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The creation of the Library of Alexandria is widely regarded as one of the great achievements in the history of humankind - a giant endeavour to amass all known literature and scholarly texts in one central location, so as to preserve it and make it available for the...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-11-07
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The creation of the Library of Alexandria is widely regarded as one of the great achievements in the history of humankind - a giant endeavour to amass all known literature and scholarly texts in one central location, so as to preserve it and make it available for the...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-11-07
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'Compelling' Sunday Times'A triumph' Daily Mirror'Gripping' Jonathan Dimbleby1941. The Battle of the Atlantic is a disaster. Thousands of supply ships ferrying vital food and fuel from North America to Britain are being torpedoed by German U-boats. Britain is only weeks...
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Sceptre
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2019-11-07
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This book reveals the queen behind Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. Placing Spenser’s epic poem in the context of the tumultuous sixteenth century, Donald Stump offers a groundbreaking reading of the poem as an allegory of Elizabeth I’s life. By narrating the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-11-07
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Given fascist proscriptions against homosexuality, a surprising number of artists under Mussolini’s regime were queer. Exploring the contribution of Italy to our understanding of both the history of homosexuality and European modernism, this ground-breaking study...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2019-11-07
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This book represents the first systematic attempt to analyse media and public communications published in Britain by people of African and Afro-Caribbean origin during the aftermaths of war, presenting an in-depth study of print publications for the period 1919-1924....
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-06
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A few years after the American declaration of independence, the first American ships set sail to India. The commercial links that American merchant mariners established with the Parsis of Bombay contributed significantly to the material and intellectual culture of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-11-06
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This book surveys the lives and careers of naval officers across Europe at the height of the age of sail. It traces the professionalization of naval officers by exploring their preparation for life at sea and the challenges they faced while in command. It also...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-06
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This collaborative multi-authored volume integrates interdisciplinary approaches to ethnic, imperial, and national borderlands in the Iberian World (16th to early 19th centuries). It illustrates the historical processes that produced borderlands in the Americas and...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-11-06
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This book re-visits the history of the Korean War of 1950-1953 from a Chinese perspective, examining Chinese strategy and exploring why China sent three million troops to Korea, in Mao’s words, to “defend the homeland and safeguard the country”—giving rise to what...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-05
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From UFOs to Dr. Strangelove, LSD experiments to Richard Nixon, author Brian Brown investigates the paranoid, panicked history of the Cold War.In Someone Is Out to Get Us, Brian T. Brown explores the delusions, absurdities, and best-kept secrets of the Cold War, during...
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Twelve
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2019-11-05
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This stunning visual guide is a journey of discovery through fashion's fascinating history, one day at a time.Beginning on January 1st and ending on December 31st, Worn OnThis Day looks at garments worn on monumental occasions across centuries, offering capsule fashion...
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Running Press Adult
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2019-11-05
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Words of Her Own situates the experiences and articulations of emergent women writers in nineteenth-century Bengal through an exploration of works authored by them. Based on a spectrum of genres—such as autobiographies, novels, and travelogues—this book examines the...
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OUP India
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2019-11-05
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A riveting, edge-of-your seat account of how a battalion of Marines faced off against the most brutal of Al Qaeda at its most desperate and vicious moment--and how the Marines decisively crushed the terroristsWhen the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Marine Regiment ("2/3")...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2019-11-05
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This book discusses the emergence of care for orphaned, abandoned and poor children in Lithuania from the early twentieth century to the beginning of the Second World War. In particular, it focuses on how such practices were influenced by nationalist and political...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-05
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The fully-revised second edition of the bestselling textbook—an original interpretation of the entire span of California historyThe rich history of California can best be told through its connection with the Pacific Basin. From the geological origins of the land and its...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-11-05
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Three Gold Star women, linked forever by unimaginable loss, share their inspiring, unlikely journey that began on the worst day of their lives.What happens when tragedy knocks on your front door? For us, it was a literal knock, with two men standing in crisply pressed...
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Center Street
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2019-11-05
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As the twentieth century dawned and France entered an era of extraordinary labor activism and industrial competition, an insistently romantic vision of the Parisian garment worker was deployed by politicians, reformers, and artists to manage anxieties about economic and...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-11-05
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One of the most highly regarded special operations soldiers in American military history shares his war stories and personal battle with PTSD.As a senior non-commissioned officer of the most elite and secretive special operations unit in the U.S. military, Command...
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Center Street
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2019-11-05
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'Punctuation is not only an important part of our language code; an advanced system of punctuation has been a driving force in our entire Western Civilisation. Nothing less.'With the invention of printing, reading books moved from being an act only performed by priests...
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Sceptre
Parution :
2019-11-04
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