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This book examines British scientific and antiquarian travels in the "North," circa 1790–1830. British perceptions, representations and imaginings of the North are considered part of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century processes of British self-fashioning as a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-08-28
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Love has a history. It has meant different things to different people at different moments and has served different purposes.
This book tells the story of love at a crucial point, a moment when the emotional landscape changed dramatically for large numbers of people....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-08-22
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Love has a history. It has meant different things to different people at different moments and has served different purposes.
This book tells the story of love at a crucial point, a moment when the emotional landscape changed dramatically for large numbers of people....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-08-22
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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Decameron: 3 Different Translations by John Florio, John Payne and J.M. Rigg in 1 eBook" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one...
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e-artnow
Parution :
2013-08-20
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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Decameron: The Classic Translation of John Payne" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
John Payne's translation of The Decameron was originally published in a private printing for The...
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e-artnow
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2013-08-20
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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Decameron: The Original English Translation by John Florio" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
John Florio 's translation of The Decameron was originally published in London in...
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e-artnow
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2013-08-20
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Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-08-16
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During the 1960s, the physical landscape of Dublin changed more than at any time since the eighteenth century. In this period, the government began to invest in town planning, new opportunities arose for the country's architects, and the old buildings of the core began...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-08-01
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Using original documents, the Allied Occupation of southern Italy, particularly Sicily and Naples, is illustrated by examining crime and unrest by Allied soldiers, deserters, rogue troops and Italian civilians from drunkenness, theft, rape, and murder to riots,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-07-30
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The war between Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union that raged between 1941 and 1945 was the ultimate confrontation between the two great totalitarian ideologies of the twentieth century. Unprecedented in the scale of the destruction that it wrought and the deep...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-07-26
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The war between Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union that raged between 1941 and 1945 was the ultimate confrontation between the two great totalitarian ideologies of the twentieth century. Unprecedented in the scale of the destruction that it wrought and the deep...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-07-25
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Combining military and cultural history, the book explores British soldiers' travels and cross-cultural encounters in Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814. It is the story of how soldiers interacted with the local environment and culture, of their attitudes and behaviour...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-07-23
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This book examines the partnerships between Britain's famed redcoats and the foreign corps that were a consistent and valuable part of Britain's military endeavors in the eighteenth century. While most histories have portrayed these associations as fraught with discord,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-07-19
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This powerful study offers a vivid and often disturbing account of the Italian army's occupation of Slovenia during World War II. It moves from the decision of the Italians to annex Slovenia in 1941, through local resistance and brutal reaction against civilians, to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-07-17
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Stalin's Terror of the 1930s has long been a popular subject for historians. However, while for decades, historians were locked in a narrow debate about the degree of central control over the terror process, recent archival research is underpinning new, innovative...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-07-11
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In Russia at the turn of the twentieth century, mysticism, anti-Semitism, and mathematical theory fused into a distinctive intellectual movement. Through analyses of such seemingly disparate subjects as Moscow mathematical circles and the 1913 novel Petersburg, this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2013-07-05
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From 1941 to 1945, a small number of Jews were given the rights of Aryan citizens in Croatia by the pro-Nazi Utasha regime. This study seeks to explain why these exemptions from Ustasha racial laws came to be, how they were justified by the race theory of the time, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2013-07-04
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Alice Keppel, lover of Queen Victoria's son Edward VII and great-grandmother of Camilla Parker-Bowles, was the acceptable face of Edwardian adultery. It was her art to be the King's mistress yet to laud the Royal Family and the institution of marriage. She partnered the...
Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2013-07-04
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For the kings and queens of England, a trumpet fanfare or crash of cymbals could be as vital a weapon as a cannon. Showcasing a monarch’s power, prestige and taste, music has been the lifeblood of many a royal dynasty.From sacred choral works to soaring symphonies,...
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Bbc Digital
Parution :
2013-07-04
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This book focuses on the city of St Petersburg, the capital of the Russian empire from the early eighteenth century until the fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917. It uses the Russian court as a prism through which to view the various cultural changes that were...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-06-24
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