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Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East and Russia. So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such colossal power, eclipsing Alexander...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-07-02
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'ONE OF THE FIRST POLITICAL CLASSICS OF THE 21st CENTURY'- Observer'EXTRAORDINARILY POWERFUL, POIGNANT AND AFFECTING. I WAS GREATLY MOVED' Michael PalinFOREWORD BY CHRISTINA LAMBJournalist Samar Yazbek was forced into exile by Assad's regime. When the uprising in Syria...
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Ebury Digital
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2015-07-02
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Alexander Murray has long had an intellectual interest in the history of religion - struggling between his inbuilt anti-clericism and his pronounced monastic leanings. The five essays in Conscience and Authority in the Medieval Church take on this dialectic, addressing...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-02
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Alexander Murray has long had an intellectual interest in the history of religion - struggling between his inbuilt anti-clericism and his pronounced monastic leanings. The five essays in Conscience and Authority in the Medieval Church take on this dialectic, addressing...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-02
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*By the historical consultant to the major motion picture Entebbe*'The definitive work on the subject....This is the achievement of a masterly, first-rate historian' New York Times Book Review'It's a brilliantly orchestrated book, wonderfully rich in detail, but at the...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2015-07-02
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The Text and the World is a study of an exceptionally interesting primary source - the Henryków Book - and of the local and regional world which that source reflected and helped shape.The source is a history of the Cistercian monastery in Henryków, about forty...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-02
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For years, those who attempted to understand the devastation of World War I looked to the collections of diplomatic documents, the stirring speeches, and the partisan memoirs of the leading participants. However, those accounts offered little by way of the intimate...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-07-01
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In the summer of 1926, an army of Mexican Catholics launched a war against their government. Bearing aloft the banners of Christ the King and the Virgin of Guadalupe, they equipped themselves not only with guns, but also with scapulars, rosaries, prayers, and religious...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-07-01
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This book describes the vibrant activity of survivors who founded Jewish historical commissions and documentation centers in Europe immediately after the Second World War. In the first postwar decade, these initiatives collected thousands of Nazi documents along with...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-07-01
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Drawing from Benjamin Franklin's published and unpublished papers, including letters, notes, and marginalia, Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire examines how the early modern liberalism of Franklin's youthful intellectual life helped foster his vision of...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-07-01
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Der Band versammelt die Beiträge einer interdisziplinären Tagung zum Thema «Burgen in Schleswig-Holstein», die vom 20. bis 22. September 2013 in der Sparkassenakademie in Kiel stattfand. Ausgewiesene Burgenexperten der Bereiche Geschichte, Archäologie und Denkmalpflege...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-06-30
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Das Buch berichtet über politisches Geschehen vom Siebenjährigen Krieg bis zur Demagogenverfolgung durch Preußen. Basis hierzu ist die hoch informative Autobiographie des gebürtigen Bonners Joseph Wurzer (1770–1860) sowie die seines Sohns Ferdinand Alexander Wurzer...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-06-30
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Köln und seine Hochschulen blicken auf eine lange, bisher vernachlässigte koloniale Vergangenheit zurück. Sowohl in der Zeit des realen Kolonialbesitzes als auch im Zuge des Kolonialrevisionismus der Weimarer Republik und der NS-Zeit spielten «koloniale Themen» eine...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-06-26
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The story of radio begins alongside that of the Soviet state: Russia's first long-range transmission of the human voice occurred in 1919, during the civil war. Sound broadcasting was a medium of exceptional promise for this revolutionary regime. It could bring the...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-06-25
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Sudhir Hazareesingh's How the French Think is a warm yet incisive exploration of the French intellectual tradition, and its exceptional place in a nation's identity and lifestyleWhy are the French an exceptional nation? Why do they think they are so exceptional? An...
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Penguin
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2015-06-25
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Ancient Samnium focuses on the region of Samnium in Italy, where a rich blend of historical, literary, epigraphic, numismatic, and archaeological evidence supports a fresh perspective on the complexity and dynamism of a part of the ancient Mediterranean that is normally...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-06-25
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Fame and Infamy honours Christopher Pelling, reflecting the range of his interests and demonstrating the extent of his influence in spearheading the so-called literary turn in the study of ancient historiography. The volumes twenty-four chapters are written by former...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-06-25
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Volume XXVII/2 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. The volume is, as always, a lively combination of original research...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-06-25
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