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'Superb on the human consequences of war, ravishing in its evocations of wartime life' The Times'Compassionate and thought-provoking history' Daily TelegraphLess than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870, the Prussian army had devastated its opponents,...
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Penguin
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2023-06-01
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Peacebuilding and reconciliation between groups and entire nations that share a violent past are among the toughest, yet most important, challenges for modern societies. Opposing perspectives, disagreements about the interpretation of historical events or even entirely...
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Springer VS
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2023-05-31
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Economists in the Cold War is an account of the economic drivers and outcomes of the Cold War, told through the stories of seven international economists, who were all closely involved in theory and policy in the period 1945-73. For them, the Cold War was a battle of...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-31
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An edition and English translation of the Speculum Stultorum (The Mirror for Fools), a long Latin beast epic written near the end of the twelfth century by a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury. This was one of the most popular works of the Middle Ages, a favourite of...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-31
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2024 PEN America E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award FinalistThe "high-stakes" true story of how an absent-minded inventor and a down-on-his-luck salesman joined forces to create a once‑in‑a‑generation lifesaving product:...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2023-05-30
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Emerging from collapse of the Han empire, the founders of Northern Wei had come south from the grasslands of Inner Asia to conquer the rich farmlands of the Yellow River plains. Northern Wei was, in fact, the first of the so-called "conquest dynasties" complex states...
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Oxford University Press
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2023-05-30
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Exam board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First assessment: Summer 2018Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told...
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Hodder Gibson
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2023-05-26
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Was war die Hanse? Ein Städtebund? Diese Untersuchungen betrachten die «Städtehanse» unter einem neuen Aspekt und kommen zu einer anderen Antwort auf diese seit hundert Jahren strittige Frage. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Ratsherren, die als Delegierte Städte auf dem...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2023-05-26
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Exactly a century ago, intelligence agencies across Europe first became aware of a fanatical German nationalist whose political party was rapidly gathering momentum. His name was Adolf Hitler.
From 1933, these spy services watched with growing alarm as they tried to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-05-26
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Exam board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First assessment: Summer 2018Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told...
Editeur :
Hodder Gibson
Parution :
2023-05-26
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Exam board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First assessment: Summer 2018Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told...
Editeur :
Hodder Gibson
Parution :
2023-05-26
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Dieses Glossar bündelt die sprachlichen Besonderheiten der städtischen Kultur des Mittelalters erstmals in zentraler Form. Hierbei wird das Siedlungsphänomen Stadt in vierfacher Hinsicht definiert und erschlossen: Hinsichtlich seiner Rechtsnatur und Verfassung, seiner...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2023-05-26
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A new account of the Mediterranean economy in the 10th to 12th centuries, forcing readers to entirely rethink the underlying logic to medieval economic systems. Chris Wickham re-examines documentary and archaeological sources to give a detailed account of both...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-05-26
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The final chapter in the definitive, three-volume history of the world's first known stateArchaeologist John Romer has spent a lifetime chronicling the history of Ancient Egypt, and here he tells the epic story of an era dominated by titans of the popular imagination:...
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Penguin
Parution :
2023-05-25
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'Nerve-shattering, enlightening and deeply moving' - JOHN NICHOL'A powerful and compelling read' - ROWLAND WHITEOn 5 December 2002, trainee pilot Nathan Gray walked away from an 'unsurvivable' crash at RAF Wittering in Cambridgeshire. His instructor, seated behind...
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Headline
Parution :
2023-05-25
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Discover the story of the Second World War brought to life in full colour by renowned historian James Holland and award-winning artist Keith Burns'A fully immersive experience. A comprehensive yet fast-paced and gripping insight into the Second World War. Not just...
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Penguin
Parution :
2023-05-25
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What can the fall of Rome teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist, both experts in their field, investigateOver the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium,...
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Penguin
Parution :
2023-05-25
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The story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a glorious world empire upon which the sun never set. In fact, far from being the tale of a single nation imposing its will upon the world, the British Empire found itself...
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Ebury Digital
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2023-05-25
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A hilarious look at how the line between 'genius' and 'extremely lucky idiot' is finer than we'd like to admit.The more you delve into the stories behind history's greatest names, the more you realise they have something in common: a mystifying lack of common sense....
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Wildfire
Parution :
2023-05-25
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