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'The glories of the Age of Anne' -- the union of England and Scotland to form 'this island of Britain', and its establishment as a European and a global power -- were the achievements of two men above all: Queen Anne's captain-general, John Churchill, the first Duke of...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-29
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Die Studie befasst sich mit dem oberrheinischen Ausläufer des sonst eher im Nordseeraum wahrgenommenen Friesenhandels.Die friesischen Handelsaktivitäten als Vorgänger des Hansehandels annehmend analysiert der Autor die Handelsorganisation der Friesen fern ihrer...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-06-28
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How could the newly authorized space shuttle help in the U.S. quest to build a large research station in Earth orbit? As a means of transporting goods, the shuttle could help supply the parts to the station. But how would the two entitles be physically linked?Docking...
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Springer
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2017-06-27
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This study of prostitution addresses issues of female agency and experience, as well as contemporary fears about sexual coercion and the forced movement of girls/women, and police surveillance. Rather than treating prostitutes solely as victims or problems to be solved,...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-23
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Seeking Sanctuary explores a curious aspect of premodern English law: the right of felons to shelter in a church or ecclesiastical precinct, remaining safe from arrest and trial in the king's courts. This is the first volume in more than a century to examine sanctuary...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-23
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The Historians of Angevin England is a study of the explosion of creativity in historical writing in England in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, and what this tells us about the writing of history in the middle ages.
Many of those who wrote history...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-23
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The Historians of Angevin England is a study of the explosion of creativity in historical writing in England in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, and what this tells us about the writing of history in the middle ages.
Many of those who wrote history...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-16
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The City of London and Social Democracy examines the relationship between the financial sector and the state in post-war Britain.
The key argument made in Aled Davies's study is that changes to the financial sector during the 1960s and 1970s undermined the state's...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-15
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The Littlehampton Libels tells the story of a poison-pen mystery that led to a miscarriage of justice in the years following the First World War. There would be four criminal trials before the real culprit was finally punished, with the case challenging the police and...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-09
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This book investigates marriage and divorce in the nineteenth-century European territories of the Russian Empire. It uncovers the way a peasant community employed unsanctioned marital behaviour, such as cohabitation and bigamy, among others, in order to respond to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-08
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This book is a detailed and original look at the radical reorganisation of French heavy industry in the turbulent period between the establishment of the Vichy regime in 1940 and the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the forerunner to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-08
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How do you remember the summers of your childhood? For Laurie Lee they were flower-crested,...
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Vintage Digital
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2017-06-08
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THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE. Take a whistle-stop journey through time to discover the remarkable people, places, artefacts and events that make up the story of Britain through the ages. Discover the stomach-churning scope of Henry VIII’s...
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Summersdale
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2017-06-08
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This book examines how the Cold War had a far-reaching impact on theatre by presenting a range of current scholarship on the topic from scholars from a dozen countries. They represent in turn a variety of perspectives, methodologies and theatrical genres, including not...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-05
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The City of London and Social Democracy examines the relationship between the financial sector and the state in post-war Britain.
The key argument made in Aled Davies's study is that changes to the financial sector during the 1960s and 1970s undermined the state's...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-03
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Jean Bodin was a figure of great importance in European intellectual history, known as a jurist, associate of kings and courtiers in sixteenth-century France, and author of influential works in the fields of constitutional and social thought, historical writing,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-02
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The Littlehampton Libels tells the story of a poison-pen mystery that led to a miscarriage of justice in the years following the First World War. There would be four criminal trials before the real culprit was finally punished, with the case challenging the police and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-02
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The appearance and development of a "Four Nations" slant on British history over the last two decades has in many ways pointed up "the Union" as an essential component of the national history or histories of the British Isles. "Four Nations" historians, however, have...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires François-Rabelais
Parution :
2017-06-01
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GRAAT
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From an award-winning scholar, this definitive history reveals the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolution. “McMeekin writes muscular history. His Russian Revolution grips the reader.” —Niall Ferguson In The Russian...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2017-05-30
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A New York Times bestseller, this definitive history of Ukraine is “an exemplary account of Europe’s least-known large country” (Wall Street Journal).As Ukraine is embroiled in an ongoing struggle with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2017-05-30
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