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Germania was one of the most important and complex zones of cultural interaction and conflict between Rome and neighbouring societies. A vast region, it became divided into urbanised provinces with elaborate military frontiers and the northern part of the continental...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-03-19
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Germania was one of the most important and complex zones of cultural interaction and conflict between Rome and neighbouring societies. A vast region, it became divided into urbanised provinces with elaborate military frontiers and the northern part of the continental...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-19
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The Moment of Liberation in Western Europe, 1943-1948, regards the final two years of World War II and the immediate post-liberation period as a moment in twentieth century history, when the shape and contours of postwar Western Europe appeared highly uncertain and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-19
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A superb study of one of the most important, romantic and dynamic figures of European history.'A fine book ... the web of political intrigue unfolds like an appetising detective novel' ScotsmanThe last king of Poland owed his throne largely to his youthful romance with...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2020-03-19
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This is the story of Shirley Rosalyn Kraus Tydor, the American-born daughter of
early 20th-century Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Her father was an
atheist\communist and her mother a traditional Jew.
Shirley, the rebel, became a career woman and married her...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-03-17
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From a Harvard historian, this riveting portrait of four trailblazing American journalists highlights the power of the press in the interwar period. In the fragile peace following the Great War, a surprising number of restless young Americans abandoned their homes and...
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Basic Books
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2020-03-17
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The new edition of the popular survey of Near Eastern civilization from the Bronze Age to the era of Alexander the Great A Companion to the Ancient Near East explores the history of the region from 4400 BCE to the Macedonian conquest of the Persian Empire in 330 BCE....
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-03-17
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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**Winner of the 2021 Texas Institute of Letters Carr P. Collins’ Award for Best Book of Nonfiction**One part Columbine, one part God Save Texas, Joe Holley's riveting, compassionate book examines the 2017 mass shooting at a church in a small Texas town,...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2020-03-17
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Dismal spending on government health services is often considered a necessary consequence of a low per-capita GDP, but are poor patients in poor countries really fated to be denied the fruits of modern medicine? In many countries, officials speak of proper health care...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-03-16
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This book examines the topic of excess in modern Irish writing in terms of mysticism, materialism, myth and language. The study engages ideas of excess as they appear in works by major thinkers from Hegel, Kierkegaard and Marx through to Nietzsche, Bataille, Derrida...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-14
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Named one of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction
While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-12
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The Moment of Liberation in Western Europe, 1943-1948, regards the final two years of World War II and the immediate post-liberation period as a moment in twentieth century history, when the shape and contours of postwar Western Europe appeared highly uncertain and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-12
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Dieser Band bietet einen vielgestaltigen Überblick zu den Grundfragen der Historik und des historischen Denkens. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Jörn Rüsen ist Historiker und Kulturwissenschaftler.
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Springer VS
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2020-03-12
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That seafaring was fundamental to Roman prosperity in the eastern Mediterranean is beyond doubt, but a tendency by scholars to focus on the grandest long-distance movements between major cities has obscured the finer and varied contours of maritime interaction. This...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-11
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Insulting the president is an American tradition. From Washington to Trump, presidents have been called "lazy," "feeble," "pusillanimous," and more. Our leaders have been derided as "ignoramuses," "idiots," "morons," and "fatheads," and have been compared to all manner...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-11
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The White Men's Countries explores how a shared ideal of race united the American and Australian governments during World War II and the early Cold War periods. This interpretation places cultural and ideological factors alongside the traditional emphasis on pragmatic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-03-10
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This book thematically analyses and surveys areas of Caribbean history and society. The work is divided into three parts: part one addresses migration and identity; part two explores policy and development; and part three explores music and literature. The volume places...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-03-10
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This book presents you with the background profiles of those mass exterminators of National Socialism who wound up in court. It pictures their ‘route to crime’ and explains why their court room profiles have always remained so controversial in the eyes of post-war...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-03-09
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This book examines transcultural processes between the Eurasian and Inner-Carpathian worlds in the Aeneolithic and Early Bronze Age from the perspectives of archaeology, history, anthropology, ethnology, art and philosophy. Based on archaeological sources, the authors...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-03-09
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American political and policy history has revived since the turn of the twenty-first century. After social and cultural history emerged as dominant forces to reveal the importance of class, race, and gender within the United States, the application of this line of work...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-06
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