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Judged only as a World War Two survivor's chronicle, Millie Werber's story would be remarkable enough. Born in central Poland in the town of Radom, she found herself trapped in the ghetto at the age of fourteen, a slave laborer in an armaments factory in the summer of...
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PublicAffairs
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2012-03-27
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In the wake of the Great Migration of thousands of African Americans from the scattered hamlets and farms of the rural South to the nation's burgeoning cities, a New Negro ethos of modernist cultural expression and potent self-determination arose to challenge white...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-03-27
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The term 'consumption' covers the desire for goods and services, their acquisition, use, and disposal.The study of consumption has grown enormously in recent years, and it has been the subject of major historiographical debates: did the eighteenth century bring a...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-03-22
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The term 'consumption' covers the desire for goods and services, their acquisition, use, and disposal.The study of consumption has grown enormously in recent years, and it has been the subject of major historiographical debates: did the eighteenth century bring a...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-03-22
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The Puritan Revolution escaped the control of its creators.The parliamentarians who went to war with Charles I in 1642 did not want or expect the fundamental changes that would follow seven years later: the trial and execution of the king, the abolition of the House of...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-03-22
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The authors in this volume analyze spiritual kinship in Europe from the end of the Middle Ages to the Industrial Age. Uniquely comparing Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox views and practices, the chapters look at changes in theological thought over time as well as in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-03-20
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Léon Gambetta is renowned as a founder of the French Third Republic. This unique study of his correspondence with his lover, Léonie Léon, provides a fascinating insight into their intimate and political partnership. It brings to life Gambetta as lover and politician,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-03-20
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The history of international free trade union organisations during the first two decades of the Cold War is an important but often neglected aspect of the development of post-war labour and liberalism. In this path-breaking book, Rodríguez García fills this void in the...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-03-19
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The Complete Archaeology of Greece covers the incredible richness and variety of Greek culture and its central role in our understanding of European civilization, from the Palaeolithic era of 400,000 years ago to the early modern period. In a single volume, the field's...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-03-19
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A COMPANION TO MARCUS AURELIUS Considered the last of the “Five Good Emperors,” Marcus Aurelius ruled the Roman Empire from ad 161 until his death in 180 – yet his influence on philosophy continues to resonate in the modern age through his Meditations.A Companion to...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-03-16
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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In his famous book A Night to Remember, historian Walter Lord described the sinking of the Titanic as 'the last night of a small town'. Now, a hundred years after her sinking, John Welshman reconstructs the fascinating individual histories of twelve of the inhabitants...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-03-16
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No other land has captured man's imagination quite like Tibet. Hidden away behind the highest mountains on earth, and ruled over by a mysterious God-king, it was for centuries a land forbidden to all outsiders. In this remarkable and ultimately tragic narrative, Peter...
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John Murray
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2012-03-15
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The Royal Navy's dramatic race to save the crew of a trapped Russian submarine.5 August 2005. On a secret mission to an underwater military installation 30 miles off the coast of Kamchatka, Russian Navy submersible AS-28 ran into a web of cables and stuck fast. With 600...
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Orion
Parution :
2012-03-15
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In his famous book A Night to Remember, historian Walter Lord described the sinking of the Titanic as 'the last night of a small town'. Now, a hundred years after her sinking, John Welshman reconstructs the fascinating individual histories of twelve of the inhabitants...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-03-15
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In sixteenth-century England Robert Devereux, 2nd earl of Essex, enjoyed great domestic and international renown as a favourite of Elizabeth I. He was a soldier and a statesman of exceptionally powerful ambition. After his disastrous uprising in 1601 Essex fell from the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-03-15
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Between the years 1918 and1920, influenza raged around the globe in the worst pandemic in recorded history, killing at least fifty million people, more than half a million of them Americans. Yet despite the devastation, this catastrophic event seems but a forgotten...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-03-15
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There are two winners in every presidential election campaign: The inevitable winner when it begins--such as Rudy Giuliani or Hillary Clinton in 2008--and the inevitable victor after it ends. In The Candidate, Samuel Popkin explains the difference between them.
While...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-03-15
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Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World examines how religious and historical memory was fashioned, distorted, preserved, or erased in ancient societies - and what wide-ranging effects these actions had on the historical process. The volume is interested in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-03-15
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In the early 12th century, the Late Bronze Age Hittite empire collapsed during a series of upheavals which swept the Greek and Near Eastern worlds.In the subsequent Iron Age, numerous cities and states emerged in south-eastern Anatolia and northern Syria, which are...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-03-15
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In the early 12th century, the Late Bronze Age Hittite empire collapsed during a series of upheavals which swept the Greek and Near Eastern worlds.In the subsequent Iron Age, numerous cities and states emerged in south-eastern Anatolia and northern Syria, which are...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-03-15
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