Spanning a millennium from the 4th to the 14th century, this book explores the dynamic role of the Ramaya?a and the Mahabharata in shaping the political and socio-cultural landscape of the Deccan. Drawing on a wealth of epigraphic evidence, especially royal prasastis...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2026-02-10

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Das Buch von Wojciech Materski gibt einen Überblick über die Geschichtspolitik Russlands vom fünfzehnten bis zum einundzwanzigsten Jahrhundert. Er zeigt, wie die Jahrhunderte unter den Zaren, die Revolution und der Stalinismus, die Herrschaft der verschiedenen...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2026-02-09

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This book is the first in-depth study of the restoration and conservation field in the National Socialist era. It presents a completely new perspective on the physical manipulation of fine, applied arts and other cultural property, under the regime from 1933 to post war...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2026-02-06

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'A beguiling portrait... reminds us that, ideologically and culturally, Morès anticipates the tragedies of the 20th century, and also those of today' The TimesOne of the most anticipated books of the year according to Financial Times and New StatesmanThe extraordinary...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2026-02-05

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What does it mean to be human in an age of rapid technological advancement? Are we on the brink of transcending our biological limitations, or are we losing touch with the essence of what it means to be human? Emerging technologies challenge our understanding of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2026-02-05

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'A remarkable story, a real page-turner' JOE DUFFY'Powerfully written ... a gripping narrative' FINTAN O'TOOLEThe remarkable story of one man's journey from the edge of death to the heart of a hidden past.Adopted at age three, Paul Cullen always felt like an outsider....

Editeur : Hachette Books Ireland
Parution : 2026-02-05

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The book thoroughly explores postmemory in the Polish historical and political contexts to reveal the multidimensional identity strategies of the second generation of Jews in Poland after the Holocaust, also called the "generation after". Kuchta provides a captivating...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2026-02-05

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Since antiquity, governments have used torture to gather information and determine guilt. But its track record is shaky, to say the least: thinkers from Aristotle to the present have observed that torture does not work, and thinkers from Foucault to Orwell have doubted...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2026-02-04
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The groundbreaking guide to trans history in America, revised and updated for a new political era.Transgender History is the modern classic on transgender life in America since the nineteenth century, encompassing the major movements, writings, and events that shape...

Editeur : Seal Press
Parution : 2026-02-03

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Discover (or rediscover!) America’s history and how it’s shaped the United States today On July 4, 2026, the United States is going to celebrate its semi-quincentennial—the 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. There are going to be fireworks,...

Editeur : For Dummies
Parution : 2026-02-02

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It has been called the year that changed everything, the postwar watershed in which the forces that shaped public and private life erupted, everywhere and all at once--New York, Paris, Prague, Mexico City. Beginning with the Tet Offensive in Vietnam in January and...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2026-02-02

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This book examines the contents of libraries of Western individuals and trading companies in the Mediterranean and India between approximately 1600 and 1750. Relying on extensive archival research, it provides a rare contribution to global book history.The libraries...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2026-01-31

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How do different generations remember the democratic transitions in the post-authoritarian European South fifty years later, and why does that matter? A Collective Biography of Southern European Democratization shows how individual stories, family stories, and the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2026-01-31

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The Pauper Body in England and Wales 1750 to 1914 is based on a unique collection of 8 million words of pauper letters. It features fascinating body biographies of ordinary people living in deepest poverty who used their voices to secure welfare support.The Old and New...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2026-01-31

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While the Armenian Genocide has received significant international recognition, the related experiences of Greeks and Assyrians are largely unknown and overlooked. In an original contribution to genocide studies, Themistocles Kritikakos examines the enduring legacies of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2026-01-30

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Close, close beneath the land I had once rooted myself in and loved, lay a land filled with violence, injustice and hatredOn 22 April 1962 what remains of Göran Rosenberg’s family embark from his native Sweden to make Israel their new home. Transplanted into a nation...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2026-01-29

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A powerful, definitive account of modern Syria and its fateFew countries have had as vexed a political history as Syria. Carved out of the Ottoman empire at the end of the First World War, Syria was then brutally ruled by France. This French ‘mandate’ carved out new...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2026-01-29

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'Superb... Immensely important... This is a tragic story, and Smith tells it magnificently' The TelegraphOne of the most anticipated books of 2026 according to Financial Times and New StatesmanAn extraordinarily atmospheric and powerful history of the world's largest...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2026-01-29

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'full of heroism, greed, piracy, sunken treasure and adventure on the high seas... it's even more remarkable because it's true' ERIC SCHLOSSER New York Times bestselling author of Command and Control and Fast Food Nation'a splendid historical tale that’s been researched...

Editeur : Virgin Digital
Parution : 2026-01-29

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All cultures change – but some aspects change more rapidly than others.  Drawing on extensive experience of various cultures, in this book David Lewis develops a model that differentiates between the rates of change in different aspects of a culture.Culture...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2026-01-28

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