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By the early twentieth century, consumers around the world had developed a taste for Ottoman-grown tobacco. Employing tens of thousands of workers, the Ottoman tobacco industry flourished in the decades between the 1870s to the First Balkan War—and it became the locus...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-16
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Vladimir Babitsky was born before the Second World War and migrated West after Perestroika. The theory of vibro-impact systems that he developed helped create the world’s safest jackhammer and other record-breaking machines. The author has lived through a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-11-13
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This book reveals the queen behind Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. Placing Spenser’s epic poem in the context of the tumultuous sixteenth century, Donald Stump offers a groundbreaking reading of the poem as an allegory of Elizabeth I’s life. By narrating the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-07
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Given fascist proscriptions against homosexuality, a surprising number of artists under Mussolini’s regime were queer. Exploring the contribution of Italy to our understanding of both the history of homosexuality and European modernism, this ground-breaking study...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-11-07
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This book discusses the emergence of care for orphaned, abandoned and poor children in Lithuania from the early twentieth century to the beginning of the Second World War. In particular, it focuses on how such practices were influenced by nationalist and political...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-05
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As the twentieth century dawned and France entered an era of extraordinary labor activism and industrial competition, an insistently romantic vision of the Parisian garment worker was deployed by politicians, reformers, and artists to manage anxieties about economic and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-05
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This book explores contemporary debates surrounding Poland’s 'war children', that is the young victims, participants and survivors of the Second World War. It focuses on the period after 2001, which saw the emergence of the two main political parties that were to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-02
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Why is the North East the most distinctive region of England? Where do the stereotypes about North Easterners come from, and why are they so often misunderstood? In this wideranging new history of the people of North East England, Dan Jackson explores the deep roots of...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2019-11-01
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Drawing on the rich trove of recently declassified Russian and Chinese archival materials, this history of Sino-Soviet relations in the 20th century sheds new light on key events during this period. It offers fresh insights into the role of ideology and national...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-31
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As the twentieth century dawned and France entered an era of extraordinary labor activism and industrial competition, an insistently romantic vision of the Parisian garment worker was deployed by politicians, reformers, and artists to manage anxieties about economic and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-10-31
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Dignified Retreat is a panoramic study of the vibrant literary and intellectual culture that emerged in early seventeenth-century France following the devastating Wars of Religion. This was a period that not only witnessed the recovery of the country following these...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-10-31
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Dignified Retreat is a panoramic study of the vibrant literary and intellectual culture that emerged in early seventeenth-century France following the devastating Wars of Religion. This was a period that not only witnessed the recovery of the country following these...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-10-31
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It was shit. Then the shit hit the fan. Would someone find a way of making it worse? Of course they would! Welcome to THE SHITSHOW...'There's a lot going on these days. Trump, Brexit, Call the Midwife . . . The rise of the robots . . . The rise of Easy Peelers . . .The...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2019-10-31
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This book explores the transformative impact that the immigration of large numbers of Jews from the former Soviet Union to Germany had on Jewish communities from 1990 to 2005. It focuses on four points of tension and conflict between existing community members and new...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-10-29
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This volume brings together philosophers, social theorists, and theologians in order to investigate the relation between future(s) of the Revolution and future(s) of the Reformation. It offers reflections on concepts and interpretations of revolution and reformation...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-29
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Venice's Secret Service is the untold and arresting story of the world's earliest centrally-organised state intelligence service. Long before the inception of SIS and the CIA, in the period of the Renaissance, the Republic of Venice had masterminded a remarkable...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-10-28
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Venice's Secret Service is the untold and arresting story of the world's earliest centrally-organised state intelligence service. Long before the inception of SIS and the CIA, in the period of the Renaissance, the Republic of Venice had masterminded a remarkable...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-10-28
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Towards the end of the twelfth century, powerful images of laughing kings and saints began to appear in texts circulating at the English royal court. At the same time, contemporaries began celebrating the wit, humour, and laughter of King Henry II (r.1154-89) and his...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-10-24
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Towards the end of the twelfth century, powerful images of laughing kings and saints began to appear in texts circulating at the English royal court. At the same time, contemporaries began celebrating the wit, humour, and laughter of King Henry II (r.1154-89) and his...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-10-24
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Deutschlands Aufstieg zu einem der größten Rüstungsverkäufer weltweit begann in der sozialliberalen Ära. Waffenexporte wurden zum Mittel der Politik, mit dem unterschiedlichste Motive verfolgt wurden: außen- und europapolitische Ziele ebenso wie Wirtschaftsinteressen....
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-10-23
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