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The State versusThe People provides the first detailed account of the role of revolutionary justice in the early Soviet state. Law has often been dismissed by historians as either unimportant after the October Revolution amid the violence and chaos of civil war, or, in...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-06-11
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The State versusThe People provides the first detailed account of the role of revolutionary justice in the early Soviet state. Law has often been dismissed by historians as either unimportant after the October Revolution amid the violence and chaos of civil war, or, in...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-06-11
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True stories of love and loss during WWII, from the tough Northern women who kept the foundry fires burning.When war broke out, the young women of Sheffield had their carefree lives turned upside down. With their sweethearts being sent away to fight, they had no choice...
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Headline
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2020-06-11
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Dr Erasmus Darwin seemed an innocuous Midlands physician, a respectable stalwart of eighteenth-century society. But there was another side to him.
Botanist, physician, Lunar inventor and popular poet, Darwin was internationally renowned for extraordinary poems...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-06-11
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Dr Erasmus Darwin seemed an innocuous Midlands physician, a respectable stalwart of eighteenth-century society. But there was another side to him.
Botanist, physician, Lunar inventor and popular poet, Darwin was internationally renowned for extraordinary poems...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-06-11
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The study of the Roman Empire has changed dramatically in the last century, with significant emphasis now placed on understanding the experiences of subject populations, rather than a sole focus on the Roman imperial elites. Local experiences, and interactions between...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-06-10
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The study of the Roman Empire has changed dramatically in the last century, with significant emphasis now placed on understanding the experiences of subject populations, rather than a sole focus on the Roman imperial elites. Local experiences, and interactions between...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-06-10
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For much of western history, the achievements of classical antiquity were seen as unsurpassable, and works by Latin and Greek authors were viewed as treasure troves of information still useful for contemporary society. By the late seventeenth century, however, the...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-06-10
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For much of western history, the achievements of classical antiquity were seen as unsurpassable, and works by Latin and Greek authors were viewed as treasure troves of information still useful for contemporary society. By the late seventeenth century, however, the...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-06-10
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From the late 1930s until December 7, 1941, isolationism and an antipathy toward war in Europe were strong political currents in the US. However, once the US entered World War II, the entire apparatus of the US government was mobilized to “market” the war to Americans...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2020-06-10
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This book argues that during the Cuban Revolution (1952–1958), Fidel Castro, his allies, and members of the Movimiento 26 de Julio tapped into a larger network of transnational revolutionaries who sought to overthrow the region’s dictatorships. With his research in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-06-09
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This global history as the Chinese would write it gives brilliant and unconventional insights for understanding China's role in the world, especially the drive to "Make China Great Again." We in the West routinely ask: "What does China want?" The answer is quite simple:...
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PublicAffairs
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2020-06-09
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In this book, João Nunes de Almeida rethinks the relationship between crisis and fascism in today’s liberal democratic societies. Arguing that fascism has adapted to a post-modern idea of endless crisis, Almeida challenges one of the strongest liberal myths in western...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-06-08
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This collection provides a long-overdue examination of the nineteenth century as a crucible of new commemorative practices. Distinctive memory cultures emerged during this period which would fundamentally reshape public and private practices of remembrance in the modern...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-06-08
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Organized in the immediate aftermath of World War Two by the victorious Allies, the Nuremberg Trials were intended to hold the Nazis to account for their crimes — and to restore a sense of justice to a world devastated by violence. As Francine Hirsch reveals in this...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-06-08
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Polish Literature and the Holocaust (1939–1968) scrutinizes literary and documentary testimonies produced during or after the extermination of Jews in the Second World War and rooted in that historical, political, and anthropological context. Whether someone wrote a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-06-05
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The book presents a record of oral accounts given by liquidators who participated in minimizing the effects of the Chernobyl disaster.The main research goal was to present the circumstances of actions taken in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in 1986–1988 from the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-06-05
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The volume will focus on a comparative level on a specific group of states that are commonly labelled as “empires” and that we encounter through all historical periods. Although they are very successful at the very beginning, like most empires are, this success is very...
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Springer VS
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2020-06-04
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'Defiant is both a stirring testament to the courage of the men who flew them and a welcome new examination of one of the Second World War's most famous conflicts'Alexander Larman, ObserverIn this startling new perspective on the Battle of Britain, Robert Verkaik...
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Robinson
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2020-06-04
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'A masterpiece of research, The Last Kings of Shanghai is a vivid and fascinating story of wealth, family intrigue, and political strategy on the world stage from colonialism to communism to globalized capitalism' Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies,...
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Little, Brown Book Group
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2020-06-02
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