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'A story told with verve and passion' The Times, Book of the Week'An alternative and engaging biography...accessible and unpretentious' The Telegraph'A stunning portrayal of two of the most powerful women in European history' Tracy Borman'Exciting and compelling, packed...
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Ebury Digital
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2022-06-30
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This book is the first epoch-spanning study on Jewish participation in the Italian women’s movement, focussing in a transnational perspective on the experience of Italian-Jewish protagonists in Liberal Italy, during the First World War and the Fascist dictatorship until...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-30
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This book looks at the memory of the communist past in Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on Bulgaria: its “official” memory, constructed by institutions, its public memory, molded by media, rituals, books and films and the urban environment, and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-25
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'In this fascinating, panoramic account, Levi Roach brings an expert eye and page-turning energy to the telling of their extraordinary story' Helen Castor, bestselling author of She Wolves'A fresh retelling of the story of the Normans . . . written with enthusiasm and...
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John Murray
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2022-06-23
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This is a translated autobiography of applied mathematician N. N. Moiseev, providing an insider’s view of the history of the Soviet Union from its founding in 1917 to its collapse in 1991, as well as a little of the aftermath.We see vividly the precariousness of...
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Birkhäuser
Parution :
2022-06-07
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This multiauthor volume presents thirteen case studies that showcase the scientific, analytical, and often archaeological study of historic buildings that is known in German as Bauforschung. Written by established and emerging experts in this field, the chapters focus...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-06-06
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This book represents a new reading of a key moment in the history of East European Jewry, namely the period preceding the collapse of the Russian Empire. Offering a novel analysis of relations between the Russian army and Jews during the First World War, it points to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-01
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Palgrave Critical Studies of Antisemitism and Racism
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The Adriatic is ‘the small Mediterranean’ – a sea within a sea, part of the Mediterranean and at the same time detached from it, a largely enclosed sea with stunning coastlines and a long history of commercial, political and cultural exchange. Silent witness to the flow...
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Polity
Parution :
2022-05-27
ePub
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A refreshing guide to discovering the hidden details of London with 10 fully guided walking routes from London's leading tour guide Look Up London. Have you ever noticed London's tiniest public sculpture? Or wondered why there are strange cone-shaped structures on the...
Editeur :
Greenfinch
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2022-05-26
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This book explores the evolution of the role of the heirs to the throne of Italy between 1860 and 1900. It focuses on the future kings Umberto I (1844-1900) and Vittorio Emanuele III (1869-1947), and their respective spouses, Margherita of Savoia (1851-1926) and Elena...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-26
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'A masterpiece of history'DAILY TELEGRAPHBetween 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2022-05-26
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The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - BerlinThroughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world. This history is often viewed as separate acts:...
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Penguin
Parution :
2022-05-26
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This book analyzes the negotiation of socio-political concepts, such as citizenship, republicanism, and representation, between “ordinary” French citizens and their representatives in parliament during the early twentieth century. By examining the letters written to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-25
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Combining intellectual history, geography and political science, this book addresses the relations between geography and the federalist tendencies of key individuals during the nineteenth-century Italian Risorgimento. The book investigates the development of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-25
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This book addresses one the most contentious issues of postwar Western Europe, namely the organization of the primary and secondary stages of schooling in state education systems. In examining the politics of continuity and change in postwar schooling in Britain...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-16
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
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This book is a study of an eighteenth-century portrait of a youth in Polish dress, owned by the National Portrait Gallery in London since 1922, but never publicly displayed. Two inscriptions claim that it is a portrait of Charles Edward Stuart, popularly known as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2022-05-08
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This book—along with its companion volume Mary I in Writing: Letters, Literature, and Representations—centers on representations of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and the process of writing that queen into literature and other textual sources. It spans an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-06
Collection :
Queenship and Power
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Calvinist Conformity in Post-Reformation England is the first modern full-scale examination of the theology and life of the distinguished EnglishCalvinist clergyman Daniel Featley (1582-1645). It explores Featley's career and thought through a comprehensive treatment of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-04-29
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This book addresses the interplay between collaboration and resistance during the Revolutionary/Napoleonic era in the Duchies of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla, renamed States of Parma in 1802 and Department of Taro in 1808. Considered no more than a docile backwater in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-28
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This book—along with its companion volume Writing Mary I: History, Historiography, and Fiction—centers on representations of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and the process of writing that queen into literature and other textual sources. It spans an equally...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-25
Collection :
Queenship and Power
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