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The forgotten life and complex legacies of Wakara, the mighty, once-notorious Native leader whose battles and conquests shaped the American West “A sobering reassessment of the history of the Great Basin and locates the disruptive and violent influences of...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2025-11-04
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In a humane world, cruelty should not exist, and yet it has been a feature of our societies since time immemorial. From individual acts of cruelty to systematic torture and mass murder, cruelty has been humanity’s constant companion, attesting to a darker side of human...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-11-03
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This book offers the first in-depth analysis of the antisemitic rhetoric expressed by the interwar Romanian cultural elite, examining eight public voices of the period (A. C. Cuza, N. Iorga, N. Crainic, N. Ionescu, O. Goga, N. Paulescu, M. Vulcanescu and V. Horia) and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-03
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Reflections on Chinese Culture presents a curated collection of Professor Lou Yulie‘s seven seminal lectures, offering profound insights into the essence of China‘s cultural heritage. This work examines the foundational concepts— including the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-01
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This book explores a significant historical event in sixteenth-century European history. The Italian crusade against the German Lutherans in 1546 was, for many reasons, the catalyst for the military phase of the Lutheran opposition in Germany's clash with Emperor...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-01
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The First World War hardly ended with the formal Armistice in Europe on November 11, 1918, amid the continuing violence of blockades and epidemics, amid numerous forms of reconstruction and revolution. Its legacies, in fact, resonate deeply in our present. Nor is it...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-29
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Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides explores three of the earliest, and most influential, accounts of plague visitations in Western literature: Homer's Iliad book 1 (1-487), Sophocles' Oedipus the King (esp. 1-215), and Thucydides' History of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-29
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This group biography follows the four Ashurst sisters, contemporaries of Queen Victoria, who rebelled against the limitations of their era to become influential activists. Raised by progressive parents in a London household with few boundaries between private life and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-29
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The book explores the symbolic emergence of the Second Spanish Republic in Madrid’s public space in the aftermath of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. Despite the constraints of a transition to democracy premised on restoring the Bourbon monarchy and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-28
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A moving multigenerational memoir of Indigenous resistance, environmental justice, and a Yurok family's fight to protect their legacy and the Klamath River. For the members of a Northern California tribe, salmon are the lifeblood of the people—a vital...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2025-10-28
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This book aims to examine the role and status of sacred cities in the context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and associated cultural and sacred landscapes with an emphasis on awakening the deeper cultural sense in harmonising the world and enhancing...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-10-28
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Drawing upon a unique cliometric approach, this book offers a comprehensive examination of major conflicts and their consequences. War and imperialism have shaped the modern world in profound ways, leaving an indelible mark on nations and peoples. In this book,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-10-27
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As one of the few monographs available on the history of Chinese tomb murals, this book offers a comprehensive study.
Theoretically, the authors put forward rebirth belief and state explicitly that Chinese tomb murals gain their theoretical support from rebirth...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-10-25
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Studying mine-drainage works of a medieval principality living through times of war, social turmoil, and land reclamation, this book examines the relation between political power and mineral wealth. It argues that mine-drainage works in Monte Calisio, Trento emerged...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-25
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The purpose of this book is to evaluate the current international order and its efficiency and ability to achieve and maintain peace and justice through the philosophical debate on the foundation theories of state and order. Adding non-western perspectives and theories...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-10-25
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This book is about the dramatic changes that the world is witnessing in its attitude toward the past. For the first time in many generations, ordinary citizens around the globe have burst into disputes about history that were previously the province of politicians and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-25
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This is the first book-length study of the history of working-class courtship and marriage in Scotland, from the establishment of civil registration to the introduction in 1939 of legislation which abolished irregular marriage and introduced civil marriage. Adopting a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-25
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Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church today often frame queer genders and sexualities as perverse deviations from ‘tradition’. While historians often assume the Church has always condemned homosexuality, this book reassesses the supposed...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-24
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This book delves into one of the most decisive periods in European history: the birth of the German Empire and the extraordinary fate of its architect, Otto von Bismarck.In the salons of Versailles, in January 1871, shortly after the Prussian victory over France,...
Editeur :
Metvox Publications
Parution :
2025-10-24
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From the hit 'Short History of...' podcast comes the dramatic and thrilling history of Ancient Rome. Packed with vivid detail and extraordinary characters, this immersive account brings to life the rise and fall of one of the greatest empires the world has ever known....
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2025-10-23
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