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'The First World War from a refreshingly unfamiliar angle . . . masterly' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'Compelling . . . The Eastern Front is essential reading' Margaret Macmillan, Financial Times‘A masterwork . . . This is the history of the Eastern Front I’ve...
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Penguin
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2024-03-28
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This is the first book-length study into crusading against Christians, examining this complex phenomenon from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries and across numerous regions, from France to Russia and from southern Italy to the Baltic. Whilst the crusades are an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-03-27
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This book challenges commonplace assertions that the humanities are presently undergoing a severe crisis as a result of a longstanding decline. Rather than hearkening to the widespread, reactive call for a last-ditch defense of the humanities under attack from an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-03-27
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Capra and Graziosi intervene in current debates about classics and its relation to revolutionary ruptures, nationalist movements, and identity politics today. They begin with The Neoplatonists, an explicit love story posing as the work of an imaginary ancient Greek...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-03-27
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The book presents the life of Louis Wolowski (1810–1876). Born into a family of Frankist Jews in Warsaw, Wolowski participated in the Polish insurrection of 1830–1831 and later settled in France. Specializing in political economy, Wolowski became a professor at the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-03-27
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A dramatic narrative of the six months leading up to President Paul von Hindenburg's decision to appoint Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933. Takeover brings to life the secret meetings, political manoeuvrings, and shifting loyalties involved in...
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Headline
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2024-03-26
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„Eine Frau muß Geld und ein eigenes Zimmer haben, um schreiben zu können“, lautete die Forderung Virginia Woolfs aus dem Jahr 1929. Der Band setzt sich mit den verschiedenen Formen auseinander, die dieses Thema in den fiktionalen und nichtfiktionalen Texten von...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-03-25
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Animals and Science Fiction is the first edited collection to be published focusing on the intersection of animal studies and science fiction studies. It offers a broad range of theoretical approaches and primary source texts—including novels, short stories,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-03-22
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The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery and, after a four-year struggle to become an independent slaveholding republic, died as emancipation dawned. Between Fort Sumter to Appomattox, Confederates bought and sold thousands African American men,...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-03-22
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‘A page-turner about page-turners’ Janice Hallett‘The perfect piece of armchair detection’ Ruth Ware‘Hugely entertaining and unexpectedly gripping’ London Review of BooksA true detective story from the age of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers: the literary crime...
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Vintage Digital
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2024-03-21
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Il presente volume raccoglie sedici contributi che analizzano le costanti Studies on Periodicals and Newspapers e le variabili storiche e di genere dello speciale rapporto tra la riflessione e la discussione sulla lingua e i giornali cartacei ed elettronici pubblicati...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-03-20
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What was Christianity like for ordinary people between the turn of the millennium and the coming of the Black Death?What changed and what continued, in their experiences, habits, feelings, hopes, and fears? How did they know themselves to be Christians, and indeed to be...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-03-20
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A foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves over the course of the country's history.Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates Jr's legendary Harvard course in African American Studies, The Black...
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Penguin
Parution :
2024-03-19
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This book advocates for the necessity of recovering the value of utopias as political projects that open new channels of action. The criticism of modern political utopias is based on the supposed impossibility of creating for the future because there is no longer a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-03-19
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This book provides a unique account of the financial and political history of the South African War by analysing the organisation and operations of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), the oldest existing stock exchange in the African continent. Identifying...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-03-19
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The histories of Europe and Africa are closely intertwined. At times, this closeness has been emphasized, at other times, suppressed and denied. Since the nineteenth century, European imperial powers have carved up the continent of Africa among themselves, drawing...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-03-19
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Maria W. Stewart was a trailblazing political philosopher and social reformer, who migrated from the Connecticut of her birth, south to Baltimore and then Washington, D.C. on the eve of the Civil War. Stewart was a free-born African American who became a teacher,...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-03-19
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How rhetoric—the art of persuasion—can help us navigate an age of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and political acrimony The discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for over two thousand years. Only recently has its perceived...
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Basic Books
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2024-03-19
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