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Born in Margilan, Central Asia on the eve of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Ruzi Nazar had one of the most exciting lives of the twentieth century. Charming, intellectually brilliant and passionately committed to the liberation of Central Asia from Russian rule, his...
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Hurst
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2017-05-01
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‘One of the most important books about gay culture in recent times’ The QuietusLong-listed for the Polari First Book PrizeIn 1984 the pulsing electronics and soft vocals of Smalltown Boy would become an anthem uniting gay men. A month later, an aggressive virus, HIV,...
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Ebury Digital
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2017-04-27
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One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite Runner in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. "A contemporary tragedy of epic proportions. No author is better placed than Muhsin Al-Ramli, already a star in the Arabic literary scene, to tell this story. I read it in one sitting". Hassan...
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Maclehose Press
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2017-04-20
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This study provides a comprehensive analysis of representations of Holocaust perpetrators in literature. Such texts, often rather controversially, seek to undo the myth of pure evil that surrounds the Holocaust and to reconstruct the perpetrator in more human (“banal”)...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-04-19
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Red Saxony throws new light on the reciprocal relationship between political modernization and authoritarianism in Germany over the span of six decades.
Election battles were fought so fiercely in Imperial Germany because they reflected two kinds of democratization....
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OUP Oxford
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2017-04-15
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Azar Gat sets out to resolve one of the age-old questions of human existence: why people fight and can they stop. Spanning warfare from prehistory to the 21st century, the book shows that, neither an irresistible drive nor a cultural invention, deadly violence and...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-04-14
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Red Saxony throws new light on the reciprocal relationship between political modernization and authoritarianism in Germany over the span of six decades.
Election battles were fought so fiercely in Imperial Germany because they reflected two kinds of democratization....
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OUP Oxford
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2017-04-14
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In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this...
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Basic Books
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2017-04-11
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A Companion to Dwight D. Eisenhower brings new depth to the historiography of this significant and complex figure, providing a comprehensive and up-to-date depiction of both the man and era. Thoughtfully incorporates new and significant literature on Dwight D....
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2017-04-07
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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We Know All About You shows how bulk spying came of age in the nineteenth century, and supplies the first overarching narrative and interpretation of what has happened since, covering the agencies, programs, personalities, technology, leaks, criticisms and reform....
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OUP Oxford
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2017-04-07
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An Englishwoman of no particular fame living in World War I Brussels started a secret diary in September 1916. Aware that her thoughts could put her in danger with German authorities, she never wrote her name on the diary and ran to hide it every time the "Boches" came...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-04-03
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In 1917, the year the United States entered the Great War, Colonel Moorhead C. Kennedy, one of the most powerful men in the state of Pennsylvania and now the Deputy Director General of Transportation for the American Expeditionary Force, asked his African American valet...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-04-03
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The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena, from the author of Pulitzer Prize finalistThe Pentagon's Brain and international bestseller Area 51. This is a book about a team of scientists and psychics with top...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2017-03-28
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The Cold War left indelible traces on the city, where polarities on the global stage crystallized and intersected with political and social dynamics predating and bypassing the Blocs. This collection taps into the rich fabric of memories, histories and cultural...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2017-03-27
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Ever since the Industrial Revolution of...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-24
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‘Everyone should spend a couple of hours of their life reading it, to remind themselves that, even in the darkest depth of human misery, the bravest souls still exist.’ Sunday TimesSince ISIS occupied Raqqa in eastern Syria, it has become one of the most isolated and...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2017-03-09
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'War is the most important thing in the world', writes Martin van Creveld, one of the world's best-known experts on military history and strategy.
The survival of every country, government, and individual is ultimately dependent on war - or the ability to wage it in...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-01
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From the North African desert to the bloody stalemate in Italy, from the London blitz to the D-Day beaches, a group of highly courageous and extremely talented American journalists reported the war against Nazi Germany for a grateful audience. Based on a wealth of...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-03-01
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Concentration camps are a relatively new invention, a recurring feature of twentieth century warfare, and one that is important to the modern global consciousness and identity. Although the most famous concentration camps are those under the Nazis, the use of...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-02-23
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We Know All About You shows how bulk spying came of age in the nineteenth century, and supplies the first overarching narrative and interpretation of what has happened since, covering the agencies, programs, personalities, technology, leaks, criticisms and reform....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-02-17
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