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During the twentieth century, men and women across Ireland picked up cameras, photographing days out at the beach, composing views of Ireland's cities and countryside, and recording political events as they witnessed them. Indeed, while foreign photographers often still...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-06
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When John Bercow retired as Speaker of the House of Commons on 31 October 2019, he had become one of the most recognisable and iconoclastic figures in British politics, occupying a ringside seat during one of the most febrile periods in modern British history. In his...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2020-02-06
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A Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year'Powerful . . . there is rage in his ink. McKay's book grips by its passion and originality. Some 25,000 people perished in the firestorm that raged through the city. I have never seen it better described' Max Hastings, Sunday...
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Penguin
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2020-02-06
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Seit über hundert Jahren fehlt eine größere Darstellung der Geschichte der Forstverwaltung von ihren Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Das Buch stellt die Grundlinien und Besonderheiten ihrer tausendjährigen bunten und wechselvollen Geschichte dar. Diese Geschichte...
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Springer VS
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2020-02-05
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The Truth of Myth is a thorough and accessible introduction to the study of myth, surveying the intellectual history of the topic, methods for studying myth cross-culturally, and emerging trends. Readers will encounter insightful commentaries on such questions as: What...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-02-03
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Widely considered the first history of US Constitutionalism that places African Americans at the center, Promises to Keep is a compelling overview of how conflict over African Americans' place in American society has shaped the Constitution, law, and our understanding...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-02-03
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An original exploration of the relationship between the Mughal emperor and his subjects in the space of the Mughal empire's capital, The King and the People overturns an axiomatic assumption in the history of premodern South Asia: that the urban masses were merely...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-02-03
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Der Titel des Buches ist in mehrfacher Hinsicht doppeldeutig.Der Sammelband vereint somatische, kulturhistorische und methodologische Themen. Aus der Perspektive der Sportgeschichtsschreibung als Kulturgeschichte von Körper, Bewegung und Sport werden Sinnkonstruktionen...
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Springer VS
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2020-02-01
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This book provides the first detailed analysis of how interactions between government policy and Fleet Street affected the political coverage of the Greek civil war, one of the first major confrontations of the Cold War. During this period the exponential growth of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-02-01
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The Death of the French Atlantic examines the sudden and irreversible decline of France's Atlantic empire in the Age of Revolution, and shows how three major forces undermined the country's competitive position as an Atlantic commercial power.
The first was war,...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-01-31
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The Death of the French Atlantic examines the sudden and irreversible decline of France's Atlantic empire in the Age of Revolution, and shows how three major forces undermined the country's competitive position as an Atlantic commercial power.
The first was war,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-01-31
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The Revolution in Time explores the idea that people in Western Europe changed the way they thought about the concept of time over the early modern period, by examining reactions to the 1688-1689 revolution in England.
The study examines how those who lived through...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-01-30
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The Revolution in Time explores the idea that people in Western Europe changed the way they thought about the concept of time over the early modern period, by examining reactions to the 1688-1689 revolution in England.
The study examines how those who lived through...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-01-30
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This book offers a fresh insight into the conquests of Alexander the Great by attempting to view the events of 336-323 BCE from the vantage point of the defeated. The extent and form of the resistance of the populations he confronted varied according to their previous...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-01-29
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'Books such as this are essential: they remind modern readers of events that should never be forgotten' - Caroline MooreheadOn March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2020-01-23
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In October 1726, newspapers began reporting a remarkable event.In the town of Godalming in Surrey, a woman called Mary Toft had started to give birth to rabbits. Several leading doctors - some sent directly by King George I - travelled to examine the woman and she was...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-01-23
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Sophocles' Electra is a riveting play with a long and varied reception. Its nuanced treatment of matricidal revenge with all the questions it raises; its compelling depictions of the idealistic, long -grieving, rebellious Electra; her compliant sister; her brother; and...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-01-23
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Having spent centuries in the shadows of its neighbours China and Japan, Korea is now the object of considerable interest for radically different reasons-- the South as an economic success story and for its vibrant popular culture; the North as the home to one of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-01-23
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Having spent centuries in the shadows of its neighbours China and Japan, Korea is now the object of considerable interest for radically different reasons-- the South as an economic success story and for its vibrant popular culture; the North as the home to one of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-01-23
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The contemporary status of the eight South Asian nations was determined by the creation of the British Indian empire and the process of decolonization. This book by the late Ainslie T. Embree is an insightful exploration of how the boundaries of these states were...
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OUP India
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2020-01-17
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