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In 1099, the soldiers of the First Crusade took Jerusalem. As the news of this victory spread throughout Medieval Europe, it felt nothing less than miraculous and dream-like, to such an extent that many believed history itself had been fundamentally altered by the event...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-03
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This issue of History of Universities, Volume XXXI / 2, 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...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-30
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This issue of History of Universities, Volume XXXI / 2, 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...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-30
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This open access book focuses on the origins, consequences and aftermath of the 1995 and 1999 Western military interventions that led to the end of the most recent Balkan wars. Though challenging problems remain in Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, and Serbia, the conflict...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-11-28
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This book explores the interests of British leaders, diplomats and consuls in the unifying of Italy. It is the first study to provide a comprehensive narrative of British policy on Italian affairs between the formation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861 and its...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-21
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We need history because we need rest: a pause to rest our consciousness, so that the possibility of a consciousness may remain – as the seat not only of thought, but of practical reason, affording full latitude for action. Saving the past, saving time from the frenzy of...
Editeur :
Collège de France
Parution :
2018-11-19
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Leçons inaugurales
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German Catholicism at War explores the mentalities and experiences ofGerman Catholics during the Second World War. Taking theGerman Home Front, and most specifically, the Rhineland and Westphalia, as its core focusGerman Catholicism at War examines Catholics' responses...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-10
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Forgetful Remembrance examines the paradoxes of what actually happens when communities persistently endeavour to forget inconvenient events. The question of how a society attempts to obscure problematic historical episodes is addressed through a detailed case study...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-10
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Forgetful Remembrance examines the paradoxes of what actually happens when communities persistently endeavour to forget inconvenient events. The question of how a society attempts to obscure problematic historical episodes is addressed through a detailed case study...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-09
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Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean investigates the long process of transition from a world of empires to a world of nation-states by narrating the biographies of a group of people who were born within empires but came of age surrounded by the emerging...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-08
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The Cold War was a media phenomenon. It was a daily cultural political struggle for the hearts and minds of ordinary people—and for government leaders, a struggle to undermine their enemies’ ability to control the domestic public sphere. This collection examines how...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-08
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Inspired by studies of Carolingian Europe, Kingship, Society and the Church in Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire argues that the social strategies of local kin-groups drove conversion to Christianity and church building in Yorkshire from 400-1066 AD. It challenges the emphasis that...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-08
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Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean investigates the long process of transition from a world of empires to a world of nation-states by narrating the biographies of a group of people who were born within empires but came of age surrounded by the emerging...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-01
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*WINNER OF THE BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD USA**SHORTLISTED FOR THE EBRD PRIZE**SHORTLISTED FOR THE OXFORD-WEIDENFELD PRIZE*"A writer and thinker of ever greater relevance, a voice whoSe wide-ranging screeds we ignore at our peril" CLAIRE MESSUD"Her work is of such power...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2018-11-01
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Inspired by studies of Carolingian Europe, Kingship, Society and the Church in Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire argues that the social strategies of local kin-groups drove conversion to Christianity and church building in Yorkshire from 400-1066 AD. It challenges the emphasis that...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-01
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This book examines the first thirty years of Elizabeth I’s reign from the perspective of the Valois kings, Charles IX and Henri III of France. Estelle Paranque sifts through hundreds of French letters and ambassadorial reports to construct a fuller picture of early...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-27
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This book traces the emergence and development of the relationship between management consultancies and the British state. It seeks to answer three questions: why were management consultants brought into the machinery of the state; how has state power...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-26
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On the Edge of Democracy examines the emergence of democracy in Italy in the wake of World War Two. It examines the nature of the democracy forged in the liminal period after Benito Mussolini, the Duce of Fascism, was removed from government in the summer of 1943.
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-10-25
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German Catholicism at War explores the mentalities and experiences ofGerman Catholics during the Second World War. Taking theGerman Home Front, and most specifically, the Rhineland and Westphalia, as its core focusGerman Catholicism at War examines Catholics' responses...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-10-17
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