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Sexism in the City is the first book to trace the history of women stockbrokers in the United Kingdom from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. Forgotten pioneers, these businesswomen fought against the odds to establish successful brokerages across the...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-03-12
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An exquisite abridged edition of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations by a renowned translator Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was the sixteenth emperor of Rome—and by far the most powerful man in the world. His collected thoughts, gems that have come to be...
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Basic Books
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2025-03-11
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Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siècle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-03-11
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This book presents the history of the British Empire as the “Bridge” for creating a Global History, especially emphasizing its connections with Asian regions. The United Kingdom ruled most of the world in the nineteenth century. Its influence spread around the globe in...
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Springer
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2025-03-07
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'An exhilarating, urgent work . . . [Dark Laboratory] threads together ecological and human crises in an original, glittering web’ Afua HirschFrom award-winning writer and theorist Tao Leigh Goffe, an urgent investigation into the intertwined history of colonialism and...
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Penguin
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2025-03-06
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This book presents a comprehensive account of the history of the Grand Canal of China, which is over 6,000 miles long and more than 2,500 years old. The Grand Canal of China flows through Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang, connecting the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-03-06
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A remarkable account of the terrible climax of the Second World War in AsiaA Telegraph Book of the Year 2025 'A short but quietly devastating book, in which Overy adds new perspectives to a subject that has often been approached from a narrowly American angle......
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Penguin
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2025-03-06
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«This unique volume takes the reader on an extraordinary journey through flights of the political and social imagination across Iberia and Latin America from the conquest of the Americas, via insurgent and reactionary modern movements, to the Cold War and on to...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2025-03-06
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Mehr als drei Jahrzehnte nach dem Fall der Berliner Mauer und der deutschen Einheit lebt die DDR weiter – nicht nur in der (lebendigen) Erinnerung von Zeitzeug:innen und Erb:innen, sondern auch in vielfältigen kulturhistorischen, künstlerischen, literarischen und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2025-03-06
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Simultaneous to the rise of industrial capitalism, agriculture - still the mainstay of most human communities around the globe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - underwent dramatic changes. In many countries, including most settler economies, a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-05
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During the long nineteenth century, British women reframed the masculine paradigm of the Grand Tour. They created a feminist travel gaze, intentionally or unintentionally, that differed from that of male peers. Unlike their brothers, who went for personal edification,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-05
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From the authors of Cocktails in Color comes a revolutionary celebration of the women who have shaped the spirits industry from ancient times to today. Alcohol and spirits has long been thought of as a male-dominated field, but the truth is that women have been...
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Union Square & Co.
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2025-03-04
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An “essential” (James Oakes, author of The Crooked Path to Abolition) history of the study of slavery in America, from the Revolutionary era to the 1619 Project, showing how these intellectual debates have shaped American public life In recent years, from...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2025-03-04
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The First World War transformed modern politics. No example demonstrates this more powerfully than the enactment and use of emergency powers by all belligerents. Wartime governments passed extensive emergency legislation that allowed them to pursue their war efforts...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-03-03
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This book brings together its contributors to study the figure of Seignelay Colbert de Castlehill, born in Inverness on 13th August 1735 into a Presbyterian family and who died in London, an anti-Concordant bishop and leader of the ‘Little Church’ on 15th July 1811....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-01
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This book explores the origins of agriculture in China, and the transformation from hunter-gatherer to agriculture producer. Therefore, it reveals the ancient genes of China as an agricultural country and digs into questions like what turning events occurred during the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-28
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The later Middle Ages and the early modern period were important and overlapping historical moments for both Venice and the Ottoman Empire, yet the two--both the periods themselves and the Republic and Empire more generally--have often been considered in isolation....
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-28
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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 on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Across eighteenth- and early...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-28
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‘Extraordinary’ ANNE APPLEBAUM‘Thrilling . . . a record of an infatuation’ TELEGRAPH ‘The book of a lifetime’ ELIF SHAFAK‘The North Pole proves to be the perfect subject for him’ MICHAEL PALIN'Heart-catching . . . fabulous' OBSERVER ‘A beautiful book’ ALAIN DE BOTTONThe...
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Penguin
Parution :
2025-02-27
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The story of the ancient world’s most spectacular library, and the civilization that created it'A thrilling trip back to Mesopotamia, birthplace of horoscopes and algorithms … via the abundant records they left behind, written on clay tablets… absorbing… hums with life'...
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Penguin
Parution :
2025-02-27
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