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In Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author’s or translator’s manuscript, the censors who licensed it, the publisher who decided to put this title in his catalogue, the copy editor who...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-12-06
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Over the course of three centuries, American settlers helped to create the richest, most powerful nation in human history, even as they killed and displaced millions. This groundbreaking work shows that American history is defined by settler colonialism, providing a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-12-05
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A Companion to the Antebellum Presidents presents a series of original essays exploring our historical understanding of the role and legacy of the eight U.S. presidents who served in the significant period between 1837 and the start of the Civil War in 1861. Explores...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-12-05
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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Shipwrecks have captured our imagination for centuries. Here acclaimed historian Sam Willis traces the astonishing tales of ships that have met with disastrous ends, along with the ensuing acts of courage, moments of sacrifice and episodes of villainy that inevitably...
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Quercus
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2013-12-05
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When America declared war on Germany in 1917, the United States had only 200,000 men under arms, a twentieth of the German army's strength, and its planes were no match for the German air force. Less than a century later, the United States today has by far the world's...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-12-05
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This unique and meticulously-researched study examines the triangular relationship between the British government, the Palace, and the modern Commonwealth since 1945. It has two principal areas of focus: the monarch's role as sovereign of a series of Commonwealth...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-12-05
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In 2010, David Bates presented the Ford Lectures in British History at the University of Oxford, and The Normans and Empire is the book which was born from these lectures. It provides an interpretative analysis of the history of the cross-Channel empire created by...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-12-05
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Who are we? Where did we come from and where are we going? What is the meaning of life and death? Can we abolish death and live forever? These "big" questions of human nature and human destiny have boggled humanity's best minds for centuries. But they assumed a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-12-04
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Das Wallfahren war seit der Aufklärung eine staatlich und kirchenamtlich missbilligte Volksfrömmigkeitsform, die sich jedoch weiterhin großer Beliebtheit erfreute. Nachdem schon in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts die Kölner Kurfürsten und zeitweilig auch die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-12-04
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In February 1933, Adolf Hitler had only a tenuous grasp on power. Chancellor of Germany for merely four weeks, he led a fragile coalition government. The Nazis had lost seats in the Reichstag in the recent election, and claimed only three of thirteen cabinet posts. Then...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-12-04
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An acclaimed portrait of Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the origins of modern conservatism and liberalism “In a Burkean manner, Mr. Levin enriches through wisdom rather than prescription.” —Washington Post In The Great Debate, Yuval Levin...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2013-12-03
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From the 9/11 attacks to waterboarding to drone strikes, relations between the United States and the Middle East seem caught in a downward spiral. And all too often, the Central Intelligence Agency has made the situation worse. But this crisis was not a historical...
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Basic Books
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2013-12-03
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Placing topical debates in historical perspective, the essays by leading scholars of history, literature and political science explore issues of difference and diversity, inclusion and exclusion, and faith in relation to a variety of Christian groups, Jews and Muslims...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-03
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Call it the Vietnam Syndrome or Black Hawk Down blowback. It's the standard assumption that Americans won't tolerate combat casualties, that a rising body count lowers support for war. But that's not true, argues historian Steven Casey; even worse, this assumption...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-12-03
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In recent decades literary approaches to drama have multiplied: new historical, intertextual, political, performative and metatheatrical, socio-linguistic, gender-driven, transgenre-driven. New information has been amassed, sometimes by re-examination of extant literary...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-12-02
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A Global History of Sexuality provides a provocative, wide-ranging introduction to the history of sexuality from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Explores what sexuality has meant in the everyday lives of individuals over the last 200 years Organized...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-12-02
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It was November 1806. The explorers had gone without food for one day, then two. Their leader, not yet thirty, drove on, determined to ascend the great mountain. Waist deep in snow, he reluctantly turned back. But Zebulon Pike had not been defeated. His name remained on...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-12-01
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In November 1941, near the city of Rovno, Ukraine, German death squads murdered over 23,000 Jews in what has been described as "the second Babi Yar." This meticulous and methodologically innovative study reconstructs the events at Rovno, and in the process exemplifies...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2013-12-01
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In 1797 Jeremy Bentham prepared a map of poverty in Britain, which he called "Pauperland." More than two hundred years later, poverty and social deprivation remain widespread in Britain.
Yet despite the investigations into poverty by Mayhew, Booth, and in the 20th...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2013-12-01
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Who is the Downing of Downing Street? What did the first illuminated adverts in Piccadilly Circus advertise? Was Oliver Cromwell actually Welsh? Questions like these and many more are answered in this, the first ever miscellany from the editors of BBC History...
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Bbc Digital
Parution :
2013-11-30
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