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The East India Company, founded in London in 1600, was originally a spice trading organisation. But its governors soon began to think bigger. After a decade, they started to plan voyages to more fabulous places, notably India and Japan. Rich in silver, Japan was a...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-10-15
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This book is the history of the Eastern Vikings, the Rus and the Varangians, from their earliest mentions in the narrative sources to the late medieval period, when the Eastern Vikings had become stock figures in Old Norse Romances. A comparison is made...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-10-14
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Heaven Has Eyes is a comprehensive but concise history of Chinese law and justice from the imperial era to the post-Mao era. Never before has a single book treated the traditional Chinese law and judicial practices and their modern counterparts as a coherent history,...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-10-13
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Pride is pervasive in Roman texts, as an emotion and a political and social concept implicated in ideas of power. This study examines Roman discourse of pride from two distinct complementary perspectives. The first is based on scripts, mini-stories told to illustrate...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-10-09
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Caliphs and Merchants: Cities and Economies of Power in the Near East (700-950) offers fresh perspectives on the origins of the economic success of the early Islamic Caliphate, identifying a number of previously unnoticed or underplayed yet crucial developments, such as...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-10-09
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A major new history of Athens' remarkably long and influential life after the collapse of its empire.
To many the history of post-Classical Athens is one of decline. True, Athens hardly commanded the number of allies it had when hegemon of its fifth-century Delian...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-10-09
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Kanada ist schon seit Jahrhunderten ein Einwandererland. Außer den indigenen Völkern sind alle Bewohner des zweitgrößten Landes der Erde Einwanderer oder deren Nachkommen. Dazu gehören heute ca. 3,5 Millionen Menschen deutscher Herkunft. Dieses Buch beschreibt eine...
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Springer VS
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2020-10-08
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This book seeks to place children and young people centrally within the study of the contemporary British home front, its cultural representations and its place in the historical memory of the First World War. This edited collection interrogates not only war and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-08
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'An astonishing piece of work' James O'Brien'This book was a delight. Funny, scathing and witty' Ian Dunt You should buy this book if: a) you dislike the Sun, but have never actually read it to know why and/or b) you're still not sure how we got into this mess. Using...
Editeur :
Sphere
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2020-10-08
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'An utterly fascinating book - conversations and human behaviours recorded in real time' Tom Hanks'Fascinating ' Elizabeth Day'A hugely affecting and absorbing read.' The Bookseller'Finally, a book that is proving very therapeutic in these difficult times... Full of...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2020-10-08
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Als die vormaligen Herzogtümer Schleswig und Holstein 1867 zur preußischen Provinz gemacht wurden, bedeutete dies für die zeitgenössischen Schleswig-Holsteiner und Schleswig-Holsteinerinnen eine markante Zäsur, die auch für die Folgejahre nicht an Prägnanz verlor. In...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-10-07
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__________Out now: The most entertaining and fascinating book about architecture and design, from the wildly popular podcast 99% Invisible. __________A New York Times Bestseller'Full of surprises and quirky information . . . a fascinating journey through the...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2020-10-06
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During World War II, the Allied leaders banded together, forged a great victory--and created a new and dangerous post-war world.In the summer of 1941, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's trusted advisor, arrived in Moscow to assess whether the US should send aid to...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2020-10-06
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This dynamic visual history of the world's largest transit system -- in all its intriguing, colorful, and even seedy glory -- is packed with fascinating facts and hundreds of compelling photographs.When the first New York subway line opened in 1904, it was the most...
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Black Dog & Leventhal
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2020-10-06
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Circa quarant'anni fa la collana della Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome accoglieva il lavoro di H. Pavis d’Escurac, La préfecture de l'annone, service administratif impérial d'Auguste à Constantin (Rome, 1976), un contributo alla storia della...
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Publications de l'École française de Rome
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2020-10-06
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Collection de l'École française de Rome
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C. Vann Woodward is one of the most significant historians of the post-Reconstruction South. Over his career of nearly seven decades, he wrote nine books; won the Bancroft and Pulitzer Prizes; penned hundreds of book reviews, opinion pieces, and scholarly essays; and...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-10-06
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A beautifully illustrated, wonderfully engaging A-to-Z guide to more than 700 major and minor gods and goddesses, characters, creatures, and places of classical Greek and Roman mythology.Classical Mythology A-to-Z is a comprehensive and engrossing guide to...
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Black Dog & Leventhal
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2020-10-06
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This book analyzes the central vision of three student movements organized by different generations of Kosovo Albanian students in 1968, 1981 and 1997. By examining the dynamics of the demonstrations, the author explores the dimensions, forms and implications of student...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-06
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Finalist, Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Award for Best New Book on Drinks Culture, History, or Spirits“An impassioned case against a senseless system . . . Come for the cocktail recipes, stay for the call to arms.” —Clay Risen, author of American...
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Artisan
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2020-10-06
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Latin books are among the most numerous surviving artifacts of the Late Antique, Mediaeval, and Renaissance periods in European history; written in a variety of formats and scripts, they preserve the literary, philosophical, scientific, and religious heritage of the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-10-02
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