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During the eighteenth century, Spanish statesmen pursued a set of ambitious imperial reforms that thoroughly remade conceptualizations of empire. They compared well-ordered empires to harmonious machines and devised a comprehensive plan to liberalize and integrate the...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-04-08
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This book makes Aram Andonian's The Great Crime available for English language readers. The Great Crime served as the first systematic documentation of the Armenian Genocide, introducing the memoir of an Ottoman bureaucrat that contained handwritten copies of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-04-08
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A gripping story that reveals what happened to a small American town when an influential white nationalist group relocated its headquarters there, illustrating how radical changes in American politics impact our psyches and divide our communities. “A timely and...
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Bold Type Books
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2026-04-07
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The book presents Polish-Jewish cultural contacts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from an interdisciplinary perspective. Using methods from Jewish, cultural, and literary studies, Prokop-Janiec takes a topographical approach by focusing on selected places,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2026-04-07
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This book compares how multilingualism is governed, managed, and imagined in nation-states in the Horn of Africa and South Asia. With state-of-the-art contributions by leading scholars, this is the first volume to bring together political, historical, and literary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-04-05
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This book is a collection of essays covering a wide range of issues related to tribes residing in the Aravalli ranges, traditional medicinal societies of Kashmir, wandering communities and the martial classes of Haryana and Punjab. The depiction of certain communities...
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Springer
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2026-04-05
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This book moves beyond the stereotyped approaches adopted in earlier works on ‘Chinatowns’ and introduces instead the Chinese spaces in the metropolitan city of Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia. Seeing beyond the ‘Chinatown’, this book puts forward...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-04-05
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In this book, Morgan Golf-French offers a new interpretation of late Enlightenment German historiography in relation to ideas about race, culture, and politics. By paying close attention to the institutions within which these ideas were articulated, Golf-French reveals...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-04-04
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"Empathetic and quietly profound." The New York TimesFrom celebrated investigative journalist Jordan Ritter Conn (The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, ESPN) comes a fascinating and challenging portrait of modern manhood – as seen through the lens of four American men...
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August Books
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2026-04-02
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'Exhilarating ... funny, informative, even optimistic' FINANCIAL TIMES'Jones is a thoughtful, well-travelled scholar with an eye for a killer image' SUNDAY TIMES'Revelatory ... a moving, eloquent and important book' SPECTATOR'A lovely book' PETER FRANKOPAN, author of...
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Penguin
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2026-04-02
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From the mid-seventeenth to early eighteenth century, a wide network of English-speaking men, women, and children took up residence in the Ottoman Maghrebi regencies of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli. There they formed expatriate communities, engaged with the societies...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-04-02
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‘A nuanced portrait of an elusive figure’ New York Times‘A dizzying tale’ Wall Street Journal A revelatory history of the vast tequila empire born from the fires of the Mexican Revolution.At the dawn of the twentieth century, José Cuervo inherited his family's humble...
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August Books
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2026-04-02
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This book is the first comprehensive scientific reconstruction of the captivity experience of Allied prisoners in Italy. Between 1940 and 1943, around 70,000 Allied soldiers, mostly British, were imprisoned in Italy, that was unable to fulfil its duties as a holding...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-04-02
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In the aftermath of civil war, often the most daunting task is to reconcile former opponents who continue to demand justice--or even vengeance--for wartime suffering. Remembering the Wars of Religion offers a historical perspective on the painful legacy of civil war by...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-03-31
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Jesus of Nazareth left behind a legacy that soon developed into the world religion that became known as Christianity. Had that been his intention? What kind of man was he? This book sets out to record what can be known or inferred about the historical Jesus. Its main...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2026-03-31
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Dieses Buch bietet Einblicke in das Verhältnis zwischen Prozessen und Produkten des Erinnerns, Körpern und Zugehörigkeitsgefühls unter britisch-bangladeschischen Frauen in Tower Hamlets, London.
Ausgehend von einer Analyse Kultureller Erinnerungen,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2026-03-31
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Throughout the history of the Western world, Jews have suffered various forms of exclusion, stigmatisation, and discrimination that have forced them always to be aware of their very particular situation. The Jews became a community under siege and, as Shlomo Sand...
Editeur :
Polity
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2026-03-30
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The deeds (and misdeeds) of aristocrats, past and present, never lose their appeal, whether on our screens or in real life. But who are they, and why do they matter?
Forming Aristocracy is the story of the great aristocratic lineages of Europe: families such as the...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-03-28
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Prison construction was among the most important infrastructural changes brought about by British rule in India. It introduced India to a radically new system of punishment based on the spatial experience of architecture as confinement. Unlike prisons in Europe and the...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-03-27
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The renowned IB Diploma series, combining compelling narratives and academic rigor, has been revised and updated to align with the latest DP History course from the IB, for examination from 2028. Written by subject specialists and IB experts, this series continues to...
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Hachette Learning
Parution :
2026-03-27
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