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The Silver Empire is the first comprehensive account of how the Holy Roman Empire created a common currency in the sixteenth century.
The problems that gave rise to the widespread desire to introduce a common a currency were myriad. While trade was able to cope...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-02-16
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This work is a systematic study of Bal Gangadhar Tilak's thought, focusing on his views on 'communal' relations within the Indian polity, on caste and reform in Hindu society, and on political ethics regarding violence and non-cooperation. The Thought of Bal Gangadhar...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-02-16
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The lethality of conflicts between insurgent groups and counter-insurgent security forces has risen markedly since the Second World War just as those of conventional, or inter-state wars have declined. For several decades, conflicts within states rather than between...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-02-16
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Tudor Networks of Power is the product of a groundbreaking collaboration between an early modern book historian and a physicist specializing in complex networks. Together they have reconstructed and computationally analysed the networks of intelligence, diplomacy, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-02-16
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In London in 1984 two very different cities came into conflict, one rooted in radical politics and the other shaped by Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative government. This was a city poised between two eras and identities, remoulded in conflicting ways by social...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-02-16
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In this book, Farhaan Wali offers an historical investigation of how the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir rose and fell in Britain. Although the book focuses on the UK, it is contextualized in the globalised nature of the group.In other words, Hizb ut-Tahrir was...
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Springer
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2024-02-15
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The years between 1550 and 1700 saw significant changes in the nature and scope of local government: sophisticated information and intelligence systems were developed; magistrates came to rely more heavily on surveillance to inform 'good government'; and England's first...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-02-14
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A celebrated historian recounts Hubert Humphrey’s role as a liberal hero of twentieth-century America Hubert Humphrey was liberalism’s most dedicated defender, and its most public and tragic sacrifice. As a young politician in 1948, he defied...
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Basic Books
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2024-02-13
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This book offers an original and comprehensive study of the memory of the Rogo di Primavalle, a fatal arson attack on the home of a far-right family on 16 April 1973. Perpetrated by members of the militant left group Potere Operaio, this was the first...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-13
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This book argues for an approach based on values when trying to make sense of shifts and changes that occurred in French politics during the last four decades. Values play a pivotal role in structuring political views and policy preferences. They influence citizens’...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-02-12
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This book examines social transformation during the Tang-Song period by focusing on the emergence and development of the "society of moneyed elite" in ancient China. Specifically, the author tries to shed light on three important theoretical questions. First, how to...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-02-09
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In the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, nearly one-third of the population of today’s Slovenia permanently settled in countries around the world. Many more were traveling back and forth, searching for work to ensure the survival of the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-02-09
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Explore the forces and movements shaping contemporary Mexican politics and society In Mexico’s Unscripted Revolutions: Political and Social Change Since 1958, distinguished historian Stephen Lewis offers a well-argued—and provocative—presentation of Mexico’s recent...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2024-02-09
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Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
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*Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024**Shortlisted for the Cundill Prize*A story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the masterful and definitive account of the epic revolution that changed the course of the 20th century.'Astounding . . . history at its...
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Vintage Digital
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2024-02-08
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This book analyses the British government’s use of cultural diplomacy in South Africa from 1960 to 1994. Previously, scholarship on UK-South African relations has focussed mainly on political, economic, or military links; this book makes an important and original...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-07
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Winner, 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History
Winner, 2025 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize
Publishers Weekly Starred Review
Library Journal Starred Review
Booklist Top Ten History Books of 2024
The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most extraordinary...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-02-07
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This book looks at literary historiography in Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland, focusing on how seismic shifts in state politics and ideology after 1990 changed the writing of national literary histories in these countries. While Russia saw a return to a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-07
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Child abuse casts a long shadow over the history of childhood. Across the centuries there are numerous accounts of children being beaten, neglected, sexually assaulted, or even killed by those closest to them. This book explores this darker side of childhood history,...
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Polity
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2024-02-07
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Long recognized as a cultural watershed and touchstone of modernity, the 1893 Chicago World's Fair (World’s Columbian Exposition) was the site of the first large-scale international library of writing by women. The result of years of planning and cooperation...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-06
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For fans of Oppenheimer, a riveting investigation into the modern nuclear weapons landscape. Nuclear weapons are, today, as important as they were during the Cold War, and some experts say we could be as close to a nuclear catastrophe now as we were at the height...
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Bold Type Books
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2024-02-06
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