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Our sense of history shapes how we think about ourselves. One of the distinguishing features of the left in Britain is that it holds to a remorselessly bleak and miserabilist view of our recent political history -- one in which Margaret Thatcher's election in 1979...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-02-02
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During the Second World War, people arrived in Britain from all over the world as troops, war-workers, nurses, refugees, exiles, and prisoners-of-war-chiefly from Europe, America, and the British Empire. Between 1939 and 1945, the population in Britain became more...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-02-02
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For more than a century, scholars have believed that Italian humanism was predominantly civic in outlook. Often serving in communal government, fourteenth-century humanists like Albertino Mussato and Coluccio Saltuati are said to have derived from their reading of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-02-02
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Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey explores the history of organized crime in Turkey and the roles which gangs and gangsters have played in the making of the Turkish state and Turkish politics. Turkey's underworld, which has been at the heart of...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-01-26
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Our sense of history shapes how we think about ourselves. One of the distinguishing features of the left in Britain is that it holds to a remorselessly bleak and miserabilist view of our recent political history -- one in which Margaret Thatcher's election in 1979...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-01-26
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This is a devastating book. It is matter-of-fact, makes no attempt to score political points, does not attempt to solicit sympathy for its protagonist and yet is among the most chilling indictments of war I have ever read. Everybody, in particular every woman ought to...
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Virago
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2018-01-25
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Virago Modern Classics
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'A pretty awesome present for the feminist in your life' - Caroline Criado Perez, OBE, author of Do It Like a WomanAt the last count, the Blue Plaque Guide honours 903 Londoners, and a walking tour of these sites brings to life the London of a bygone era. But only 111...
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Robinson
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2018-01-18
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From the years leading up to the First World War to the aftermath of the Second, Europe experienced an era of genocide. As well as the Holocaust, this period also witnessed the Armenian genocide in 1915, mass killings in Bolshevik and Stalinist Russia, and a host of...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-01-12
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The charm of Madrid is elusive, but for those who know how to find it, Madrid has magic. Its magic can be found in the shadow cast over the present by the past. In this Traveller's Reader, a city that was once the seat of power for perhaps the most ambitious political...
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Robinson
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2018-01-11
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Traveller's Reader
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An eminent scholar unearths the captivating history of the two-lobed heart symbol from scripture and tapestry to T-shirts and text messages, shedding light on how we have expressed love since antiquity The symmetrical, exuberant heart is everywhere: it gives shape to...
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Basic Books
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2018-01-09
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This book is a study of children, their books and their reading experiences in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain. It argues for the importance of reading to early modern childhood and of childhood to early modern reading cultures by drawing together...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-01-09
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Provides an all-encompassing look at the history of Russia, Central Asia, and Mongolia Beginning with the breakup of the Mongol Empire in the mid-thirteenth century, Volume II of this comprehensive work covers the remarkable history of “Inner Eurasia,” from 1260 up to...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2018-01-08
Collection :
Blackwell History of the World
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Henry VIII fought many wars, against the French and Scots, against rebels in England and the Gaelic lords of Ireland, even against his traditional allies in the Low Countries. But how much did these wars really affect his subjects? And what role did Henry's reign play...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-01-03
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The first major study of the early Reformation and the Polish monarchy for over a century, this volume asks why Crown and church in the reign of King Sigismund I (1506-1548) did not persecute Lutherans. It offers a new narrative of Luther's dramatic impact on this...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-12-29
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The first major study of the early Reformation and the Polish monarchy for over a century, this volume asks why Crown and church in the reign of King Sigismund I (1506-1548) did not persecute Lutherans. It offers a new narrative of Luther's dramatic impact on this...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-12-29
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Henry VIII fought many wars, against the French and Scots, against rebels in England and the Gaelic lords of Ireland, even against his traditional allies in the Low Countries. But how much did these wars really affect his subjects? And what role did Henry's reign play...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-12-29
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Was ist an dem Blick der Autorin auf Russland anders? In diesem Buch geht es der Autorin darum, gegenwärtige Lebensformen, Denkweisen, Geschichtsbilder, Werte, Selbstbilder, Fremdbilder und russisch-deutsche bzw. deutsch-russische Wahrnehmungen zu erkennen, sie aber vor...
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Springer VS
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2017-12-27
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This book examines the impact of rumour during the French Revolution, offering a new approach to understanding the experiences of those who lived through it. Focusing on Paris during the most radical years of the Jacobin republic, it argues that popular rumour helped to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-12-19
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Diese Monographie bietet erstmalig eine zusammenfassende Darstellung der gesamten österreichisch-ungarisch-albanischen Beziehungen in Wissenschaft, Politik, Wirtschaft, Militär und Kultur und einen gemäß Pierre Bourdieus Feldtheorie erfolgten Versuch der Rekonstruktion...
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Springer VS
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2017-12-05
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