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Dowd investigates literature's engagement with the gendered conflicts of early modern England by examining the narratives that seventeenth-century dramatists created to describe the lives of working women.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-04-13
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As the Allied invasion of Italy wore on through the summer of 1943, Mussolini was unexpectedly overthrown and imprisoned by his own people in a remote mountaintop resort. Hitler was furious when he heard the news and swore to rescue his ally and friend. On September 12,...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-04-13
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In December 1944, the Ardennes Forest on the German-Belgium border was considered a "quiet" zone where new American divisions, fresh from the States, came to get acclimated to "life at the front." No one in Allied headquarters knew that the Ardennes had been personally...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2009-04-13
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At some point during the inhumanly cold Himalayan winter straddling 1965 and 1966, a peculiar collection of box-shaped objects -- one sprouting a six-foot, insect-like antenna -- plummets nine thousand feet down the sheer flanks of a remote peak. Ripped from its...
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Basic Books
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2009-04-13
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The nineteenth-century middle-class ideal of the married woman was of a chaste and diligent wife focused on being a loving mother, with few needs or rights of her own.The modern woman, by contrast, was partner to a new model of marriage, one in which she and her husband...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-04-10
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Since time immemorial Europe had been dominated by nobles and nobilities. In the eighteenth century their power seemed better entrenched than ever. But in 1790 the French revolutionaries made a determined attempt to abolish nobility entirely. 'Aristocracy' became the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-04-09
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Since time immemorial Europe had been dominated by nobles and nobilities. In the eighteenth century their power seemed better entrenched than ever. But in 1790 the French revolutionaries made a determined attempt to abolish nobility entirely. 'Aristocracy' became the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-04-09
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This exploration of the wide variety of censorship that has shaped theatrical performance in twentieth and twenty-first century Britain examines the unpredictable outcomes of censorship, deep-seated anxieties about the performative influence of the stage, and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-04-08
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Raoul Wallenberg is remembered for his humanitarian activity on behalf of the Hungarian Jews at the end of World War II, and as the Swedish diplomat who disappeared into the Soviet Gulag in 1945. This book examines how thirty-one Wallenberg monuments, in twelve...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-04-08
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What is America? Is it a hegemonic superpower, composed of ruthlessly selfish capitalists? Or is it a land of hope and glory, a shelter for the huddled masses, and a beacon of freedom and enlightenment? The definition of this complex nation has been debated...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2009-04-07
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This companion comprises 28 essays by international scholars offering an analytical overview of the development of Russian history from the earliest Slavs through to the present day. Includes essays by both prominent and emerging scholars from Russia, Great Britain,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-06
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
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This companion comprises 28 essays by international scholars offering an analytical overview of the development of Russian history from the earliest Slavs through to the present day. Includes essays by both prominent and emerging scholars from Russia, Great Britain,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-06
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
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This short, comprehensive collection of primary documents provides an indispensable introduction to Mexican American history and culture.
Includes over 90 carefully chosen selections, with a succinct introduction and comprehensive ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-03
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A succinct, up-to-date overview of the history of slavery that places American slavery in comparative perspective. Provides students with more than 70 primary documents on the history of slavery in America Includes extensive excerpts from slave narratives, interviews...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-03
Collection :
Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History
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In December 2007, Stephen Grey, a Sunday Times reporter, was under fire in Afghanistan as British and US forces struggled to liberate the Taliban stronghold of Musa Qala. Taking shelter behind an American armoured Humvee, Grey turned his head to witness scenes of...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-04-02
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The universal jubilation that greeted Nelson Mandela's inauguration as president of South Africa in 1994 and the process by which the nightmare of apartheid had been banished is one of the most thrilling, hopeful stories in the modern era: peaceful, rational change was...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-04-02
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A sweeping narrative of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.The Fall of the Roman Empire has been a best-selling subject since the 18th century. Since then, over 200 very diverse reasons have been advocated for the collapse of the western half of the Roman Empire....
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2009-04-02
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A vivid and compelling account of the final thirteen days of the Romanovs, counting down to the last, tense hours of their lives.On 4 July 1918, a new commandant took control of a closely guarded house in the Russian town of Ekaterinburg. His name was Yakov Yurovsky,...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2009-04-02
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Born and brought up in rural Suffolk, Ronald Blythe was fascinated by the rhythms of country life and the stories of the people he had known since childhood. In this perceptive and moving evocation of his home, the villagers speak candidly about their lives, from the...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-04-02
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Communication is essential to our lives, but how often do we stop to think about where the words we use have come from? Have you ever thought about which words in English have been borrowed from Arabic, French or Dutch? Try admiral, landscape and marmalade just for...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2009-04-02
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