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***'Reads like Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy' -James Risen, The Intercept'A compelling account of the ongoing search for the Fourth Man... a gripping and mind-bending read' - Dr. Mark Stout, The Daily Beast For the first time ever, New York Times bestselling author and...
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Monoray
Parution :
2022-05-19
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Through case studies of pilot conservation projects launched by the Yunnan Provincial Archives in recent years, this book comprehensively and systematically discusses issues in the conservation of ethnic oral history material and the development of ethnic oral history...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-05-18
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A new understanding of how the West came to be
For over 35 years, the dominant histories of the American West have been narratives of horrific conflicts. Framed in terms of empire building, these histories use modern constructs of ethnic cleansing and genocide to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-05-18
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Eighty years after the stunning and decisive battle, a revelatory new history of MidwayThe Battle of Midway was, on paper, an improbable victory for the smaller, less experienced American navy and air force, so much so that it was quickly described as “a...
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PublicAffairs
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2022-05-17
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Explore quotations drawn from inspiring correspondence—and the powerful stories behind them—from some of history's most noted (and notorious) letter-writers in Signed & Sealed, a beautiful collection from Quotabelle. From the...
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Running Press Adult
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2022-05-17
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This book addresses one the most contentious issues of postwar Western Europe, namely the organization of the primary and secondary stages of schooling in state education systems. In examining the politics of continuity and change in postwar schooling in Britain...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-16
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
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This book offers a new perspective on the transnational dimensions of China’s educational and economic history by focusing on Sino-German interactions in the field of vocational education. It explores how Chinese perceptions of manual work, vocational skills, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-13
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The belligerent country that literally started the First World War, the Habsburg Empire suffered grievously during the global conflict. At the end of the war, it was estimated that 1.2 million soldiers, out of 8 million men and 100,000 women mobilized from an empire of...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-05-13
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British travellers regarded all inhabitants of the seventeenth-century Ottoman empire as ‘slaves of the sultan’, yet they also made fine distinctions between them. This book provides the first historical account of howBritish travellers understood the non-Muslim peoples...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-12
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Excommunication was the medieval churchs most severe sanction, used against people at all levels of society. It was a spiritual, social, and legal penalty.Excommunication in Thirteenth-Century England offers a fresh perspective on medieval excommunication by taking a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-12
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Excommunication was the medieval churchs most severe sanction, used against people at all levels of society. It was a spiritual, social, and legal penalty.Excommunication in Thirteenth-Century England offers a fresh perspective on medieval excommunication by taking a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-12
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'Sabrina Mahfouz is a tidal wave of truth swallowing the banks of empire with a torrent of information which will not be damned' Lemn Sissay'A bold, brave look at the ways imperialism affects us all, from the universally political to the insightfully intimate' Riz...
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Tinder Press
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2022-05-12
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The myths surrounding Sparta are as old as the city itself. Even in antiquity, Sparta was a unique society, and considered an enigma. The Spartans who fought for freedom against the Persians called themselves...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-05-12
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Provides a solid foundation for understanding American agricultural history and offers new directions for research A Companion to American Agricultural History addresses the key aspects of America's complex agricultural past from 8,000 BCE to the first decades of the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-05-11
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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Discover the “fascinating and outrageously readable” account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England—perfect for readers of Nathaniel Philbrick and David McCullough...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2022-05-10
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In the late eighteenth century, planters in the Caribbean and the American South insisted that only Black people could labor on plantations, arguing that Africans, unlike Europeans, had bodies particularly suited to cultivate crops in hot climates. Historians have...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-05-10
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Paths out of the Apocalypse uses violence as a prism through which to investigate the profound social, cultural, and political changes experienced by (post-) Habsburg Central Europe during and immediately after the Great War. It compares attitudes toward, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-09
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Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2018First exam: Summer 2019Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told narratives, academic...
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Hodder Gibson
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2022-05-09
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This book is a study of an eighteenth-century portrait of a youth in Polish dress, owned by the National Portrait Gallery in London since 1922, but never publicly displayed. Two inscriptions claim that it is a portrait of Charles Edward Stuart, popularly known as...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2022-05-08
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This book examines the legends of who ‘really’ discovered America. It argues that histories of America's origins were always based less on empirical evidence and more on social, political, and cultural wish fulfillment. Influenced by a complex interplay of Nativist...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-06
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