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The British coal industry no longer exists and yet the figure of the coal miner lives on in the British cultural imagination. In feature films and documentaries, miners are typically portrayed as proletarian traditionalists working in a dying industry. Taking this...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-10-18
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This book explores the extraordinary story of Jewish POWs in German captivity during the Second World War - extraordinary because of the contrast between Germany's genocidal policy towards Jews on one hand, and its relatively non-discriminatory treatment of Jewish POWs...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-10-18
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John II Komnenos was born into an empire on the brink of destruction, with his father Alexios barely preserving the empire in the face of civil wars and invasions. A hostage to crusaders as a child, married to a Hungarian princess as a teenager to win his father an...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-18
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This book offers a new account of the connections between seventeenth century English history and the history of the rest of the world. Eschewing nationalist narratives, it demonstrates how greater engagement with the world beyond Europe shaped signature aspects of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-10-18
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Explore and celebrate Korean culture in America through photographs and interviews by award-winning photographer Emanuel Hahn. "Photographer Hahn's animated and vivid debut . . . is exceptional." —Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review Since the...
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Running Press Adult
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2023-10-17
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The Middle East, often referred to as the cradle of the three monotheisms, is saturated with symbolism. Situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, it is a land marked by the rich confluence of religions and peoples. It has also been the focal point of...
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Polity
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2023-10-16
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The southwestern borderland in imperial China covers the area encompassing present-day Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou, southwestern Sichuan, and the northern part of the Indochina Peninsula, once under the Central Plains dynasty’s rule. For more than two millennia, China...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2023-10-16
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This volume compiles writings by and about Mary Ann Shadd Cary, a nineteenth-century Black radical feminist, an abolitionist, suffragist, and one of the first Black woman newspaper editors in North America.
Mary Ann Shadd Cary includes letters, newspaper articles,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-10-13
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Without language, not much else would exist: no writing, no computer – as a matter of fact, no technical or medical progress that make our lives less painful, and easier indeed; but also not some horrors that characterize our world. In fact, language is what defines...
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Springer VS
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2023-10-12
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The year the once all-conquering German army was finally defeated.By the summer of 1944, Germany was in crisis.The Allied landings had forced another battle arena upon an army already fighting on the vast Eastern front.The July bomb plot attempt on Hitler's life made...
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Canelo
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2023-10-12
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"A deeply thoughtful, gripping and scrupulous book told in Sayarer's trademark style from the saddle and the roadside" CAROLINE EDENBy a winner of the Stanford Dolman Award for Travel Writing"The best travelogues should make you question your preconceptions of a place...
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Maclehose Press
Parution :
2023-10-12
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**An International Bestseller**Fake news about the past is fake history.Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms?Did medieval people think the world was flat?Did Napoleon shoot the nose off the Sphinx?*Spoiler Alert* The answer to all those questions is no.From the famous...
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Virgin Digital
Parution :
2023-10-12
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To read most histories of art, you might be forgiven for supposing that great artists are superhuman, and the knowledge of different movements, periods and styles is essential to truly appreciate art.It's time to look at art in a new way.THE POWER OF ART delves into the...
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The Bridge Street Press
Parution :
2023-10-12
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Dilly's Story
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This book gathers contributions on the topic of astrology in the West during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from 1914–2022. It is the first collection exclusively devoted to a period that has been mostly neglected by historians of astrology, who have mostly...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-11
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When America began to emerge as a world power at the end of the nineteenth century, Italy was a young nation, recently unified. The technological advances brought about by electricity and the combustion engine were vastly speeding up the capacity of news, ideas, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-10
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History of Universities XXXVI/2 contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-10
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Exposing the U.S. government's biggest-kept secret: a fifty-eight-year UFO cover-up.Top Secret/Majic is the result of nuclear physicist and renowned UFO investigator Stanton T. Friedman's twenty-one year search for the truth about the mysterious Operation...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2023-10-10
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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
Parution :
2023-10-10
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Ireland was England's oldest colony. Making Empire revisits the history of empire in Ireland—in a time of Brexit, 'the culture wars', and the campaigns around 'Black Lives Matter' and 'Statues must fall'—to better understand how it has formed the present, and how it...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-10
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What ambitions lay behind Roman provincial governance? How did these change over time and in response to local conditions? To what extent did local agents facilitate and contribute to the creation of imperial administrative institutions? The answers to these questions...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-09
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