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This open access book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in British cattle.This question has plagued several professional generations of politicians, policymakers,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-25
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This book offers an institutional history of the British Legation in Kabul, which was established in response to the independence of Afghanistan in 1919. It contextualises this diplomatic mission in the wider remit of Anglo-Afghan relations and diplomacy from the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-25
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Swaziland—recently renamed Eswatini—is the only nation-state in Africa with a functioning indigenous political system. Elsewhere on the continent, most departing colonial administrators were succeeded by Western-educated elites. In Swaziland, traditional Swazi leaders...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-25
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Economic repression became a keystone of the social exclusion policies of the Franco dictatorship from the stage of the coup d'état. Beyond its utility in provisioning the warfronts and for the proper functioning of the rearguard, it became a valuable deterrent and a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-09-24
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The untold story of the Christian missionaries who played a crucial role in the allied victory in World War II What makes a good missionary makes a good spy. Or so thought "Wild" Bill Donovan when he secretly recruited a team of religious activists for the Office of...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2019-09-24
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This book recounts France’s responses to refugees from the liberation of Paris in 1944 to the end of the civil wars in the former Yugoslavia in 1995. It questions whether France fulfilled the promise of asylum for those persecuted for the ‘cause of liberty’ made in its...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-23
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Introduction by Deborah E. Lipstadt, author of DenialJuly 15, 1942, WednesdayRemember this day; remember it well. You will tell generations to come. Since 8 o’clock today we have been shut away in the ghetto. I live here now. The world is separated from me and I’m...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2019-09-19
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'Magnificent. Beautifully written, immaculately researched and thoroughly absorbing from start to finish. A tour de force that explains how Europe's cultural life transformed during the course of the 19th century - and so much more' Peter FrankopanFrom the...
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Penguin
Parution :
2019-09-19
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Beethoven-Bildnisse gibt es seit über 200 Jahren, und jenseits des omnipräsenten Titanenhauptes gibt es eine Vielfalt von Gestaltungen in gezeichneter, gemalter und plastischer Form, die viel über ihre jeweilige Zeit und über unsere Zugänge zu Beethovens Musik zu...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-09-19
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The Roman conquest of Italy in the Republican period (from c. 400 to 50 BC) led to widespread economic changes in which the conquered Italians played an important role. Italy's Economic Revolution analyses the integration of Italy during this period and explores the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-19
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The Roman conquest of Italy in the Republican period (from c. 400 to 50 BC) led to widespread economic changes in which the conquered Italians played an important role. Italy's Economic Revolution analyses the integration of Italy during this period and explores the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-19
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Based on the landmark Radio 4 series, this beautifully illustrated modern history of the connections between science and art offers a new perspective on what that relationship has contributed to the world around us. __________ ...
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Transworld Digital
Parution :
2019-09-19
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Au sortir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l’Europe libérée est traversée par une même soif de justice à l’égard des anciens ennemis et de leurs collaborateurs. Ce livre interroge ce « moment 1945 » comme une expérience, sinon totalement commune, du moins largement...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2019-09-17
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'At least in The Handmaid's Tale they value babies, mostly. Not so in the true stories here' Margaret Atwood '[A] furious, necessary book' Sinéad GleesonUntil alarmingly recently, the Catholic Church, acting in concert with the Irish state, operated a network of...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2019-09-12
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The concept of resonance collapses the binary between subject and object, perceiver and perceived, evoking a sound or image that is prolonged and augmented by making contact with another surface. This collection uses resonance as an innovative framework for...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-12
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This book considers the doctrinal and ecclesiological trends that were present during the construction of the revised Book of Common Prayer of 1927. Through the use of the records of both Convocations and of the National/Church Assembly, it examines the debates that led...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-09-12
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Through the long 20th century, Indian South Africans lived under the whip of settler colonialism and white minority rule, which saw the passing of a slew of legislation that circumscribed their freedom of movement, threatened repatriation, and denied them citizenship,...
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OUP India
Parution :
2019-09-12
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Despite the repression, violence, and social hardship which characterised Spanish life in the 1940s and 1950s, the Franco regime sought to win popular support by promoting its apparent commitment to social justice. David Brydan reveals the vital role which the idea of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-12
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Despite the repression, violence, and social hardship which characterised Spanish life in the 1940s and 1950s, the Franco regime sought to win popular support by promoting its apparent commitment to social justice. David Brydan reveals the vital role which the idea of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-12
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The World's Most Prestigious Prize:The Inside Story of the Nobel Peace Prize is a fascinating, insider account of the Nobel peace prize. Drawing on unprecedented access to the Norwegian Nobel Institute's vast archive, it offers a gripping account of the founding of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-12
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