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In this book, Morgan Golf-French offers a new interpretation of late Enlightenment German historiography in relation to ideas about race, culture, and politics. By paying close attention to the institutions within which these ideas were articulated, Golf-French reveals...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-04-16
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The Wallachian revolution of 1848 was exactly the kind of event that European statesmen feared in the decades after the Congress of Vienna of 1815. Unlike most of the mid-century revolutions, which began as spontaneous manifestations of popular grievances, the...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-04-16
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This book tells the story of Naples as a city shaped by migration, creativity, and cultural resistance. It reframes Naples within global conversations about identity, mobility, and belonging, offering a South-centric perspective that challenges dominant...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-04-15
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In the aftermath of civil war, often the most daunting task is to reconcile former opponents who continue to demand justice--or even vengeance--for wartime suffering. Remembering the Wars of Religion offers a historical perspective on the painful legacy of civil war by...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-04-15
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From the mid-seventeenth to early eighteenth century, a wide network of English-speaking men, women, and children took up residence in the Ottoman Maghrebi regencies of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli. There they formed expatriate communities, engaged with the societies...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-04-15
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This book explores the unique trajectory of urbanization in South Asia, from the earliest beginnings of civilization to the present-day mega cities, the life in the cities with its associated issues of inequality, struggle, management of scarce resources, migration and...
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Springer
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2026-04-15
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This landmark edited collection investigates parks as places of pivotal significance in the social, cultural, architectural and economic history of the Balkan capitals. Parks are not simply places of recreation and retreat: they are a palimpsest where memory and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2026-04-14
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In this fascinating book, the first ever published on The Patty Duke Show (1963-66), Caryl Flinn and Dana Polan examine the significance of this classic US sitcom within popular culture and within American society at the time. Child acting sensation Patty Duke plays the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-04-14
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Watchman Nee (1903-1972) was a Chinese minister who promoted a unique set of Christian teachings. They included the idea that people were created with a human spirit, distinct from the human soul, and that in this spirit, people could enjoy a dynamic, transcendent...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-04-14
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Intrigue, espionage, and deception. The truth behind 8,000 once top-secret files, so explosive their authors never dreamed they would be released.
Fakers reveals the rise and fall of the mavericks running Britain's Cold War forgery empire. Their secret mission was...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-04-14
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Abu al-A`la Mawdudi (1903-1979) was a major Muslim scholar-activist of the Indian subcontinent. His writings, which deal with an extraordinarily wide range of subjects, and the political organization he founded, Jama`at-i Islami (Islamic Party), to give practical...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-04-12
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Since the end of World War II, the United States has been the world's pre-eminent military power. Yet it has suffered as much failure as it has experienced victory. The bloody stalemate in Korea, defeats in Vietnam and Afghanistan, and difficulties fighting Iraqi...
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Polity
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2026-04-10
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'Shocking. Gripping. Unputdownable. You thought you knew the Cambridge Five? Think again!Their level of treachery beggars belief, yet the British establishment's incompetence and cover-up is equally unbelievable.' DAMIEN LEWIS, author of THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2026-04-09
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A brilliant memoir from the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable ManuscriptsChristopher de Hamel is one of the world’s best-known scholars and writers on illuminated manuscripts. He was mostly brought up in the south of New Zealand, where his family moved when...
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Penguin
Parution :
2026-04-09
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A detailed account of the siege and fall of Constantinople in 1453, a watershed year that closed the book, once and for all, on the Roman Empire and confirmed for Europeans their worst fears about an expanding Ottoman Empire.
Anthony Kaldellis offers a new narrative of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-04-09
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During the eighteenth century, Spanish statesmen pursued a set of ambitious imperial reforms that thoroughly remade conceptualizations of empire. They compared well-ordered empires to harmonious machines and devised a comprehensive plan to liberalize and integrate the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-04-08
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This book makes Aram Andonian's The Great Crime available for English language readers. The Great Crime served as the first systematic documentation of the Armenian Genocide, introducing the memoir of an Ottoman bureaucrat that contained handwritten copies of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-04-08
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Prison construction was among the most important infrastructural changes brought about by British rule in India. It introduced India to a radically new system of punishment based on the spatial experience of architecture as confinement. Unlike prisons in Europe and the...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-04-08
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The deeds (and misdeeds) of aristocrats, past and present, never lose their appeal, whether on our screens or in real life. But who are they, and why do they matter?
Forming Aristocracy is the story of the great aristocratic lineages of Europe: families such as the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-04-08
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A gripping story that reveals what happened to a small American town when an influential white nationalist group relocated its headquarters there, illustrating how radical changes in American politics impact our psyches and divide our communities. “A timely and...
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Bold Type Books
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2026-04-07
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