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The world's eyes were on Austria-Hungary on June 28, 1914. But both inside and outside of Austria, few could imagine the dramatic consequences of the events in Sarajevo.The popular shock and anger that greeted the assassination did not mean war was a likely or necessary...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-26
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The world's eyes were on Austria-Hungary on June 28, 1914. But both inside and outside of Austria, few could imagine the dramatic consequences of the events in Sarajevo.The popular shock and anger that greeted the assassination did not mean war was a likely or necessary...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-26
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This book follows the thread of transportation development along a continuous timeline of historical dynasties, with a primary focus on presenting the factual accounts of transportation development, key events, and their evolving characteristics. It paints a fundamental...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-09-26
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This book examines whataboutism arguments within the United Nations Security Council, with a focus on the case of Russia’s rhetoric in the Council. In doing so, it highlights their dualistic effects of facilitating or undermining international diplomatic efforts,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-26
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This book offers an introduction to the history and course of the Russian war against Ukraine. Through this book, readers will:
- gain data, facts, and a general understanding of Russia’s current war against Ukraine;- understand the connections between...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2025-09-26
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This book provides a comprehensive review of the relationship between utopia and democracy, challenging the tendency in Western scholarship to assume that an ideal society is inherently democratic. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book covers an extensive range...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-26
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The passion play at Oberammergau in Bavaria is one of the oldest theatrical spectacles in the world, with a history of regular performance that dates back to 1634. By the dawn of the twentieth century, each season drew hundreds of thousands of spectators from Europe,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-26
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How did the 'quintessentially English' game of cricket come to be so important across Britain's Caribbean empire? As empire declined and gave way to complex patterns of migration, what part did cricket play in the life of the Windrush generation in post-war Britain?
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-26
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A provocative and original reinterpretation of modern Irish history.
There is a widespread misconception that Ireland became 'modern' much later than its neighbours, in the 1960s and 1970s. This is grounded in several enduring stereotypes and caricatures: of Ireland as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-26
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A provocative and original reinterpretation of modern Irish history.
There is a widespread misconception that Ireland became 'modern' much later than its neighbours, in the 1960s and 1970s. This is grounded in several enduring stereotypes and caricatures: of Ireland as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-26
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A gripping, vividly told journey into a family's wartime past, from the bestselling author of The Ruin of All Witches ‘Endearingly personal, honest and reflective … invites you to rethink where memory ends and history begins’ Dominic Sandbrook, The Times, Books of the...
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Penguin
Parution :
2025-09-25
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A globetrotting, laugh-out-loud funny history for grown-ups from the multi-million copy bestselling author.It is a truth universally acknowledged that the rich and powerful always look after their own and the working people are always revolting. But every now and again,...
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Transworld Digital
Parution :
2025-09-25
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Old Songs fuses short stories, histories, lyrics and illustrations in an enthralling reimagining of traditional folk ballads. Sunday Times Bestselling historian Amy Jeffs and Illustrator Gwen Burns combine forces to create a rich compendium, singing of travel, mystery,...
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Riverrun
Parution :
2025-09-25
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From the bestselling author of Nuclear War: A Scenario.Discover the untold story of America's most powerful military science agency.In this first-ever history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful and most controversial military science R&D agency,...
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Transworld Digital
Parution :
2025-09-25
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From the author of Nuclear War: A Scenario, this is the gripping story of how a select group of scientists, under the watchful eye of the CIA, sought to harness the power of the mind as tools of espionage and warfare.‘A well-researched and fascinating tale’ ForbesThis...
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Transworld Digital
Parution :
2025-09-25
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'Indefatigable reporting . . . it has become newly topical, too' TelegraphIn this engrossing and deeply disturbing exposé from the bestselling author of Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen tells the gripping story of a decades-long, covert project to bring Hitler's...
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Transworld Digital
Parution :
2025-09-25
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This book deals with the early history of the humanity. The human race is known to consist of numerous nations, displaying considerable differences of external form and colour, and speaking in general different languages.This has been the case since the commencement of...
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LMP–History and Civilization Coll
Parution :
2025-09-23
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A penetrating history of the year World War II became a global conflict and humankind confronted both destruction and deliverance on a planetary scale, “offering an intriguing perspective on a world at war” (Richard Overy, New York Times–bestselling...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2025-09-23
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Popular representations of history tend to meet the moral demands of the present. Before the social crises of the postwar era began to influence Jews' thinking and at a time when global antisemitism posed the most obvious threat to their continuity and survival, Jews in...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-09-23
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