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This book explores the history of Dartmoor War Prison (1805-16).This is not the well-known Victorian convict prison, but a less familiar penal institution, conceived and built nearly half a century earlier in the midst of the long-running wars against France,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-11
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At the heart of how history sees the French Revolution lies the enigma of the Terror. How did this archetypal revolution, founded on the principles of liberty and equality and the promotion of human rights, arrive at circumstances where it carried out the violent and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-11-03
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This book focuses, from a legal perspective, on a series of events which make up some of the principal episodes in the legal history of religion in Ireland: the anti-Catholic penal laws of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century; the shift towards the removal...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-29
Collection :
Palgrave Modern Legal History
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70 000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa to colonize the world. 6,000 years ago, he founded the first cities. Today, in the era of city networks, he is creating increasingly wide and complex metropolitan regions. From prehistory to the era of metropolises, man has...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires François-Rabelais
Parution :
2021-10-18
Collection :
Perspectives Villes et Territoires
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During the final years of the Second World War, a decisive change took place in the Italian left, as the Italian Communist Party (PCI) rose from clandestinity and recast itself as a mass, patriotic force committed to building a new democracy. This book explains how this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-13
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This book focuses on Biopreparat, the Soviet agency created in 1974, which spearheaded the largest and most sophisticated biological warfare programme the world has ever seen. At its height, Biopreparat employed more than 30,000 personnel and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-12
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Based on five years of archival research, this book offers a radical reinterpretation of Britain and Spain’s relationship during the growth, apogee and decline of the British Empire. It shows that from the early nineteenth century Britain turned Spain into an ‘informal’...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-25
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This book demonstrates that the common belief that humanity is naturally disposed to religion did not disappear with the emergence of the Enlightenment. Going beyond a narrow focus on John Locke’s empiricism, this vivid analysis reconstructs the vociferous, multivocal...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-20
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This book, part media history and part group biography, tells the story of the BBC’s attempts to reach out to listeners in Nazi Germany at a time when Anglo-German relations were particularly strained. Who were the individuals behind the microphone, whose names...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-16
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The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland describes the emergence, long dominance, sudden division, and recent decline of Ireland's most important religion, as a way of telling the history of the island and its peoples.
Throughout its long history, Christianity in Ireland...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-09-09
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The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland describes the emergence, long dominance, sudden division, and recent decline of Ireland's most important religion, as a way of telling the history of the island and its peoples.
Throughout its long history, Christianity in Ireland...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-09-09
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A PEOPLE'S PORTRAIT OFA PERIOD OF MOMENTOUS CHANGE IN IRISH HISTORY.Independence Memories is a fascinating social history, from living and inherited memory, of the period surrounding Irish Independence and the Civil War.It was a time of violence, of death, of...
Editeur :
Hachette Books Ireland
Parution :
2021-09-02
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This innovative book challenges many of the widely held assumptions about the place of religion in Victorian society and in London, the world's first great industrial and commercial metropolis. Against the background of Victorian London it explores the religiosity of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-09-01
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This innovative book challenges many of the widely held assumptions about the place of religion in Victorian society and in London, the world's first great industrial and commercial metropolis. Against the background of Victorian London it explores the religiosity of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-09-01
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This book examines the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympic Games. It tells the story of the extensive infrastructural transformation of the city and its changing global image in relation to hosting of the Games. Reviewing different cultural representations of Sarajevo in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-19
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The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety which had for more than a year...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-12
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The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety which had for more than a year...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-12
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Heritage became a target during the Yugoslav Wars as part of ethnic cleansing and urbicide. Out of the ashes of war, pasts were remodelled, places took on new layers of meaning, and a wave of new memorialization took hold. Three decades since the fall of Vukovar and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-11
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This book offers the first in-depth intellectual and cultural history of British subversive propaganda during the Second World War. Focussing on the Political Warfare Executive (PWE), it tells the story of British efforts to undermine German morale and promote...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-11
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Everyday Zionism examines Zionist activism in East-Central Europe during the years of war, occupation, revolution, the collapse of empires, and the formation of nation states in the years 1914 to 1920. Against the backdrop of the Great War—its brutal aftermath and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-05
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