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This edited collection explores the problem of space under socialist regimes in the twentieth century. Bringing together contributions from international scholars with expertise in the architectural, urban, social, and cultural history of twentieth-century socialism,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-06-10
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This book is both a conceptualization and detailed analysis of the current crisis in which modern utopian categories of political institutions find themselves, as well as a reflection and clarification of the new dangers and opportunities facing post-utopian politics...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-06-06
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Blood, fire and iron: An unforgettable portrait of the most feared soldiers of World War TwoIn the closing years of the 1930s, German agent-provocateurs worked in secrecy. These crack units of elite soldiers paved the way for the invasions of Czechoslovakia and Poland,...
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August Books
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2024-06-06
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A highly readable cultural history of queer women's lives in the second half of the twentieth century'An inspiring celebration of lesbian camaraderie, activism and fun' SARAH WATERS'A cracking read, and a reminder of what shaped where we are now' VAL MCDERMID 'Riveting;...
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Virago
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2024-06-06
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'On the Shadow Tracks harnesses the railway lines of Myanmar’s complicated past to its turbulent present, and the result is part travelogue, part history and completely absorbing. An astonishing achievement’Joanna LumleyIn 2016, while working as a journalist in Yangon,...
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Penguin
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2024-06-06
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'Gripping history that also informs the present' Sunday Times'Fascinating . . . Wilford writes engagingly with a telling eye for colourful detail' The Spectator'A spectacular achievement . . . I loved it' Dominic Sandbrook How the CIA became an instrument of a new...
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Basic Books
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2024-06-06
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***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING***'Read this book. Don't put it off until you'll supposedly be strong enough and ready for the reading. If you put it off, you'll find yourself defenseless in the face of evil.'- Svetlana Alexievich, winner...
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Ebury Digital
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2024-06-06
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Canada is repeatedly ranked the world's most favourite tourist destination. And there's a lot of reasons why. It is a nation of vast, unspoiled wilderness, and yet you still get the feeling everyone still knows each other's name. It has a ton of bears. And maple syrup....
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OH
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2024-06-06
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"A fitting and frightening conclusion to a magnificent series" The TimesThe final instalment of the acclaimed Black Forest Investigations brings the series to a shattering close.Louise Bonì, Chief Inspector of the Freiburg criminal police, gets intelligence from an...
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Maclehose Press
Parution :
2024-06-06
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The Black Forest Investigations
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Moving book history in a new direction, this study examines publishers as brokers of Central Europe's political public sphere. They created international print markets, translated new texts, launched new journals, supported outspoken authors, and experimented with...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-05
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Robert Vipper (1859–1954) war vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg Professor für Universalgeschichte an der Moskauer Universität und hatte sich ebenfalls als Geschichtstheoretiker und Geschichtsdidaktiker einen Namen gemacht. Die Revolution von 1917 änderte die Rahmenbedingungen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-06-05
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This book examines for the first time how ancient Egypt is reflected in early modern Venetian sources. As a center of the printing industry, Venice was an important hub for the accumulation and dissemination of direct information on the Near East and the Levant....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-04
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A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024 A fascinating first history of the Yuppie phenomenon, chronicling the roots, rise, triumph and (seeming) fall of the young urban professionals who radically altered American life between 1980 and 1987. "Entertaining and...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2024-06-04
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A story of espionage, shadow diplomacy, foreign scheming, and domestic backstabbing in the formative years of the American republic.
Tyson Reeder's book traces early America's rocky beginnings, when foreign interference and political conflict threatened to undermine...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-06-03
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A unique perspective on war and its impact.Poets have written about the experience of war since ancient times, but the young soldier poets of the First World War established war poetry as a literary genre. Leaving an indelible mark on literature, their poems offered a...
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OH
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2024-06-01
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Die Mindener Stadtrechtsreformation aus dem Jahre 1613 schlummerte bisher fast unbeachtet in den Archiven. Sie wird nun erstmalig aufgearbeitet und rechtshistorisch eingeordnet. Diese Analyse fokussiert sich auf mögliche Quellen des Rechtstextes, insbesondere ältere...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-05-31
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**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize**From one kiss comes a chain reaction – a masterpiece of memoir from the winner of the Baillie Gifford and the Booker prize‘Extraordinary’ Sarah Perry‘Masterpiece’ Colm Tóibín‘Wholly original. I...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2024-05-30
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**A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR**'Quite simply, this book is a work of genius' Matthew Parris, Spectator'An essential study of post-war gay London life... one of the best anthologies I have ever read' John Self, ObserverThe first part of a major new...
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Penguin
Parution :
2024-05-30
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80th ANNIVERSARY EDITIONProduced in collaboration with Imperial War MuseumsRelive the day that changed the course of history. On 6 June 1944, D-Day marked the beginning of a campaign that involved more than a million men and helped seal the fate of Hitler's...
Editeur :
Welbeck
Parution :
2024-05-30
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