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Für Alltag, Sozialleben und Erfahrungshorizont der Menschen in der Vormoderne waren militärische Aspekte allgegenwärtig. Das gesellschaftsgeschichtlich ausgerichtete Quelleninventar für die preußische Zentrallandschaft von der Elbe bis zur Oder führt tief in diese Welt....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-20
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Für Alltag, Sozialleben und Erfahrungshorizont der Menschen in der Vormoderne waren militärische Aspekte allgegenwärtig. Das gesellschaftsgeschichtlich ausgerichtete Quelleninventar für die preußische Zentrallandschaft von der Elbe bis zur Oder führt tief in diese Welt....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-05-20
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Harry de Leyer first saw the horse he would name Snowman on a truck bound for the slaughterhouse. The recent Dutch immigrant recognized the spark in the eye of the beaten-up nag and bought him for eighty dollars. On Harry's modest farm on Long Island, he ultimately...
Editeur :
Constable
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2014-05-15
Collection :
Tom Thorne Novels
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Through an analysis of the marriage patterns of thousands of aristocratic women as well as an examination of diaries, letters, and memoirs, this book demonstrates that the sense of rank identity as manifested in these women's marriages remained remarkably stable for...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-05-15
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Even 100 years on from the First World War it haunts us still. No other conflict has revealed so dramatically the senselessness of war, and none has shaped the modern world to the same extent, from its impact on the Russian Revolution and the rise of Hitler to the final...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2014-05-15
Collection :
Brief Histories
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Stalin's American Spy tells the remarkable story of Noel Field, a Soviet agent in the US State Department in the mid-1930s. Lured to Prague in May 1949, he was kidnapped and handed over to the Hungarian secret police. Tortured by them and interrogated too by their...
Editeur :
Hurst
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2014-05-15
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The reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) marked a golden age in English history. There was a musical and literary renaissance, most famously and enduringly in the form of the plays of Shakespeare (2016 marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death), and it was a...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2014-05-15
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In the second half of the eighteenth century, the Russian Empire-already the largest on earth-expanded its dominion onto the ocean. Through a series of government-sponsored voyages of discovery and the establishment of a private fur trade, Russians crossed and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-05-14
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Follow Peter Millar on a journey in the heart of Cold War Europe, from the carousing bars of 1970s Fleet Street to the East Berlin corner pub with its eclectic cast of characters who embodied the reality of living on the wrong side of the wall.
Editeur :
Arcadia Books
Parution :
2014-05-14
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In 1996, Congress commissioned the National Park Service to compile a list of sites and landmarks connected with the American Revolution that it deemed vital to preserve for future generations. Some of these sites are well known--Bunker Hill, Valley Forge, Fort...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-05-13
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Sexual Revolutions explores the sexual revolution of the late twentieth century in several European countries and the USA by engaging with themes from sexual freedom and abortion to pornography and sexual variation. This work discusses the involvement of youth,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-05-13
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As Italy emerged from World War II, the first women entered the national government. The 45 women who became parliamentarians when Italian women were first entitled to vote in 1946 represented a "lost wave" of feminist action, argues Molly Tambor.
In this work, Tambor...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-05-09
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A War of Peoples, 1914-1919 provides a new perspective on the First World War, offering a concise narrative of the war from the first military actions in July 1914 until the signing of the peace treaty by Germany in July 1919. Adrian Gregory considers the sources of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-05-09
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By the early 20th century, Gypsies in Germany and Italy were pushed outside the national community and subjected to the arbitrary whims of executive authorities. This book offers an account of these exclusionary policies and their links to the rise of nationalism,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-05-09
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Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer’s wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix Menzel, somehow...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2014-05-08
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French Women and the Empire is the first book-length investigation of colonial gender politics in Third Republic France, using Indochina as a case study. Its departure point is the interrogation of the dramatic change in theFrench colonialist view of the empire as an...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-05-08
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Paratrooper David Kenyon Webster jumped into the chaos of occupied Europe on D-Day, fighting his way through Holland and finally capturing Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest. He was the only member of Easy Company to write down his experiences as soon as he came home from...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2014-05-08
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'On leaving the plane I can only say I felt very lonely, except that the sky was full of bullets coming upwards. Fortunately, it wasn’t long before my feet hit the ground with a thud. Almost as soon as my feet touched the ground, I was to find that I had landed directly...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2014-05-08
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When the Nazis seized power in Germany in 1933 they promised to create a new, harmonious society under the leadership of the Führer, Adolf Hitler. The concept of Volksgemeinschaft - 'the people's community' - enshrined the Nazis' vision of society'; a society based on...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-05-08
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This book offers the first detailed examination of the life and works of biblical commentator Thomas Brightman (1562-1607), analysing his influential eschatological commentaries and their impact on both conservative and radical writers in early modern England. It...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-05-07
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