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Victory and Celebration traces how athletic success was transformed into broader social and political capital in ancient Greece in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE--how being a good boxer or wrestler, or having a fast son or superior horses was made into something of...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-07-09
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The series of rebellions against royal authority and the violent clashes between aristocratic families that occurred in England between 1455 and 1487 have long been characterized as the 'Wars of the Roses'. Yet, far from being a continuous period of civil war, the Wars...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-09
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The introduction of the principle of women's reproductive liberty in France, tentatively by the family planning movement after 1960 and explicitly by the women's liberation movement after 1970, marked a deep shift, transforming public discourses. Yet this principle...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-09
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The overseas enterprises of Spain expanded dramatically following the first voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492.The Spanish had already conquered the Canary Islands, which served as a base for the later conquest of lands in the Americas (known as the Indies) that...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-07-09
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So many of the world's sports have their origins in Britain. Why is this? How did sports innovate and evolve in step with social upheaval, and political and cultural change? Why did British forms of play become so influential around the world?
Richard Holt explores...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-09
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Das Buch untersucht die Anwerbung und den Einsatz italienischer Arbeitskräfte in der deutschen Kriegswirtschaft. In einer ersten Phase (1938-1942) waren Einberufung und Beschäftigung Teil des deutsch-italienischen Bündnisses, der...
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Springer VS
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2025-07-09
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Finalist for the 2026 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award | LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER | INDIE BESTSELLER | The New Yorker's Best Books of 2025 From “one of America’s smartest and most charming writers” (NPR), an...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2025-07-08
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Purses and bags have always been much more than a fashion accessory.
For generations of Americans, the purse has been an essential and highly adaptable object, used to achieve a host of social, cultural, and political objectives. In the early 1800s, when the slim fit...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-07-07
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In this groundbreaking reflection on America's relationship with war in the modern era, Gregory A. Daddis explores the deep-seated tension between faith in and fear of war that has shaped US grand strategy and helped militarize US foreign policy with great costs at home...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-07-07
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Even before we get to introduce ourselves by name, our hair has already started to tell stories about who we are, where we are from and where we are at. Our hair is tangled up in the interplay of race, gender, class, nationality, sexuality, power and beauty. It is an...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2025-07-03
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The currents of History run deep and often unseen beneath the everyday ripple of events. But now and again the current rises to the surface, and the events of a single day shed an exceptional light on the meaning of the past.Such events are the subject of Days that...
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Greenfinch
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2025-07-03
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'A stunning global history of West Africa ... with this new tour de force, Green confirms himself as the most innovative historian, writer, and thinker of his generation' Ana Lucia Araujo, author of Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of SlaveryA unique, startling...
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Penguin
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2025-07-03
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Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays, demonstrating the full range and force of Salman Rushdie's remarkable imaginative and observational powers. With candour, eloquence and...
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Vintage Digital
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2025-07-03
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Die Entstehung der translatorischen Ausbildung in Deutschland fällt in den Zeitraum von den frühen 1880er Jahren bis in die späten 1940er Jahre. In diesen 70 Jahren wurde mit ersten Institutions- und Methodenbildungen die Grundlage für die heutige translatorische...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2025-07-03
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The 1950s are usually portrayed as conservative, conformist, and apathetic, but was there more to this much-maligned decade than that? In Britain, the convergence of conflicting political moments-the Cold War, the Bomb, the rise of America, the decline of the empire,...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-02
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This book explores the automata of the Medici Villa Pratolino, focusing on the intersection of art, engineering, and philosophy in the late sixteenth century. The author examines how these ‘living sculptures’ went beyond traditional Renaissance static forms,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-07-02
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Dieses Buch fügt der wachsenden Literatur über die Geschichte des Kapitalismus einen entscheidenden Schwerpunkt auf die Moral hinzu, indem es soziale und kulturelle Perspektiven auf die kapitalistische Wirtschaftsordnung in der Moderne untersucht. Die...
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Springer VS
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2025-07-01
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This book explores sheltered employment for disabled people in the British welfare state, focusing on Remploy as the flagship provider. It considers the fundamental areas of understanding Remploy, in terms of why it was created, how it functioned, who it employed, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-07-01
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Eighteenth-century accounts of Vienna portray the city as one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse in Europe, yet most scholarship about Viennese music at that time focuses on Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, painting a disproportionately Austro-German picture of...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-06-30
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Where lie the origins of North Korean ideology? When, why, and to what extent did North Korean ideology begin to transform into the idiosyncratic ideology that it is today?
In this first comprehensive Cold War history of North Korean ideology, Thomas Stock traces...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-06-30
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