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This book explores Yugoslavia’s expulsion from the Soviet Cominform and its broader impact on international politics. Although being acknowledged as a crucial turning point during the Cold War, the split between Josip Broz Tito and Joseph Stalin in 1948 has not...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-04-21
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The Promise of Ukraine: A Conceptual History of...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-04-21
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Once upon a time, I was meandering down the road of life with my husband, Jon. It was a regular and beige life, and it worked. It was a warm beige. We felt, and were, blessed and lucky. Normal. On the morning of October 7th, 2023, Rachel Goldberg-Polin's beloved...
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Constable
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2026-04-21
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A new perspective on the life of the US politician best known for the infamous assault that paved the bloody road to the Civil War.
In 1856, South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks assaulted Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the US Capitol,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-04-20
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This book outlines the main process of Chinese history and social evolution and clarifies the rules of Chinese historical development and characteristics of Chinese civilization. It aims to provide an authoritative reference for history researchers. It covers Chinese...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-04-19
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This book paints a vivid picture of caregiving for the elderly throughout history, using the innovative concept of a 'carerscape'. Inspired by Appadurai's 'ethnoscape', this framework highlights diverse aspects of caregiving across time and cultures. From kin and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-04-19
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This book documents linguistic practices and ideologies toward language, identity, and nationalism among 35 members of the first generation in Spain to grow up with democracy and Catalan language normalization. Part I reproduces, translates, and analyzes artifacts...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-04-17
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'Buckle your trousers, fasten your seatbelts, here comes Kate Lister. Her curious history of sex is a wild ride, made all the more enjoyable by a wonderfully irreverent approach . . . I’ve never had so much fun learning stuff' The Times'Had Victoria Wood decided to...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
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2026-04-16
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British daily newspapers transformed rapidly at the turn of the nineteenth century, ballooning in size and radically reorganizing staffing and production decade by decade. By mid-century, newspapers had grown from the folded single sheets of the previous century to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-04-16
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The Wallachian revolution of 1848 was exactly the kind of event that European statesmen feared in the decades after the Congress of Vienna of 1815. Unlike most of the mid-century revolutions, which began as spontaneous manifestations of popular grievances, the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-04-16
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One of the most decisive and irreversible consequences of the Spanish conquest of the Americas was the alphabetic revolution which changed the forms of communication in indigenous societies. Writing, paper and books arrived in the Americas with the conquistadors and...
Editeur :
Polity
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2026-04-16
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Editeur :
Monoray
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2026-04-16
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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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2026-04-16
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This book tells the story of Naples as a city shaped by migration, creativity, and cultural resistance. It reframes Naples within global conversations about identity, mobility, and belonging, offering a South-centric perspective that challenges dominant...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-04-15
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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
Parution :
2026-04-15
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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
Parution :
2026-04-15
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This book explores the unique trajectory of urbanization in South Asia, from the earliest beginnings of civilization to the present-day mega cities, the life in the cities with its associated issues of inequality, struggle, management of scarce resources, migration and...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-04-15
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This landmark edited collection investigates parks as places of pivotal significance in the social, cultural, architectural and economic history of the Balkan capitals. Parks are not simply places of recreation and retreat: they are a palimpsest where memory and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2026-04-14
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In this fascinating book, the first ever published on The Patty Duke Show (1963-66), Caryl Flinn and Dana Polan examine the significance of this classic US sitcom within popular culture and within American society at the time. Child acting sensation Patty Duke plays the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-04-14
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Watchman Nee (1903-1972) was a Chinese minister who promoted a unique set of Christian teachings. They included the idea that people were created with a human spirit, distinct from the human soul, and that in this spirit, people could enjoy a dynamic, transcendent...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-04-14
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