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Der Band untersucht die kartographische Darstellung des Gebiets der ehemaligen siebenbürgisch-sächsischen Stühle (eines der wichtigsten historischen Siedlungsgebiete der deutschen Minderheit im heutigen Rumänien) zwischen dem Ende des Mittelalters und dem Jahr 1780. Es...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2026-04-29
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In the nineteenth century, France embarked on the colonization of whole swathes of Africa and Asia. What drove this policy, and what methods did it use to establish and enforce French domination? What disruptive effects did this have on the colonized societies, and what...
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Polity
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2026-04-29
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"Mysterious Flames" engages with Umberto Eco’s work from a new perspective, by tracing his intellectual development through the lens of Cultural Studies, drawing in particular on the thought of Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall. It offers the first detailed analysis of...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2026-04-28
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In 1907, a lesbian feminist vegetarian stepped into male history. She was one of nineteen female Finnish politicians, the first women in the world to be elected to the ruling body of any country. These women sparked a chain reaction that would ignite across the globe....
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Polity
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2026-04-27
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Matthias Wissmann kann auf eine äußerst erfolgreiche politische Laufbahn zurückblicken: In jungen Jahren bei der Jungen Union, dann als Abgeordneter des Deutschen Bundestags und schließlich als Mitglied des Bundeskabinetts unter Helmut Kohl –...
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Springer
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2026-04-26
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This book provides a timely examination of the role that consumer credit has played in maintaining inequality, at a time when the gap between the rich and the rest is increasing in the political west. It does so through the prism of the Australian department store,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-04-26
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Dieses essential bietet auf knappem Raum die ganze Geschichte des russisch-ukrainischen Krieges, seine Ursachen, seinen Verlauf und seine Folgen.
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Springer VS
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2026-04-26
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This book is the first full-length academic study of sport in nineteenth-century Dublin. Drawing extensively from historical and archival material, it maps out the emergence and development of modern sport in the city as traditional pastimes were progressively replaced...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2026-04-24
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The Spanish Civil War was a landmark conflict of the twentieth century with deep international, political, and cultural resonance. Even given its impact, sustained interest in the plethora of ways music was employed during the era is a much more recent development....
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Oxford University Press
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2026-04-24
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For over five centuries, the Roman Empire ruled much of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. It produced some of history's greatest orators and statesmen, as well as some of its most debauched and corrupt tyrants. Shaping world affairs, the Roman Empire advanced...
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Tallis Street Books
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2026-04-23
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Very Brief Histories
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Editeur :
Monoray
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2026-04-23
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Walking defines us as human beings. But how much do we know about the paths that we walk? Why do they matter? What caused so many to be lost? And can we create more of them?In The Path More Travelled, acclaimed geographer and travel writer Nicholas Crane explores the...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2026-04-23
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Nicolas Appert invented canned food in Paris in 1810 and is celebrated as the founder of modern food processing and the field of food science, but does he deserve the recognition? Appert was no scientist and the “cans” he made by a process of trial and...
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Springer
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2026-04-22
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American history is, in part, a history of immigration – of waves of people from other lands making their way to America's shores.Immigration: How the Past Shapes the Present argues that the past is critical in understanding current immigration; that a new historical...
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Polity
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2026-04-22
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This interdisciplinary study addresses Hungarian perspectives on Ireland and Irish engagements with Hungary from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, examining nationalist, colonialist and imperialist aspects of these encounters. It discusses Hungarian...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-04-22
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This book explores Yugoslavia’s expulsion from the Soviet Cominform and its broader impact on international politics. Although being acknowledged as a crucial turning point during the Cold War, the split between Josip Broz Tito and Joseph Stalin in 1948 has not...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-04-21
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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 on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The Promise of Ukraine: A Conceptual History of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-04-21
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Once upon a time, I was meandering down the road of life with my husband, Jon. It was a regular and beige life, and it worked. It was a warm beige. We felt, and were, blessed and lucky. Normal. On the morning of October 7th, 2023, Rachel Goldberg-Polin's beloved...
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Constable
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2026-04-21
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A new perspective on the life of the US politician best known for the infamous assault that paved the bloody road to the Civil War.
In 1856, South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks assaulted Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the US Capitol,...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-04-20
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