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Sri Lanka in the Modern Age recounts the modern history of the island in an accessible yet unconventional manner. Where other histories have tended to focus on the state's failure to accommodate the needs and demands of minority communities, Wickramasinghe places their...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-03
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Yn ymestyn o'r Oesoedd Iâ hyd y dwthwn hwn, mae'r gyfrol feistrolgar hon yn olrhain hanes gwleidyddol, cymdeithasol a diwylliannol y rhan honno o'r byd y daethpwyd i'w hadnabod fel Cymru. Dyma'r llyfr sy'n egluro pam, 'er gwaethaf pawb a phopeth, 'rydym yma o hyd'.
Yn...
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Penguin
Parution :
2014-01-02
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Port cities were the means through which cultural and economic exchange took place between continental societies and the maritime world. In examining the ports of Brazil, the Caribbean and West Africa, this volume will provide fresh insight into the meaning of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-01-02
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The Fateful Year by Mark Bostridge is the story of England in 1914. War with Germany, so often imagined and predicted, finally broke out when people were least prepared for it. Here, among a crowded cast of unforgettable characters, are suffragettes, armed with axes,...
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Penguin
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2014-01-02
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A pacy, fresh and surprising portrait of Japan and the Japanese - from David Pilling, award-winning writer and Asia Editor of the Financial TimesDespite years of stagnation, Japan remains one of the world's largest economies and a country which exerts a remarkable...
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Penguin
Parution :
2014-01-02
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The First World War cannot be sufficiently documented and understood without considering the analytical category of gender. This exciting volume examines key issues in this area, including the 'home front' and battlefront, violence, pacifism, citizenship and emphasizes...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-01-02
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Saint-Simonians were a group of young engineers and doctors who proposed original solutions to the social and banking crises of the early nineteenth century. Through an examination of the lives, ideals and activities of these men and women, the book analyses the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-01-02
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Real & Unreal Military Vehicles from the Second World War
WWII fascinates us and this interest has been expanded upon by gamers who have introduced an alternate dimension which has allowed us some new perspectives on how the vehicles may have ...
Editeur :
A.D.O.G
Parution :
2014
Collection :
JePublie présente
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Britain is celebrated for having avoided the extremism, political violence and instability that blighted many European countries between the two world wars. But her success was a closer thing than has been realized. Disillusionment with parliamentary democracy,...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-12-31
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Taking inspiration from classic authors from Jane Austen to Thomas Hardy, Williams shines a light on our society’s changing views of the rural and industrial landscapes in which we work and live.Our collective notion of the city and country is irresistibly powerful. The...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-12-31
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While most books about Mary emphasize her role as the compassionate mother of God, this book uncovers her significant role as an active and often belligerent patron of warfare, as seen from the mosques and castles of medieval Iberia to the cities and shrines of colonial...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-12-26
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Over twenty two centuries ago, the Greek general Pyrrhus questioned the real gains of military victory. Today we might reflect on the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in much the same way. War is not only cruel but capricious; its outcomes are often bitter and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-12-24
Collection :
Key Thinkers
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Dieser Band enthält die beiden Berichte, die Pfarrer Hugo Linck nach seiner Ausweisung aus Königsberg (1948) veröffentlicht hatte (1950 und 1973). Pfarrer Linck war mit seiner Frau 1945 freiwillig im belagerten Königsberg bei seiner Gemeinde geblieben. Er betreute die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-19
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The one hundred letters brought together for this book illustrate the range of Hugh Trevor-Roper's life and preoccupations: as an historian, a controversialist, a public intellectual, an adept in academic intrigues, a lover of literature, a traveller, a countryman. They...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-12-19
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The one hundred letters brought together for this book illustrate the range of Hugh Trevor-Roper's life and preoccupations: as an historian, a controversialist, a public intellectual, an adept in academic intrigues, a lover of literature, a traveller, a countryman. They...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-12-19
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From the years leading up to the First World War to the aftermath of the Second, Europe experienced an era of genocide. As well as the Holocaust, this period also witnessed the Armenian genocide in 1915, mass killings in Bolshevik and Stalinist Russia, and a host of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-12-19
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From the years leading up to the First World War to the aftermath of the Second, Europe experienced an era of genocide. As well as the Holocaust, this period also witnessed the Armenian genocide in 1915, mass killings in Bolshevik and Stalinist Russia, and a host of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-12-19
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The Getty Hexameters looks in detail at a series of forty-four magical verses inscribed on a recently discovered lead tablet from Sicily in the fifth century BC, which is now in the Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
Divided into two sections, the volume consists of a general...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-12-19
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Despite the claims of Steven Pinker and others, violence has remained a historical constant since the Enlightenment, even though its forms and visibility have been radically transformed. Accordingly, the studies gathered here recast debate over violence in modern...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-18
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Anglo-Japanese and American-Japanese connections in chemistry had a major impact on the institutionalization of scientific and technological higher education in Japan from the late nineteenth century and onwards. They helped define the structure of Japanese scientific...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-18
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