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Margot Asquith was the wife of Herbert Henry Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister who led Britain into war in August 1914. Asquith's early war leadership drew praise from all quarters, but in December 1916 he was forced from office in a palace coup, and replaced by Lloyd...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-06-26
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Despite an outpouring in recent years of history and cultural criticism related to the Holocaust, Italian women's literary representations and testimonies have not received their proper due. This project fills this gap by analyzing Italian women's writing from a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-06-25
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Robinson Crusoe's call to adventure and do-it-yourself settlement resonated with British explorers. In tracing the links in a discursive chain through which a particular male subjectivity was forged, Karen Downing reveals how such men took their tensions with them to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-06-25
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Do You Dare fills a much-needed gap for engaging Austraian historical fiction for boy readers aged 8 to 12. These fast-paced, adventure-driven stories effortlessly bring to life so many facets of our past. But most importantly, they're compelling reads, driven by vivid...
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E-Penguin
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2014-06-25
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It's 1930 and Daisy has been adopted and whisked away to a beautiful mansion. She's to be a companion to Annie, a girl with a mysterious illness. While Daisy's new life is full of luxuries she could never have imagined, what she wants the most is the thing her new...
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E-Penguin
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2014-06-25
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Explore the fascinating history of Scotland in an easy-to-read guide Want to discover how a small country on the edge of Northern Europe packs an almighty historical punch? Scottish History For Dummies is your guide to the story of Scotland and its place within the...
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For Dummies
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2014-06-25
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Capturing the history of Kashmir and its cultural and social evolution, Nyla Ali Kahn deconstructs the life of her grandmother and other women of her generation to reconceptualize woman's identity in a politically militarized zone. An academic memoir, this book...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-06-25
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Die Erforschung und Beschreibung außereuropäischer Regionen der Erde beförderten die Entwicklung moderner europäischer Wissenschaften und schufen die Grundlagen für die Kontrolle und Herrschaft europäischer Kolonialmächte über den Orient. Gegenstand der historischen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-24
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Today, cohabiting relationships account for most births outside marriage. But what was the situation in earlier centuries? Bringing together leading historians, demographers and lawyers, this interdisciplinary collection draws on a wide range of sources to examine the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-06-23
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Diese Bestandsaufnahme der KZ-Gedenkstättenlandschaft in Österreich und Polen thematisiert die Geschichte, die gegenwärtige Situation und die Zukunftsperspektiven dieser Orte. Hintergrund ist die Herausforderung, vor der diese Gedenkstätten heute stehen: Die Erfahrung...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-23
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Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey explores the history of organized crime in Turkey and the roles which gangs and gangsters have played in the making of the Turkish state and Turkish politics. Turkey's underworld, which has been at the heart of...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-06-20
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The Open Fields of England describes the open-field system of agriculture that operated in Medieval England before the establishment of present-day farms surrounded by hedges or walls.The volume encompasses a wide range of primary data not previously assembled, to which...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-06-19
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Rock Springs, Kentucky. A backwater miles from civilisation, but so far upstream that the riverboats can go no further, and with plenty of farmland there for the taking. Among the pioneers who choose to build their homes here are the Hudds and the Killicks, two families...
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Maclehose Press
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2014-06-19
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The eighth edition of California: A History covers the entire scope of the history of the Golden State, from before first contact with Europeans through the present; an accessible and compelling narrative that comprises the stories of the many diverse peoples who have...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2014-06-19
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'A hell of a tale and Jonathan Beckman gives it all the verve and swagger it deserves . . . I read it with fascination, delight and frequent snorts of incredulity' The Spectator On 5 September 1785, a trial began in Paris that would divide the country, captivate Europe...
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John Murray
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2014-06-19
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The story of a forbidden book that became a symbol of freedom and rebellion in the battle between East and West.1956. Boris Pasternak presses a manuscript into the hands of an Italian publishing scout with these words: ‘This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around...
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Vintage Digital
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2014-06-19
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Should the majority always rule? If not, how should the rights of minorities be protected? In Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy, Kyle G. Volk unearths the origins of modern ideas and practices of minority-rights politics. Focusing on controversies...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-06-16
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The First World War in the Middle East is an accessibly written military and social history of the clash of world empires in the Dardanelles, Egypt and Palestine, Mesopotamia, Persia and the Caucasus. Coates Ulrichsen demonstrates how wartime exigencies shaped the...
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Hurst
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2014-06-15
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Loyal Enemies uncovers the history of the earliest British converts to Islam who lived their lives freely as Muslims on British soil, from the 1850s to the 1950s. Drawing on original archival research, it reveals that people from across the range of social classes...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-06-15
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The United States has had not one, but two Foundings.The Constitution produced by the Second Founding came to be only after a vociferous battle between Federalists and Anti-Federalists.The Federalists favored a relatively powerful central government, while the...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-06-13
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