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THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER***SHORTLISTED FORTHE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION******SHORTLISTED FORTHE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE******SHORTLISTED FORTHE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE***A Book of the YearThe Times * Sunday Times * Telegraph * New Statesman * Financial...
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Virgin Digital
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2021-06-17
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Adopting a transnational approach, this edited volume reveals that Germany and China have had many intense and varied encounters between 1890 and 1950. It focuses on their cross-cultural encounters, entanglements, and bi-directional cultural flows. Although their ...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2021-06-17
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In der fast 2000 Jahre alten Geschichte der Verschriftlichung des Gottesdienstes der christlichen Kirchen spiegelt sich ein wesentlicher Teil der abendländischen Kultur wieder: Schrift, Malerei, Musik, Buchkunst und gelebte Frömmigkeit in den verschiedenen...
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Springer
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2021-06-17
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A major new history of the eastern Roman Empire, from Constantine to 1453.
In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-06-17
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'Exquisitely written... haunting... Few books, I think, capture so well the sense of a life broken for ever by trauma and guilt' Sunday Times 'An unsparing, honest and insightful memoir, that shows how private failure becomes national disaster' Hilary MantelTwenty...
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Vintage Digital
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2021-06-17
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Islands are not just geographical units or physical facts; their importance and significance arise from the human activities associated with them. The maritime routes of sailing ships, the victualling requirements of their sailors, and the strategic demands of seaborne...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-06-17
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Islands are not just geographical units or physical facts; their importance and significance arise from the human activities associated with them. The maritime routes of sailing ships, the victualling requirements of their sailors, and the strategic demands of seaborne...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-06-17
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The period between c.1580 and c.1685 was one of momentous importance in terms of the establishment of different confessional identities in Ireland, as well as a time of significant migration and displacement of population. Confessionalism and Mobility in Early Modern...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-06-17
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The period between c.1580 and c.1685 was one of momentous importance in terms of the establishment of different confessional identities in Ireland, as well as a time of significant migration and displacement of population. Confessionalism and Mobility in Early Modern...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-06-17
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The Fellowship Church explores the evolution of the American religious left through a case study of the African American intellectual and theologian Howard Thurman, and the physical embodiment of his thought:The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples.The Fellowship...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-06-16
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Ludwig Bechstein (1801–1860) hat außer seinen Märchen- und Sagenadaptationen auch 15 vom Autor sogenannte große Novellen und Romane geschrieben. Diese Studie verwendet eine interdisziplinäre Methode, die Arbeitsweisen der Literaturwissenschaft um die einer Linguistik...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2021-06-16
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Diese Arbeit behandelt ein Thema griechischer Zeitgeschichte aus dem Bereich der Politikgeschichte. Sie leistet einen Beitrag zur Autoritarismusforschung jenseits von links- und rechtspolitischen Stereotypisierungen. Auf der Makroebene steht das griechische...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2021-06-16
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An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account.One of the Best Books of 2021 — Wall Street JournalThe islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge...
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Basic Books
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2021-06-15
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Answering the calls made to overcome methodological nationalism, this volume is the first examination of the links between corruption and imperial rule in the modern world. It does so through a set of original studies that examine the multi-layered nature of corruption...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-15
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Identifying gaps in knowledge is the first duty of any historian who sets out to understand the past. It is impossible fully to understand our forebears without some idea of what they did not know: the history of ignorance is an indispensable part of history itself....
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Polity
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2021-06-15
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A New York Times Notable Book
Winner of 2022 Lionel Gelber Prize
The first authoritative history of America's longest war by one of the world's leading scholar-practitioners.
The American war in Afghanistan, which began in 2001, is now the longest armed conflict in...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-06-15
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Exam board: AQA; Pearson Edexcel; OCRLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better...
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Hodder Education
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2021-06-14
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Exam board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better grades for over 30...
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Hodder Education
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2021-06-14
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In Researching Yugoslavia and its Aftermath, a common thread is the authors’ path through the time and space context in which fieldwork has taken place. Accordingly, this collection tackles problems that have always existed but have not been dealt with in a single...
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Springer
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2021-06-14
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Societies and Political Orders in Transition
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This book examines the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, perhaps the most lethal and financially devastating instance of collective violence in early twentieth-century America. The Greenwood district, a comparably prosperous black community spanning...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-12
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