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The Persian Mirror explores France's preoccupation with Persia in the seventeenth century. Long before Montesquieu's Persian Letters, French intellectuals, diplomats and even ordinary Parisians were fascinated by Persia and eagerly consumed travel accounts, fairy tales,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-10-21
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This book argues that a serious, scholarly study on exhumation is long overdue. Examining more well-known cases, such as that of Richard III, the Romanovs, and Tutankhamen, alongside the more obscure, Michael Nash explores the motivations beyond exhumation, from...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-21
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In the early twentieth century, the magic of radio was new, revolutionary, and poorly understood. A powerful symbol of modernity, radio was a site where individuals wrestled and came to terms with an often frightening wave of new mass technologies. Radio was the object...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-18
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In the sixteenth century, in what is now modern-day Peru and Bolivia, Andean communities were forcibly removed from their traditional villages by Spanish colonizers and resettled in planned, self-governed towns modeled after those in Spain. But rather than merely...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-10-17
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Frauenhäuser, die Bordelle spätmittelalterlich-frühneuzeitlicher Städte, stellen ein Phänomen mediävistischer Forschung dar, das an Aktualität kaum verloren hat. Die Existenz der geordneten Prostitution hat nicht nur wirtschaftliche, sondern auch ordnungspolitische...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-10-17
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"On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066-the primary action that propelled the removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans. From the last days of that month, when California's Terminal Island became the first site of forced...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-10-17
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Sir Trevor McDonald is an extraordinary man - and he has led an improbable life. Now in his 80th year, he is known and loved by people the world over for his humility, charm and natural ease. As a natural storyteller and communicator, he has few equals. In An Improbable...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2019-10-17
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Between 270 and 535 AD the city of Rome experienced dramatic changes. The once glorious imperial capital was transformed into the much humbler centre of western Christendom in a process that redefined its political importance, size, and identity. Urban Space and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-10-17
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Between 270 and 535 AD the city of Rome experienced dramatic changes. The once glorious imperial capital was transformed into the much humbler centre of western Christendom in a process that redefined its political importance, size, and identity. Urban Space and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-10-17
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WINNER OF THE SOCIETY FOR MILITARY HISTORY'S DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY AND THE BRITISH ARMY MILITARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019, AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2019-10-17
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Das Buch bringt dem Leser den komplexen und schwierigen Prozess der Ausformung der modernen slowakischen Nation näher, zuerst innerhalb des Ungarischen Königreichs und seit 1918 in der Tschechoslowakei. Der Prozess mündete schließlich in die staatliche Unabhängigkeit...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-10-16
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The beloved New York Times columnist "inspires women to embrace aging and look at it with a new sense of hope" in this lively, fascinating, eye-opening look at women and aging in America (Parade Magazine). "You're not getting older, you're...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2019-10-15
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Brilliant horsemen and great fighters, the Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC. Their steppe homeland bordered on a number...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-10-15
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In this tribute to today’s vibrant quilting community, prize-winning quilter and teacher Thomas Knauer showcases a stunning collection of quilts from a wide range of contemporary makers, accompanied by their testimonials about what inspires and imbues their craft...
Editeur :
Storey Publishing, LLC
Parution :
2019-10-15
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Unflinching dispatches of an embedded war reporter covering ISIS and the unlikely alliance of forces who came together to defeat it.The battle to defeat ISIS was an unremittingly brutal and dystopian struggle, a multi-sided war of gritty local commandos and militias....
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2019-10-15
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The essays in this volume seek to analyze biographical films as representations of historical individuals and the times in which they lived. To do this, contributors examine the context in which certain biographical films were made, including the state of knowledge...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-14
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
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This book considers how Samoans embraced and reshaped the English game of cricket, recasting it as a distinctively Samoan pastime, kirikiti. Starting with cricket’s introduction to the islands in 1879, it uses both cricket and kirikiti to trace six decades of contest...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-10
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Mit «Grenzen, Wenden und Zäsuren» liegt nach «Grenzüberschreitungen und Wendepunkte» der zweite Sammelband der Interdisziplinären Vortragsreihe (IVR) Heidelberg vor.
Aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven beschäftigen sich die Autoren, deren wissenschaftliche Diversität...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-10-10
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'Fascinating and timely. Required reading for every developer, planner or councillor who holds London in trust today' Griff Rhys Jones'Accessible, clear and readable' Rowan Moore, The Observer________________________LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2019-10-10
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Indigenous peoples have our own ways of defining oral history. For many, oral sources are shaped and disseminated in multiple forms that are more culturally textured than just standard interview recordings. For others, indigenous oral histories are not merely fanciful...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-10-09
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