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At the turn of the twentieth century Colorado's coalfields were the site of the nation's most violent labor conflicts. The remote mountains were home to mining companies that provided workers and their families with supervised housing, education, health care, and...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-02-27
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Body Size in Early Modern Germany uncovers the significance of fatness and thinness in early modern German society and culture. It explores how early modern people conceived of fat and thin bodies, in terms of both the cultural meanings attached to body size and...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-27
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In August 1940, a man walked into Leon Trotsky's study in Mexico City and drove an ice pick into his skull. The killer? Ramón Mercader - an aristocratic Spaniard turned Soviet assassin. The mastermind? Joseph Stalin.But this was no simple hit. It was the climax of a...
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John Murray
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2026-02-26
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THE WAR AND PEACE TRILOGY BUNDLECombining three books by the million-copy bestselling author Giles Milton, the War and Peace Trilogy bundle offers a thrilling chronological account of the Second World War.'The master of narrative history' Sunday TimesBOOK 1: D-DAY:THE...
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John Murray
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2026-02-26
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From the acclaimed writer and journalist, a vivid and wide-ranging portrait of love, sex and loneliness in contemporary JapanNo sex. No kids. No future?When Tom Feiling moved to Tokyo as a student in the early nineties, Japan was a beacon of the future: a rising...
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Penguin
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2026-02-26
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How The Solar System Shaped Human History – And May Help Save Our Planet'A stunning history of how we've come to understand environmental change on Earth...A rich, eye-opening tapestry, and beautifully told!' LEWIS DARTNELL'Masterfully shows that our understanding of...
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Penguin
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2026-02-26
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Thinking with Dogs in Roman Britain: Lived Experience, Inequality, and Ritual in a Roman Province argues that in Roman Britain, where little written evidence survives, some aspects of the past are more visible when we look not at people but instead focus on the dogs...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-25
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Germany and Russia: two countries whose turbulent and interlocking histories have profoundly shaped the world in which we live today. The long twentieth century was in many ways a German-Russian century. In 1917, imperialGermany became the birthplace of Russia's October...
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Polity
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2026-02-25
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An estimated 200,000 Latvian soldiers—ten percent of the total prewar population of Latvia— served on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Since the Republic of Latvia had been occupied and annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, then occupied by Nazi Germany in...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-24
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Victorian Architecture presents a new and refreshing overview of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century architecture in Britain and the wider British world.
TheVictorian period witnessed the beginnings of what today would be described as the global architectural...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-24
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This book engages the way Christian, Jewish, Muslim and secular-progressivist actors used Mosaic and Islamic law and ethics in relation to slavery in American, West African and transatlantic history from 1440 to 1830. It focuses on how various groups marshalled these...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-23
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This book, a eight-year interdisciplinary collaboration involving experts in international politics, law, economics, and history from six countries, meticulously analyzes the San Francisco Peace Treaty System and its profound implications. It critically examines how...
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Springer
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2026-02-23
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We understand a religion best if we know its origin. Unfortunately, the traditional narrative about the emergence of Islam is based upon sources most of which were written some 150 to 250 years after the events they claim to describe. From a modern historical-critical...
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Springer
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2026-02-20
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The rise of German science and technology in the nineteenth century had a significant impact on food production on a global scale.The spread of scientific methods facilitated the emergence of those mass markets that determine consumption patterns up until today. This...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-20
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The rise of German science and technology in the nineteenth century had a significant impact on food production on a global scale.The spread of scientific methods facilitated the emergence of those mass markets that determine consumption patterns up until today. This...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-20
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Histories of International Law in China: All Under Heaven? offers a groundbreaking exploration of China's engagement with international law over the past two centuries. Written by an interdisciplinary group of international law scholars and legal historians, it provides...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-20
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Roman Architecture casts new light not only on many familiar monuments of the city of Rome, but also on less well-known examples from across theRoman empire.
Rome and its empire were fundamental to the development of western architecture, and its forms and motifs...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-18
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The Sports Palace speech was the climax of a campaign for 'total war'; the prime example of Nazi 'mass suggestion', a barrage of propaganda, seduction, and manipulation.
On the 18th of February 1943 Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels made a speech in the Berlin...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-18
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This book examines nationality as a historical process, addressing state policies to welcome or restrict naturalizations, and individual strategies to obtain this legal status. The focus is on Argentina, the primary recipient of Atlantic migrations in independent Latin...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-02-17
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Dieses Buch bietet eine knappe und konzentrierte Einführung in die Nationwerdung und in die moderne Geschichte Italiens.
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Springer VS
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2026-02-17
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