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Beginning with Saint Barbatianus, a fifth-century wonderworking monk and confessor to the Empress Galla Placidia, this book focuses on the changes in the religious landscape of Ravenna, a former capital of the Late Roman Empire, through the Middle Ages. During this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-31
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This book examines the power held by the French medieval queens during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and their larger roles within the kingdom at a time when women were excluded from succession to the throne. Well before Catherine and Marie de’ Medici, the last...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-08-31
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Exam Board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: June 2018Endorsed for EdexcelEnable students to achieve their full potential while ensuring pace, enjoyment and motivation with this popular series from the leading History...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2016-08-30
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This book studies architecture and literature of Rio de Janeiro, the “Marvellous City,” from the revolution of 1889 to the Olympics of 2016, taking the reader on a journey through the history of the city.This study offers a wide-ranging and thought-provoking insight...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-30
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Exam Board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: June 2018Endorsed for EdexcelEnable students to achieve their full potential while ensuring pace, enjoyment and motivation with this popular series from the leading History...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2016-08-30
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Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP)Level: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbookLet SHP successfully steer you through the OCR B specification with an exciting, enquiry-based series, combining best...
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Hodder Education
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2016-08-30
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Marking the 500th year anniversary of the birth of
Queen Mary I in 1516, this book both commemorates her rule and rehabilitates
and redefines her image and reign as England's first queen regnant. In this
broad collection of essays, leading historians of queenship (or...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-29
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From Captain Cook's globe to Mabo's map, and Melba's frock to Cathy Freeman's running suit, this is Australia's history told through a gallery of things.Former Rolling Stone editor Toby Creswell has curated an illustrated popular history of Australia accumulated...
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E-Penguin
Parution :
2016-08-29
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Exam Board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: June 2018Endorsed for EdexcelEnable students to achieve their full potential while ensuring pace, enjoyment and motivation with this popular series from the leading History...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2016-08-29
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Im kollektiven Gedächtnis sind die Julikrise 1914 und das Augusterlebnis mit Sonne, Hitze und Ferienglück verbunden. Auf einen Traumsommer sei der Krieg wie ein Gewitter gefolgt. Basierend auf meteorologischen Daten, zeitgenössischen Quellen sowie retrospektiven...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-08-26
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Der Sammelband diskutiert Ausrichtung, zentrale Kategorien sowie Kontroversen der Geschichtsdidaktik. Auch wenn die Begriffe Geschichtsbewusstsein, Geschichtskultur und historisches Erzählen fest im Diskurs verankert sind, stehen sie wieder unter kritischer Inspektion....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-08-26
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This book examines a range of visual images of military recruitment to explore changing notions of glory, or of gloire, during the French Revolution. It raises questions about how this event re-orientated notions of ‘citizenship’ and of service to ‘la Patrie’. The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-26
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'Lively and engaging' Financial Times'Empathetic and deeply humanising' Peter Pomerantsev, author of This is Not PropagandaEach time Ukraine has rebuilt itself over the last century, it has been plagued by the same conflicts: corruption, poverty, and most of all Russian...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2016-08-25
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1666 was a watershed year for England. The outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London all struck the country in rapid succession and with devastating repercussions.Shedding light on these dramatic events, historian...
Editeur :
John Murray
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2016-08-25
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The Dhufar revolution in Oman (1965-1976) was the longest running major armed struggle in the history of the Arabian Peninsula, Britain's last classic colonial war in the region, and one of the highlights of the Cold War in the Middle East.Monsoon Revolution retrieves...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-08-25
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Blood and Land is a dazzling, panoramic account of the history and achievements of Native North Americans, and why they matter today. It is about why no understanding of the wider world is possible without comprehending the original inhabitants of the United...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2016-08-25
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SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TELEGRAPH AND EVENING STANDARD'[The] centenary will prompt a raft of books on the Russian Revolution. They will be hard pushed to better this highly original, exhaustively researched and superbly constructed account.' Saul David,...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2016-08-25
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'This war is not the end but the beginning of violence. It is the forge in which the world will be hammered into new borders and new communities. New molds want to be filled with blood, and power will be wielded with a hard fist.' Ernst Jünger (1918)For the Western...
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Penguin
Parution :
2016-08-25
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The Low Countries -- an area roughly embracing the present-day Netherlands and Belgium -- formed a patchwork of varied economic and social development in the Middle Ages, with some regions displaying a remarkable dynamism. Manors and Markets charts the history of these...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-08-25
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In 1989 and 1990 the map of Europe was redrawn without a war, unlike other great ruptures of the international order such as 1815, 1870, 1918, and 1945. How did this happen?
This major multinational study, based on archives from both sides of the 'Iron Curtain',...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-08-25
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