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The close diplomatic, economic, and military ties that comprising the "special relationship" between the United States and Great Britain have received plenty of attention from historians over the years. Less frequently noted are the countries' shared experiences of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-02-22
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Contemporary Black History
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Deadlock and Disillusionment: American Politics Since 1968 is an insightful consideration of the events people, and policy debates that have shaped and continue to influence, even control, the current political era. Rejects conventional wisdom that the dominant force...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-02-22
Collection :
The American History Series
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Oppression and violence are often cited as the pivotal aspects of modern dictatorships, but it is the collusion of large majorities that enable these regimes to function. The desire for a better life and a powerful national, if not imperial community provide the basis...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-02-19
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This book is part of a new generation of historical research that challenges prevailing arguments for the medical and legal construction of male homosexual identities in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. British society could not tolerate the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-02-19
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This book explores the development of navigation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It examines the role of men of science, seamen and practitioners across Europe, and the realities of navigational practice, showing that old and new methods were complementary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-02-19
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Contact and interaction between Greek and Egyptian culture can be traced in different forms over more than a millennium: from the sixth century BC, when Greeks visited Egypt for the sake of tourism or trade, through to the Hellenistic period, when Egypt was ruled by the...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-02-19
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A wooden box holds the buttons of three generations of women in Lynn Knight’s family – each one with its own tale to tell...Tracing the story of women at home and in work, from the jet buttons of Victorian mourning, to the short skirts of the 1960s, taking in...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-02-18
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Our Lady of the Nations is a detailed and scholarly overview of the apparitions of Mary in 20th-century Catholic Europe. Chris Maunder discusses apparitions in general and how they are interpreted in Catholicism by, for example, Karl Rahner and Benedict XVI. The role of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-02-18
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Our Lady of the Nations is a detailed and scholarly overview of the apparitions of Mary in 20th-century Catholic Europe. Chris Maunder discusses apparitions in general and how they are interpreted in Catholicism by, for example, Karl Rahner and Benedict XVI. The role of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-02-18
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This volume provides a multidimensional assessment of the diverse ends of the European colonial empires, addressing different geographies, taking into account diverse chronologies of decolonization, and evaluating the specificities of each imperial configuration under...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-02-16
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In this second installment of G. Edward White's sweeping history of law in America from the colonial era to the present, White, covers the period between 1865-1929, which encompasses Reconstruction, rapid industrialization, a huge influx of immigrants, the rise of Jim...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-02-15
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This volume, featuring sixteen contributions from leading Roman historians and archaeologists, sheds new light on approaches to the economic history of urban craftsmen and traders in the Roman world, with a particular emphasis on the imperial period. Combining a wide...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-02-12
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Humans are biological creatures first. Culture is an expression of our brain and neurological function. Intelligence is the key to the flourishing of the human super-species. Humanity has reached the point where two sub-species are now competing within the earthly...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-02-12
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The Prospect of Global History takes a new approach to the study of global history, seeking to apply it, rather than advocate it.The volume seeks perspectives on history from East Asian and Islamic sources as well as European ones, and insists on depth in historical...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-02-11
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The Prospect of Global History takes a new approach to the study of global history, seeking to apply it, rather than advocate it.The volume seeks perspectives on history from East Asian and Islamic sources as well as European ones, and insists on depth in historical...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-02-11
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This volume looks at the history of Japan from a transnational perspective. It brings to the fore the interconnectedness of Japan's history with the wider Asian-Pacific region and the world.This interconnectedness is examined in the volume through the themes of empire,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-02-11
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This book analyses the reform movement in Iran and the Egyptian opposition movement since the early 1990s in their historical contexts. It argues that the contemporary movements seen on the streets of the regions today represent the culmination of over twenty years of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-02-09
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This volume advances the discussions of leadership in Africa's specific history, culture, economy, and politics. The book promotes an understanding of leadership and its paradoxes and illuminates the conditions under which political leadership has been produced, and how...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-02-09
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"Engrossing . . . Coal, to borrow a phrase, is king." -- New York Times Book Review In this remarkable book, Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins hundreds of millions of years ago and spans the globe. Prized as "the best stone in Britain" by...
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Basic Books
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2016-02-09
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American Constitutional History presents a concise introduction to the constitutional developments that have taken place over the past 225 years, treating trends from history, law, and political science. Presents readers with a brief and accessible introduction to more...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-02-08
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