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The friendship of the bachelor politicians James Buchanan (1791-1868) of Pennsylvania and William Rufus King (1786-1853) of Alabama has excited much speculation through the years. Why did neither marry? Might they have been gay? Or was their relationship a...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-08-02
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This book examines the connections between the British Empire and French colonialism in war, peace and the various stages of competitive cooperation between, in which the two empires were often frères ennemis. It argues that in crucial ways the British and French...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-02
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This volume offers a critical re-examination of colonial and anti-colonial resistance imageries and practices in imperial history. It offers a fresh critique of both pejorative and celebratory readings of ‘insurgent peoples’, and it seeks to revitalize the study of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-01
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Drawing upon a diverse range of archival evidence, medical treatises, religious texts, public discourses, and legal documents, this book examines the rich historical context in which controversies surrounding the medical neglect of children erupted onto the American...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-08-01
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'An outstanding book of astonishing power . . . One finishes it with an ache in the heart'JON SWAIN, writer and foreign correspondent, author of River of Time'Through a profoundly moving tale that weaves together the connected stories of a victim, his surviving family,...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2019-08-01
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'Everything about this story is astounding' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times"Trinity" was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. Trinity is now also the extraordinary story of the bomb's metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls;...
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Penguin
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2019-08-01
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In the decades following World War II, factories in many countries not only provided secure employment and a range of economic entitlements, but also recognized workers as legitimate stakeholders, enabling them to claim rights to participate in decision making and hold...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-08-01
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United States historians have long regarded the U.S. Civil War and its Reconstruction as a second American revolution. Literary scholars, however, have yet to show how fully these years revolutionized the American imagination. Emblematic of this moment was the post-war...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-08-01
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Many people today have never heard of the Comoros, but these islands were once part of a prosperous regional trading economy that stretched halfway around the world. A key node in the trading networks of the Indian Ocean, the Comoros prospered by exchanging slaves and...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-08-01
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Adopting a political and legal perspective, Redefining Citizenship in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand undertakes a transnational study that examines the demise of Britishness as a defining feature of the conceptualisation of citizenship in Australia, Canada,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-07-31
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Translated from the original German Lenin Neuentdecken and available in English for the first time, this volume rediscovers Lenin as a strategic socialist thinker through close examination of his collected works and correspondence. Brie opens with an analysis of Lenin's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-31
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This book explores Korean literature from a broadly global perspective from the mid-9th century to the present, with special emphasis on how it has been influenced by, as well as it has influenced, literatures of other nations. Beginning with the Korean version...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-31
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This open access book discusses a variety of important but unprecedented ways in which psychology can be useful to philosophy. The early chapters illustrate this theme via comparisons between Chinese and Western philosophy. It is argued that the Chinese notion of a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-30
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This book explores the political and ideological developments that resulted in the establishment of two separate states on the island of Ireland: the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. It examines how this radical transformation took place, including how British...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-29
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The Phoenicians created the Mediterranean world as we know it--yet they remain a shadowy and poorly understood group.The academic study of the Phoenicians has come to an important crossroads; the field has grown in sheer content, sophistication of analysis, and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-07-29
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Countries in the Middle East have very different economies, even if they are often grouped together. In The Economics of the Middle East, James Rauch focuses on the drivers of their distinctiveness, including the effects of their natural endowments, geographic...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-07-29
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Ist im Spannungsfeld zwischen Holocaustliteratur und Ghostwriting auch ein Ende von Authentizität zu erwarten? Der Ghostwriter ist ein gängiger Aktant im Genre Autobiografie. Die Anforderungen an den Ghostwriter eines historischen Zeugen scheinen besonders hoch zu sein,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-07-29
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This book is the first English-language study of the social, intellectual and institutional history of sociology and the social sciences in Hungary.
Starting with the emergence of the discipline in the early 20th century, Karady and Nagy chart its development...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-07-29
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This book adds a crucial focus on morality to the growing literature on the history of capitalism by exploring social and cultural perspectives on the economic order that has dominated the modern world. Taking the study beyond narrow economic confines, it traces the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-26
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The definitive history of the Middle East, now updated in its fifth edition'The best overall survey of the politics, regional rivalries and economics of the contemporary Arab world' Washington PostOver the centuries the Middle East has confounded the dreams of...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2019-07-25
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