Just who are ‘the Malays’? This provocative study poses the question and considers how and why the answers have changed over time, and from one region to another. Anthony Milner develops a sustained argument about ethnicity and identity in an historical, ‘Malay’...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2011-03-25
Collection : The Peoples of South-East Asia and the Pacific
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In the international bestseller Roma, Steven Saylor told the story of the first thousand years of Rome by following the descendants of a single bloodline. Now, in Empire, Saylor charts the destinies of five more generations of the Pinarius family, from the reign of the...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2011-03-24
Collection : Tom Thorne Novels
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'A compelling storyteller, with a striking talent for historical reconstruction' Mary BeardA epic novel of ancient Rome in the tradition of Edward Rutherford and James Michener.Roma is the story of the ancient city of Rome, from its mythic beginnings as a campsite along...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2011-03-24
Collection : Tom Thorne Novels
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On a cold January evening in 50BC, two strangers enter Rome - one an Egyptian ambassador and the other a eunuch priest. Both are seeking Gordianus the Finder, who has a reputation for solving murders. But the ambassador, a philosopher named Dio, asks for something...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2011-03-24
Collection : Roma Sub Rosa
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In The Favourite, Mathew Lyons strips away the myth - and the self-mythologising - to find Sir Walter Ralegh in the one role in which his contemporaries knew him best: the courtier who could win the attention - and the heart - of Elizabeth I, while also being the 'most...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2011-03-24

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Beginning shortly after Charlemagne's death in 814, the inhabitants of his historical empire looked back upon his reign and saw in it an exemplar of Christian universality - Christendom. They mapped contemporary Christendom onto the past and so, during the ninth, tenth,...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2011-03-24

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Northeast Africa has one of the richest histories in the world, and yet also one of the most violent. Richard Reid offers an historical analysis of violent conflict in northeast Africa through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, incorporating the Ethiopian and...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2011-03-24

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J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz compares the personalities and the respective careers of two of the greatest of the early Christian Fathers, Ambrose and John Chrysostom. While the statesmanlike Ambrose ended his life as a pillar of the Western establishment, Chrysostom, the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2011-03-24

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Enlightened Monks investigates the social, cultural, philosophical, and theological challenges the German Benedictines had to face between 1740 and 1803, and how the Enlightenment process influenced the self-understanding and lifestyle of these religious communities. It...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2011-03-24

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A fascinating study of the contribution of ordinary men and women to Spain's democratic transition of the 1970s. Radcliff argues that participants in neighbourhood and other associations experimented with new practices of civic participation that put pressure on the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-03-23

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A comprehensive history that focuses on the crises of Spain in the late middle ages and the early transformations that underpinned the later successes of the Catholic Monarchs. Illuminates Spain's history from the early fourteenth century to the union of the Crowns of...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2011-03-21
Collection : A History of Spain
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A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction addresses the key topics and themes of the Civil War era, with 23 original essays by top scholars in the field. An authoritative volume that surveys the history and historiography of the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2011-03-21

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A Companion to Franklin D. Roosevelt presents a collection of historiographical essays by leading scholars that provides a comprehensive review of the scholarship on the president who led the United States through the tumultuous period from the Great Depression to the...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2011-03-21

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This volume brings together a distinguished group of international scholars to discuss the major debates in the study of early twentieth-century Europe. Brings together contributions from a distinguished group of international scholars. Provides an overview of current...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2011-03-21

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A Companion to American Immigration is an authoritative collection of original essays by leading scholars on the major topics and themes underlying American immigration history. Focuses on the two most important periods in American Immigration history: the Industrial...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2011-03-21

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The Companion to Latin American History collects the work of leading experts in the field to create a single-source overview of the diverse history and current trends in the study of Latin America. Presents a state-of-the-art overview of the history of Latin America...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2011-03-21

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McCrae's Own was the 'Heart of Midlothian Battalion' mentioned all too briefly in Martin Middlebrook's classic book The First Day on the Somme. Raised in Edinburgh shortly after the start of the Great War, it was perhaps the finest unit in Lord Kitchener's volunteer...

Editeur : Mainstream Digital
Parution : 2011-03-18

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History and biography meet in Tales of Imperial Russia, a study of the late-Romanov Russian Empire, told through the figure of Sergei Witte. Like Bismarck or Gorbachev, Witte was a European statesman serving an empire. He was the most important statesman of...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2011-03-17

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History and biography meet in Tales of Imperial Russia, a study of the late-Romanov Russian Empire, told through the figure of Sergei Witte. Like Bismarck or Gorbachev, Witte was a European statesman serving an empire. He was the most important statesman of...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2011-03-17

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Self-determination, imported into the Middle East on the heels of World War I, held out the promise of democratic governance to the former territories of the Ottoman Empire. The new states that European Great Powers carved out of the multilingual, multiethnic, and...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2011-03-16

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