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Rediscover legendary tales from Ancient Mythology, centred around the stories of women, perfect for fans of Mythos, Circe, Pandora and Clytemnestra in this beautifully-illustrated bold feminist retelling of ancient mythological stories, written by expert classicist Mara...
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Ebury Digital
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2025-10-23
ePub
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This book examines the cultural encounter and conflict that arose during the French occupation of Egypt (1798–1801) by analyzing mutual perceptions of the French and Egyptians. It investigates how the image of Egypt, originally shaped by the writings of late...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-10-22
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'Few historians write with Serhii Plokhy’s authority, clarity or global vision... Essential reading, and a marvellous book' Peter FrankopanFrom the bestselling author of Chernobyl comes a sweeping history of the geopolitics behind the nuclear arms race, from the first...
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Penguin
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2025-10-21
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Pinning down Byzantium (or East Rome) is as difficult today as it was for contemporaries during its 1,000-year-long existence. Dimitri Obolensky sought to characterize its impact on Eastern Europe in his classic The Byzantine Commonwealth, focusing on the elements of...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-21
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This book is about “zero generation” witness literature: texts written by those who died in the Holocaust and who knew, at the time of their writing, that they would not survive. As such, they offer a unique perspective that differs from the more widely read...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-19
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For much of the Crescent City's history, days began with the cries of roaming street vendors and the percussive thwack of butchers' meat cleavers echoing out from the municipal markets. Generations of New Orleanians--Black and white, enslaved and free, men and women,...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-10-17
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This book utilizes postcards as a historical and visual lens to consider the built environment of the Philippines after the governmental regime change in 1898. By compiling and using visual references to show shifting patterns of urban environmental design during the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-10-17
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Dieses Buch untersucht die politisch-historischen Hintergründe des russisch-ukrainischen Konflikts und ordnet insbesondere den seit 2014 eskalierenden Krieg bis hin zur großflächigen Invasion Russlands im Jahr 2022 in einen breiten historischen Kontext...
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Springer VS
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2025-10-17
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'A horrific tale of the slave trade, destined to become a classic' New York Times* PEN Literary Award Finalist 2026* New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2025* Time’s 100 Must Read Books of 2025* The New Yorker 12 Essential Non-Fiction Reads 2025From the author of New...
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Transworld Digital
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2025-10-16
ePub
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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
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2025-10-16
ePub
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Rulers and Raptors argues that by studying animal biographies we gain a new perspective on early modern court society. Combining court studies and historical animal studies, it brings together two vibrant but rarely combined fields of research and shows how the presence...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-16
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'A wonderful take on the chaos of the modern word' Louise O'Neill'Really, really good - thoughtful, funny, smart and stupid' Séamus O'Reilly'Self-deprecating, insightful and witty' Irish Examiner 'Carl has the rare gift of combining analytical clarity with maniacal...
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Hachette Books Ireland
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2025-10-16
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Following the death in 1789 of Abbé de l'Epée, the first teacher of deaf pupils renowned in France and beyond, revolutionaries committed to founding national institutes for the education of deaf pupils. There was little doubt about their ability to integrate as full...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-16
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Featuring stunning full-colour photography from both personal collections of astronauts and NASA’s archives, the human story of space is told through intimate and powerful testimonies from the astronauts, scientists, engineers and space tourists who have lived it.It’s...
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Bbc Digital
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2025-10-16
ePub
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This book examines the critical role played by colonial peripheries, specifically British India, in shaping the development of zoology and other disciplines emerging from 19th-century natural history. Through an analysis of publications such as the monumental Fauna of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-15
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This book is a major new history of capitalism that takes account of the material and ecological underpinnings of productive activity as well as the social, political and institutional dimensions of economic life. It retraces the history of capitalism over a long time...
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Polity
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2025-10-15
ePub
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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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2025-10-14
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This book describes the process of collectivisation policy and the "collectivisation movement" in Mongolia in the 20th century, which affected the entire agricultural sector and resulted in the "socialisation" of livestock.This brought about changes in the use of land...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-13
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On 10 July 1943, British soldiers landed in south-eastern Sicily as part of a major Allied invasion. As they fought their way northwards through the Italian peninsula, they frequently encountered local populations, imposing a forced cohabitation that would have a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-11
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Prince Bismarck: A Historical Biography - Volume 2Discover the captivating continuation of Otto von Bismarck's life through Charles Lowe's masterful historical biography. This second volume delves deep into the political genius and strategic vision of the Iron...
Editeur :
Metvox Publications
Parution :
2025-10-11
epub sans DRM
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