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Markets of Pain offers a sweeping history of the business of licit opium--following cultivators, merchants, scientists, and policymakers--and shows how this potent crop reshaped global trade, medicine, and geopolitics.
For centuries, opium has been a source of both...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-03-16
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My previous book in the Exile Studies series, Vanished Lands: Memory and Postmemory in North American Lithuanian Diaspora Literature, explored the collective intergenerational trauma of the past. This companion volume, Heritage, Connection, Writing: Conversations with...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2026-03-16
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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 Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Domesticated uses novel archaeological methods to...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-03-13
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This volume, the third in A General History of Chinese Wushu, offers a historically substantiated and analytically focused account of the development of Wushu from 1900 to 1949, a period characterized by accelerated political and social transformation. Integrating...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-03-13
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‘Portable City: Modern Glasgow’s Transatlantic Connections is a gem of a book. Like the modern city at the centre of its multi-faceted gaze, this wonderful volume offers us a highly original set of chapters on modern Glasgow's many different faces and facets. From an...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2026-03-12
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How could a barely literate peasant from Siberia determine the fate of the world? Undoubtedly, the so-called 'mad monk' Rasputin bewitched Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra. Yet their strange and scandalous relationship conceals a riddle , one that casts an...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2026-03-12
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Body Size in Early Modern Germany uncovers the significance of fatness and thinness in early modern German society and culture. It explores how early modern people conceived of fat and thin bodies, in terms of both the cultural meanings attached to body size and...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-03-11
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Thinking with Dogs in Roman Britain: Lived Experience, Inequality, and Ritual in a Roman Province argues that in Roman Britain, where little written evidence survives, some aspects of the past are more visible when we look not at people but instead focus on the dogs...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-03-11
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Victorian Architecture presents a new and refreshing overview of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century architecture in Britain and the wider British world.
TheVictorian period witnessed the beginnings of what today would be described as the global architectural...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-03-11
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In this collection of essays, James Howard-Johnston evaluates historical sources from across the entire existence of the Byzantine empire. Byzantium was peculiarly well endowed for the writing of history, given a relatively high degree of literacy, a large governing...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-03-06
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Governing Islam in Austria and Germany argues that the foundations of contemporary policies towards Islam in Austria and Germany are deeply rooted in colonial practices from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author Farid Hafez traces how colonial knowledge and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-03-06
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A vivid and visceral portrayal of the most famous naval battle in history, focusing on the human cost of war, by a brilliant military historian'A striking success' The Times'Fresh, original and brilliantly vivid' Telegraph'The best all-round book on the subject yet'...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2026-03-05
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Why did democracy emerge in ancient Greece? How did Spain conquer South and Central America? And what caused the fall of the Berlin Wall?Part of DK’s indispensable Big Ideas series, this fully revised and updated new edition of The History Book answers these questions...
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Dk
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2026-03-05
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Der vorliegende Sammelband beinhaltet Beiträge deutscher, polnischer und ukrainischer Forscher:innen, die Erinnerungsorte und -kulturen in interdisziplinärer Perspektive beschreiben, um diese für einen internationalen Austausch im Hinblick auf interkulturelle...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2026-03-05
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In 1815, the Russian vessel Rurik set off on a three-year voyage through the Pacific and Arctic oceans in a quest to find the world's most elusive geographic feature, the Northwest Passage. Financed by a wealthy Russian count and commanded by a fame-seeking captain, the...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-03-04
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This volume explores the multiple perceptions of Hellenic antiquity in modern Greece, a central yet contested aspect of modern Greek national identity ever since the foundation of the Greek state in 1830. How did the various disciplines of modern Greek classical...
Editeur :
École française d'Athènes
Parution :
2026-03-04
Collection :
Mondes méditerranéens et balkaniques (MMB)
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Histories of International Law in China: All Under Heaven? offers a groundbreaking exploration of China's engagement with international law over the past two centuries. Written by an interdisciplinary group of international law scholars and legal historians, it provides...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-03-04
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From the award-winning author of American Sirens and A Thousand Naked Strangers comes a real-life thriller about the most daring rescue in air-medical history. JULY 2014. Two American medical volunteers who joined the fight against the deadliest Ebola outbreak in world...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2026-03-03
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Dive into the riveting world of revolutionary France with Hilaire Belloc’s insightful biography, «Robespierre: A Study.» This compelling work captures the essence of one of history’s most enigmatic figures, Maximilien Robespierre. Renowned for his influence during the...
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Metvox Publications
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2026-03-03
Collection :
Metvox Histoire
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This open access book will provide an overview of predominantly geographical and historical discourses connected with mountain landscapes in Montenegro and Slovenia. Very few countries, even considerably larger ones, can boast the mountain landscape diversity found in...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-28
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