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'Narratively irresistible, intellectually provocative, historically invaluable' Simon Callow, Guardian'Astonishing ... a book that will permanently alter the way we regard our collective past' New York Times'A landmark work ... Shorto paints the emotions and attitudes...
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Abacus
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2013-11-01
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This book explores the decision of the British Empire to import Chinese labour to southern Africa despite the already tense racial situation in the region. It enables a clearer understanding of racial and political developments in southern Africa during the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-11-01
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Rethinking Mercantilism brings together a group of young early modern British and European historians to investigate what use the concept "mercantilism" might still hold for both scholars and teachers of the period. While scholars often find the term unsatisfactory,...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-11-01
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As the field of Cultural History grows in prominence in the academic world, an understanding of the history of culture has become vital to scholars across disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music cultivates a return to the fundamental...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-11-01
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Born in Guadeloupe in 1897, Stephanie St. Clair entered the United States thirteen years later. By 1923 at the age of twenty-six she would create and manage a highly lucrative policy bank in Harlem – earning a quarter of a million dollars a year. To this day, she...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-01
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Classics in the Modern World brings together a collection of distinguished international contributors to discuss the features and implications of a 'democratic turn' in modern perceptions of ancient Greece and Rome. It examines how Greek and Roman material has been...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-11-01
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A classic study of fifteen crucial years in the formation of the modern worldThe Birth of the Modern has established itself as a new kind of historical work - an examination of the way the matrix of the modern world was formed. Paul Johnson, one of today's most popular...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2013-10-31
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'Rachel Cooke shines a new light in an elegantly original way into the 1950s and especially into the role of women' Kate Atkinson'Witty, intelligent, kind and poignant. Cooke exudes love and knowledge of people, gardens, food, art' The TimesIn her apron and rubber...
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Virago
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2013-10-31
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A history of the English people.In this much-acclaimed book, Paul Johnson looks back on two thousand years of English history and provides a radical interpretation of a remarkable people.Provocative and incisive, Johnson applies his journalistic skills to a shrewd...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2013-10-31
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'Quite simply, this is one of the greatest, most riveting books of war letters I have ever read.' Stephen E. Ambrose on War LettersIn 2001 Andrew Carroll authored the US top ten bestseller, War Letters - a unique compilation of extraordinary correspondence from American...
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Ebury Digital
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2013-10-31
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As David Ovason shows, eclipse have always marked turning points in history and in the lives of individuals: the foundation of Rome, the crucifixion, the saving of the live of Christopher Columbus, the foundation of Washington DC, the death of Diana, Princess of Wales...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2013-10-31
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The Indian Ocean remains the least studied of the world's geographic regions. Yet there have been major cultural exchanges across its waters and around its shores from the third millennium B.C.E. to the present day. Historian Edward A. Alpers explores the complex issues...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-10-31
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How was it possible that Greeks often wrote their laws on the walls of their temples, but - in contrast to other ancient societies - never transformed these written civic laws into a religious law? Did it matter whether laws were inscribed in stone, clay, or on a...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-10-31
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Classics in the Modern World brings together a collection of distinguished international contributors to discuss the features and implications of a 'democratic turn' in modern perceptions of ancient Greece and Rome. It examines how Greek and Roman material has been...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-10-31
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A fresh and vigorous appreciation of the intellectual liberation and artistic triumphs of the Italian Renaissance.The development of the first universities from the 12th century onwards, growing wealth and patronage in certain cities, and above all the invention of...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2013-10-31
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Machiavelli is one of the most famous strategists of all time. In this collection he discusses the dangers of conspiracies, and the component parts of an army, vital for gaining and holding power in his day. He also gives advice on tactics and discipline, and explains...
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Penguin
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2013-10-31
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This volume reconstructs the history of documentary practice in pharaonic Egypt from the early Old Kingdom to the major administrative changes imposed by the colonizing regimes of the Graeco-Roman period. Relating administrative and legal practice to the physical...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-10-31
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Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this volume argues that although the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars are often understood as laying the foundations for total war, many eyewitnesses continued to draw upon older interpretative frameworks to make sense of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-10-31
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In early modern English medicine, the balance of fluids in the body was seen as key to health. Menstruation was widely believed to regulate blood levels in the body and so was extensively discussed in medical texts. Sara Read examines all forms of literature, from plays...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-10-31
Collection :
Genders and Sexualities in History
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This book brings together twelve studies that collectively provide an overview of the main issues of live interest in Scottish witchcraft. As well as fresh studies of the well-established topic of witch-hunting, the book also launches an exploration of some of the more...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-10-31
Collection :
Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
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