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A new civil rights reader that integrates the primary source approach with the latest historiographical trends Designed for use in a wide range of curricula, The Civil Rights Movement:A Documentary Reader presents an in-depth exploration of the multiple facets and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2020-04-03
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Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History
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WINNER OF THE TEMPLER MEDAL BOOK PRIZE 2020A SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'A stunning achievement' Max Hastings, Sunday TimesPart Two of Daniel Todman's epic history of the Second World War opens with one of the greatest disasters...
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Penguin
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2020-03-26
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This book thematically analyses and surveys areas of Caribbean history and society. The work is divided into three parts: part one addresses migration and identity; part two explores policy and development; and part three explores music and literature. The volume places...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-03-10
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This pioneering study shows what brought Yiddish-speaking Jewish intelligentsia to the Communist movement in the interwar years. They believed that Communism is not only a way to solve the Jewish problem but also to save the Yiddish culture. Biography of the central...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-02-14
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During the twentieth century, men and women across Ireland picked up cameras, photographing days out at the beach, composing views of Ireland's cities and countryside, and recording political events as they witnessed them. Indeed, while foreign photographers often still...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-06
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During the twentieth century, men and women across Ireland picked up cameras, photographing days out at the beach, composing views of Ireland's cities and countryside, and recording political events as they witnessed them. Indeed, while foreign photographers often still...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-06
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Enchanting memoir of a struggling writer living and working in the eccentric Parisian bookshop, 'Shakespeare and Company''Completely riveting ...a vivid picture of modern Paris' OBSERVER'Shakespeare and Company' in Paris is one of the world's most famous bookshops. The...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2019-12-26
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'Moorehead paints a wonderfully vivid and moving portrait of the women of the Italian Resistance' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMESThe extraordinary story of the courageous women who spearheaded the Italian Resistance during the Second World WarIn the late summer of 1943, in...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-11-14
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The Resistance Quartet
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This thrilling wartime adventure tells the true story of the downed American aviators who were rescued by French resistance fighters, taken to Nazi-occupied Paris, and hidden under the very noses of the Gestapo.Escape from Paris is the true story of a small group of...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2019-10-08
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'An incredible portal to our past' The Sunday TimesOn 7 January 1922, Ireland became a free state. Born into that era of turbulence and hope were the twenty-six women and men whose stories and memories of a lifetime are captured by cherished Irish journalist Valerie...
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Hachette Books Ireland
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2019-09-26
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Until surprisingly recently the history of the Irish Catholic Church during the Northern Irish Troubles was written by Irish priests and bishops and was commemorative, rather than analytical. This study uses the Troubles as a case study to evaluate the role of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-11
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Until surprisingly recently the history of the Irish Catholic Church during the Northern Irish Troubles was written by Irish priests and bishops and was commemorative, rather than analytical. This study uses the Troubles as a case study to evaluate the role of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-09-11
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A deeply researched international history and "exemplary study" (New York Times Book Review) of how a divided world ended and our present world was fashioned, as the world drifts toward another great time of choosing.Two of America's leading scholar-diplomats, Philip...
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Twelve
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2019-09-10
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE 2020A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the acclaimed historian Brendan SimmsAdolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important things we...
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Penguin
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2019-09-05
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A new and definitive account of the German invasion of Poland that initiated WWII in 1939, written by a historian at the height of his abilities.'Deeply researched, very well-written... This book will be the standard work on the subject for many years to come' - Andrew...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-09-05
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Germany in the 20th century endured two world wars, a failed democracy, Hitler's dictatorship, the Holocaust, and a country divided for 40 years after World War II. But it has also boasted a strong welfare state, affluence, liberalization and globalization, a successful...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-08-15
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'Everything about this story is astounding' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times"Trinity" was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. Trinity is now also the extraordinary story of the bomb's metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls;...
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Penguin
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2019-08-01
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Ist im Spannungsfeld zwischen Holocaustliteratur und Ghostwriting auch ein Ende von Authentizität zu erwarten? Der Ghostwriter ist ein gängiger Aktant im Genre Autobiografie. Die Anforderungen an den Ghostwriter eines historischen Zeugen scheinen besonders hoch zu sein,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-07-29
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The extraordinary German bestseller on the final days of the Third ReichOne of the least understood stories of the Third Reich is that of the extraordinary wave of suicides, carried out not just by much of the Nazi leadership, but also by thousands of ordinary Germans,...
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Penguin
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2019-07-04
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'To say that Catherine Bailey makes history come alive is such a cliché and yet it's so true, she is absolutely one of my favourite writers' Kate Atkinson'A brilliant analysis of senseless cruelty, and an inspiring account of how hope can still triumph over all odds'...
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Penguin
Parution :
2019-06-27
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