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The Knights Templar are one of the most secretive and powerful religious orders in history: for over two centuries they were the elite fighting force of the Crusades. Highly trained, and adhering to a strict chivalric code, their success on the battlefield brought them...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2013-08-29
ePub
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This book examines British scientific and antiquarian travels in the "North," circa 1790–1830. British perceptions, representations and imaginings of the North are considered part of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century processes of British self-fashioning as a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-08-28
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The Art of Conversation is a major contribution to the social history of language - a relatively new field which has become the focus of lively interdisciplinary debate in recent years. Drawing on the work of sociolinguists and others, Burke uses their concept while...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-08-26
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"Going round the world" is an idea that has excited people ever since it was realized that the earth was a sphere. The appeal has something to do with encompassing all the known environment and exploring the unknown, not only on the surface of the planet but within...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2013-08-22
Collection :
Brief Histories
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Drawing on seventeen years of research, thousands of recently declassified files, and dozens of interviews, Ultimate Sacrifice re-creates and, in many ways, rewrites the crucial period of our history leading up to November 22 1923. In the process, this groundbreaking...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2013-08-22
ePub
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The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E.The essays collected in this volume speak to interpretative challenges common to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-08-22
ePub
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The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E.The essays collected in this volume speak to interpretative challenges common to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-08-22
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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Oresteia Trilogy (Unabridged English Translation)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The trilogy known as The Oresteia, consists of the three tragedies Agamemnon, The Libation...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2013-08-22
epub sans DRM
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''My aunt, listening to the Prime Minister's speech, remarked of "our greatest orator", "He's no speaker, is he?"' -diary of teacher M.A. Pratt, 11 Nov. 1942.
The popular story of Churchill's war-time rhetoric is a simple one: the British people were energized and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-08-22
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''My aunt, listening to the Prime Minister's speech, remarked of "our greatest orator", "He's no speaker, is he?"' -diary of teacher M.A. Pratt, 11 Nov. 1942.
The popular story of Churchill's war-time rhetoric is a simple one: the British people were energized and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-08-22
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Love has a history. It has meant different things to different people at different moments and has served different purposes.
This book tells the story of love at a crucial point, a moment when the emotional landscape changed dramatically for large numbers of people....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-08-22
ePub
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Love has a history. It has meant different things to different people at different moments and has served different purposes.
This book tells the story of love at a crucial point, a moment when the emotional landscape changed dramatically for large numbers of people....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-08-22
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Music has been neglected by imperial historians, but this book shows that music is an essential aspect of identity formation and cross-cultural exchange. It explores the ways in which rational, moral, and aesthetic motives underlying the institutionalization of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-08-20
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The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic is now widely recognized as the most devastating disease outbreak in recorded history. This cultural history reconstructs Spaniards' experience of the flu and traces the emergence of various competing narratives that arose in response to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-08-20
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Written from an African American perspective, this work depicts the presentation of the gospel message to the first-century community of Colossae, their reception of it comparative to the presentation and reception of the same to the enslaved Africans of North America...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-08-20
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Since its inception, NASA has participated in over 4,000 international projects, yet historians have almost entirely neglected this remarkable aspect of the agency's work. This groundbreaking work is the first to trace NASA's history in a truly international context,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-08-20
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This groundbreaking study offers a rare window into the history of slavery in the Sudan, with particular attention to the relationships between slaves and masters. Thoroughly documented, it provides valuable context to current issues of global concern and combats...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-08-20
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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Decameron: 3 Different Translations by John Florio, John Payne and J.M. Rigg in 1 eBook" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2013-08-20
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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Decameron: The Classic Translation of John Payne" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
John Payne's translation of The Decameron was originally published in a private printing for The...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2013-08-20
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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Decameron: The Original English Translation by John Florio" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
John Florio 's translation of The Decameron was originally published in London in...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2013-08-20
epub sans DRM
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