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How did ministers, journalists, academics, artists, and subjects in the German lands imagine war during the nineteenth century? The Napoleonic Wars had been the bloodiest in Europe's history, directly affecting millions of Germans, yet their long-term consequences on...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-01-26
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Wars have played a fundamental part in modern German history. Although infrequent, conflicts involving German states have usually been extensive and often catastrophic, constituting turning-points for Europe as a whole. Absolute War is the first in a series of studies...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-01-26
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Despite some pioneering work by scholars, historians still find it hard to listen to the voices of women in the Holocaust. Learning more about the women who both survived and did not survive the Nazi genocide -- through the testimony of the women themselves -- not only...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-01-26
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Poets and Prophets of the Resistance offers a ground-up history and fresh interpretation of the polarization and mobilization that brought El Salvador to the eve of civil war in 1980. Challenging the dominant narrative that university students and political dissidents...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-01-25
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Volume XXIX/2 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. This special issue, guest edited by Alexander Broadie, particularly...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-01-25
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This book focuses on Africa’s challenges, achievements, and failures over the past several centuries using an interdisciplinary approach that combines theory and fact and evidence-based practices and interventions in public health, and argues that most of the health...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-24
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This volume focuses on gynaecological cancer to explore the ways in which gender has shaped medical and public health responses to cancer in England. Rooted in gendered perceptions of cancer risk, medical and public health efforts to reduce cancer mortality since 1900...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-24
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This book argues that the history of colonial empires has been shaped to a considerable extent by negative emotions such as anxiety, fear and embarrassment as well as by the regular occurrence of panics. The case studies it assembles examine the various ways in which...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-23
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Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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This book investigates the conflict over control over the Western Mediterranean in the late eighteenth-century. The Western Mediterranean during the 1790s featured a constant struggle for control over the region. While most histories point to military events such as the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-23
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This volume covers the global history of the Lysenko controversy, while exploring in greater depth the background of D. Lysenko’s career and influence in the USSR. By presenting the rise and fall of T.D. Lysenko in a variety of aspects—his influence upon art,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-21
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This definitive dual portrait offers a fresh perspective on Abraham Lincoln and William Cullen Bryant’s crucial role in elevating him to the presidency. The book also sheds new light on the influence that “Bryant and his class” (as Lincoln called the Radical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-20
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This book is an oral history-based study of the politics of history in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Using life history and thematic interviews, the author brings the narratives of officials, survivors, returnees, perpetrators, and others whose lives...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-20
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This book offers the first in-depth study of the masculine self-fashioning of scientific practitioners in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Focusing on the British Association for the Advancement of Science, founded in 1831, it explores the complex and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-01-20
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This is a history of the Enlightenment--the rights-oriented, formalist, secularizing, freedom-inspired eighteenth-century movement that defined modern Western law. But rather than members of a cosmopolitan Republic of Letters, its principal protagonists are...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-01-19
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The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Historian S. A. Smith presents a panoramic...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-01-19
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The Globalization of International Society re-examines the development of today's society of sovereign states, drawing on a wealth of new scholarship to challenge the landmark account presented in Bull and Watson's classic work, The Expansion of International Society...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-01-19
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Ein Vierteljahrhundert nach der kulturwissenschaftlichen Wende versuchen die Autoren dieses Bandes, aus unterschiedlichen disziplinären Blickwinkeln kritisch Bilanz zu ziehen und nüchtern Perspektiven zu entwickeln. Dabei werden die wichtigsten Auseinandersetzungen, die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-18
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Dieses Buch untersucht den sprachlichen und textuellen Erfahrungsraum indigener Schreiber in der öffentlich-rechtlichen Sphäre während des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts in Peru, der bislang von der Hispanistik und der historischen Forschung kaum beachtet worden ist. Die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-18
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This book aims to reinterpret current perceptions of the Dutch Forty Years War (1672-1713), usually regarded as a struggle against the expansionism of Louis XIV, birthing the European balance of power. Particular attention is given to recent international relations...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2017-01-18
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Der zweite Band einer ‚Geschichte professioneller Kontrolle’ untersucht das frühneuzeitliche (16./17. Jahrhundert) Hexen-Problem als klerikal-juristische Konstruktion. In einer noch immer mental religiös geprägten Übergangszeit entsprach diese Hexen-Problematik den...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-01-17
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