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For hundreds of years English people have claimed that fair play is at the core of their national identity. Jonathan Duke-Evans looks at the history of fair play in Britain from earliest times to the present, asking whether it is in fact a British, or alternatively an...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-01-11
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Histories you can trust.
At age thirty in 1919, Adolf Hitler had no accomplishments. He was a rootless loner, a corporal in a shattered army, without money or prospects. A little more than twenty years later, in autumn 1941, he directed his dynamic forces against the...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-01-11
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Visual Rhetorics of Communist Romania: Life under the Totalitarian Gaze offers personal accounts and theoretical insight into the Cold War era when little information about life beyond the Iron Curtain could transpire to the West. Adriana Cordali develops a unique...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-01-10
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The Talk of the Town explores everyday communication in a sixteenth-century small town and the role it played in the circulation of information across and within early modern communities. It does so through the lens of the St Gall linen trader Johannes Rütiner...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-01-10
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The incredible untold origin story of cyberwar and the hackers who unleashed it on the world, tracing their journey from the ashes of the Cold War to the criminal underworld, governments, and even Silicon Valley. Two years before 9/11, the United States was attacked by...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2023-01-10
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY A “sensitive, immersive, and exhaustive” portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston, from “a gifted practitioner of labor history and urban history” (Tiya Miles, National...
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Basic Books
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2023-01-10
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This book examines England's plural and protracted Reformations through the novel prism of the generations. Approaching generation as a biological unit and a social cohort, it demonstrates that the tumultuous religious developments that stretched across the sixteenth...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-01-10
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This book examines how since its arrival in 1867 with British immigrants, football has become the key cultural signifier of national identity in Argentina over the long twentieth century. With the international exploits of players such as Luis Monti, Alfredo Di Stéfano...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-01-09
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A pioneering study of children's social care in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries,A Home From Home? presents new information and develops conceptual thinking about the history of children's care by investigating the centrality of key ideas about home,...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-01-09
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This book looks at East Asian actors in the League of Nations to explore a pivotal moment in the early stage of the development of global international relations. It breaks new ground by drawing on extensive sources in East Asian languages to show how actors from the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-01-07
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This book shows how in nineteenth-century Britain, confronted with the newly industrialized and urbanized modern world, writers, artists, journalists and impresarios tried to gain an overview of contemporary history. They drew on two successive but competing conceptual...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-01-06
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A vivid portrayal of what drove George W. Bush to invade Iraq in 2003--an outcome that was in no way predetermined.
America's decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 is arguably the most important foreign policy choice of the entire post-Cold War era. Nearly two...
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Oxford University Press
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2023-01-04
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Documenting the Past in Medieval Puglia, 1130-1266 explores the production of historical memory in the region of Puglia after it was subsumed within the new Kingdom of Sicily in 1130. It assesses the significance of the apparent disappearance of more traditional forms...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-01-04
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Literature and Justice in Mid Twentieth Century Britain: Crime and War Crimes examines how ideas about crime, criminality, and judicial procedure that had developed in a domestic context influenced the representation and understanding of war crimes trials, victims of...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-01-04
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This book explores one of the most notorious aspects of the German system of oppression in wartime Poland: the only purpose-built camp for children under the age of 16 years in German-occupied Europe. The camp at Przemyslowa street, or the Polen-Jugendverwahrlager der...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-03
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Thomas Kaufmann, the leading European scholar of the Reformation, argues that the main motivations behind the Reformation rest in religion itself.
The Reformation began far from Europe's traditional political, economic, and cultural power centres, and yet it threw the...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-01-03
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Getting to Good Friday intertwines literary analysis and narrative history in an accessible account of the shifts in thinking and talking about Northern Ireland's divided society that brought thirty years of political violence to a close with the 1998 Belfast/Good...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-01-03
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In this instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation’s past. “Outstanding… Wonderfully accessible.” —Washington Post The United States...
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Basic Books
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2023-01-03
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This book contains a selection of papers from the workshop Women in the History of Analytic Philosophy held in October 2019 in Tilburg, the Netherlands. It is the first volume devoted to the role of women in early analytic philosophy. It discusses the ideas of ten...
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Springer
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2023-01-01
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This book is a critical edition of the autobiographical case studies used by the Austro-German psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing between 1883 and 1901. Forty-one individual case studies of same-sex attracted men and women, in their own words, made an eye-catching...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-01-01
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