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The Anglo-Irish Union of 1800 which established the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland made British ministers in London more directly responsible for Irish affairs than had previously been the case.The Act did not, however, provide for full integration, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-08-18
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Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of ethnography as a vital contributor to the configuration of plague at the turn of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-30
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Containing Balkan Nationalism focuses on the implications of the Bulgarian national movement that developed in the context of Ottoman modernization and of European imperialism in the Near East. The movement aimed to achieve the status of an independent Bulgarian...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-07-18
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This book analyses the nationalist rebellion which emerged in
Romania following the Second World War. The first two decades after the end of
the war were times of rebellion in imperial peripheries. Armed movements,
sometimes communist but nearly always nationalist in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-07-15
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This ground-breaking book provides a compelling account of the social sciences in post-war Central and Eastern Europe. The first English-language monograph to analyse the history of sociology in Poland up to the present day, it maps transformations in the discipline...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-07-12
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This book examines how adolescence, menstruation and pregnancy were experienced or ‘managed’ by active women in Britain between 1930 and 1970, and how their athletic life-styles interacted with their working lives, marriage and motherhood. It explores the gendered...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-07-09
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This book, the first of two volumes, challenges decades of superficial and selective rhetoric about Tito’s Yugoslavia. The essays explore some of the gaps in the existing descriptions of the country that have existed for decades. Contributors cover a range of topics...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-06-30
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This book considers the cultural residue from pre-Christian Ireland in Synge’s plays and performances. By dramatising a residual culture in front of a predominantly modern and political Irish Catholic middle class audience, the book argues that Synge attempted to offer...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-06-29
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1755 marked the point at which events in America ceased to be considered subsidiary affairs in the great international rivalry that existed between the colonial powers of Great Britain and France. This book examines the Braddock Campaign of 1755, a segment of the wider...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-06-28
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This book analyzes the multi-faceted phenomenon of Finnish military effectiveness in the Winter War (1939–40). Drawing on a wide array of primary and secondary sources, Pasi Tuunainen shows how by focusing on their own strengths and pitting these against the ...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-06-25
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This volume has been produced to mark the retirement of Roy Foster from the Carroll Professorship of Irish history at the University of Oxford, and to mark his extraordinary career as a historian, literary critic, and public intellectual. It consists of twenty three...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-06-17
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Like every totalitarian regime, Nazi Germany tried to control intellectual freedom through book censorship.
Between 1933 and 1945, the Hitler regime orchestrated a massive campaign to take control of all forms of communication. In 1933 alone, there were 90 book burnings...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-13
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'Elegantly written and beautifully produced' TLSHow 'Uncle Bill' won the war in BurmaDefeated and demoralised, British units in the Far East had virtually been ejected from Burma when, in 1943, General W. J. Slim organised, trained and then deployed his famous...
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Constable
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2016-06-02
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Founded in 1147, Moscow was for much of its early history in thrall to other nations - to the Khans, the Tartars and the Poles. The city was devastated by fire time and again, but with each rebuilding, it grew ever more magnificent. For every church that was destroyed,...
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Robinson
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2016-06-02
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A col is the lowest point on the saddle between two mountains. Graham Robb has spent years uncovering and cataloguing the 2,002 cols and 105 passes scattered across the British Isles.Some of these obscure and magical sites are virgin cols that have never been crossed....
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Penguin
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2016-06-02
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This study explores the consumption practices of the landed aristocracy of Georgian England. Focussing on three families and drawing on detailed analysis of account books, receipted bills, household inventories, diaries and correspondence, Consumption and the Country...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-06-02
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*Shortlisted for 2016 European Book Prize* Giles Merritt describes himself as a 'sceptical europhile'. For many years among the foremost commentators on the politics and economics shaping Europe, he was named by the Financial Times as one of 30 'Eurostars' who are the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-01
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Der Band versammelt die Beiträge der Vortragsreihe Geteilte Erinnerungen – deutsche Geschichten, die im Wintersemester 2009/2010 an der TU Braunschweig stattfand. Sie spürt jenen deutsch-deutschen Geschichten nach, die sich im Schatten der Mauer zugetragen haben und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-05-27
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This book examines the little studied story of Bellinghausen, and includes the fullest biography of the celebrated Russian explorer ever published, and with thoughtful discussion of the achievements and limitations of the expedition and suggestions for further research.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-23
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This study explores the consumption practices of the landed aristocracy of Georgian England. Focussing on three families and drawing on detailed analysis of account books, receipted bills, household inventories, diaries and correspondence, Consumption and the Country...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-05-20
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