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Sexual Revolutions explores the sexual revolution of the late twentieth century in several European countries and the USA by engaging with themes from sexual freedom and abortion to pornography and sexual variation. This work discusses the involvement of youth,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-05-13
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By the early 20th century, Gypsies in Germany and Italy were pushed outside the national community and subjected to the arbitrary whims of executive authorities. This book offers an account of these exclusionary policies and their links to the rise of nationalism,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-05-09
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When the Nazis seized power in Germany in 1933 they promised to create a new, harmonious society under the leadership of the Führer, Adolf Hitler. The concept of Volksgemeinschaft - 'the people's community' - enshrined the Nazis' vision of society'; a society based on...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-05-08
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'On leaving the plane I can only say I felt very lonely, except that the sky was full of bullets coming upwards. Fortunately, it wasn’t long before my feet hit the ground with a thud. Almost as soon as my feet touched the ground, I was to find that I had landed directly...
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Ebury Digital
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2014-05-08
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A masterful account of the Hapsburg Empire's bumbling entrance into World War I, and its rapid collapse on the Eastern Front The Austro-Hungarian army that attacked Russia and Serbia in August 1914 had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying...
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Basic Books
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2014-04-29
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Jan Morris's magnificent book celebrates Wales and all things Welsh. Written as a deeply personal study, it reflects the rich bilingual literature and folklore of Wales, the buildings and wonderfully varied landscapes, the national character and humour, the historical...
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Penguin
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2014-04-24
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Language and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia critically examines the uses of language in post-Soviet media and political texts between 1998 and 2007. It will be of interest to academics and researchers in the fields of media studies, discourse analysis, corpus...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-03-27
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Women and the Counter-Reformation in Early Modern Münster examines how women from different social backgrounds encountered the Counter-Reformation. The focus is on Münster, a city in the north of Germany, which was exposed to powerful Protestant influences which...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-03-27
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The history of Parliament is the history of the United Kingdom itself. It has a cast of thousands. Some were ambitious, visionary and altruistic. Others were hot-headed, violent and self-serving. Few were unambiguously noble. Yet their rowdy confrontations, their...
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Transworld Digital
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2014-03-27
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The study of Irish history, once riven and constricted, has recently enjoyed a resurgence, with new practitioners, new approaches, and new methods of investigation.The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History represents the diversity of this emerging talent and...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-03-27
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The study of Irish history, once riven and constricted, has recently enjoyed a resurgence, with new practitioners, new approaches, and new methods of investigation.The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History represents the diversity of this emerging talent and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-03-27
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The Russian Empire presented itself to its subjects and the world as an Orthodox state, a patron and defender of Eastern Christianity. Yet the tsarist regime also lauded itself for granting religious freedoms to its many heterodox subjects, making 'religious toleration'...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-03-21
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Das Buch vermittelt ein umfassendes Bild von den ebenso aufwendigen wie glanzvollen Krönungszeremonien Josephs II. zum Römischen König. Dabei kommt nicht nur die Vergangenheit zur Sprache, sehr wohl wird auch der Gegenwartsbezug hergestellt. Zahlreiche Darstellungen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-19
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A Companion to Mediterranean History presents a wide-ranging overview of this vibrant field of historical research, drawing together scholars from a range of disciplines to discuss the development of the region from Neolithic times to the present. Provides a valuable...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-03-18
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
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For the last 800 years coroners have been important in England's legal and political landscape, best known as investigators of sudden, suspicious, or unexplained death. Against the background of the coroner's role in historic England, this book explains how sudden death...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
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2014-03-18
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Although shattered by war, in 1945 Britain and France still controlled the world's two largest colonial empires, with imperial territories stretched over four continents. And they appeared determined to keep them: the roll-call of British and French politicians,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-03-13
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Although shattered by war, in 1945 Britain and France still controlled the world's two largest colonial empires, with imperial territories stretched over four continents. And they appeared determined to keep them: the roll-call of British and French politicians,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-03-13
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For a revolutionary generation of Irishmen and Irishwomen - including suffragettes, labour activists, and nationalists - imprisonment became a common experience. In the years 1912-1921, thousands were arrested and held in civil prisons or in internment camps in Ireland...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-03-07
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The Northmen’s Fury tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left their Scandinavian homelands to conquer larger parts of France, Britain and Ireland. It recounts the epic voyages that took them across the...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2014-03-06
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At the end of the First World War, Germany appeared to have lost everything: the lives of millions of soldiers and civilians, control over borderland territories, and, above all, a sense of national self-worth in the international political arena. But it also lost...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-03-06
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