Turncoats and Renegadoes is the first dedicated study of the practice of changing sides during the English Civil Wars. It examines the extent and significance of side-changing in England and Wales but also includes comparative material from Scotland and Ireland. The...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-11-15

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In mid-nineteenth-century Britain, there existed a dominant discourse on what it meant to be a man –denoted by the term 'manliness'. Based on the sociological work of R.W. Connell and others who argue that gender is performative, Robert Hogg asks how British men...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-11-14

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Spaniards in the Colonial Empire traces the privileges, prejudices, and conflicts between American-born and European-born Spaniards, within the Spanish colonies in the Americas from the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries. Covers three centuries of Spanish colonial...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2012-11-13
Collection : Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
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An illustrated history of the pastoral nomadic way of life in Mongolia, this book examines the many challenges that Mongolian herders continue to face in the struggle over natural resources in the post-socialist free market era.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-11-12

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Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Feminist Origins of the Arthurian Legend provides the first feminist analysis of both the Arthurian section of The History of the Kings of Britain and The Life of Merlin .

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-11-12

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From Morocco to Iran and the Black Sea to the Red, Water on Sand rewrites the history of the Middle East and North Africa from the Little Ice Age to the Cold War era. As the first holistic environmental history of the region, it shows the intimate connections between...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2012-11-09

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SOON TO BE STREAMED ON NETFLIXBy the Baillie Gifford prize-winning and No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FIVE'A fascinating expose of the seamy side of eighteenth century life' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Rubenhold's pages practically reek with smelly, pox-ridden Georgian...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2012-11-08

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The Iranian Revolution of 1979 was a turning-point in modern history.The destruction of the Iranian monarchy not only upset the political order in the Middle East and brought on a quarter-century of warfare, but introduced a new way to look at history. In Days of God...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2012-11-08

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Winter takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists and thinkers who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter. We learn how literature heralds the arrival of the middle class; how snow science leads to existential...

Editeur : Riverrun
Parution : 2012-11-08

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By the bestselling winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2019 for THE FIVE: THE WOMEN KILLED BY JACK THE RIPPERThis is the book that inspired ITV'S hit drama HARLOTS.If you ever wondered what Jane Austen's Mr Darcy and his fellows got up to on their numerous trips to...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2012-11-08

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From the bestselling author of One Minute to Midnight, this is the riveting story of the last six months of World War II, when the hopeful Allied situation inspired by the Yalta Conference descended into the open conflict that would lead to the Cold War.When FDR,...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2012-11-08

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Bestselling author Ben Elton's most personal novel to date, Two Brothers transports the reader to the time of history's darkest hour.Berlin 1920Two babies are born.Two brothers. United and indivisible, sharing everything. Twins in all but blood.As Germany marches into...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2012-11-08

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Lyn Smith's Young Voices is a poignant and compelling look at children's lives in Britain during the Second World War.During the Second World War, British children were spared the humiliation and fear of enemy occupation. None the less, they endured six years of...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2012-11-08

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London during the Blitz was a time of hardship, heroism and hope.For Gillian Lynne – a budding ballerina – it was also a time of great change as she was evacuated from war-tornLondon to a crumbling mansion, where dance classes took place in the faded ballroom.Life was...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-11-08

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«The book offers an opportunity to look at the genesis of national identity as it was constructed in a specific stateless and multicultural context through cultural transfer and the impact of the contemporary media. It explores Polish reactions to the Italian...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2012-11-06

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Charleston follows the lives, loves and shifting fortunes of the unforgettable Bell family from the American Revolution through the turbulent years to the Civil War and the savage defeat of the Confederacy. Delving into American history as only he can, John Jakes paints...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2012-11-01

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In the late nineteenth century, Newport, Rhode Island - with its giant marble mansions, lavish dinner parties, and vicious social climbing - is a summer playground of the very rich. Into this rarefied world comes infamous railroad mogul and robber baron Sam Driver. He...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2012-11-01

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Georgia 1864: General Sherman's army marches inexorably from Atlanta to the sea. In its path: the charming old city of Savannah, where the Lester ladies - attractive widow Sara and her feisty twelve-year-old daughter Hattie - struggle to save the family rice plantation....

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2012-11-01

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A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious death, this book is perfect for lovers of Downton Abbey and Brideshead Revisited.On 21st April 1940 John the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's wealthiest men, ended his days lying on a makeshift...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2012-11-01

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Photos filled with the forlorn faces of hungry and impoverished Americans that came to characterize the desolation of the Great Depression are among the best known artworks of the twentieth century. Captured by the camera's eye, these stark depictions of suffering...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2012-11-01

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