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Explore the rise and fall of a legend.Napoleon: His Life, His Battles, His Empire offers an unprecedented insight into the life of a man labelled conqueror, emperor, lover and tyrant. Thoroughly researched by expert authors, it examines Napoleon's story from humble...
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Welbeck
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2025-05-08
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The late-eighteenth-century 'age of revolutions' has long been identified as a key moment in the gendering of modern democratic politics, one which opened up new debates on the 'rights of women' while often re-affirming the masculinity of the political citizen. In...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-04-28
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Following the defeat of the Paris Commune in May 1871, thousands of Commune militants fled France to avoid imprisonment, deportation, or death. As a result, and due in large part to Britain's liberal asylum policy, around 3500 refugees arrived in Britain in the early...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-04-26
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Der offene Überfall Russlands auf die Ukraine im Februar 2022 hat der westlichen Öffentlichkeit die Wichtigkeit der ukrainischen Kulturgeschichte bewusst gemacht. Es mangelt allerdings an grundlegenden Handbüchern. Auf Deutsch liegt keine ukrainische Literaturgeschichte...
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J.B. Metzler
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2025-04-12
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‘Richly-layered and packed with insight, this riveting account of terrible events tells us as much about the present as it does the past’ Patrick Bishop, author of Paris '44From Peter the Great to Putin, a biography of the city Hitler tried - and failed - to wipe off...
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Penguin
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2025-04-10
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Während der westeuropäische Humanismus im zaristischen Russland nur wenig Resonanz fand, ging er seit den dreißiger Jahren als proletarischer und später als sozialistischer Humanismus in die politische Rhetorik der Sowjetunion ein und wurde...
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Springer VS
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2025-04-07
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The dissolution of the Order of the Temple and the persecution of the Knights Templar are still fresh in people's minds. Why did King Philip the Fair and Pope Clement V set out to destroy them? What secrets did the Knights Templar hold?Just as the Da Vinci Code revealed...
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Max Milo Éditions
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2025-04-03
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Louis XIII's court has long been a fixture of popular culture, thanks in part to the many movie and TV adaptations of Alexandre Dumas's novel, The Three Musketeers. Yet it remains misunderstood, commonly mischaracterized as unimportant, or wholly subservient to the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-02
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This book provides a detailed examination of the questions that preoccupied British alienists throughout the second half of the nineteenth century. Was insanity one disorder with different forms or a set of distinct natural kinds that each had different causes,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-30
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Trust the power of cognitive science to help students to understand more, remember more and feel more confident about their exams.This textbook is guaranteed to make learning more effective. The approach was created by author and teacher Dale Banham, who has amazing...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
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2025-03-24
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From the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century Europe-Elisabeth, empress of Austria, and Eugénie, empress of France-and their efforts to rule amid the...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2025-03-20
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The First World War transformed modern politics. No example demonstrates this more powerfully than the enactment and use of emergency powers by all belligerents. Wartime governments passed extensive emergency legislation that allowed them to pursue their war efforts...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-19
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This book provides the first detailed historical account of British public opinion and party policy towards European integration from 1973 (the year in which the UK joined the European Community) to 2016 (the year in which the UK voted to leave the European Union). It...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-18
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Until recently the Russian Federation used to be one of the largest markets for outbound travel. Among Russians’ favourite destinations were cities that used to be part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and are now located in the independent nation-states...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-14
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The later Middle Ages and the early modern period were important and overlapping historical moments for both Venice and the Ottoman Empire, yet the two--both the periods themselves and the Republic and Empire more generally--have often been considered in isolation....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-12
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Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siècle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-11
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«This unique volume takes the reader on an extraordinary journey through flights of the political and social imagination across Iberia and Latin America from the conquest of the Americas, via insurgent and reactionary modern movements, to the Cold War and on to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-03-06
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Mehr als drei Jahrzehnte nach dem Fall der Berliner Mauer und der deutschen Einheit lebt die DDR weiter – nicht nur in der (lebendigen) Erinnerung von Zeitzeug:innen und Erb:innen, sondern auch in vielfältigen kulturhistorischen, künstlerischen, literarischen und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2025-03-06
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During the long nineteenth century, British women reframed the masculine paradigm of the Grand Tour. They created a feminist travel gaze, intentionally or unintentionally, that differed from that of male peers. Unlike their brothers, who went for personal edification,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-05
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The First World War transformed modern politics. No example demonstrates this more powerfully than the enactment and use of emergency powers by all belligerents. Wartime governments passed extensive emergency legislation that allowed them to pursue their war efforts...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-03
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