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The work of J.-J.-E. Roy recounts the life of Marie Antoinette, from her arrival in France in 1770 until her death on October 16, 1793. It meticulously details the growing hostility she faced, first as Dauphine and later as Queen of France and Navarre. From the moment...
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Metvox Publications
Parution :
2025-12-27
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Gewaltige Mengen an Alkohol gelangten in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts auf dänischen Schiffen nach Indien. Wein, Madeira, Bier und Branntwein halfen, einen steten Silberstrom nach Asien zu reduzieren. Ebenso prägten sie weit über die dänischen Handelsplätze am...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-12-18
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When a process popularly known as the Industrial Revolution first took hold in Germany in the mid-nineteenth century, many contemporaries were stunned by the scale and ferocity of the transformation. While Germany had long been considered a promising place to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-27
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Russia's attack on Ukraine marks an epochal break in European and global history. Undoubtedly, the decision to go to war is closely linked to one person, Vladimir Putin, butRussia's war is not driven solely by one man's power calculations. We can only make sense of...
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Polity
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2025-11-25
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Pregnant women in the past had sex, yet we know nearly nothing about their sexual desires, or what people thought about sex during pregnancy. While there is much research on the sexual maternal body, studies of pregnancy and sex are lacking. This Palgrave Pivot provides...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-23
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As the First World War came to a chaotic end, Europeans feared that a wave of crime and anarchy would sweep across their continent. The upheavals of the war and of the subsequent violent breakup of the Habsburg, German, and Ottoman empires magnified longstanding fears...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-19
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The book presents the activity of the Jewish Labour Bund in the territory of post-Yalta Poland in the years 1944-1949.The work focuses on the “last chapter” of the party’s activity in Poland. It touches upon issues concerning the attempts to modify/re-evaluate the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-11-13
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Ziel dieses Bandes ist es, Entstehung, Entwicklung und wechselseitige Wahrnehmung nationaler Identitäten in Italien und Finnland im neuzeitlichen Europa darzustellen, zu analysieren und vergleichend...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2025-11-13
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What is the academic specialty that deals with team building? This book represents the quintessence of an interdisciplinary project, in which specialists from economics, sports, psychology and acting decipher teambuilding, creating a flexible product adapted to the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-11-11
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This book examines how Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863–1938) reimagined the Renaissance as a metaphor for Italy’s national rebirth. Rather than a nostalgic revival, the Renaissance became, in his hands, a future-oriented ideological project that served as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-10
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This is the first book-length study of the history of working-class courtship and marriage in Scotland, from the establishment of civil registration to the introduction in 1939 of legislation which abolished irregular marriage and introduced civil marriage. Adopting a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-05
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This book offers the first in-depth analysis of the antisemitic rhetoric expressed by the interwar Romanian cultural elite, examining eight public voices of the period (A. C. Cuza, N. Iorga, N. Crainic, N. Ionescu, O. Goga, N. Paulescu, M. Vulcanescu and V. Horia) and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-03
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This book explores a significant historical event in sixteenth-century European history. The Italian crusade against the German Lutherans in 1546 was, for many reasons, the catalyst for the military phase of the Lutheran opposition in Germany's clash with Emperor...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-01
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This group biography follows the four Ashurst sisters, contemporaries of Queen Victoria, who rebelled against the limitations of their era to become influential activists. Raised by progressive parents in a London household with few boundaries between private life and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-29
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This book is about the dramatic changes that the world is witnessing in its attitude toward the past. For the first time in many generations, ordinary citizens around the globe have burst into disputes about history that were previously the province of politicians and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-25
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This is the first book-length study of the history of working-class courtship and marriage in Scotland, from the establishment of civil registration to the introduction in 1939 of legislation which abolished irregular marriage and introduced civil marriage. Adopting a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-25
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This book delves into one of the most decisive periods in European history: the birth of the German Empire and the extraordinary fate of its architect, Otto von Bismarck.In the salons of Versailles, in January 1871, shortly after the Prussian victory over France,...
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Metvox Publications
Parution :
2025-10-24
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Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church today often frame queer genders and sexualities as perverse deviations from ‘tradition’. While historians often assume the Church has always condemned homosexuality, this book reassesses the supposed...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-24
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Pinning down Byzantium (or East Rome) is as difficult today as it was for contemporaries during its 1,000-year-long existence. Dimitri Obolensky sought to characterize its impact on Eastern Europe in his classic The Byzantine Commonwealth, focusing on the elements of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-21
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Dieses Buch untersucht die politisch-historischen Hintergründe des russisch-ukrainischen Konflikts und ordnet insbesondere den seit 2014 eskalierenden Krieg bis hin zur großflächigen Invasion Russlands im Jahr 2022 in einen breiten historischen Kontext...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2025-10-17
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