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The story of the reign of Charles I - through the lives of his people.
Prize-winning historian David Cressy mines the widest range of archival and printed sources, including ballads, sermons, speeches, letters, diaries, petitions, proclamations, and the proceedings of...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-04-23
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Hans-Carl von Schlick war bis 1918 Seeoffizier der Kaiserlichen Marine. Als Kommandant des Schlachtschiffes Derfflinger erlebte er die November-Revolution. In der Weimarer Republik ging er in die Privatwirtschaft. 1928 wurde er arbeitslos und verlor in der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-04-20
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The collapse of socialist regimes across Southeastern Europe changed the rules of the political game and led to the transformation of these societies.The status of women was immediately affected.The contributors to this volume contrast the status of women in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-04-14
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The 'Cominternians' who staffed the Communist International in Moscow from its establishment in 1919 to its dissolution in 1943 led transnational lives and formed a cosmopolitan but closed and privileged world.The book tells of their experience in the Soviet Union...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-04-07
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When Maria Mills flees London with only a suitcase and her young daughter, she is intent on a new life. To hide from her past, she has carefully constructed a story based on a lie even her child believes is true.It is 1965 and Dublin is a city on the cusp of change. As...
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Hachette Books Ireland
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2015-04-02
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This is the inside story of Elizabeth I's inner circle and the crucial human relationships which lay at the heart of her personal and political life. Using a wide range of original sources -- including private letters, portraits, verse, drama, and state papers -- Susan...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-03-27
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This is the inside story of Elizabeth I's inner circle and the crucial human relationships which lay at the heart of her personal and political life. Using a wide range of original sources -- including private letters, portraits, verse, drama, and state papers -- Susan...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-03-26
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Drawing upon a wide range of unpublished sources, including files from the recently-released Foreign and Commonwealth Office 'migrated archive', Fighting EOKA is the first full account of the operations of the British security forces on Cyprus in the second half of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-03-19
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Drawing upon a wide range of unpublished sources, including files from the recently-released Foreign and Commonwealth Office 'migrated archive', Fighting EOKA is the first full account of the operations of the British security forces on Cyprus in the second half of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-03-19
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This third and final volume of Michael Watts's study of dissent examines the turbulent times of Victorian Nonconformity, a period of faith and of doubt. Watts assesses the impacts of the major Dissenting preachers and provides insights into the various movements, such...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-03-19
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Accounting for Affection examines the multifaceted nature of early modern motherhood by focusing on the ideas and strategies of Roman aristocratic mothers during familial conflict. Illuminating new approaches to the maternal and the familial employed by such women, it...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-13
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This edited collection focuses on how the ancient past of the city of Naples has been invented, shaped, transmitted, and received in literature, art, and material culture since the time of the city's foundation. Adopting a chronological approach, chapters examine...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-03-12
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Der Sammelband gibt eine Antwort auf die in Politik und Wissenschaft verbreitete Totalitarismustheorie, die den deutsch-sowjetischen Nichtangriffsvertrag vom 23.8.1939 als Verständigung zweier wesensverwandter Diktaturen über die Aufteilung Europas und der Welt...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-09
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A vivid and human glimpse into Europe's borderlands as they emerged from Soviet rule - back in print after nearly 20 years'In this superb book, in which one senses the spirit of Franz Kafka and Bruno Schulz, the dramatic world of the Eastern borderlands comes to life'...
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Penguin
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2015-03-05
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Common Wealth,Common Good is a study of the political discourse of the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It argues that the Polish-Lithuanian political tradition was preoccupied during this period with moral...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-03-05
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When Martin Luther mounted his challenge to the Catholic Church, reform stimulated a range of responses, including radical solutions such as those proposed by theologians of the Anabaptist movement. But how did ordinary Anabaptists, men and women, grapple with the...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-03-05
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In Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes, Virginia Nicholson tells the story of women in the 1950s: a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal and two-piece swimsuits caused mass alarm.Turn the page back to the mid-twentieth century, and discover a world peopled by...
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Penguin
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2015-03-05
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This Handbook brings together leading historians of the events surrounding the English revolution, exploring how the events of the revolution grew out of, and resonated, in the politics and interactions of the each of the Three Kingdoms - England, Scotland, and Ireland....
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OUP Oxford
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2015-03-05
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This Handbook brings together leading historians of the events surrounding the English revolution, exploring how the events of the revolution grew out of, and resonated, in the politics and interactions of the each of the Three Kingdoms - England, Scotland, and Ireland....
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OUP Oxford
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2015-03-05
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This work explores the reasons for the Allied intervention into Russia at the end of the Great War and examines the military, diplomatic and political chaos that resulted in the failure of the Allies and White Russians to defeat the Bolshevik Revolution.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-02-26
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