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For as far back as school registers can take us, the most prestigious education available to any Irish child was to be found outside Ireland. Catholics of Consequence traces, for the first time, the transnational education, careers, and lives of more than two thousand...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-06-13
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This book provides a lively study of the role that Australians and New Zealanders played in defining the British sporting concept of amateurism. In doing so, they contributed to understandings of wider British identity across the sporting world.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-06-12
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Over half a century ago, a leading commentator suggested that Scotland was very unusual in being a country which was, in some sense at least, a nation but in no sense a state. He asked whether something 'so anomalous' could continue to exist in the modern world. The...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-06-12
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Over half a century ago, a leading commentator suggested that Scotland was very unusual in being a country which was, in some sense at least, a nation but in no sense a state. He asked whether something 'so anomalous' could continue to exist in the modern world. The...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-06-12
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This volume reveals how Apuleius' Metamorphoses - the only fully extant Roman novel and a classic of world literature - works as a piece of literature, exploring its poetics and the way in which questions of production and reception are reflected in its text. Providing...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-06-12
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Antiquity has often been perceived as the source of Greece's modern achievements, as well as its frustrations, with the continuity between ancient and modern Greek culture and the legacy of classical Greece in Europe dominating and shaping current perceptions of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-06-12
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Joseph De Sapio examines how individuals not only understood their contacts with industrial modernity as distinct from the inherited traditional rhythms of the eighteenth century, but how they conceived of their own positions within the increasingly sophisticated...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-06-11
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Diese der Neuen Politikgeschichte verpflichtete Studie untersucht die Repräsentationspolitik der Weimarer Republik anhand der drei Staatsbesuche, die zwischen 1920 und 1933 stattfanden. Durch die umfangreiche Auswertung der einschlägigen deutschen und englischen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-11
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The author undertakes an intellectual journey into the hidden past of the Polish history after 1939. He deals with Holocaust, collaboration, totalitarian rule, crisis of communism in Eastern Europe as well as Polish-Jewish relations during the war.The author is a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-11
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This book is a completely revised version of The Power of Prophecy; Prince Dipanagara and the End of an Old Order in Java, 1785–1855 (2007). A vivid biography of Indonesia’s foremost national hero, it tells the story of a remarkable figure whose life spanned his native...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-11
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During the summer of 1969-the summer Americans first walked on the moon-musician and poet Patti Smith recalled strolling down the Coney Island Boardwalk to a refreshment stand, where "pictures of Jesus, President Kennedy, and the astronauts were taped to the wall behind...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-06-06
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The book examines Muslim-European interactions in the interwar period and provides original insights into the emergence of geopolitical and intellectual East–West networks that transcended national, cultural, and linguistic borders.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-06-05
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Die vermutlich zwischen 1305 und 1338 entstandene Königsaaler Chronik wurde von Abt Otto von Thüringen (†1314) als Vita Wenzels II. begonnen und nach dessen Tod von seinem Nachfolger Abt Peter von Zittau umgearbeitet und fortgesetzt. Das umfangreiche, in drei Büchern...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-05
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In response to the recent surge of interest in studying epistemic transfers and changes, this volume assembles an interdisciplinary range of articles that look at the production, consumption and dissemination of knowledge in East Asia, centering on Korea, under the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-05
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The world first heard of Klaus Fuchs, the head of theoretical physics at the British Research Establishment at Harwell in February 1950 when he appeared at the Old Bailey, accused of passing secrets to the Soviet Union. For over sixty years disinformation and lies...
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Headline
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2014-06-05
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ONE OF THE GREATEST SPY STORIES OF ALL TIME Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did. In England, Room 40 was born . . .In January 1917, with the First World War locked in terrible stalemate and America still...
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Penguin
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2014-06-05
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From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician, Ten Cities that Made an Empire presents a new approach to Britain's imperial past through the cities that epitomised itThe final embers of the British Empire are dying, but...
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Penguin
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2014-06-05
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Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August is a spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war.War pressed against every frontier. Suddenly dismayed, governments struggled and twisted to fend it off. It was no use . . .Barbara Tuchman's universally...
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Penguin
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2014-06-05
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A magisterial history of the Jews in Nazi Germany and the regime's policies towards them in the years prior to World War II and the Holocaust. Written by arguably the world's leading scholar on the subject.Himself a survivor, Friedlander has been a leading figure in...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2014-06-05
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In 1938 Johnny Sherwood was a young professional footballer on the brink of an England career, touring the world with the all-star British team the Islington Corinthians. By 1942 he was a soldier surrendering to the Japanese at the siege of Singapore. Taken prisoner he...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2014-06-05
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