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The union of Poland and Lithuania was ruled by the Jagiellon royal house from 1385–1572, after which a political transition to an elective monarchy was undertaken. This book studies the political transition from the Jagiellon dynasty to an elective monarchy as a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-11-20
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Using close readings of Shaw's plays and letters, as well as archival research, David Clare illustrates that Shaw regularly placed Irish, Irish Diasporic, and surrogate Irish characters into his plays in order to comment on Anglo-Irish relations and to explore the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-11-17
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This book provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, situating him firmly in historical context.
David Bell emphasizes the astonishing sense of human possibility--for both good and ill--that Napoleon represented. By...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-11-05
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Antisemitism, as hatred of Jews and Judaism, has been a central problem of Western civilization for millennia, and its history continues to invite debate.
This Very Short Introduction untangles the history of the phenomenon, from ancient religious conflict to 'new'...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-10-29
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Scholarship on the history of the British Isles is currently experiencing a golden age. The breakdown of modernism and the eclipse of both the Marxist tradition and the 'Whig interpretation' that sees all history as progress, combined with the trajectories of...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-10-29
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‘In many respects, the nineteenth century belonged to Britain.’For much of the period between 1800 and 1914 Britain was at the height of its power and influence, one of the world’s superpowers, if not its greatest. It was the golden Victorian age – one of prosperity and...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-10-29
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Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit dem am 25. Februar 1947 durch den Alliierten Kontrollrat verfügten Gesetz Nr. 46 zur Auflösung des Staates Preußen. In einer vorherrschend posthumen Lesart wurde dieser Schritt als ein verspäteter und im Grunde überflüssiger Akt...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-10-23
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In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse.In a final gamble, Pearse had a desperate plan to save the collapsing rebellion.It required the sacrifice of Saurin and his comrades.The...
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Transworld Digital
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2015-10-22
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Here, in a single convenient volume, is the essential reference book for anyone with an interest in British history. First published in 1997, under the editorship of the late John Cannon and in consultation with over 100 distinguished contributors, this Companion has...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-10-15
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'Informed, impeccably researched and written' Neil OliverThe Celts are one of the world's most mysterious ancient people. In this compelling account, Alice Roberts takes us on a journey across Europe, uncovering the truth about this engimatic tribe: their origins, their...
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Heron Books
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2015-10-05
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Winner of the 2016 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference
During the sixteenth century, no part of the Christian West saw the development of a more powerful and pervasive astrological culture than the very home of the Reformation...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-10-01
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Managing early modern England was difficult because the state was weak. Although Queen Elizabeth was the supreme ruler, she had little bureaucracy, no standing army, and no police force. This meant that her chief manager, Lord Burghley, had to work with the gentlemen of...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-10-01
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This volume considers the various interactions between the culture of the book and politics in Polish history. Each of the fourteen authors deals with a different topic, chronologically starting with the beginnings of the early Piast monarchy in the 10th century up to...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-09-30
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Das Buch illustriert anhand zahlreicher Fotos das Leben im Internierungslager auf Rottnest Island (Australien). Dort wurden im Ersten Weltkrieg neben zivilen feindlichen Ausländern aus Deutschland und Österreich-Ungarn auch indigene Strafgefangene von australischen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-09-30
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Flying and the pilot were significant metaphors of fascism's mythical modernity. Fernando Esposito traces the changing meanings of these highly charged symbols from the air show in Brescia, to the sky above the trenches of the First World War to the violent ideological...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-09-29
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During the Cold War, Estonia lay behind the Iron Curtain. Even in the grip of Soviet rule, the country underwent many important developments. This volume brings together fourteen papers on the political, economic, and cultural history of Estonia during the Cold War....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-09-25
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A foundational moment in the history of modern European thought, the Enlightenment continues to be a reference point for philosophers, scholars and opinion-formers. To many it remains the inspiration of our commitments to the betterment of the human condition. To...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-09-24
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A foundational moment in the history of modern European thought, the Enlightenment continues to be a reference point for philosophers, scholars and opinion-formers. To many it remains the inspiration of our commitments to the betterment of the human condition. To...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-09-24
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Robert Service's The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century provides a superb panorama of Russia in the modern age. Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is still...
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Penguin
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2015-09-24
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This book is about an unprecedented attempt by the government of Russia's Tsar Nicholas I (1825-1855) to eradicate what was seen as one of the greatest threats to its political security: the religious dissent of the Old Believers. The Old Believers had long been reviled...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-09-24
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