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Dissenter from the Fourth Crusade, disseised earl of Leicester, leader of the Albigensian Crusade, prince of southern France: Simon of Montfort led a remarkable career of ascent from mid-level French baron to semi-independent count before his violent death before the...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-08-11
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'A wholly pleasing book, which offers a tasty side dish to anyone exploring the narrative history of the British Empire' Max Hastings, Sunday TimesWINNER OF THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS BOOK AWARD 2018The glamorous daughter of an African chief shares a pineapple with a...
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Vintage Digital
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2017-08-10
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This book compares female administrators who specifically chose to serve the Nazi cause in voluntary roles with those who took on such work as a progression of established careers. Under the Nazi regime, secretaries, SS-Helferinnen (female auxiliaries for the SS) and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-10
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__________________________'The universal significance of this historic event becomes ever more relevant in our own turbulent times.' MIKE LEIGH, director of the award-winning film Peterloo__________________________The Peterloo Massacre is a revealing and compelling...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2017-08-10
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This book offers the first comprehensive overview in English of the history of sociology in what is today the Czech Republic. Divided into six chapters, it traces the institutional development of the discipline from the late 19th century until the present, with an...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2017-08-10
Collection :
Sociology Transformed
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** Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Sunday Times and Observer **'Compulsively readable - the pages seem to turn themselves' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Brings one of the very greatest [artists] vividly to life' Literary Review Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88)...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2017-08-10
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The untold story of India's Partition.The partition of India in 1947 was the only way to contain intractable religious differences as the subcontinent moved towards independence - or so the story goes. But this dramatic new history reveals previously overlooked links...
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Constable
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2017-08-10
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Bernd Rosemeyer, der weltberühmte Autorennfahrer der 30er Jahre, galt nach seinem Unfalltod 1938 als Vorbild für Generationen von rennsportbegeisterten Anhängern weltweit. Dass seine Rennkarriere eng verbunden war mit seiner Mitgliedschaft in der SS, ist zwar seit...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-08-09
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This book explores the experiences of people who struggled with fertility problems in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. Motherhood was central to early modern women’s identity and was even seen as their path to salvation. To a lesser extent, fatherhood played...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-09
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What role do pre-modern religious traditions play in the formation of modern secular identities? In Unforgetting Chaitanya, Varuni Bhatia examines late-nineteenth-century transformations of Bengali Vaishnavism-a vibrant and multifaceted religious tradition that traces...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-08-09
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This book illuminates a lesser-known aspect of the British history of travel in the Enlightenment: that of the Royal Society’s special contribution to the “discovery” of the south of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour. By exploring primary source journal entries of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-09
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This book examines the pioneering radio broadcasts and television documentaries about the United States made in the 1950s by the influential West German journalist Peter von Zahn. Part intellectual biography, part analysis of significant debates in West Germany, part...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-08
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This book explores how the Danish authorities governed the colonized population in Greenland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Two competing narratives of colonialism dominate in Greenland as well as Denmark. One narrative portrays the Danish colonial project...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-08
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This is a collection of essays from three of the world’s pre-eminent historians of Germany, which consider German history in global and transnational contexts. It is well known that transnationalism has exploded in the last decade or so as a new academic subfield of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2017-08-08
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This book, the second of two parts, demonstrates that societies experiencing prolonged and severe crises of legitimacy are prone to intense and persistent political violence. The most significant factor accounting for the persistence of intense political violence in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-07
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Mit der Vergabe von Grafenrechten an Adolf I. in Holstein und Stormarn begann im Winter 1110/11 die wechselhafte Geschichte der Schauenburger Familie nördlich der Elbe. Im Fokus der Studie steht die Leitfrage, wie sich die drei schauenburgischen Grafen des 12....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-08-07
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This book investigates the history of writing as a cultural practice in a variety of contexts and periods. It analyses the rituals and practices determining intimate or ‘ordinary’ writing as well as bureaucratic and religious writing. From the inscribed images of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-07
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This book examines the active role played by Africans in the pre-colonial production of historical knowledge in South Africa, focusing on perspectives of the second king of amaZulu, King Dingane. It draws upon a wealth of oral traditions, izibongo, and the work of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-06
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This volume provides a unique view of the movement for peace during the First World War, with authors from across Europe and the United States, each providing a distinctive cultural analysis of peace movements during the Great War. As Europe began its...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-05
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For early modern Europeans, the past was a measure of most things, good and bad.For that reason it was also hotly contested, manipulated, and far too important to be left to historians alone.
Memory in Early Modern Europe offers a lively and accessible introduction...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-08-05
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