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This book examines how the rulers in the Persian Gulf responded to the British announcement of military withdrawal from the Gulf in 1968, ending 150 years of military supremacy in the region. The British system in the Gulf was accepted for more than a century not...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-17
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This book discusses the role of children in the Salem witch trials through a close reading of the many and varied narratives of the trials, including court records, contemporary and historical documents, fiction, drama, and poetry. Taking a critical theory approach to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-17
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This book illuminates Byzantines' relationship with woodland between the seventh and twelfth centuries. Using the oak and the olive as objects of study, this work explores shifting economic strategies, environmental change, and the transformation of material culture...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-16
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This book offers a detailed investigation of George S. White’s career in the British Army. It explores late Victorian military conflicts, British power dynamics in Africa and Asia, civil-military relations on the fringes of the empire, and networks of advancement in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-16
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T?his edited volume offers a descriptive analysis of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows and cumulative stock, industrial composition, and important spatial trends for each successor state of former Yugoslavia: Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-11-16
Collection :
Economic Geography
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Winner of the 2021/2022 People's Book Prize Best Achievement AwardHomes can be both comforting and troubling places. This timely book proposes a new understanding of Florence Nightingale’s experiences of domestic life and how ideas of home influenced her...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-13
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This book will be the first to deeply analyze the Swedish court and monarchy through a longue duree perspective to show the crucial role of the court in maintaining a relationship between the monarchy and nobility throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-13
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This edited collection invites the reader to enter the diverse worlds of Australia’s migrant and minority communities through the latest research on the contemporary printed press, spanning the mid-nineteenth century to our current day. With a focus on the rare, radical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-13
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This book is a study of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial Competitions of the 1990s, with a focus on designs that kindle empathetic responses. Through analysis of provocative designs, the book engages with issues of empathy, secondary witnessing, and depictions of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-12
Collection :
Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
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'Deeply touching.' - Daily Mail'A personal, sometimes harrowing history of partition... a writer well worth reading.' - The Times'A deeply personal story of identity and a highly relatable journey for many in the diaspora... Wheeler taps a rich vein of personal...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2020-11-12
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'Excellent... Mortimer's erudition is formidable' The TimesA time of exuberance, thrills, frills and unchecked bad behaviour...Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most-loved period in British history - the Regency, or Georgian England.This is the age of Jane...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2020-11-12
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'Fierce, funny and long overdue - I read this book out loud to anyone who'd listen.' Adam Kay'Toksvig's Almanac is intended merely as a starting point for your own discoveries. Find a fabulous (or infamous) woman mentioned and, please, go looking for more of her story....
Editeur :
Trapeze
Parution :
2020-11-12
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This book evaluates the current and future state of fascism studies, reflecting on the first hundred years of fascism and looking ahead to a new era in which fascism studies increasingly faces fresh questions concerning its relevance and the potential reappearance of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-11
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Referencing more than 40 ancient works as well as 70 books and papers of contemporary scholars, this book opens up the civilization, society, culture and communication of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang period represented unprecedented prosperity in the ancient world....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-11
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This book examines the most important Czech women philosophers and scientists. It highlights the lives and achievements of a group that has often not received the recognition they deserve. Chapters provide a systematic description and critical evaluation of the impact...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-11-11
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This book recounts the reception of selected films about the Great War released between 1918 and 1938 in the USA and Great Britain. It discusses the role that popular cinema played in forming and reflecting public opinion about the War and its political and cultural...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-10
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“A journey as epic, and varying, as the Silk Road itself...[The Fabric of Civilization is] like a swatch of a Florentine Renaissance brocade: carefully woven, the technique precise, the colors a mix of shade and shine...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2020-11-10
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Master storyteller Brad Meltzer counts down and decodes the world’s top 10 most intriguing conspiracies stories. Wanted: the truth. In a riveting collection, Brad Meltzer guides us through the 10 greatest conspiracies of all time, from Leonardo da...
Editeur :
Workman Publishing Company
Parution :
2020-11-10
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A COMPANION TO ANCIENT AGRICULTURE An authoritative overview of agricultural development in the ancient worldA Companion to Ancient Agriculture investigates the history and development of agriculture in the ancient world, focusing primarily on the Near East and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-11-10
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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“A Nazi resistance story like none you’ve ever heard or read.” —Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate Ground"Every page is gripping, and the amount of new research is nothing short of mind-boggling. A brilliant book for...
Editeur :
Algonquin Books
Parution :
2020-11-10
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