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The ridiculously funny history of Britain for adults from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the Horrible Histories, perfect for fans of Unruly by David Mitchell. 'If you could take just one history book to a desert island, this would be it. It is laugh out...
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Transworld Digital
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2024-10-10
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Available in this new hardback edition for the first time in decades, Sweet Soul Music was hailed by Newsweek on publication as 'a stunning chronicle.... a panoramic survey of a lost world [and] one of the best books ever written on American popular music'.Since then it...
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White Rabbit
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2024-10-10
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Deep Cuts
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'A chilling look at Nazi Germany in collapse' Globe and Mail'Excellent' Evening Standard | 'Fascinating' Ben MacintyreRaze Paris to the ground. Burn the bridges. Destroy all industry.These were just a few of the insane orders issued by Hitler in the closing months of...
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August Books
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2024-10-10
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While the 1914 Christmas truces have a mythological status in British culture, intimate interactions with the enemy are, this interdisciplinary edited collection shows, a staple of modern warfare. Spanning multiple conflicts around the world, from the nineteenth century...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-10-09
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The Uley Tablets is the first full publication of the eighty Roman lead writing-tablets found in the excavation of a Romano-British temple in the Cotswolds, the temple of the god Mercury at Uley, Gloucestershire, together with two from the nearby site of Tarlton. Like...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-10-09
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A provocative, irreverent biography of Anton Szandor LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, BORN WITHA TAIL chronicles a time when Americans welcomed a macabre showman into their living rooms via TheTonight Show, before a ginned-up hysteria known as the Satanic Panic...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2024-10-08
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This book is an acknowledgement and celebration of Professor Carl Bridge’s key contributions to the British World approach to history. His pioneering work was first published in several co-authored essays which appeared in 2003. Much of this grew out of a series of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2024-10-08
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The migration between Mexico and the United States is the largest emigration of people between two states in modern history. Today, thirty-six million Mexican Americans call the United States home.The Bracero period and recent Mexican migration have been well explored,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-10-08
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A core tenet of the Soviet Communist Party's ideology was the belief that religion was an oppressive tool, wielded by the exploiting classes. With help of the secret police, they attempted to eliminate it completely from Soviet society by, in part, imprisoning believers...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-10-08
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The rapid proliferation and growing sophistication of aerospace weapons--rockets, missiles, and drones--have altered the landscape of warfare.The influence of these weapons on the battlefield is felt profoundly, yet the mechanism of coercion by which these weapons alter...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-10-08
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This book explores museum crises. Through an investigation into the experience of the Imperial War Museum during the Second World War era, 1933-1950, it considers how crises disrupt museums and the contrasting defensive and revolutionary strategies which museums must...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-08
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Thanks to their economic and military strength, the European empires had achieved global supremacy by 1900, with large parts of the world under their dominance in the wake of colonial expansion. This situation fuelled ideas of Europe's permanent, almost natural global...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-10-08
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Das Buch hat Brief einer Unbekannten, Stefan Zweigs Novelle aus dem Jahr 1922, und die hierauf basierenden internationalen Verfilmungen der Jahre 1929–2017 zum Gegenstand. Es sind Adaptionen u. a. aus der VR China, aus Deutschland, Finnland, Frankreich, Griechenland,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-10-07
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Das Buch hat zum Ziel, das Vorkommen der Burgherrschaft (châtellenie französischen Typs) in Deutschland aufzuzeigen und dabei die innere Struktur der Burgherrschaft zu untersuchen. Konkret greift der Autor vier Burgen, nämlich Neuburg, Falkenstein, Hartmannsberg und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-10-07
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For most of its existence, the US Supreme Court has sustained slavery, racial discrimination, segregation, racial inequality, and white preference through constitutional interpretation and legal doctrine. During America's first two centuries, slavery was the law of the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-10-04
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On July 22, 1847, a group of about forty refugees entered the Salt Lake Valley. Among them were three enslaved men, two of whom shared the religion, Mormonism, that had caused them to flee. The valley was also home to members of the Ute tribe, who would sometimes barter...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-10-04
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This book is the first major study exploring archival and memorial practices of the Soviet unofficial culture. The creation of counter-archives was one of the most important forms of cultural resistance in the Soviet Union. Unofficial artists and poets had to reinvent...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-04
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This book provides the first comprehensive study of the technical corps during the Napoleonic Era, both in France and in Italy. These corps, which possessed advanced schooling and nurtured meritocratic practices even in the Ancien Regime, came to the forefront with the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-10-04
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This volume is a comprehensive historical exploration of the Red Sea, a vital maritime route that connects the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. It highlights various pivotal moments and struggles from Aden to Suez, including the conflicts between Islamic powers and...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-03
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