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In the spirit of previous volumes, Damien Lewis reveals the untold stories of the war's most daring and audacious escapes as executed by the world's most famous fighting force, the SAS.Reaching back into the earliest origins of the SAS legend, and Operation Colossus,...
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Quercus
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2026-05-07
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This book offers new ways of understanding the past glory of the Majapahit empire from the present-day perspective through re-interpretations of the existing data, research of new data and findings, and syntheses of various results of previous studies. The book...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-05-06
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Taking Robert O. Keohanes neoliberal institutionalism as its theoretical keynote, this book aims to delve deep into the theoretical, policy, and practical aspects of global climate governance over these thirty years, providing readers with a comprehensive and...
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Springer
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2026-05-06
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The Promise of Ukraine: A Conceptual History of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-05-06
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This is the first full-length study of the relevance of the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) to the works of Samuel Beckett (1906-1989). Since the publication of his correspondence between 2009 and 2016, Beckett's interest in Sade has become more widely known and the...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-05-05
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This open access book examines intelligence organization in sixteenth-century Sweden. The specific aim is to examine the intelligence networks organized in Sweden during the reigns of Gustav Vasa, Erik XIV and Johan III. The study explores the operation of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-05-04
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Mexico matters. It is one of the most important emerging market economies in the world and arguably the most important country in the everyday lives of Americans. Yet what do we really know about it?By revealing the unwritten rules of behavior that drive Mexico's...
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Polity
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2026-05-04
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Argos was one of the most important cities in ancient Greece—if we follow Isocrates and Strabo. However, it has generally been studied as a secondary participant compared to its more important neighbours like Athens and Sparta. This work placesArgos centre-stage and...
Editeur :
École française d'Athènes
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2026-05-04
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Suppléments du BCH
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The newest volume in the acclaimed Oxford History of the United States series, Contested Continent recounts the origins of "America" and how it came to birth the United States.
The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-05-01
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The surprising story of how the plain black suit became a symbol of masculinity, democracy, and modernity.
How did black suits become so ubiquitous? Why has men's business clothing been so plain for the last 250 years? How did a style adopted by the Founding Fathers to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-05-01
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Nach Sanary-sur-Mer, einer kleinen Mittelmeergemeinde zwischen Toulon und Marseille, flüchtete nach Hitlers Machtergreifung ein großer Teil der Berliner, Prager und Münchner Intelligentia. Die Präsenz von Bertolt Brecht, Lion Feuchtwanger, Franz...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2026-05-01
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Thomas Asbridge’s remarkable new book reveals the global impact of humanity’s greatest natural disaster, and the terrible human cost of this calamity.'An up-to-the-hour work of scholarship that is at the same time a page turner... Asbridge's definitive biography of...
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Penguin
Parution :
2026-04-30
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'Sebestyen reminds us once again why he is one of the best historians writing today' ANDREW ROBERTS, author of Churchill: Walking with DestinyIn the years after the First World War, Berlin was - as Vladimir Nabokov described it - a place 'of dangerous glamour and...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2026-04-30
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Der Band untersucht die kartographische Darstellung des Gebiets der ehemaligen siebenbürgisch-sächsischen Stühle (eines der wichtigsten historischen Siedlungsgebiete der deutschen Minderheit im heutigen Rumänien) zwischen dem Ende des Mittelalters und dem Jahr 1780. Es...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2026-04-29
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In the nineteenth century, France embarked on the colonization of whole swathes of Africa and Asia. What drove this policy, and what methods did it use to establish and enforce French domination? What disruptive effects did this have on the colonized societies, and what...
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Polity
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2026-04-29
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"Mysterious Flames" engages with Umberto Eco’s work from a new perspective, by tracing his intellectual development through the lens of Cultural Studies, drawing in particular on the thought of Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall. It offers the first detailed analysis of...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2026-04-28
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In 1907, a lesbian feminist vegetarian stepped into male history. She was one of nineteen female Finnish politicians, the first women in the world to be elected to the ruling body of any country. These women sparked a chain reaction that would ignite across the globe....
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Polity
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2026-04-27
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Matthias Wissmann kann auf eine äußerst erfolgreiche politische Laufbahn zurückblicken: In jungen Jahren bei der Jungen Union, dann als Abgeordneter des Deutschen Bundestags und schließlich als Mitglied des Bundeskabinetts unter Helmut Kohl –...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-04-26
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This book provides a timely examination of the role that consumer credit has played in maintaining inequality, at a time when the gap between the rich and the rest is increasing in the political west. It does so through the prism of the Australian department store,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-04-26
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Dieses essential bietet auf knappem Raum die ganze Geschichte des russisch-ukrainischen Krieges, seine Ursachen, seinen Verlauf und seine Folgen.
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2026-04-26
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