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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Violence is part and parcel of human history and of human nature. It is one of our most distinctive traits, the one thing that all cultures and societies, across time, share in common. It has defined not only the...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-03-10
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Dissenting Daughters reveals that devout women made vital contributions to the spread and practice of the Reformed faith in the Dutch Republic in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The six women at the heart of this study: Cornelia Teellinck, Susanna Teellinck,...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-03-03
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Dissenting Daughters reveals that devout women made vital contributions to the spread and practice of the Reformed faith in the Dutch Republic in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The six women at the heart of this study: Cornelia Teellinck, Susanna Teellinck,...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-03-03
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Distrust of public institutions, which reached critical proportions in Britain and the United States in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, was an important theme of public discourse in Britain and colonial America during the early modern period....
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OUP Oxford
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2022-03-03
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Distrust of public institutions, which reached critical proportions in Britain and the United States in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, was an important theme of public discourse in Britain and colonial America during the early modern period....
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OUP Oxford
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2022-03-03
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Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western democratic societies in the 2020s.
The 21st century has brought a powerful tide of geopolitical, economic, and democratic shocks. Their fallout has led central banks...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-02-24
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Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western democratic societies in the 2020s.
The 21st century has brought a powerful tide of geopolitical, economic, and democratic shocks. Their fallout has led central banks...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-02-24
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Many have viewed Kaiser Wilhelm II as having personally ruled Germany, dominating its politics, and choreographing its ambitious leap to global power. But how accurate is this picture?
As The Kaiser and the Colonies shows, Wilhelm II was a constitutional monarch like...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-02-17
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England is well known as the only Protestant state not to introduce divorce in the sixteenth-century Reformation. Only at the end of the seventeenth century did divorce by private act of parliament become available for a select few men and only in 1857 did the Divorce...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-02-17
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Many have viewed Kaiser Wilhelm II as having personally ruled Germany, dominating its politics, and choreographing its ambitious leap to global power. But how accurate is this picture?
As The Kaiser and the Colonies shows, Wilhelm II was a constitutional monarch like...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-02-17
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England is well known as the only Protestant state not to introduce divorce in the sixteenth-century Reformation. Only at the end of the seventeenth century did divorce by private act of parliament become available for a select few men and only in 1857 did the Divorce...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-02-17
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This case study of two rural parishes in County Durham, England, provides an alternate view on the economic development involved in the transition from medieval to modern, partly explaining England's rise to global economic dominance in the seventeenth century. Coal...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-01-27
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This case study of two rural parishes in County Durham, England, provides an alternate view on the economic development involved in the transition from medieval to modern, partly explaining England's rise to global economic dominance in the seventeenth century. Coal...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-01-27
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Following diamonds from African mines to the necklines of high society women, this international history shows why Jews were central to the transatlantic gem trade and its growth into a global industry.
During the late nineteenth century, tens of thousands of diggers,...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-01-18
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Der Umbruch steht für einen tiefgreifenden Wandel, der sich auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen vollziehen kann. Bezogen auf die Polizei spielen neben politischen Zäsuren auch gesellschaftliche und kulturelle Umbrüche eine wesentliche Rolle. Dabei kann die Institution zum...
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Springer VS
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2022-01-11
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The Hellenistic Period witnessed striking new developments in art, literature and science. This volume addresses a particularly vibrant area of innovation: the study of animals and the natural world. While Aristotle and his followers had revolutionized fields such as...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-12-22
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The Hellenistic Period witnessed striking new developments in art, literature and science. This volume addresses a particularly vibrant area of innovation: the study of animals and the natural world. While Aristotle and his followers had revolutionized fields such as...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-12-22
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Lord Herbert of Cherbury was a flamboyant Stuart courtier, soldier, and diplomat who acquired a reputation for duelling and extravagance but also numbered among the leading intellectuals of his generation. He travelled widely in Britain and Europe, enjoyed the patronage...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-12-13
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Lord Herbert of Cherbury was a flamboyant Stuart courtier, soldier, and diplomat who acquired a reputation for duelling and extravagance but also numbered among the leading intellectuals of his generation. He travelled widely in Britain and Europe, enjoyed the patronage...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-12-13
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Parish churches have been at the heart of communities for more than a thousand years. But now, fewer than two in one hundred people regularly attend services in an Anglican church, and many have never been inside one. Since the idea of 'church' is its people, the...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2021-11-25
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