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The Cold War in the Third World explores the complex interrelationships between the Soviet-American struggle for global preeminence and the rise of the Third World. Those two distinct but overlapping phenomena placed a powerful stamp on world history throughout the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-04-24
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Nineteenth-Century Europe offers a much-needed concise and fresh look at European culture between the Great Revolution in France and the First World War. It encompasses all major themes of the period, from the rising nationalism of the early nineteenth century to the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-19
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In this stimulating new text, renowned military historian Jeremy Black unpacks the concept of culture as a descriptive and analytical approach to the history of warfare. Black takes the reader through the limits and prospects of culture as a tool for analyzing war,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-16
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This book provides an accessible and up-to-date account of the rich military history of the nineteenth century. It takes a fresh approach, making novel links with conflict and coercion, and moving away from teleological emphases. Naval developments and warfare are...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-16
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This book provides an accessible and up-to-date account of the rich military history of the nineteenth century. It takes a fresh approach, making novel links with conflict and coercion, and moving away from teleological emphases. Naval developments and warfare are...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-16
Collection :
War and Conflict Through the Ages
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Revolution brings tragedy, terror and heroism. Using historical texts and eye witness accounts as well as his own interviews, Erik Durschmied shares his unique understanding of revolutionary events that have shaped the course of history.His curiosity and amazement are...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-04-11
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A dramatic blow-by-blow account of the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English fleet - a tale of daring and disaster on the high seas by one of our best narrative historians.After the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558, Protestant England was beset by the hostile...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2013-04-11
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A vivid, concise account of the German Empire, from its proclamation at Versailles in 1871 to its final dissolution, also at Versailles, in 1919.The period of almost half a century from 1871 to 1919 was one of huge upheaval, restlessness and change in Germany. Situated...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2013-04-11
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Nuclear Weapons Counterproliferation: A New Grand Bargain proposes a new legal and institutional framework for counterproliferation of nuclear weapons. Its proposal is designed to remedy the widely acknowledged breakdown of the architecture of theNuclear...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-04-08
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From Oliver Bullough, the acclaimed author of the Orwell Prize-shortlisted, Let Our Fame Be Great, a study - part travelogue, part political analysis - of a nation in crisisThe Last Man in Russia is a portrait of the country like no other; a quest to understand the soul...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-04-04
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In 1940 the world was on a knife-edge. The hurricane of events that marked the opening of the Second World War meant that anything could happen. For the aggressors there was no limit to their ambitions; for their victims a new Dark Age beckoned. Over the next few months...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-04-04
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The emergence of Greenpeace in the late 1960s from a loose-knit group of anti-nuclear and anti-whaling activists fundamentally changed the nature of environmentalism--its purpose, philosophy, and tactics--around the world. And yet there has been no comprehensive...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-04-03
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Hardly a day passes without journalists, policymakers, academics, or scientists calling attention to the worldwide scale of the environmental crisis confronting humankind. While climate change has generated the greatest alarm in recent years, other global...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-04-02
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An insightful and gripping account of the largest airborne operation in history. In September 1944, the river Rhine was a serious barrier to the advancing Allied armies in the West who were intent on charging Berlin and ending the war. Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2013-03-28
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The soldiers of the SAS are among the most ruthless and efficient in the world. Their daring and determination have made Britain's top-secret military unit one of the most feared and respected special forces in existence.True Stories of the SAS is a history of the deeds...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2013-03-28
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This is the story of the Anglo-American amphibious assault and subsequent battle on the Italian west coast at Anzio which was launched in January 1944 in a bold attempt to outflank the formidable German defences known as the 'Gustav Line'. ANZIO - THE FRICTION OF WAR...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2013-03-28
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Although 1989 and 1991 witnessed more spectacular events, 1990 was a year of embryonic change in Russia: Article 6 of the constitution was abolished, and with it the Party's monopoly on political power. This fascinating collection of documentary evidence crystalises the...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2013-03-28
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Though more than half a century has passed since the Spaish Civil War began in 1936, it is still the subject of intense controversy. What was it that roused left wing sympathisers from all over the world to fight for a cause for which their governments would not give...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-03-28
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A Woman in Charge reveals the true trajectory of Hillary's astonishing life and career. From a staunchly Republican household and apparently idyllic Midwestern girlhood - her disciplinarian father here revealed as harsher than she has acknowledged - we see the shaping...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2013-03-15
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Prussian discipline is legendary. Central to debates about modern German history is the view that an oppressivePrussian state cast a shadow on the development of civil society. In particular, historians have seen the absence of a revolution in the eighteenth century as...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-03-14
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