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Headline
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2025-04-24
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This book focuses on women’s participation in the Moravian Church during the eighteenth century, focusing on the intentional practice of international marriage and migration that supported their missionary work amongst enslaved populations in the Caribbean. It argues...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-24
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'An original and outstanding new history of the New World... Magisterial' Spectator'An extraordinarily ambitious book . . . America, América reads at times as the historical equivalent of the great epic novels of Gabriel García Márquez' Irish TimesTHE NEW YORK TIMES...
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Transworld Digital
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2025-04-24
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THE NUMBER 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE IRISH BESTSELLER'Meaningful and impactful ... A vital [read] ... Tell all your friends' BRITISH VOGUE'A powerful collection' SERVICE95'This book is a jailbreak and a miracle' NAOMI KLEIN'Essential ... A project that insists on...
Editeur :
Penguin
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2025-04-24
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14,99€
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A new perspective on Japanese tactics during the Asia-Pacific War, using remarkable first-hand Japanese source material.Even after eighty years since the end of a conflict that killed at least thirty-five million people, there remains a deep well of bitterness and anger...
Editeur :
Wildfire
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2025-04-24
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Celebrating the 80th anniversary of VE Day, bestselling historians James Holland and Al Murray tell the unflinching story of the eight surrenders that brought victory to the Allies and ended the Second World War.‘A gripping, eye-opening and satisfying new account’ The...
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Transworld Digital
Parution :
2025-04-24
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Making Domesday presents a fresh interpretation of William the Conqueror's survey of England, made possible by a major collaborative study and a new online edition of Exon Domesday, the earliest of the three original manuscripts to survive from the Domesday survey. The...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-23
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This volume of essays explores how the global city is confronting new forms of crises and disruption. Examining cities in the Caribbean, North America, Africa, the Persian Gulf, Asia and Australia, the essays use literary and cultural analysis to examine the pasts,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-23
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This book revisits the history of the international garden city town planning movement in the early twentieth century, focusing on the significance of various forms of 'physical culture' - sport, recreation, leisure, and other active body practices - within...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-23
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A history of the dandy from below, from Beau Brummell and Baudelaire to Bowie and Bolan... and beyond.
The historical figure of the dandy has commonly been described as an upper-class gentleman, often exemplified by well-known men such as Beau Brummell, Charles...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-04-22
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‘A dazzlingly inventive work of literature’ Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways'A wonderful, epic braiding of history, geography and personal memoir' James Rebanks, author of English Pastoral_____________________________________________________________________At...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2025-04-17
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'Rich and replenishing ... I felt lovesick for it after it was done' ELEANOR CATTON, Booker Prize-winning author'A fascinating, original story' TLS'I really loved this book' JENN ASHWORTH'A real treasure' ROWAN WILLIAMS, former Archbishop of Canterbury__________In the...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2025-04-17
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THE INSTANT TIMES BESTSELLERAward-winning classicist and historian Emily Hauser takes readers on an epic journey to uncover the astonishing true story of the real women behind ancient Greece’s greatest legends, and the real heroes of those ancient epics, Homer's Iliad...
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Transworld Digital
Parution :
2025-04-17
ePub
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-27%
14,99€
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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Hanns and Rudolf - a gripping true story of unsolved murder, war, and injustice in Nazi-occupied Florence.'Thomas Harding is a researcher of the first rank' Daily Express__Italy, Summer 1944A unit of German soldiers arrives at...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2025-04-17
ePub
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-47%
17,99€
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In the 1890s, the choice between the gold standard and the free coinage of silver upended American politics. The gold standard linked the United States to the larger international financial system, in which gold was the common denominator. The free coinage of silver...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-17
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“There is no city like New York and no better tour guide to it than Keith Taillon! I’m a lifelong New Yorker but he has taught me things about each neighborhood and every block I never knew before. Keith brings the ‘city that never sleeps’ alive in a way no one else...
Editeur :
Hardie Grant Books (UK)
Parution :
2025-04-17
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Wreckers sinks the old narratives of imperialism, revealing the violent, chaotic and improvised reality of empire-building from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries.'Clever and compelling book. The storytelling and the scholarship fairly spark off each other. It could...
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Penguin
Parution :
2025-04-17
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Embark upon a fascinating journey through ancient Greece – from its rise and fall to its lasting legacy throughout the Western world.Spanning more than 3,000 years, Ancient Greece explores the tumultuous history of this glorious empire in vivid detail – from its Minoan...
Editeur :
Dk
Parution :
2025-04-17
ePub
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This is the story of a hidden Britain. A Black Britain. One that existed outside London and forces us to reappraise what it means to be British.'A vital corrective' STEVE MCQUEEN'A revelation' NESRINE MALIK'Necessary and urgent' GUARDIAN'Joyous' GQ**AN OBSERVER, GQ...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2025-04-17
ePub
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-27%
14,99€
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An intergenerational story of war, forgiveness, and memory told through stolen and returned battlefield souvenirs. How do we remember war? How do we forgive? In Blood, Flowers Bloom illuminates one of the last untold stories of World War...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2025-04-15
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