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Most of us know a bit about what passes for good manners - holding doors open, sending thank-you notes, no elbows on the table. We certainly know bad manners when we see them. But where has this patchwork of beliefs and behaviours come from? How did manners develop? How...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2013-01-17
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In the wake of the attacks on New York and Washington many people believe we have entered a new world, but in this thought-provoking and thorough examination of the history of terrorism we can take comfort from the fact that we have been in this new world before - and...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2013-01-17
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In this brilliant reworking of Lewis Spence's seminal Myths and Legends of the North American Indians, Jon E. Lewis puts the work in context with an extensive new introductory essay and additional commentary throughout the book on the history of Native Americans, their...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2013-01-17
Collection :
Brief Histories
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Militarism has traditionally been regarded as a phenomenon of the political right. As this book demonstrates, however, various groups on the political left in Britain during the years before the Great War were able to accommodate, and even assimilate, militaristic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-01-11
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In July 2011 the Republic of South Sudan achieved independence, concluding what had been Africa's longest running civil war. The process leading to independence was driven by the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement, a primarily Southern rebel force and political movement...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-01-11
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This is the story of saltpeter, the vital but mysterious substance craved by governments from the Tudors to the Victorians as an 'inestimable treasure.'
National security depended on control of this organic material - that had both mystical and mineral properties....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-01-11
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Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots, arson, unemployment,...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-01-10
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Definitive account of the famous 1963 Great Train Robbery - and its aftermath. In the early hours of Thursday 8th August 1963 at rural Cheddington in Buckinghamshire, £2.6 million (£50 million today) in unmarked £5, £1 and 10-shilling notes was stolen from the Glasgow...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2013-01-10
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This is the story of saltpeter, the vital but mysterious substance craved by governments from the Tudors to the Victorians as an 'inestimable treasure.'
National security depended on control of this organic material - that had both mystical and mineral properties....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-01-10
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A Sunday Telegraph and Times Higher Education 'Book of the Week', Deborah Cohen's Family Secrets is a gripping book about what families - Victorian and modern - try to hide, and why.In an Edinburgh town house, a genteel maiden lady frets with her brother over their...
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Penguin
Parution :
2013-01-09
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A pacy, compelling and penetrating account from Wolfson Prize-winning author Norman Stone, that shows World War Two in a fresh new lightThe Second World War is the nightmare that sits at the heart of the modern era - a total refutation of any notion of human progress...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-01-08
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A look at the extensive inequality and individualism in Prince George's County, Maryland, and the wider tobacco south, this book draws on colonial historiography to take a groundbreaking approach and examines the profound impacts of the structure of the international...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-01-07
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This appears to be the book "A History of Capital Punishment," with additional bits about torture thrown in, potentially from another of Dr. Scott's treatises. We're still sorting it out, but you can guess at the contents, and there are a few pictures, though no...
Editeur :
Disruptive Publishing
Parution :
2013-01-07
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The political and social changes that occurred with the transformation of the Roman Empire into a Roman Christian Empire and with the bishops’ new social position as imperial bishops called for new literary representations of the ideal Christian leader. In this...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-01-04
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Community and Communication: Oratory and Politics in Republican Rome brings together nineteen international contributions which rethink the role of public speech in the Roman Republic. Speech was an integral part of decision-making in Republican Rome, and oratory was...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-01-04
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Salem, New England, many dark nights ago.It is a time of spells and shadows, of black magic and blood.And the most famous witch hunt in history is about to begin...Years later, a young woman is found savagely murdered, a pitchfork thrust through her neck, her body...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2013-01-03
ePub
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Classical civilisation, Martin Bernal argues, has deep roots in Afro-Asiatic cultures. But these Afro-Asiatic influences have been systematically ignored, denied, or suppressed since the eighteenth century - chiefly for racist reasons. The popular view is that Greek...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-12-31
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At the beginning of the new millennium, The Future of the Past offers a fresh interpretation of the issues and developments that have shaped our world over the last thousand years. By bringing together the expertise of members of the History Faculty at Cambridge...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-12-31
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Towards the end of 1831, the authorities unearthed a series of crimes at Number 3, Nova Scotia Gardens in East London that appeared to echo the notorious Burke and Hare killings in Edinburgh three years earlier. After a long investigation, three bodysnatchers were put...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-12-31
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