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A new edition for HL Option 2, History of the Americas, Topic 17: Civil rights and social movements in the Americas post-1945The renowned IB Diploma History series, combining compelling narratives with academic rigor.An authoritative and engaging narrative, with the...
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Hodder Education
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2016-05-09
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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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2016-05-09
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Australia is rarely considered to have been a part of the great political changes that swept the world in the 1960s: the struggles of the American civil rights movement, student revolts in Europe, guerrilla struggles across the Third World and demands for women’s and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-05-09
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Im Jahre 1945 stand Deutschland ohnmächtig und geächtet vor den Trümmern seiner Politik. Rassischer Weltanschauungskrieg und systematische Vernichtung der europäischen Juden waren ein zivilisatorischer Bruch und belegten die Deutschen mit einer moralischen Schuld. So...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2016-05-09
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The poet-king without a throne appears here in an entirely new light. InThe Politics of Culture in Quattrocento Europe: René of Anjou in Italy, Oren Margolis explores how this French prince and exiled king of Naples (1409-1480) engaged his Italian network in a programme...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-05-06
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In this magnificent and encyclopedic overview, James T. Kloppenberg presents the history of democracy from the perspective of those who struggled to envision and achieve it. The story of democracy remains one without an ending, a dynamic of progress and regress that...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-05-06
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY and THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY'A thrilling account' The Times'As heroic as Digby himself, Moshenska has defied the tyranny of genre and made his own absorbing account' Observer'A master...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2016-05-05
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'A masterful biography' Amanda Foreman'A gripping story of Queen Elizabeth's last years, authoritatively researched and engagingly recounted by the leading Tudor historian of our age' James Shapiro, author of 1599 and 1606____________________An ageing queen, an heirless...
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Penguin
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2016-05-05
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A Daily Telegraph Book of the YearShortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2017After the Second World War, the Nuremberg Tribunal became a symbol of justice in the face of tyranny, aggression and atrocity. But it was only a fragment of retribution as, with...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-05-05
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The period spanning the two World Wars was unquestionably the most catastrophic in Europe's history. Despite such undeniably progressive developments as the radical expansion of women's suffrage and rising health standards, the era was dominated by political violence...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-05-05
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The period spanning the two World Wars was unquestionably the most catastrophic in Europe's history. Despite such undeniably progressive developments as the radical expansion of women's suffrage and rising health standards, the era was dominated by political violence...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-05-05
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*Shortlisted for 2016 European Book Prize* Giles Merritt describes himself as a 'sceptical europhile'. For many years among the foremost commentators on the politics and economics shaping Europe, he was named by the Financial Times as one of 30 'Eurostars' who are the...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-05-05
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Despite the port’s prominence in maritime history, its cultural significance has long been neglected in favour of its role within economic and imperial networks. Defined by their intersection of maritime and urban space, port towns were sites of complex cultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-05-04
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In the history of Indian cinema, the name of Satyajit Ray needs no introduction. However, what remains unvoiced is the contribution of his forebears and their tryst with Indian modernity. Be it in art, advertising, and printing technology or in nationalism, feminism,...
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OUP India
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2016-05-04
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Based off of the bestselling author's family history, this novel tells the story of Kunta Kinte, who is sold into slavery in the United States where he and his descendants live through major historic events. When Roots was first published forty years ago, the book...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2016-05-03
ePub
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What does it mean to own something?What sorts of things can be owned, and what cannot? How does one relinquish ownership?What are the boundaries between private and public property? Over the course of a decade, the French Revolution grappled with these questions....
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Oxford University Press
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2016-05-02
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The life and work of Jerome of Prague have been overlooked outside Czech historiography, but represent an important chapter in the understanding of late medieval European history. Thomas A. Fudge makes a case for the central importance of Jerome, peer of Jan Hus, by...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-05-02
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The emotions have long been an interest for those studying ancient Greece and Rome. But while the last few decades have produced excellent studies of individual emotions and the different approaches to them by the major philosophical schools, the focus has been almost...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-05-02
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Covering the period 1938 to 2008, The Embassy in Grosvenor Square explores the role of the embassy in the Anglo-American 'special relationship', both in terms of transatlantic affairs and issues of international relations.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-05-02
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This history by celebrated Africanist David Birmingham begins in 1820 with the Portuguese attempt to create a third, African, empire after the virtual loss of Asia and America. In the nineteenth century the most valuable resource extracted from Angola was agricultural...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-05-01
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