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How do two ideologically opposed governments co-operate? The Unionist government struggled to answer this question during the sixties and seventies. This book charts the development of this government's policy towards its neighbor in Southern Ireland and explains how it...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-12-12
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This is the history of an unprecedented deception operation - the biggest KGB deception of all time. It has never been told in full until now. There are almost certainly people who would like it never to be told.
It is the story of General Alexander Orlov. Stalin's...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-12-11
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This is the history of an unprecedented deception operation - the biggest KGB deception of all time. It has never been told in full until now. There are almost certainly people who would like it never to be told.
It is the story of General Alexander Orlov. Stalin's...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-12-11
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As literary scholars have long insisted, an interdisciplinary approach is vital if modern readers are to make sense of works of medieval literature. In particular, rather than reading the works of medieval authors as addressing us across the centuries about some...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-12-04
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Why are the British so Euro-sceptic? Forget about tedious treaties, party politics or international relations. The real reason is that the British do not feel European. This book explores and explains the cultural divide between Britain and Europe, where it comes from...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-12-03
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Spanish-Italian Relations and the Influence of the Major Powers examines complex relations between Spain and Italy, beginning in 1943 and continuing until 1957, contending that the relationship cannot be examined in isolation and must be understood in its broader...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-03
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At Home in the Institution examines space and material culture in asylums, lodging houses and schools in Victorian and Edwardian England, and explores the powerful influence of domesticity on all three institutional types.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-27
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Die Publikation gibt einen detaillierten Überblick über ausgewählte Bestandsteile aus der archivalischen Überlieferung des Bezirkstages und des Rates des Bezirkes Potsdam aus dem Zeitraum 1952–1990. In diesen Jahrzehnten waren die Bezirke in der DDR das wichtigste...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-11-25
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Die Publikation gibt einen detaillierten Überblick über ausgewählte Bestandsteile aus der archivalischen Überlieferung des Bezirkstages und des Rates des Bezirkes Potsdam aus dem Zeitraum 1952–1990. In diesen Jahrzehnten waren die Bezirke in der DDR das wichtigste...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-11-25
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Lyn MacDonald's acclaimed history 1914: The Days of Hope, is not so much the story of war as the story of an army.In this vivid account of the first months of the First World War,Lyn Macdonald draws on personal accounts of surviving veterans, bringing to life the...
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Penguin
Parution :
2014-11-13
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Very Different, but Much the Same takes as its starting point the distribution of political, ideological, and economic power between English society's constituent roles from the time when Daniel Defoe was writing Robinson Crusoe, and argues that Defoe would find it...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-11-13
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Improvement was a new concept in seventeenth-century England; only then did it become usual for people to think that the most effective way to change things for the better was not a revolution or a return to the past, but the persistent application of human ingenuity to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-11-07
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An epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global hub, this book tells the dazzling history of northern Europe's transformation by sea. 'Pye writes like a dream. Magnificent' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in...
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Penguin
Parution :
2014-11-06
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Medieval Rome analyses the history of the city of Rome between 900 and 1150, a period of major change in the city. This volume doesn't merely seek to tell the story of the city from the traditional Church standpoint; instead, it engages in studies of the city's...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-11-06
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Medieval Rome analyses the history of the city of Rome between 900 and 1150, a period of major change in the city. This volume doesn't merely seek to tell the story of the city from the traditional Church standpoint; instead, it engages in studies of the city's...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-11-06
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Colonial America and the Earl of Halifax, 1748-1761 examines the governance of British America in the period prior to the American Revolution. Focusing upon the career of George Montagu Dunk, Second Earl of Halifax and First Lord of the Board of Trade & Plantations...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-11-06
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From the late imperial period until 1922, the British and French made private and government loans to Russia, making it the foremost international debtor country in pre-World War I Europe. To finance the modernization of industry, the construction of public works...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-11-03
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Awarded Honorable Mention for the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award
In nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, the Jewish-run tavern was often the center of leisure, hospitality, business, and even religious festivities. This unusual situation came about because the nobles who...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-11-01
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The Greater War is an international history of the First World War. Comprising of thirteen chapters this collection of essays covers new aspects of the French, German, Italian and American efforts in the First World War, as well as aspects of Britain's colonial...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-31
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Guided by Ezra Pound's dictum --"Make it new"--a generation of writers set out to create fiction and poetry that was unlike anything that came before it. However, as Seamus O'Malley shows, historical narrative was a key site for modernist experimentation. Taking three...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-10-24
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