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Part of the SECOND WORLD WAR VOICES series, with a new introduction by bestselling historian James Holland, and in partnership with the podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk, presented by comedian Al Murray and James HollandMay 1940: In the face of a lightning German...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2022-08-25
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Mussolini in myth and memory. Paul Corner looks at the brutal reality of the Italian dictator's fascist regime and confronts the nostalgia for dictatorial rule evident today in many European countries.
Mussolini has rarely been taken seriously as a totalitarian...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-25
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The Cold War meets Mad Men in the form of Karel Koecher, a double agent whose shifting loyalties and over-the-top hedonism reverberated from New York to Moscow In the mid-1970s, the CIA and KGB watched Karel Koecher closely—they were both convinced he was...
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PublicAffairs
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2022-08-23
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This book examines the British Admiralty’s engagement with science and technological innovation in the nineteenth century. It is a book about people, and gross misunderstanding, about the dreams and disappointments of scientific workers and inventors in relation to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-23
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A biography of the spectacular rise and fall of Eddie Antar, better known as "Crazy Eddie," whose home electronics empire changed the world even as it turned out to be one of the biggest business scams of all timeBack in the fall of 2016 we heard the news...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2022-08-23
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This book analyzes the drawing data and methods of the Chinese ancient maps that are neglected by the previous researches, and reevaluates the drawing theories and methods, the influences, and accuracy of the maps that represents the scientificity of Chinese ancient...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-08-23
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This book translates and contextualizes the recollections of men and women who built, lived, and worked in some of the factory compounds relocated from China’s most cosmopolitan city—Shanghai. Small Third Line factories became oases of relatively prosperous urban life...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-22
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Oral History
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Egypt in the early Byzantine period was a bilingual country where Greek and Egyptian (Coptic) were used alongside each other. Historical studies along with linguistic studies of the phonology and lexicon of early Byzantine Greek inEgypt testify to this situation. In...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-22
ePub
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Designs on Democracy examines a pivotal period in the formation of the modern profession of architecture in Britain. It shows how architects sought to meet the newly articulated demands of a mass democracy in the wake of the First World War. It does so by providing a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-22
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In War and Conflict in the Middle Ages, Stephen Morillo offers the first global history of armed conflict between 540 and 1500 or as late as 1800 CE, an age shaped by climate change and pandemics at both ends. Examining armed conflict at all levels, and ranging across...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-08-19
Collection :
War and Conflict Through the Ages
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This book offers the first in-depth investigation into the relationship between the National Birth Control Association, later the Family Planning Association, and contraceptive science and technology in the pre-Pill era. It explores the Association’s role in designing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-18
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The Wireless World sets out a new research agenda for the history of international broadcasting, and for radio history more generally. It examines global and transnational histories of long-distance wireless broadcasting, combining perspectives from international...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-18
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The Wireless World sets out a new research agenda for the history of international broadcasting, and for radio history more generally. It examines global and transnational histories of long-distance wireless broadcasting, combining perspectives from international...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-18
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One of Grossman's three great war novels - alongside Life and Fate and Stalingrad."A significant, valuable addition to Grossman's small but powerful body of work" WILLIAM BOYD"A remarkable novel that illuminates the terrible realities of Barbarossa and the banal horror...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2022-08-18
ePub
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Egypt in the early Byzantine period was a bilingual country where Greek and Egyptian (Coptic) were used alongside each other. Historical studies along with linguistic studies of the phonology and lexicon of early Byzantine Greek inEgypt testify to this situation. In...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-18
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A vivid, first-hand account of the tension and excitement of flying missions over Nazi GermanyThe British and American bomber crews of the Second World War often had to endure the most terrifying conditions. Not for them the glorious, all-or-nothing exhilaration of the...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2022-08-18
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This book evaluates Central Asian regionalism by analyzing the impact of Russia and China on physical infrastructure in the region. The narrative builds a picture of the nature of the two powers’ influence on the development of regional connectivity in Central Asia. The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-17
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Inaugural lectures often comprise stimulating discussions by top-level academics; indeed, inaugural lectures are often given by the top five percent of scholars in the discipline concerned, yet there are hardly any series dedicated solely to these high quality lectures....
Editeur :
Galda Verlag
Parution :
2022-08-17
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“Regions of memory” are a scale of social and cultural memory that reaches above the national, yet remains narrower than the global or universal. The chapters of this volume analyze transnational constellations of memory across and between several geographical areas,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-17
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Reflecting debate around hospitality and the Baltic Sea region, this open access book taps into wider discussions about reception, securitization and xenophobic attitudes towards migrants and strangers. Focusing on coastal and urban areas, the collection presents an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-15
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