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The surprising story of how the plain black suit became a symbol of masculinity, democracy, and modernity.
How did black suits become so ubiquitous? Why has men's business clothing been so plain for the last 250 years? How did a style adopted by the Founding Fathers to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-05-01
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Nach Sanary-sur-Mer, einer kleinen Mittelmeergemeinde zwischen Toulon und Marseille, flüchtete nach Hitlers Machtergreifung ein großer Teil der Berliner, Prager und Münchner Intelligentia. Die Präsenz von Bertolt Brecht, Lion Feuchtwanger, Franz...
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J.B. Metzler
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2026-05-01
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Thomas Asbridge’s remarkable new book reveals the global impact of humanity’s greatest natural disaster, and the terrible human cost of this calamity.'An up-to-the-hour work of scholarship that is at the same time a page turner... Asbridge's definitive biography of...
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Penguin
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2026-04-30
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'Sebestyen reminds us once again why he is one of the best historians writing today' ANDREW ROBERTS, author of Churchill: Walking with DestinyIn the years after the First World War, Berlin was - as Vladimir Nabokov described it - a place 'of dangerous glamour and...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2026-04-30
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In the nineteenth century, France embarked on the colonization of whole swathes of Africa and Asia. What drove this policy, and what methods did it use to establish and enforce French domination? What disruptive effects did this have on the colonized societies, and what...
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Polity
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2026-04-29
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"Mysterious Flames" engages with Umberto Eco’s work from a new perspective, by tracing his intellectual development through the lens of Cultural Studies, drawing in particular on the thought of Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall. It offers the first detailed analysis of...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2026-04-28
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In 1907, a lesbian feminist vegetarian stepped into male history. She was one of nineteen female Finnish politicians, the first women in the world to be elected to the ruling body of any country. These women sparked a chain reaction that would ignite across the globe....
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Polity
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2026-04-27
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Matthias Wissmann kann auf eine äußerst erfolgreiche politische Laufbahn zurückblicken: In jungen Jahren bei der Jungen Union, dann als Abgeordneter des Deutschen Bundestags und schließlich als Mitglied des Bundeskabinetts unter Helmut Kohl –...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-04-26
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This book provides a timely examination of the role that consumer credit has played in maintaining inequality, at a time when the gap between the rich and the rest is increasing in the political west. It does so through the prism of the Australian department store,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-04-26
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Dieses essential bietet auf knappem Raum die ganze Geschichte des russisch-ukrainischen Krieges, seine Ursachen, seinen Verlauf und seine Folgen.
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2026-04-26
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The Spanish Civil War was a landmark conflict of the twentieth century with deep international, political, and cultural resonance. Even given its impact, sustained interest in the plethora of ways music was employed during the era is a much more recent development....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-04-24
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This book is the first full-length academic study of sport in nineteenth-century Dublin. Drawing extensively from historical and archival material, it maps out the emergence and development of modern sport in the city as traditional pastimes were progressively replaced...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2026-04-24
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For over five centuries, the Roman Empire ruled much of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. It produced some of history's greatest orators and statesmen, as well as some of its most debauched and corrupt tyrants. Shaping world affairs, the Roman Empire advanced...
Editeur :
Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
Parution :
2026-04-23
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Very Brief Histories
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Editeur :
Monoray
Parution :
2026-04-23
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Walking defines us as human beings. But how much do we know about the paths that we walk? Why do they matter? What caused so many to be lost? And can we create more of them?In The Path More Travelled, acclaimed geographer and travel writer Nicholas Crane explores the...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2026-04-23
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Nicolas Appert invented canned food in Paris in 1810 and is celebrated as the founder of modern food processing and the field of food science, but does he deserve the recognition? Appert was no scientist and the “cans” he made by a process of trial and...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-04-22
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American history is, in part, a history of immigration – of waves of people from other lands making their way to America's shores.Immigration: How the Past Shapes the Present argues that the past is critical in understanding current immigration; that a new historical...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-04-22
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This interdisciplinary study addresses Hungarian perspectives on Ireland and Irish engagements with Hungary from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, examining nationalist, colonialist and imperialist aspects of these encounters. It discusses Hungarian...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-04-22
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How should we make sense of the political dynamics in Africa today? Which point of view should we adopt to grasp the diversity of what is happening on the ground and in the day-to-day reality of power relations and social practices? To what extent do structural...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-04-21
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