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Famine is humanity's oldest fear.Famine memorials and stories are literally carved into the stones that lie on the beds of Europe's rivers. Our science fiction and fantasy literature often begin by evoking a world of hunger and scarcity.Famine shapes our past, it...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-01-28
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Lawyer and royalist, political prisoner and polemicist, Pierre de Belloy (c. 1550–1611) had the misfortune to live through interesting times. During the 1580s, Belloy became a notorious opponent of the French Catholic League for his position as the leading Catholic...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-01-28
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The Pauper Body in England and Wales 1750 to 1914 is based on a unique collection of 8 million words of pauper letters. It features fascinating body biographies of ordinary people living in deepest poverty who used their voices to secure welfare support.The Old and New...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-28
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This book examines 'womanhood' and 'race' not only as disputed, converging, and constantly changing categories and lived experiences, but also as interrelated and unequal subjectivities and social realties that shaped all early-twentieth century Puerto Ricans. It...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-27
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This book examines patterns of national integration and the mobilisation of the peasantry across two historical regions, Central and Eastern Europe, over a long historical timeframe, spanning from the 1848 Revolution to the outbreak of the Second World War. It...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-27
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This book offers a comprehensive corpus and analysis of all the Formosan ‘Shooting the Sun’ myths. The 'Shooting the Sun' myths describe a series of historical events in mythology that is preceded by the origins of man myths and followed by the deluge myths....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-23
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A dramatic, poignant and astonishing untold story of the Holocaust.' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE‘Extraordinary. One of the most haunting episodes of the war.’ DAILY MAIL'The remarkable story of a unique event - the reprieve of 51 Hungarian...
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Transworld Digital
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2026-01-22
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This book encounters the figure of the royal woman in the early modern period and explores how she enables and complicates the key moment at which England was emerging as an ideology, a nation, and an empire. Queens and queens consort, historical and fictional, played...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-22
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Over the course of the early Middle Ages, Christianity changed politics and politics changed Christianity. Christianity emerged in the pagan Roman Empire and early Christians, consequently, developed a 'secular' understanding of politics, where the religious identity of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-21
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Ostia, the Roman settlement founded at the mouth of the river Tiber, was the port of the imperial capital and one of the most important urban centers in the Mediterranean world during the last decades of the Roman Republic and the Early and High Empires. The town's role...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-01-21
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Spanning a millennium from the 4th to the 14th century, this book explores the dynamic role of the Ramaya?a and the Mahabharata in shaping the political and socio-cultural landscape of the Deccan. Drawing on a wealth of epigraphic evidence, especially royal prasastis...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-21
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This book chronicles the history of Chinese miners in one of the largest mines in Northeast Asia from 1900 to 1948, situating this emergent working class at the nexus of industrial capitalism, imperial expansion, and nation-state construction. Coal from Fushun (in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-21
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Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie müssten all Ihre Besitztümer zurücklassen, Ihre Kinder an der Hand nehmen und vor dem Krieg fliehen.
Was würden Sie mitnehmen, wenn nur ein Augenblick bleibt?
Dieses dreisprachige Buch (Deutsch, Ukrainisch, Englisch) erzählt die Geschichten...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2026-01-20
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How do different generations remember the democratic transitions in the post-authoritarian European South fifty years later, and why does that matter? A Collective Biography of Southern European Democratization shows how individual stories, family stories, and the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-20
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Japan's history is one of sharp contrasts -- centuries of isolation followed by rapid modernization, ancient traditions existing alongside cutting-edge technology, and periods of devastating conflict giving way to remarkable recovery. It's a story that goes far beyond...
Editeur :
Rob Satterfield
Parution :
2026-04-17
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A comprehensive history of the Nova Scotian nurses who served in World War I, from a leading historian and author of Nova Scotia at War, 1914–1919.
Very little has been written about Canadian military nurses in the Great War largely because, more than a century later,...
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Nimbus
Parution :
2026-04-14
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The path of young Stanley’s life takes an abrupt turn when Nazi Germany invades Poland in September 1939. Growing up in Jaslo in southeastern Poland, Stanley helps his parents sell goods at the market, plays with friends in the river and goes to school with his sisters....
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Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
Parution :
2026-04-12
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The Book of Puka-Puka by Robert Dean Frisbie is a vivid and engaging account of life on the remote coral atoll of Puka-Puka in the South Pacific. First published in 1929, the book combines travel writing, memoir, and cultural observation to present an intimate portrait...
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Fanela Publishing
Parution :
2026-04-07
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The Classic Collection of T. E. Lawrence. Illustrated: Guerrilla Warfare, Revolt in the Desert, Seven Pillars of Wisdom,The Forest Giant and Others brings together the essential writings of T. E. Lawrence, the legendary “Lawrence of Arabia.”
This richly illustrated...
Editeur :
Asimis Books
Parution :
2026-04-04
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence is a remarkable historical and autobiographical work that recounts the author’s experiences during the Arab Revolt of 1916–1918. Lawrence, widely known as Lawrence of Arabia, served as a British liaison officer who worked...
Editeur :
Fanela Publishing
Parution :
2026-03-27
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