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Shortlised for the Saltire Society Non Fiction Book of the Year Award Almost every adult and child is familiar with his Treasure Island, but few know that Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his last years on an equally remote island, which was squabbled over by...
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Maclehose Press
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2017-09-01
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This ground-breaking, interdisciplinary volume provides an overdue assessment of how infertility has been understood, treated and experienced in different times and places. It brings together scholars from disciplines including history, literature, psychology, ...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-09-01
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Emotional Cities offers an innovative account of the history of cities in the second half of the nineteenth century. Analyzing debates about emotions and urban change, it questions the assumed dissimilarity of the history of European and Middle Eastern cities during...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-09-01
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A concise history of labor and work in America from the birth of the Republic to the Industrial Age and beyond From the days of Thomas Jefferson, Americans believed that they could sustain a capitalist industrial economy without the class conflict or negative...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2017-09-01
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The American History Series
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A "better war." Over the last two decades, this term has become synonymous with US strategy during the Vietnam War's final years. The narrative is enticingly simple, appealing to many audiences. After the disastrous results of the 1968 Tet offensive, in which Hanoi's...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-09-01
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During the early modern period, Muslims in China began to embrace the Chinese characteristics of their heritage. Several scholar-teachers incorporated tenets from traditional Chinese education into their promotion of Islamic knowledge. As a result, some Sino-Muslims...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-09-01
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Die Schweiz hebt sich von seinen europäischen Nachbarn deutlich ab. Nur von ihren Nachbarn? Nein, die Schweiz ist weltweit einzigartig. Ein Staat mit einer einzigartigen Geschichte, einer Geschichte, bei der noch immer viel im Dunkel liegt. Wann fand der Rütlischwur...
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Wiley-VCH
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2017-09-01
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Für Dummies
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This book presents the story of a unique collection of 140 manuscripts of ‘learned magic’ that was sold for a fantastic sum within the clandestine channels of the German book trade in the early eighteenth century. The book will interpret this collection from two angles...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-31
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'Odd Arne Westad's daring ambition, supra-nationalist intellect, polyglot sources, masterly scholarship and trenchant analysis make The Cold War a book ofresounding importance for appraising our global future as well as understanding our past' Richard Davenport-Hines,...
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Penguin
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2017-08-31
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Anarchy in the Pure Land investigates the twentieth-century reinvention of the cult of Maitreya, the future Buddha, conceived by the reformer Taixu and promoted by the Chinese Buddhist reform movement. The cult presents an apparent anomaly: It shows precisely the kind...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-08-31
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Communist East Germany's demolition of Leipzig's perfectly intact medieval University Church in May 1968 was an act decried as "cultural barbarism" across the two Germanies and beyond. Although overshadowed by the crackdown on Prague Spring mere weeks later, the willful...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-08-30
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Die Krise der römischen Republik in der Zeit zwischen den Gracchen und Caesar (133–48 v. Chr.) gehört zu den großen Themen der internationalen Althistorie. Helmuth Schneiders Ansatz ist bestimmt von dem Versuch, den politischen Wandel und die Etablierung einer auf...
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J.B. Metzler
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2017-08-30
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Endorsed by WJECConfidently tackle curriculum change with the market-leading series for WJEC GCSE History; relaunched to cover the new content and assessment requirements, this book helps every student develop the in-depth knowledge and historical skills they need to...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2017-08-29
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The successor to Kenyatta and Britain: An Account of Political Transformation, 1929-1963, this book completes the first systematic political history of Jomo Kenyatta by examining the mechanisms of installing a neo-colonial regime in Kenya, and how such regimes were...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-29
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This book focuses on the latter half of the twentieth century, when much of northwest Europe grew increasingly multicultural with the arrival of foreign workers and (post-)colonial migrants, whilst simultaneously experiencing a boom in feminist and sexual liberation...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-29
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This volume looks at facets of cultural interactions between India and Thailand---two historically significant countries of the South East Asian region. For the first time a comprehensive discussion on historical and contemporary cultural interactions between Indian and...
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Springer
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2017-08-29
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Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP)Level: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbookLet SHP successfully steer you through the OCR B specification with an exciting, enquiry-based series, combining best...
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Hodder Education
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2017-08-29
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This book examines the complex relations between Joseon Korea (1392–1910) and Ming/Qing China in history, and reveals their contemporary implications for the nature of a China-dominated order in East Asia and the relations between China and the middle powers in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-28
Collection :
Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific
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This book examines diverse encounters between the British community and the thousands of French individuals who sought haven in the British Isles as they left revolutionary and Imperial France.This painstaking research into the emigrant archival and memorial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-25
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The second part in an epic historical trilogy -The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation's greatest modern writerThe year is 1563, and by any account Balthasar Russow can be said to have risen in the world. Fresh from his studies in the German town of Stetten, he...
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Maclehose Press
Parution :
2017-08-24
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