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The New Nationalism and the First World War is an edited volume dedicated to a transnational study of the features of the turn-of-the-century nationalism, its manifestations in social and political arenas and the arts, and its influence on the development of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-29
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The Home Front in Britain explores the British Home Front in the last 100 years since the outbreak of WW1. Case studies critically analyse the meaning and images of the British home and family in times war, challenging prevalent myths of how working and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-29
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Through a range of case studies from eastern and western Europe, this book breaks new ground in investigating the extent to which European peoples living within Europe were also subjected to the ideologies and practices of colonialism.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-28
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West Germany and the Portuguese Dictatorship 1968-1974 examinesWest Germany's ambiguous policy towards the Portuguese dictatorship of Marcelo Caetano. Lopes sheds new light on the social, economic, military, and diplomatic dimensions of the awkward relationship between...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-28
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Looking at national peace organizations alongside lesser-known protest collectives, this book argues that anti-nuclear activists encountered familiar challenges common to other social movements of the late twentieth century.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-28
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In this work, Buschmann incorporates neglected Spanish visions into the European perceptions of the emerging Pacific world. The book argues that Spanish diplomats and intellectuals attempted to create an intellectual link between the Americas and the Pacific Ocean.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-28
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Pacific History
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The second edition of A Woman's Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution updates Rosemarie Zagarri's biography of one of the most accomplished women of the Revolutionary era.The work places Warren into the social and political context in which she lived...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-10-27
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Guided by Ezra Pound's dictum --"Make it new"--a generation of writers set out to create fiction and poetry that was unlike anything that came before it. However, as Seamus O'Malley shows, historical narrative was a key site for modernist experimentation. Taking three...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-10-24
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Whereas the Spanish-American War has long been studied as a turning point in American history, Grover Cleveland's foreign policy. Nick Cleaver's study illuminates the dynamism and ideals of Cleveland's diplomatic moment, revealing their continuities with the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-23
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The Middle Ages is a term coined around 1450 to describe a thousand years of European History. In this Very Short Introduction, Miri Rubin provides an exploration of the variety, change, dynamism, and sheer complexity that the period covers. From the provinces of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-10-23
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The Middle Ages is a term coined around 1450 to describe a thousand years of European History. In this Very Short Introduction, Miri Rubin provides an exploration of the variety, change, dynamism, and sheer complexity that the period covers. From the provinces of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-10-23
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Gifts are always with us: we use them positively to display affection and show gratitude for favours; we suspect that others give and accept them as douceurs and bribes. The gift also performed these roles in early modern English culture: and assumed a more significant...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-10-23
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Published over forty years ago, the original edition of Titled Elizabethans provided a ready reference source to Elizabethan court, state, and household. This long-awaited revised edition expands considerably upon the original, adding new categories and a host of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-23
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Post-industrial landscape scars are traces of 20th century utopian visions of society; they relate to fear and resistance expressed by popular movements and to relations between industrial workers and those in power. The metaphor of the scar pinpoints the inherent...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-22
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The SS Cavalry Brigade was a unit of the Waffen-SS that differed from other German military formations as it developed a 'dual role': SS cavalrymen both helped to initiate the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and experienced combat at the front.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-20
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In Elvis Presley: A Southern Life, one of the most admired Southern historians of our time takes on one of the greatest cultural icons of all time. The result is a masterpiece: a vivid, gripping biography, set against the rich backdrop of Southern society--indeed,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-10-16
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Krieg ist eine der Universalien der Weltgeschichte. Das Buch skizziert allgemeine historische Voraussetzungen, Rahmenbedingungen und verschiedene Arten von Kriegen sowie die Ambivalenz von Kriegen zwischen Zerstörung, Kriegsverbrechen und «Fortschritten» im Gefolge der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-16
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«Wie gern möchte ich nur einmal Humboldten erzählen hören», so ein Seufzer Ottilies in Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften. Aber auch die anderen großen Lateinamerika-Reisenden und Weltumsegler seiner Zeit waren Goethe bekannt. So zum Beispiel Georg Forster, der die zweite...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-16
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Hailed by General Sir Ian Hamilton as «a slashing man of action», Aylmer Hunter-Weston began the Great War as one of the British Army’s rising stars. By its close, his reputation was very different. Branded by some contemporaries as a «butcher» and a «mountebank», he...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-16
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This work studies the Great Council of Malines as an institution. It analyzes the Council’s internal organization and staff policy, its position within the broader society of the Austrian Netherlands, the volume and nature of litigation at the Council and its final...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-10-15
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