asked several millennia; America, the subject of this volume, has ...
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JePublie
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2015
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JePublie présente
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Europe is a special case in the sense that this part of the continent identifies every period of human prehistory. There are also many hominids, archaic men and modern men who lived with Neanderthals. The separation was very difficult in modern ...
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JePublie
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2015
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What I call the rush to the East, you guessed it, dear reader, is the counterpart of the West in the US, a race to the best seats at the best land and game. Here there is no hunt for gold, but immediately set themselves up fortresses to defend the ...
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JePublie
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2015
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What the author calls northern Europe, it is the part that has been frozen until the 20th millennium BC, and therefore very sparsely populated with little prehistoric memories. The maps show that the settlement began around 10,000 years, and we ...
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JePublie
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2015
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In the rotunda of the nation's Capital a statue pays homage to three famous nineteenth-century American women suffragists: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott. "Historically," the inscription beneath the marble statue notes, "these three stand...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-12-30
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When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that the Civil War had taken on a wider significance -- that all of Europe and Latin America was watching to see whether the...
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Basic Books
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2014-12-30
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Marcus Beyer befasst sich mit dem Institut für Internationale Beziehungen der DDR (IIB) und der Frage nach dessen Aufgaben im Herrschaftsapparat der SED. Das IIB präsentierte sich als eine die außenpolitische Praxis beratende Forschungseinrichtung, de facto bestand...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-23
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Nazi Germany: Confronting the Myths provides a concise and compelling introduction to the Third Reich. At the same time, it challenges and demystifies the many stereotypes surrounding Hitler andNazi Germany. Creates a succinct, argument-driven overview for students by...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2014-12-22
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Wiley Short Histories
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This study investigates the life and activities of Garrick Sokari Idikatima Braide, an African prophet, missionary and revivalist, in the evangelization of the Niger Delta area of Nigeria from 1890 to 1920. The book focuses on Braide’s revival movement and its impact on...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-22
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Places of Memory examines the post-war history of the site where the 1942 Wannsee Conference was held. The author analyses the different uses of the house to investigate how a site turns into a site of memory.
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-12-22
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This provocative analysis of American historiography argues that when scholars use modern racial language to articulate past histories of race and society, they collapse different historical signs of skin color into a transhistorical and essentialist notion of race that...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-12-18
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Making an important addition to the highly Britain-dominated field of imperial studies, this book shows that, like numerous other evangelicals operating throughout the colonized world at this time, Danish missionaries invested remarkable resources in the education of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-12-18
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Slave Labor in Nazi Concentration Camps examines the slave labor carried out by concentration camp prisoners from 1942 and the effect this had on the German wartime economy. This work goes far beyond the sociohistorical 'reconstructions' that dominate Holocaust studies...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-12-18
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Law was central to the ancient Roman's conception of themselves and their empire. Yet what happened to Roman law and the position it occupied ideologically during the turbulent years of the Iconoclast era, c.680-850, is seldom explored and little understood. The...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-12-18
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Historians commonly point to the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act as the inception of a new chapter in the story of American immigration. This wide-ranging interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from varied disciplines to consider what is genuinely new...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-12-17
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Exploring the developments that have occurred in the practice of oral history since digital audio and video became viable, this book explores various groundbreaking projects in the history of digital oral history, distilling the insights of pioneers in the field and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-12-17
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Palgrave Studies in Oral History
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This volume takes a decentered look at early modern empires and rejects the center/periphery divide. With an unconventional geographical set of cases, including the Holy Roman Empire, the Habsburg, Iberian, French and British empires, as well as China, contributors...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-12-17
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From the 14th-century king consorts of Navarre to the modern European prince consorts of the 20th century, the male consort has been a peculiar yet recurrent historical figure. In this impressively broad collection, leading historians of monarchy analyze how male...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-12-16
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In this remarkable oral history, Slava Gerovitch presents interviews with the men and women who witnessed Soviet space efforts firsthand. Rather than comprising a "master narrative," these fascinating and varied accounts bring to light the often divergent perspectives,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-12-16
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