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** THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER **'Extraordinary' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMES • 'Thrilling' MAX HASTINGS • ‘An epic thriller . . . droll, moving, with a cinematic eye and not a boring line in it' OBSERVER • ‘Fascinating . . . gripping' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH •...
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Penguin
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2024-07-25
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This book untangles the connections between British industrialization and colonial expansion in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The addition of fossil fuels to the energy mix in this period drove overwhelming social and economic change in Britain, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-24
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This book presents detailed research regarding the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, including studies of inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells, bronzeware, bamboo scripts, and silk manuscripts, in order to demonstrate the main features of various historical periods...
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Springer
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2024-07-24
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Bringing together contributions from social, political, and urban historians, this collection examines social movements in Western European cities from the 1950s to the 1980s. Since their post-war recovery and reconstruction, cities in this part of the world underwent...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-23
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This open access book provides fascinating insights into the incredible changes that Vietnam underwent in the long twentieth century as it transformed from an early modern kingdom to a European colony, to a divided land with opposing ideologies, and to a unified country...
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Springer
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2024-07-22
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This book presents a comprehensive and inclusive exploration of the core essence of Chinese civilization and its deeply-rooted humanistic values. It goes beyond the surface and delves into the philosophical, ethical, and historical aspects, aiming to unravel the...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-20
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This open access Palgrave Pivot explores four major aspects of globalization: foreign trade, capital and information flows, and the movement of people. The book examines how the state socialist countries of East Central Europe fit into the general trend of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-20
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This book explores the development of coffee substitutes in nineteenth-century Sweden. In doing so, it considers the the threshold between the preindustrial and industrial periods by analyzing trade, consumption, social, economic, and environmental changes, and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-07-19
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The first comprehensive study of Italian Christian Democracy in English, Italy's Christian Democracy unravels the encounter between Catholicism and democracy from pre-unification Italy in the eighteenth century to the near-present. Forlenza and Thomassen put the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-07-18
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This book aims to extend existing historical, literary and media knowledge of neglected written voices as a form of print participation in the Second World War. Uniquely, it is framed by an awareness of contemporary requirements for both secrecy and deception, which, it...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-17
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This harrowing tale of early twentieth century New York reveals the true stories of an immigrant underworld, a secret vice squad, and the rise of organized crime. In the early 1900s, prior to World War I, New York City was a vortex of vice and corruption. On the...
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Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2024-07-16
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A partire dalla fine del II sec. a.C., la villa maritima, lussuosa residenza destinata alle alte sfere dell’aristocrazia romana, caratterizza le coste dell’Italia centrale per poi diffondersi, in epoca imperiale, in tutto il bacino del Mediterraneo. Nonostante gli studi...
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Publications de l'École française de Rome
Parution :
2024-07-16
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Collection de l'École française de Rome
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Acts of terrorism and forms of counter-terrorism have been evolving for quite a long time. Although we have been living with these phenomena for centuries, they have only recently become part of the daily lives of many in the West since the dawn of the millennium. In...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-15
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In late nineteenth-century Russia, a series of organizations emerged from the nascent radical liberationist movement for the purposes of providing aid to political prisoners and exiles. Those leading these endeavors framed them as a philanthropic exercise that was...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-07-15
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In this path-breaking book, he reflects on the evolution of Polish Jewry in these years against the background of its enormous contribution to Jewish religious traditions and its tragic fate in the Holocaust. A Jewish community, ‘small in numbers’ but with a ‘big...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-07-15
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This book presents ground-breaking research into the ‘Merker affair,’ a series of events that took place in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the early 1950s, which saw Paul Merker, a member of the ruling party’s ‘Politburo,’ become ensnared in the agent hysteria...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-13
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Philosophers from Europe and colonial America engaged in heated debates about the morality of slavery in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and these debates provide insights into the roots of modern racism. Julia Jorati explores the philosophical ideas, theories,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-07-12
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Stephen I, Hungary's first Christian king (reigned 997-1038) has been celebrated as the founder of the Hungarian state and church. Despite the scarcity of medieval sources, and consequent limitations on historical knowledge, he has had a central importance in narratives...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-07-12
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In the early Middle Ages, the conversion of the early English kingdoms acted as a catalyst for significant social and cultural change. One of the most visible of these changes was the introduction of a new type of household: the monastic household. These reproduced...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-07-12
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