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In this marvellous collection of fascinating footnotes, Giles Milton delves into little-known stories from history. Covering everything from adventure, war, murder and slavery to espionage, including the stories of the last secret of the Cold War, the man who broke into...
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John Murray
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2015-06-04
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Established in June 1940, the Long Range Desert Group was the inspiration of scientist and soldier Major Ralph Bagnold, a contemporary of T.E Lawrence who, in the inter-war years, explored the North African desert in a Model T Ford automobile.Mortimer takes us from the...
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Constable
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2015-06-04
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Scholarship on African American history has changed dramatically since the publication of George Washington Williams’ pioneering A History of the Negro Race in America in 1882. Organized chronologically and thematically, What is African American History? offers a...
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Polity
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2015-06-04
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What is History?
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Although marginal as a political force, anarchist ideas developed in Britain into a political tradition. This book explores this lost history, offering a new appraisal of the work of Kropotkin and Read, and examining the ways in which they endeavoured to articulate a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-06-04
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Sarah Hutton presents a rich historical study of one of the most fertile periods in modern philosophy. It was in the seventeenth century that Britain's first philosophers of international stature and lasting influence emerged. Its most famous names, Hobbes and Locke,...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-06-04
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Sarah Hutton presents a rich historical study of one of the most fertile periods in modern philosophy. It was in the seventeenth century that Britain's first philosophers of international stature and lasting influence emerged. Its most famous names, Hobbes and Locke,...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-06-04
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Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship and Authenticity in the French Revolution examines the leaders of the French Revolution - Robespierre and his fellow Jacobins - and particularly the gradual process whereby many of them came to 'choose terror'. These men led the...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-06-04
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In 1988, the renowned sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and the leading historian Roger Chartier met for a series of lively discussions that were broadcast on French public radio. Published here for the first time, these conversations are an accessible and engaging...
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Polity
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2015-06-04
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The history of eastern European is dominated by the story of the rise of the Russian empire, yet Russia only emerged as a major power after 1700. For 300 years the greatest power in Eastern Europe was the union between the kingdom of Poland and the grand duchy of...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-06-04
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Edinburgh-born James Boswell, at twenty-two, kept a daily diary of his eventful second stay in London from 1762 to 1763. This journal, not discovered for more than 150 years, is a deft, frank and artful record of adventures ranging from his vividly recounted love affair...
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Penguin
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2015-06-04
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While battalions hunkered down in the mud of western France, anti-aircraft guns took aim at zeppelins floating over the capital, and Atlantic convoys tried desperately to evade German U-boats, another, more secret battle was underway. Down gloomy Whitehall corridors a...
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Ebury Digital
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2015-06-04
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Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied examines transwar political, military and social transitions inJapan and various territories that it controlled, including Korea, Borneo, Singapore, Manchuria and China, before and after August 1945. This approach allows a more...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-06-02
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There are many ancient West Asian stories that narrate the victory of a warrior deity over an enemy, typically a sea-god or sea dragon, and his rise to divine kingship. In The Conflict Myth and the Biblical Tradition, Debra Scoggins Ballentine analyzes this motif,...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-06-01
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Among the most enduring themes in American history is the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. A pervasive narrative in everything from school textbooks to political commentary, it is central to the way in which many Americans perceive the...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-06-01
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The photographs from Abu Ghraib triggered a debate on torture in the United States that has been led with a significant amount of visibility. What has been noticeably absent, however, is a thorough historical contextualization of US torture following September 11, 2001....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-05-31
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Das Buch ist eine Bestandsaufnahme der KZ-Gedenkstättenlandschaft in Österreich und Polen und geht der Frage nach, wie die nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager von unterschiedlichen Gruppen erlebt und wahrgenommen wurden. Die «Unbeteiligten» und Betroffenen der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-05-31
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Oliver Wehr stellt in seinem Buch die These auf, dass die Ilias in der Gestalt, wie wir sie kennen, für einen Vortrag im Umfeld von Argos konzipiert ist. Beweise findet er im Epos selbst. In der Ilias tritt Diomedes wie ein Doppelgänger des Achilleus auf. Kaum hat...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-05-31
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In the second half of the sixteenth century, most of the Christian states of Western Europe were on the defensive against a Muslim superpower - the Empire of the Ottoman sultans. There was violent conflict, from raiding and corsairing to large-scale warfare, but there...
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Penguin
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2015-05-28
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TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016FINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN BOOK PRIZE 2016 'Magisterial... reveals how much is at stake for world order in Ukraine and Syria.' Rachel Polonsky'As much as anything, World War I turned on the fate of...
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Penguin
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2015-05-28
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Recycling, buying locally-sourced food and vintage clothing, checking air miles and carbon footprints - our ever-growing obsessions with saving money and preserving the planet is beginning to affect the way many of us shop, travel and eat every day. After decades of...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-05-28
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