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Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal workWhat makes a leader? ForPlutarch the answer lay not in great victories, but in moral strengths. In these nine biographies,...
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Penguin
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2024-02-29
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Includes a new foreword by Rob RinderWhat readers are saying about HOLOCAUST JOURNEY:'Brilliant ... A must read for everybody' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Devastating' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Fascinating, thought provoking and shocking'...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2024-02-29
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This book challenges the historical common sense that the American Revolution terminated in the birth of the United States. Prevailing narratives of the Revolutionary period rest on the assumption that the war ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1783. Yet from London to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-29
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Editeur :
Monoray
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2024-02-29
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This book examines the efforts of the government in Scotland to manage the increase of migrants travelling to Britain at the end of the nineteenth century. Focussing on the period between 1885 and 1939, the book explores how the Scottish machinery of government handled...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-02-29
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Provides a balanced historical narrative of the contemporary causes of conflict in the Middle East, ideal for students and scholars The recent history of the Middle East has involved unprecedented violence and war. Contemporary Middle East: Foreign Intervention and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-02-28
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Blackwell History of the Contemporary World
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This much-awarded work by one of Italy’s most esteemed historians of fascism, Mauro Canali, is now available in English translation. Based on a wealth of previously unavailable judicial and archival material, it sheds light on how fascism exercised power through...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-02-28
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How did the division of power work in Ancient Greece? This groundbreaking study reveals Ancient Greek political decision-making to be a multi-layered system of delegation and legal control. Scholars have previously examined the nature and locus of sovereignty in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-02-28
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This book explores the postcolonial discourse and decolonization processes in modern Kazakhstan and beyond. It pays particular attention to such areas as national and religious identity, language, literature, and historical narratives. Despite the fact that the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-02-28
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Das Buch beschreibt die allgemeinen und spezifischen sprachlichen Grundlagen der Slawisierung (Böhmisierung) des ehemals überwiegend deutschsprachigen Gebietes in der Tschechischen Republik nach 1945. Am Beispiel von Braunau/Broumov und Umgebung wird untersucht, welche...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-02-28
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This book investigates the entanglement of memory and morality in an extended case study of the memory policy of the European Commission between 2014 and 2020. The main empirical aim is to provide an understanding of how the European Commission, various non-governmental...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-28
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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2024****A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY THE NEW YORKER** From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Ghost Wars, the inside story of America's long and ruinous relationship with Saddam HusseinThe Achilles Trap masterfully untangles...
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Penguin
Parution :
2024-02-27
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In recent years, India has asserted its desire not simply to be a balancing power but to become a leading power on the world stage. As India's economic development has steadily progressed, so too have its foreign policy and security ambitions. However, India's ability...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-02-27
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The book is designed as a methodological exercise in cultural studies described as "engaging", which refers to a specific research approach requiring cooperation and the inclusion of individuals and communities in the research process, using a rich repertoire of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-02-27
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Provides a comprehensive and systematic treatment of the life and work of Aristophanes A Companion to Aristophanes provides an invaluable set of foundational resources for undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars alike. More than a basic reference text, this...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-02-27
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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This open access book explores the transnational and transoceanic dimensions of the debate on gender and women's cultural agency and mediation in the long eighteenth century. It aims to decenter perspectives on traditional Enlightenment geographies, by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-24
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The tenth and eleventh centuries in medieval Europe are commonly seen as a time of uncertainty and loss: an age of lawless aristocrats, of weak political authority, of cultural decline and dissolute monks, and of rampant superstition. It is a period often judged from...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-02-24
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This book explores pastoralist/ farmers' approaches to environmental disaster management in East Africa, charting their responses and adaptations to famine, pandemics, natural disasters, and historical events. Using a dynamic adaptive cycle theoretical framework, it...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-23
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The period immediately following World War II was an era of dramatic transformation for Jews in America. At the start of the 1940s, President Roosevelt had to all but promise that if Americans entered the war, it would not be to save the Jews. By the end of the decade,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-02-23
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