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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
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2025-04-12
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Der offene Überfall Russlands auf die Ukraine im Februar 2022 hat der westlichen Öffentlichkeit die Wichtigkeit der ukrainischen Kulturgeschichte bewusst gemacht. Es mangelt allerdings an grundlegenden Handbüchern. Auf Deutsch liegt keine ukrainische Literaturgeschichte...
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J.B. Metzler
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2025-04-12
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An exploration of the mind of one of America's most beloved Founding Fathers and most brilliant minds, through the books he read and his social circles in the United States and Europe.
Arguably the most intellectual, creative, cosmopolitan, and curious of the Founding...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-04-11
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This open access book is an innovative history of community health practitioners’ responses to the seemingly intractable problem of men (and on rare occasions, women) sexually abusing children within the private family home. It is situated within a social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-04-10
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The definitive oral history of the raid featuring contributions from Mission Commander Guy Gibson and Bouncing Bomb creator Barnes Wallis.The Dambusters raid was one of the most iconic missions of the Second World War.Three dams along Germany's Ruhr Valley, which...
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August Books
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2025-04-10
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‘Richly-layered and packed with insight, this riveting account of terrible events tells us as much about the present as it does the past’ Patrick Bishop, author of Paris '44From Peter the Great to Putin, a biography of the city Hitler tried - and failed - to wipe off...
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Penguin
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2025-04-10
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'An instant classic'RICHARD CURTIS'A non-fiction Catch-22'MATT HAIG Readers are LOVING The Accidental Soldier:'One of the funniest books you will ever read' ?????'I absolutely loved it - it's so very funny but also very poignant in...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2025-04-10
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Joy of Leaving Your Sh*t All Over the Place, this is a hilarious and delightfully packaged celebration of womanhood and one-of-a-kind historical record of boobs—for women, and the people who love them. ...
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Running Press Adult
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2025-04-08
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Gulf South Rebels, Insurgents, and Revolutionaries is a collection of essays on the tangled yet variegated histories of rebellious actors in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuryGulf South and its linked environs. Following diverse rebels, revolutionaries, militants,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-04-07
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Während der westeuropäische Humanismus im zaristischen Russland nur wenig Resonanz fand, ging er seit den dreißiger Jahren als proletarischer und später als sozialistischer Humanismus in die politische Rhetorik der Sowjetunion ein und wurde...
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Springer VS
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2025-04-07
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Historik ist eine systematisch angelegte Reflexion auf die Grundlagen und soziokulturellen Voraussetzungen sowie auf die Funktionen der Geschichtswissenschaft. Sie thematisiert die maßgebenden Sinnkriterien des historischen Denkens und dessen disziplinäre...
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Springer VS
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2025-04-04
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Libya and the West: What Everyone Needs to Know® is a welcome update to the literature on Western diplomatic relations with Libya. It specifically analyzes the complicated relationships that Italy, Britain, the United States, and France developed withLibya beginning in...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-04-03
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The Iron Horse in Indian Country examines the relationships between Indigenous peoples and railroads that unfolded in the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Historians have long pondered the railroad's profound and far-reaching role in...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-04-03
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Celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE Day in this fully illustrated insight into the final months of the Second World War.From the long-awaited opening of the second front in the West on D-Day, 6 June 1944, to the final surrender of Germany on 8 May 1945, the Allied...
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Welbeck
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2025-04-03
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Off-beat, irreverent and subversive – a Jewish family memoir about convenient delusions and unsayable truths, from the acclaimed author of the cult classic novel, Submarine'The best book I’ve read in the past year . . . A masterpiece' Financial Times‘A slippery marvel...
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Penguin
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2025-04-03
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Discover the key themes and big ideas behind the major events and milestones in the history of warfare – from the dawn of civilization to the 21st century.Tracing the epic 5,000-year story of warfare from the earliest battles to the War on Terror, The Military History...
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Dk
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2025-04-03
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Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: Myth and History discusses four different stories told in antiquity about the meeting betweenAlexander the Great and the Judeans of Jerusalem. In history, this meeting passed without noticeable events. Into the historical void stepped...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-04-03
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The dissolution of the Order of the Temple and the persecution of the Knights Templar are still fresh in people's minds. Why did King Philip the Fair and Pope Clement V set out to destroy them? What secrets did the Knights Templar hold?Just as the Da Vinci Code revealed...
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Max Milo Éditions
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2025-04-03
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This open access book presents the main theme which advances the significance of cultural dialogue between China and Europe. The essence of the historical ties between China and Europe has resurfaced, much because of the Belt and Road Initiative launched in 2013 by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-04-02
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Louis XIII's court has long been a fixture of popular culture, thanks in part to the many movie and TV adaptations of Alexandre Dumas's novel, The Three Musketeers. Yet it remains misunderstood, commonly mischaracterized as unimportant, or wholly subservient to the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-02
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