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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...
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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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South-west Donegal, Ireland, June 1856.
From the time that the blight first came on the potatoes in 1845, armed and masked men dubbed Molly Maguires had been raiding the houses of people deemed to be taking advantage of the rural poor. On some occasions, they...
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OUP Oxford
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 :
2017-08-04
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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...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-08-04
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A Magnificent Faith explains how and why Lutheranism - a confession that derived its significance from the promulgation of God's Word - became a visually magnificent faith, a faith whose adherents sought to captivate Christians' hearts and minds through seeing as well...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-08-04
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South-west Donegal, Ireland, June 1856.
From the time that the blight first came on the potatoes in 1845, armed and masked men dubbed Molly Maguires had been raiding the houses of people deemed to be taking advantage of the rural poor. On some occasions, they...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-08-04
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Praise for Small's earlier work on Nightingale: 'Hugh Small, in a masterly piece of historical detective work, convincingly demonstrates what all previous historians and biographers have missed . . . This is a compelling psychological portrait of a very eminent (and...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2017-08-03
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Brief Histories
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It is often assumed that the national identity must be a matter of values and ideas. But in Robert Winder's brilliantly-written account it is a land built on a lucky set of natural ingredients: the island setting that made it maritime; the rain that fed the grass that...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2017-08-03
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'A groundbreaking study ... a masterclass in how to do intellectual history, and one that nobody with an interest in radical Islam should miss' Tom Holland, New Statesman'Readers looking for a rigorous but lucid account of Islamic State's ideas will be well-served ...
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Penguin
Parution :
2017-08-03
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This collection brings together essays examining the international influence of queens, other female rulers, and their representatives from 1450 through 1700, an era of expanding colonial activity and sea trade. As Europe rose in prominence geopolitically, a number of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-03
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-01
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Russia's forceful re-entry into the Middle Eastern arena, and the accentuated continuity of Soviet policy and methods of the 1960s and '70s, highlight the topicality of this groundbreaking study, which confirms the USSR's role in shaping Middle Eastern and global...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-08-01
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Why is Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, involved in a costly and merciless war against its mountainous southern neighbor Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East? When the Saudis attacked the hitherto obscure Houthi militia, which they believed had...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-08-01
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For over forty years, Cold War concerns about the threat of communism shaped the contours of refugee and asylum policy in the United States, and the majority of those admitted as refugees came from communist countries. In the post-Cold War period, a wider range of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-08-01
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