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This study of Japanese political culture from c. 1940 to 2009 challenges standard periodizations of «postwar» Japan, arguing that the postwar period began, much later than previously argued, when a culture of pacifism developed. We can see evidence of this in feature...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-07-04
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This book provides a study of the American anti-imperialist movement during its most active years of opposition to US foreign policy, from 1898 to 1909. It re-evaluates the movement's motives and operations throughout these years by evaluating the way in which Americans...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-07-03
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Wirtschaftliche und diplomatische Beziehungen Mexikos zu den Inseln Ostasiens während der frühen Kolonialzeit waren eine entscheidende Episode in der Globalisierung. In diesem Buch werden wenig bekannte schriftliche und bildliche Quellen veröffentlicht, die vor allem...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-03
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Avec ses quelque trois millions de morts civils et militaires, et ses innombrables destructions matérielles, la guerre dite du Vietnam reste à ce jour une des plus grandes tragédies humaines depuis 1945. Une réflexion sur les conditions politiques, diplomatiques et...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2012-07-03
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North of Los Angeles - the studios, the beaches, Rodeo Drive - lies a sparsely populated region that comprises fully one half of Los Angeles County. Sprawling across 2200 miles, this shadow side of Los Angeles is in the high Mojave Desert. Known as the Antelope Valley,...
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Bold Type Books
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2012-07-03
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Frontiers of Pleasure calls into question a number of influential modern notions regarding aesthetics by going back to the very beginnings of aesthetic thought in Greece and raising critical issues regarding conceptions of how one responds to the beautiful. Despite a...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-07-03
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The Myth of the Blitz was nurtured at every level of society. It rested upon the assumed invincibility of an island race distinguished by good humour, understatement and the ability to pluck victory from the jaws of defeat by team work, improvisation and muddling...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-06-30
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The Imperial War Museum holds a vast archive of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most nationalities who saw action during WW2. As in the highly-acclaimed Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Max Arthur and his team of researchers spent hundreds...
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Ebury Digital
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2012-06-30
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In this comprehensive and practical guide to the countryside, passionate and hugely knowledgeable countryman Alan Titchmarsh explores the heritage of rural Britain, its landscapes and wildlife, its traditions, customs and crafts.He'll look at the beauty of chalk...
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Bbc Digital
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2012-06-30
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We discover what civil war, revolution and counter-revolution actually felt like from inside both camps. The contours of the war take shape through the words of the eyewitnesses. The atmosphere of events is vividly recaptured. And though the lived experience of the...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-06-30
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This skilfully compiled anthology draws on the phenomenally successful Forgotten Voices series. Lest We Forget brings together first-hand recollections from the Great War to the Second World War, to vividly illustrate the impact of war. Told in the actual words of the...
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Ebury Digital
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2012-06-30
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This remarkable memoir is one of the most celebrated documents to emerge from the tumult of America’s Revolutionary War. The ordinary and yet exceptional experiences of a young soldier in Washington’s army are given a new life in this fourth edition, sensitively edited...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-06-29
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Missionary Discourse examines missionary writings from India and southern Africa to explore colonial discourses about race, religion, gender and culture. The book is organised around three themes: family, sickness and violence, which were key areas of missionary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-06-29
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This is the first examination of the Israeli and Egyptian peace process between 1967-1973, which highlights the rise and fall of Soviet influence after the Six Day War and explores how the increasing importance of America's political leadership affected the region.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-06-28
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The Southern Caribbean was the last frontier in the Atlantic world and the most contested region in the Caribbean during the Age of Revolution. As well as illuminating this little-understood region, the book seeks to complicate our understanding of the Caribbean, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-06-28
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A new and complete history of Zululand, and its destruction at the hands of the British in 1879.This book is not only a complete history of the Zulus but also an account of the way the British won absolute rule in South Africa.In the early decades of the nineteenth...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-06-28
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Michael Freund (1902-1972) war der erste Professor für «Wissenschaft und Geschichte der Politik» an der Universität Kiel und gehörte damit zur einflussreichen Gründervätergeneration der westdeutschen Politikwissenschaft nach 1945. Sowohl Freunds universitäres und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-28
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Chicago is home to the third-largest concentration of Puerto Ricans in the United States, but scholarship on the city rarely accounts for their presence. This book is part of an effort to include Puerto Ricans in Chicago's history. Rúa traces Puerto Ricans' construction...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-06-27
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A hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for women's suffrage, laws protecting the environment, an end to lynching, or a federal minimum wage was considered a utopian dreamer or a dangerous socialist. Now we take these ideas for granted -- because the radical...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
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2012-06-26
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