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'Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives pass away. But writings make him remembered'In ancient Egypt, words had magical power. Inscribed on tombs and temple walls, coffins and statues, or inked onto papyri, hieroglyphs give us a unique insight into...
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Penguin
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2016-08-25
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Ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker recall the path terror in the Middle East has taken from the rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s to the recent beheadings of reporters and aid workers by ISIS. With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence...
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Constable
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2016-08-25
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This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Denmark’s solitary experiment with Indian indentured labor on St. Croix during the second half of the nineteenth century. The book focuses on the recruitment, transportation, plantation labor, re-indenture,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-08-24
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This book explores the tenuous existence of seafarers, divided between their time on the ocean and their residence in sailortown economies geared to exploit them. Particular attention is given both to the contribution of seafarers as a global workforce into the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-08-24
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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...
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Hodder Education
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2016-08-22
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This book explores how Modernist movements all across the Mediterranean basin differed from those of other regions. The chapters show how the political and economic turmoil of a period marked by world war, revolution, decolonization, nationalism, and the rapid advance...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-08-19
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Canadians are beginning to learn about the negative effects of residential schools on Aboriginal people in Canada. More hidden in the written record, but bearing a similar powerfully destructive role, are Indian Agents, who were with very few exceptions White men who...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2016-08-19
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The First World War in the Middle East swept away five hundred years of Ottoman domination. It ushered in new ideologies and radicalised old ones - from Arab nationalism and revolutionary socialism to impassioned forms of atavistic Islamism. It created heroic icons,...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-08-18
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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',...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-08-18
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The permanent building societies of England grew from humble beginnings as a multitude of small and localized institutions in the nineteenth century to become the dominant players in the house mortgage market by the inter-war period. Throughout the nineteenth and...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-08-18
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The reign of Henry VII is important but mysterious. He ended the Wars of the Roses and laid the foundations for the strong governments of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Yet his style of rule was unconventional and at times oppressive. At the heart of his regime stood his...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-08-18
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The delineation and emergence of the Irish border radically reshaped political and social realities across the entire island of Ireland. For those who lived in close quarters with the border, partition was also an intimate and personal occurrence, profoundly implicated...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-08-18
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The delineation and emergence of the Irish border radically reshaped political and social realities across the entire island of Ireland. For those who lived in close quarters with the border, partition was also an intimate and personal occurrence, profoundly implicated...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-08-18
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The Anglo-Irish Union of 1800 which established the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland made British ministers in London more directly responsible for Irish affairs than had previously been the case.The Act did not, however, provide for full integration, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-08-18
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Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. Yet, from 1752, whether criminals actually died on the hanging tree or in the dissection room remained a medical mystery in early modern...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-08-17
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Der deutsche Naturschutz wird aktuell in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung eng mit dem Fach Ökologie bzw. den Naturwissenschaften verbunden. Diese Annahme kennzeichnet jedoch eine vergleichsweise neue Entwicklung: Denn bis etwa 1970 dominierte im Naturschutz vor allem eine...
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Springer VS
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2016-08-17
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This book is Open Access under a CC BY license. It is the first monograph-length study of the force-feeding of hunger strikers in English, Irish and Northern Irish prisons. It examines ethical debates that arose throughout the twentieth century when governments...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-08-17
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El Alamein was one of the pivotal battles of the Second World War, fought by armies and air forces on the cutting edge of military technology. Yet Alamein has always had a patchy reputation - with many commentators willing to knock its importance.
This book explains...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-08-17
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Historische Geographie der antiken Welt. In 300 facettenreichen Artikeln von A bis Z vermittelt ein internationales Team aus Historikern, Geographen und Archäologen ein lebendiges Bild von den vielfältigen Wechselverhältnissen zwischen Mensch und Landschaft in der...
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J.B. Metzler
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2016-08-16
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Weibliche Lebensformen in den griechischen und römischen Kulturen des Mittelmeerraumes. Von der griechischen Archaik bis zur Spätantike beleuchten die Autoren u.a. weibliche Kultpraktiken, Formen der Ehe, die Arbeitswelten, literarisch-wissenschaftliche Tätigkeit von...
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J.B. Metzler
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2016-08-16
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