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Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of ethnography as a vital contributor to the configuration of plague at the turn of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-30
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Henry Green: Class, Style, and the Everyday offers a critical prism through which Green's fiction--from his earliest published short stories, as an Eton schoolboy, through to his last dialogic novels of the 1950s--can be seen as a coherent, subtle, and humorous critique...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-07-29
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Beginning with Lillian de Lissa’s career as foundation principal of the Adelaide Kindergarten Training College in Australia (1907–1917) and Gipsy Hill Training College in London (1917–1947), and incorporating the lives and work of her Australian and British graduates,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-07-29
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THE TOUCHING TRUE STORYTwo young Second World War evacueesFar from home, far from family, safe from the warGwenda and Douglas Brady were among the millions of British children sent to live with new families for their own safety during the Second World War, leaving...
Editeur :
Sphere
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2016-07-28
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The first part in an epic historical trilogy -The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation's greatest modern writer Jaan Kross's trilogy dramatises the life of the renowned Livonian Chronicler Balthasar Russow, whose greatest work described the effects of the...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2016-07-28
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The life of Colonel Fawcett is now the subject of the major motion pictureThe Lost City of Z.The disappearance of Colonel Fawcett in the Matto Grosso remains one of the great unsolved mysteries. In 1925, Fawcett was convinced that he had discovered the location of a...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2016-07-28
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This
book maintains that South Africa, despite the official end of apartheid in
1994, remains steeped in the interstices of coloniality. The author looks at
the Black Nationalist thought in South Africa and its genealogy. Colonial
modernity and coloniality of power and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-18
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Containing Balkan Nationalism focuses on the implications of the Bulgarian national movement that developed in the context of Ottoman modernization and of European imperialism in the Near East. The movement aimed to achieve the status of an independent Bulgarian...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-07-18
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In this book, the author provides a comprehensive overview of the intense and sustained work on the relationship between collective memory and history, retracing the royal roads pioneering scholars have traveled in their research and writing on this topic: notably, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-15
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This book analyses the nationalist rebellion which emerged in
Romania following the Second World War. The first two decades after the end of
the war were times of rebellion in imperial peripheries. Armed movements,
sometimes communist but nearly always nationalist in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-15
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WINNER OF THE FRANCO-BRITISH SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2016June, 1940. German troops enter Paris and hoist the swastika over the Arc de Triomphe. The dark days of Occupation begin. How would you have survived? By collaborating with the Nazis, or risking the lives of you and...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2016-07-14
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This collection addresses royal motherhood across Europe, from both the medieval and Early Modern periods, including (in)famous and not-so-famous royal mothers. The essays in this collection reveal the complexities and the subtleties inherent in the role of royal...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-14
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A History of the Modern Middle East examines the profound and often dramatic transformations of the region in the past two centuries, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the challenge of Western imperialism, to the impact of US foreign policies. Built around...
Editeur :
Westview Press
Parution :
2016-07-12
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This ground-breaking book provides a compelling account of the social sciences in post-war Central and Eastern Europe. The first English-language monograph to analyse the history of sociology in Poland up to the present day, it maps transformations in the discipline...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-12
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Nicaragua: Emerging from the Shadow of the Eagle details the country's unique history, culture, economics, politics, and foreign relations. Its historical coverage considers Nicaragua from pre-Columbian and colonial times as well as during the nationalist liberal...
Editeur :
Westview Press
Parution :
2016-07-12
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Exam Board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2018AQA approvedCreate a stimulating, well-paced teaching route through the 2016 GCSE History specification using this tailor-made series that draws on a legacy of market-leading...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2016-07-11
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This
book examines the dangers and the patterns of adaptation that emerge through
exposure to risk on a daily basis. By addressing the influence of environmental factors in Indian Ocean
World history, the collection reaches across the boundaries of the natural...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-09
Collection :
Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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This book examines how adolescence, menstruation and pregnancy were experienced or ‘managed’ by active women in Britain between 1930 and 1970, and how their athletic life-styles interacted with their working lives, marriage and motherhood. It explores the gendered...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-09
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WINNER OF THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017, THE PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN BOOK PRIZE 2017 AND THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY BOOK PRIZE 2017THE TIMES, SPECTATOR, BBC HISTORY and TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR'An absolutely fascinating book,...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2016-07-07
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This book weaves William Thomas Thornton’s
life story into the larger themes of his diverse writings whose purpose was to
expose ambiguities and contradictions in politics, economics, metaphysics and
religion. Thornton was a poet, an intrepid traveler, a
biographer, an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-07
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