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The matriarch of a remarkable African American family, Sally Thomas went from being a slave on a tobacco plantation, to a "virtually free" slave who ran her own business and purchased one of her sons out of bondage. In Search of the Promised Land offers a vivid portrait...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2005-09-01
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Here is a panoramic history of America from 1954 to 1973, ranging from the buoyant teen-age rebellion first captured by rock and roll, to the drawn-out and dispiriting endgame of Watergate.
In America's Uncivil Wars, Mark Hamilton Lytle illuminates the great social,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2005-09-01
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Here is a panoramic history of America from 1954 to 1973, ranging from the buoyant teen-age rebellion first captured by rock and roll, to the drawn-out and dispiriting endgame of Watergate.
In America's Uncivil Wars, Mark Hamilton Lytle illuminates the great social,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2005-09-01
ePub
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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and...
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Penguin
Parution :
2005-08-25
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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2005-08-25
ePub
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Scotland has long had a romantic appeal which has tended to be focused on a few over-dramatized personalities or events, notably Mary Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Highland Clearances - the failures and the sad - though more positively, William Wallace and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2005-08-25
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Scotland has long had a romantic appeal which has tended to be focused on a few over-dramatized personalities or events, notably Mary Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Highland Clearances - the failures and the sad - though more positively, William Wallace and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2005-08-25
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Based on extensive archival research this book situates the Irish civil war in the general process of decolonization in the twentieth century, and explains why divisions over the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 proved so formative in the development of the Irish state. Each...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2005-08-25
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Have newcomers to American cities been responsible for a disproportionate amount of violent crime? Dangerous Strangers takes up this question by examining the incidence of criminal violence among several waves of immigrant/ethnic groups in San Francisco over 150 years....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-08-19
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The dramatic history of planet Earth and the rocky road to understanding the past A probing account of the history of the earth and an introduction to the many eccentric characters that have attempted to understand its origins. Full of fascinating anecdotes about 19th...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2005-08-19
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Sure to be controversial and spur debate, this book presents a powerful analysis of rural change to marketization and globalization. Using Russia as a case study, it examines the how the rural population responded to reform policies during the transition away from...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-08-19
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Improvements in education and economic expansion in the 1950s ensured a range of school-leaving employment opportunities. Yet girls' full acceptance as adult women was still confirmed by marriage and motherhood rather than employment. This book examines the gendered...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-08-17
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This is the first comprehensive biography of Molotov and reflects the range of sources that have become available to historians since the fall of the USSR. It is a commentary on Soviet history. Molotov played his part in revolution, Civil War, Lenin's Russia, Stalin's...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-08-16
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This book provides a comprehensive account of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU), India's first residential university and the result of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya's efforts to establish a Hindu university in the country.This book not only discusses the origins and...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2005-08-12
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Why do we measure time in the way that we do?Why is a week seven days long? At what point did minutes and seconds come into being?Why are some calendars lunar and some solar?
The organisation of time into hours, days, months and years seems immutable and universal,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2005-08-11
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Why do we measure time in the way that we do?Why is a week seven days long? At what point did minutes and seconds come into being?Why are some calendars lunar and some solar?
The organisation of time into hours, days, months and years seems immutable and universal,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2005-08-11
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The demise of the French Communist Party (PCF) has been a recurrent feature of overviews of the Left in France for the past two decades, and yet the Communists survive. This study examines the factors that undermined the position of the PCF as the premier party of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-08-10
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Performing Libertinism in Charles II's Court examines the performative nature of Restoration libertinism through reports of libertine activities and texts of libertine plays within the context of the fraternization between George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, John...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-08-05
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This book highlights the importance of individuals in the shaping of postwar Japan by providing an historical account of how physicists constituted an influential elite. An history of science perspective provides insight into their role, helping us to understand the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-08-05
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The vast crescent of British-ruled territories from India down to Singapore appeared in the early stages of the Second World War a massive asset in the war with Germany, providing huge quantities of soldiers and raw materials and key part of an impregnable global...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2005-08-04
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