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A nostalgic celebration of the golden age of aviation - and the iconic DH60 Moth in its centenary year'A wonderfully affecting, highly entertaining, at times elegiac account of a legendary aircraft' JOHN NICHOL 'A joy... Alexander Norman brings to life a golden era in...
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Abacus
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2025-02-06
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This is the iconic Josephine Baker in her own words.Funny, candid and unconventional: the wildly famous but elusive Josephine Baker tells her own story in this enchanting memoir.Baker took Paris by storm in the 1920s, dazzling audiences with her humour, beauty and...
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Vintage Digital
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2025-02-06
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"The best protection any woman can have... is courage."Elizabeth Cady Stanton, US suffragetteThroughout history, women have often been silenced, their contributions overlooked, their struggles ignored. Yet, despite these barriers, countless figures have challenged the...
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OH
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2025-02-06
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*WINNER OF A PALESTINE BOOK AWARD*From the award-winning writer and thinker, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions, and moral and geopolitical ramifications'Courageous and bracing, learned and ethical, rigorous and mind-expanding' NAOMI...
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Vintage Digital
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2025-02-06
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The European left seemed to be in rude health during the 1970s. Never had so many political parties committed to representing the working class been in power simultaneously across the continent. New forms of mobilisation led by female, immigrant, and young wage-earners...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-06
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A COMPANION TO GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY Equips both specialists and newcomers with the historical, intellectual, and political context for engagement with the environment Providing multiple points of entry into a dynamic, fast-growing field,A Companion to Global...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-02-06
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
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On many forms in the UK where ethnicity needs to be ticked, the space for East and South East Asia is 'Chinese or Any Other Asian'. This represents a shameful sweeping together of a vastly varied heritage and experience. East and South East Asian people have lived and...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2025-02-06
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'Renewed my faith in the human power to resist, imagine and make new, better worlds.’ Susanna Crossman, author of Home Is Where We Start'Compelling' TLS How do the disillusioned, the forgotten, and the persecuted not merely hold on to life but expand its possibilities...
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Vintage Digital
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2025-02-06
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The story of the greatest Special Forces unit the world has ever seen, told by the men who fought together.In 1941, maverick officer David Stirling adventurer, gambler, rake created the Special Air Service.The soldiers came from all walks of life: miners, desert...
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August Books
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2025-02-06
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National service was a defining feature for a generation of young men in post-war Britain. Around 2.3 million of them were called up between the end of World War Two and 1963, when conscription ended. However, national service was forgotten almost before it had ended, a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-05
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Subaltern Geographies stands as the inaugural comprehensive
exploration into the intersection of subaltern studies’ historical
breakthroughs and the critical methodologies of cultural, urban,
historical, and political geography. Editors Tariq Jazeel and Stephen
Legg...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-05
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It is well-known that gender distinctions structure the modern labour market, but why is this so and how far back in time does the pattern extend? Gender, Work, and the Transition to Modernity in Northwestern Europe, 1720-1880 uses a unique method to map and explain how...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-05
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This open access book focuses on the potential for conflict between high and low culture during the transformations of the popular in the field of religion in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Specifically, the contributors to this edited...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-04
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This book is about four cornerstones of modern thought that were put in place by people living in the ancient Mediterranean world. It covers approximately 2,000 years in time (from ca. 1000 BCE to 1000 CE) and spatially moves from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-02-03
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This book offers an historical analysis of an area of young people's activity which remains significant in the present. It shows that many thousands of young people in England were involved in peace movement activity from 1919 to 1969, in connection with the League of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-03
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After the First World War, the improvement of working and living conditions in agriculture became an international issue for the first time. Led by the International Labour Organization and related organizations, as well as overlapping expert networks, agrarian interest...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-03
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Vasileios Balaskas explores the revival of classical drama at ancient venues as a sociopolitical apparatus of the European nation-states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The modern use of Graeco-Roman theatres, odeons, amphitheatres, and stadiums depended on...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-03
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Step into the rich tapestry of Nandom, a resilient community in West Africa, as this meticulously researched work uncovers the origins, traditions, and evolution of its people. Addressing a historical gap, the author combines academic rigor with a compelling narrative...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-02-03
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A highly original reinterpretation of how race and class shaped the entirety of Southern history through the experience of four interconnected family lines.
The Southern Fault Line explores the under-appreciated division in the South between the oligarchic rule of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-02-03
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In recent decades, scholars have uncovered the vital contributions made by non-elite figures, including women, artisans, and indigenous peoples, to the development of early modern natural philosophy. This Palgrave Pivot argues that children, too, quite...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-31
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