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In 2008 for the first time the majority of the planet's inhabitants lived in cities and towns. Becoming globally urban has been one of mankind's greatest collective achievements over time, and raises many questions. How did global city systems evolve and interact in the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-02-14
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The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War offers a broad reassessment of the period war based on new conceptual frameworks developed in the field of international history. Nearing the 25th anniversary of its end, the cold war now emerges as a distinct period in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-01-31
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The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War offers a broad reassessment of the period war based on new conceptual frameworks developed in the field of international history. Nearing the 25th anniversary of its end, the cold war now emerges as a distinct period in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-01-31
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This appears to be the book "A History of Capital Punishment," with additional bits about torture thrown in, potentially from another of Dr. Scott's treatises. We're still sorting it out, but you can guess at the contents, and there are a few pictures, though no...
Editeur :
Disruptive Publishing
Parution :
2013-01-07
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World History: A Concise Thematic Analysis presents the highly anticipated second edition of the most affordable and accessible survey of world history designed for use at the college level. This text offers a comparative analysis of great civilizations of Eurasia,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-11-29
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World History: A Concise Thematic Analysis presents the highly anticipated second edition of the most affordable and accessible survey of world history designed for use at the college level. An engaging narrative that contextualizes history and does not drown students...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-11-29
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In 1842 Heinrich Heine, the German poet, wrote that the bourgeoisie, 'obsessed by a nightmare apprehension of disaster' and 'an instinctive dread of communism', were driven against their better instincts into tolerating absolutist government. Theirs was a 'politics...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-10-04
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Over the past 250 years of momentous change and dramatic upheaval, China has proved itself to be a Restless Empire.Tracing China’s course from the eighteenth-century Qing Dynasty to today's People’s Republic, Restless Empire shows how the country’s worldview has...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-09-06
ePub
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On the night of 7 November 1918 French troops at La Capelle, on the Western Front, noticed a soft halo develop in the fog over no man's land. They heard the rumble of cars, then perceived the vague form of a huge white flag: the Germans were crossing the line to seek...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-08-31
ePub
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On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2012-08-31
ePub
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From historian David Priestland, Merchant, Soldier, Sage is a remarkable book that proposes a radical new approach to how we see our world, and who runs it, in the vein of Francis Fukuyama's The End of HistoryWe live in an age ruled by merchants. Competition,...
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Penguin
Parution :
2012-08-30
ePub
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A Companion to World History presents over 30 essays from an international group of historians that both identify continuing areas of contention, disagreement, and divergence in world and global history, and point to directions for further debate. Features a diverse...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-08-02
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
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A COMPANION TOWORLD HISTORY "This new volume offers insightful reflections by both leading and emerging world historians on approaches, methodologies, arguments, and pedagogies of a sub-discipline that has continued to be in flux as well as in need of defining itself as...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-08-02
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
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Most Australian have heard of Lone Pine. Too few know why. Over four days in August 1915, Australians and Turks were thrown into some of the fiercest fighting of the war, on a small plateau in Gallipoli known as Lone Pine. Thousands of lives were lost. Seven of...
Editeur :
E-Penguin
Parution :
2012-07-10
ePub
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Conventional chronologies of world history concentrate on the reigns of kings and queens, the dates of battles and treaties, the publication dates of great books, the completion of famous buildings, the deaths of iconic figures, and the years of major discoveries. But...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2012-07-05
ePub
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This skilfully compiled anthology draws on the phenomenally successful Forgotten Voices series. Lest We Forget brings together first-hand recollections from the Great War to the Second World War, to vividly illustrate the impact of war. Told in the actual words of the...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2012-06-30
ePub
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A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian.*****The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2012-06-07
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Two hundred years ago, Napoleon Bonaparte dominated Europe and threatened Britain with invasion. Against him stood the Royal Navy and the already legendary Admiral Horatio Nelson. On 21 October 1805, a massive naval battle off the coast of Spain decided mastery of the...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2012-06-07
ePub
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In this riveting book, political journalist Peter Snow and military historian Dan Snow bring to life the most intense and bitterly fought battles of the 20th century - from the apocalyptic terrain of the Western Front to the desert landscape of Iraq. Punctuated by...
Editeur :
Bbc Digital
Parution :
2012-05-31
ePub
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Newpapers are a form of instant history, capturing forever the awe and fascination that great historical events inspire. They are also an intriguing source to return to as they reveal the contemporary view of world-changing events, before it can be shaped by subsequent...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2012-05-17
ePub
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