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The moon landing was an important moment in history, but many forget what was happening behind the scenes -- discover the groundbreaking political history of the Apollo program in this riveting exploration of America's space missions.Since July 1969, Neil Armstrong's...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2020-11-24
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As a resurgent Poland emerged at the end of World War I, an eclectic group of Polish border guards, state officials, military settlers, teachers, academics, urban planners, and health workers descended upon Volhynia, an eastern borderland province that was home to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-11-24
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This book explores the role of Mediterranean imaginaries in one of the preeminent tropes of Italian history: the formation or 'making of' Italians. While previous scholarship on the construction of Italian identity has often focused too narrowly on the territorial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-23
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This book explores the localisation of modernity in late colonial India. As a case study, it focuses on the hitherto untold colonial history of Khalsa College, Amritsar, a pioneering and highly influential educational institution founded in the British Indian province...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-23
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The Zaza people are one of the first inhabitants of Anatolia (present-day Turkey), Asia Minor and Mesopotamia. Today, this indigenous people is forgotten by history.Who are the Zazas?In what part of the world are they located?What is their historical évolution?Despite...
Editeur :
Oaristys Édition
Parution :
2020-11-21
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Much has been written about the French Revolution and especially its bloody phase known as the Reign of Terror. The actions of the leaders who unleashed the massacres and public executions, especially Maximilien Robespierre and Georges Danton, are well known. They...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-11-20
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Gender exists in almost every society as a way of organizing its people.Gender is used to assign certain responsibilities, obligations, and privileges to some, and to deny them to others. In Gender: A World History, Susan Kingsley Kent tells the story of this seemingly...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-11-20
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This book examines the 1583 voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert to North America.This was England's first attempt at colonization beyond the British Isles, yet it has not been subject to thorough scholarly analysis for more than 70 years. An exhaustive examination of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-20
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The early modern period is often seen as a pivotal stage in the emergence of a recognizably modern form of the state. Agents beyond the State returns to this context in order to examine the literary and social practices through which the early modern state was...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-11-19
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The early modern period is often seen as a pivotal stage in the emergence of a recognizably modern form of the state. Agents beyond the State returns to this context in order to examine the literary and social practices through which the early modern state was...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-11-19
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Although King John is remembered for his political and military failures, he also resided over a magnificent court. Power and Pleasure reconstructs life at the court of King John and explores how his court produced both pleasure and soft power.
Much work exists on...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-11-19
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Although King John is remembered for his political and military failures, he also resided over a magnificent court. Power and Pleasure reconstructs life at the court of King John and explores how his court produced both pleasure and soft power.
Much work exists on...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-11-19
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Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination explores the relationship between the constructions and representations of the relationship between time and the city in literature published between the late eighteenth century and the present. This collection offers a new...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-18
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The German council movements arose through mass strikes and soldier mutinies towards the end of the First World War. They brought down the German monarchy, founded several short-lived council republics, and dramatically transformed European politics. Building Power to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-11-18
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The German council movements arose through mass strikes and soldier mutinies towards the end of the First World War. They brought down the German monarchy, founded several short-lived council republics, and dramatically transformed European politics. Building Power to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-11-18
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This book examines how the rulers in the Persian Gulf responded to the British announcement of military withdrawal from the Gulf in 1968, ending 150 years of military supremacy in the region. The British system in the Gulf was accepted for more than a century not...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-17
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This book discusses the role of children in the Salem witch trials through a close reading of the many and varied narratives of the trials, including court records, contemporary and historical documents, fiction, drama, and poetry. Taking a critical theory approach to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-17
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This book illuminates Byzantines' relationship with woodland between the seventh and twelfth centuries. Using the oak and the olive as objects of study, this work explores shifting economic strategies, environmental change, and the transformation of material culture...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-16
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This book offers a detailed investigation of George S. White’s career in the British Army. It explores late Victorian military conflicts, British power dynamics in Africa and Asia, civil-military relations on the fringes of the empire, and networks of advancement in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-16
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T?his edited volume offers a descriptive analysis of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows and cumulative stock, industrial composition, and important spatial trends for each successor state of former Yugoslavia: Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-11-16
Collection :
Economic Geography
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