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‘Everyone should spend a couple of hours of their life reading it, to remind themselves that, even in the darkest depth of human misery, the bravest souls still exist.’ Sunday TimesSince ISIS occupied Raqqa in eastern Syria, it has become one of the most isolated and...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2017-03-09
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Making Minorities History examines the various attempts made by European states over the course of the first half of the twentieth century, under the umbrella of international law and in the name of international peace and reconciliation, to rid the Continent of its...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-09
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The Irish Classical Self considers the role of classical languages and learning in the construction of Irish cultural identities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, focusing in particular on the "lower ranks" of society. This eighteenth century notion of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-09
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This book proposes new avenues for understanding tribal allegiance in Sub-Saharan Africa. Much research on ethnicity and cultural pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa falsely equates the term "tribe" with "ethnicity" and obscures the differences between Sub-Saharan Africa...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-08
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This volume comprises a broad interdisciplinary examination of the many different approaches by which contemporary scholars record our history. The editors provide a comprehensive overview through thirty-eight chapters divided into four parts: a) Historical ...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-07
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Why the modern world forgot how to sleepWhy is sleep frustrating for so many people?Why do we spend so much time and money managing and medicating it, and training ourselves and our children to do it correctly? In Wild Nights, Benjamin Reiss finds answers in sleep's...
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Basic Books
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2017-03-07
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Modern Spain: 1808 to the Present is a comprehensive overview of Spanish history from the Napoleonic era to the present day. Places a large emphasis on Spain's place within broader European and global history The chronological political narrative is enriched by...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2017-03-07
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A New History of Modern Europe
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Contested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History is an engaging, contemporary look at the themes, events, and people that have shaped the history of the Pacific Northwest over the last two centuries. An engaging look at the themes, events, and people that shaped...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2017-03-06
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This book analyses the 1980s as a nuclear decade, focusing on British and United States fiction. Ranging across genres including literary fiction, science fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, graphic novels, children’s and young adult literature, thrillers and horror, it...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-03
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What happens when life, so to speak, strikes the President of the United States? How do presidents and their families cope with illness, personal loss, and scandal, and how have such personal crises affected a president's ability to lead, shaped presidential...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-03-03
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Few can say they’ve seen some of the most significant moments of the twentieth century unravel before their eyes. Marita Lorenz is one of them.Born in Germany at the outbreak of WWII, Marita was incarcerated in a Nazi concentration camp as a child. In 1959, she...
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Ebury Digital
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2017-03-02
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The haunting history of the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2015- A new translation based on the updated text - From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed thousands of casualties on both...
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Penguin
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2017-03-02
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This book follows the development of industrial agriculture in California and its influence on both regional and national eating habits. Early California politicians and entrepreneurs envisioned agriculture as a solution to the food needs of the expanding industrial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-02
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The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of popular history – 'A first-class storyteller'The TimesThroughout the three hundred years that followed the Act of Supremacy – which, by making Henry VIII head of the Church,...
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Vintage Digital
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2017-03-02
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This book explores the activities of the Nazi regime's vast leisure programme. Shortly after coming to power in Germany, it began a large-scale undertaking to bring happiness and a good life to so-called 'Aryan' Germans, carried out by the Nazi leisure organization...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-01
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Policing Transnational Protest offers an original perspective on the history of police surveillance of anticolonial activists in France, Britain, and Germany in the first half of the twentieth century. Tracing the undertakings of anticolonial activists from Asia,...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-03-01
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Focusing on literary and cultural texts from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth, Patrick R. O'Malley argues that in order to understand both the literature and the varieties of nationalist politics in nineteenth-century Ireland, we must understand the...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-01
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Focusing on literary and cultural texts from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth, Patrick R. O'Malley argues that in order to understand both the literature and the varieties of nationalist politics in nineteenth-century Ireland, we must understand the...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-01
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'War is the most important thing in the world', writes Martin van Creveld, one of the world's best-known experts on military history and strategy.
The survival of every country, government, and individual is ultimately dependent on war - or the ability to wage it in...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-01
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Completely updated and expanded, Black Hawk and the Warrior's Path is a masterful account of the life of the Sauk warrior and leader, and his impact on the history of early America. The period between 1760 and 1840 is brought to life through vivid discussion of Native...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2017-03-01
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