The “remarkable” story of America's secret post-WWII science programs (The Boston Globe), from the New York Times bestselling author of Area 51.  In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. government faced many difficult decisions,...

Editeur : Little, Brown and Company
Parution : 2014-02-11

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Germans in Tonga is the culmination of an eight-year research project in which the author and his team of researchers gathered biographical material onGermans in Tonga. There are four main sources: the British Consul Tonga files, held in the Western Pacific Archives of...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2014-02-11

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The most enjoyable, glamorous and gripping of all 19th-century autobiographies - a tumultuous account of France hit by wave after wave of revolutionsMemoirs from Beyond the Tomb is the greatest and most influential of all French autobiographies - an extraordinary,...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2014-02-06

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The German 'Blitz' that followed the Battle of Britain killed tens of thousands and laid waste to large areas of many British cities. And although the destruction of 1940-1 was never repeated on the same scale, fears that Hitler possessed a secret weapon of mass...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-02-06

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The German 'Blitz' that followed the Battle of Britain killed tens of thousands and laid waste to large areas of many British cities. And although the destruction of 1940-1 was never repeated on the same scale, fears that Hitler possessed a secret weapon of mass...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-02-06

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A Companion to the U.S. Civil War presents a comprehensive historiographical collection of essays covering all major military, political, social, and economic aspects of the American Civil War (1861-1865). Represents the most comprehensive coverage available relating...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2014-02-05
Collection : Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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Political History of Guinea since World War Two provides an in-depth study of the political evolution of Guinea from World War Two to the present. Based on primary-source information, it examines with rare depth and breadth the eventful history of this nation-state,...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2014-02-05

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By sea and on the airwaves, by dollar and yuan, a contest has begun that will shape the next century. China's rise has now entered a critical new phase, as it seeks to translate its considerable economic heft into a larger role on the world stage, challenging American...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2014-02-04

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The Ottoman-Jewish story has long been told as a romance between Jews and the empire.The prevailing view is that Ottoman Jews were protected and privileged by imperial policies and in return offered their unflagging devotion to the imperial government over many...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-02-03

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Twentieth-Century Europe: A Brief History presents readers with a concise and accessible survey of the most significant themes and political events that shaped European history in the 20th and 21st centuries. Features updates that include a new chapter that reviews...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2014-02-03

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The twentieth century has been popularly seen as "the American Century," a long period in which the United States had amassed the economic resources, the political and military strength, and the moral prestige to assume global leadership. By century's end, the...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-02-03

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In this magisterial volume of essays, Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and complex religion to which she has devoted herself for half a century. This series of interconnected essays and lectures surveys the most critically important and hotly...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-02-03

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This short e-book, adapted from Noah Charney's book Stealing the Mystic Lamb, tells the dramatic story of the rescue of The Ghent Altarpiece from Nazi pillagers. As the Nazis stormed across Europe during the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of artworks...

Editeur : PublicAffairs
Parution : 2014-02-01

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W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-02-01

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W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-02-01

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W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-02-01

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W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-02-01

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W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-02-01

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W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-02-01

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W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-02-01

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