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In 432 BCE the powerful city-state of Sparta on the peninsula of the Peloponnesus in southwestern Greece declared war on Athens, head of a mighty naval coalition. The war would last until Sparta finally brough...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-13
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In the period from the close of the Napoleonic Wars up through the immediate post-World-War II era the image of Martin Luther was transposed in Germany from a religious reformer and advocate of freedom to a symbol of völkisch nationalist identity, such that with the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-13
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The book is concerned with the history of football and its role in Balkan society.The aim is to analyse and discuss various aspects of football as a social and political phenomenon. Collectively the authors address the following themes: football's political background...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-11-11
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This book examines the search for ‘occult’ or hidden forces in the two centuries after Newton’s theory of gravity. It investigates how history has simplified the work of some of the key figures of the age, presenting them as ‘legitimate’ and removing their more complex...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-09
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This book examines British eugenics from its origins in 1865 to the early 1990s. It considers the two institutions promoting the doctrine: the Galton Laboratory attached to the University of London; and the Eugenics Society. It charts internal and ideological changes...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-09
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This book is a theoretical study of China's maritime development and maritime humanities and social sciences, as well as a study of China's maritime historiography. China is a large country with both land and sea, rich in biodiversity, and the ocean is an important...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-11-09
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In dieser sozialhistorischen Monographie werden die beiden Theologen Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) und Martin Rade (1857–1940) in einer transatlantischen Gegenüberstellung miteinander verglichen, wobei ein besonderer Schwerpunkt auf die politisch-soziale Dimension...
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Springer VS
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2024-11-08
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An extraordinary adventure into South America’s epic history'Absolutely wonderful' DOMINIC SANDBROOK'A luscious, erudite romp ... a tour de force of literary mezcla' ALICE ALBINIA'A magnificent contribution to the Latin American canon' MARIE ARANAIn this sweeping...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2024-11-07
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'A fascinating study of historical mythmaking . . . concise and absorbing'Paul Freedman, author of Out of the East'Lively, original and fascinating'David Abulafia, Literary Review'An enthralling study . . . exceptionally fascinating'Washington PostRodrigo Díaz lived a...
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Sceptre
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2024-11-07
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A New York Times BestsellerA Cosmopolitan Best Nonfiction Book of 2024'Compulsively readable: I found myself dashing through it like a novel' The Wall Street Journal 'Riveting' Financial Times The New York Times bestselling story of the golden age of luxury department...
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August Books
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2024-11-07
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An urgent, indispensable guide to why Taiwan matters – for China, the West and everyone’s future'An erudite primer . . . Brown's mission to educate westerners about Taiwan and why it matters is a critical one, which makes this book well worth reading' SUNDAY TIMES •...
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Penguin
Parution :
2024-11-07
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THE TIMES BOOK OFTHE WEEKNamed one of The Telegraph's 'Best Biographies of the Year 2024'Queen Victoria had forty-two grandchildren but the four Princesses of Hesse were held in her particular favour. After the sudden death of her daughter Alice, Queen Victoria took an...
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Short Books
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2024-11-07
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This book tells the remarkable life of Balthild of Francia (c. 633-80), a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon slave who became a queen of France. Described in contemporary sources as beautiful and intelligent, she rose to power through her marriage to the short-lived King...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-11-06
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 GILDER LEHRMAN LINCOLN PRIZE From the New York Times bestselling presidential biographer comes the greatest untold story of the Civil War: how two American presidents faced off as the fate of the nation hung in the...
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Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2024-11-05
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Historical research into female entrepreneurs has become a burgeoning field in recent years. However, there is still a lack of studies of businesswomen based on their personal documents, and such documents seem to be rare. This book, an appraisal of the nineteenth- and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-05
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Subjugate the Earth traces the biography of a strange idea: the idea that human beings can subdue nature and rule over it. Born in Mesopotamia at the dawn of civilization, the idea of subjugating the Earth was included in the Bible, reached Europe through Christianity,...
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Polity
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2024-11-05
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An intricate portrayal of the early American settlers who came to be known as Scotch-Irish, who through collusion and bloody conflict acted as the tip of the spear for white colonial expansion into Indian lands, embodying what became the American pioneer spirit.
Hard...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-11-04
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“Let the muse of history be silent, and make way for genetics.” Jean Tulard
“Fascinating.” Jean-Noël Fabiani, Professor Emeritus, Chair of the History of Medicine
Until recent years, many mysteries and rumors have surrounded Napoleon. Was Napoleon's body taken by the...
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Max Milo Éditions
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2024-11-04
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The dramatic story of a mutiny aboard an eighteenth-century British ship and how its owners effectively rallied the power of the British Crown to protect their investment and expand their wealth and political power across multiple generations.
In 1768, the British...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-11-04
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This book provides a unique history of the Porcelain Road against the backdrop of Chinese and Western cultural exchanges. Written by one of China’s most influential scholars, it introduces the history of Chinese Porcelain, especially the history of the imperial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-01
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