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Franz von Spaun (1753-1826) war Josephiner, Jakobiner, Liberaler – je nachdem, welchen Abschnitt seines Lebens man betrachtet. Erfolgreich eine klassische Beamtenkarriere begonnen, verlor er seine Stellung in Vorderösterreich aber auf Grund dienstlicher Verfehlungen....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-19
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Covering the lively, even raucous, history of Louisiana from before First Contact through the Elections of 2012, this sixth edition of the classic Louisiana history survey provides an engaging and comprehensive narrative of what is arguably America’s most colorful...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-11-19
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After the Great War, Veterans were a new transnational mass phenomenon. This volume uses case studies to discuss the extent and impact of international veterans' organisations and draws out important comparative points between well-researched and documented movements...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-11-19
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In 1911, Winston S. Churchill and Robert L. Borden became companions in an attempt to provide naval security for the British Empire as a naval crisis loomed with Germany. Their scheme for Canada to provide battleships for the Royal Navy as part of an Imperial squadron...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-11-19
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The medieval history of the Romanians in the Hungarian kingdom still represents one of the most delicate subjects in European history. This book is the product of more than thirty years of research, and thus provides new and balanced insights into that history,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-19
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This book considers the British travelling beyond their isles over the last three hundred years, and through a range of interdisciplinary perspectives reflects on their taste for discovery and self-discovery both through the exploration – and exploitation – of other...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-19
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How has Britain understood the Holocaust? This interdisciplinary volume explores popular narratives of the Second World War and cultural representations of the Holocaust from the Nuremberg trials of 1945-6, to the establishment of a national memorial day by the start of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-11-19
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This is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from international scholars concerned with examining the British experience of Empire since the eighteenth century. It considers themes such as national identity, modernity, culture, social class, diplomacy,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-11-19
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Als offizieller Chronist der Stadt Ambato hat Pedro Arturo Reino Garcés die spannende Aufgabe, bisher kaum erforschte Dokumente aus der Kolonialzeit zu entziffern und die dahinter verborgene(n) Geschichte(n) zu rekonstruieren. In seiner Lyrik lässt er, in Tradition von...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-19
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This critical edition of Princess Fatima Massaquoi's memoirs begins with her birth in southern Sierra Leone, continues through her childhood in Liberia, moves on to Hamburg, Germany, where she lived and experienced the rise of the Nazi movement, and ends with her life...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-18
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African-American Female Mysticism: Nineteenth Century Religious Activism is an important book-length treatment ofAfrican-American female mysticism. The primary subjects of this book are three icons of black female spirituality and religious activism - Jarena Lee,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-18
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Die Geburt eines fürstlichen Kindes war in der Frühen Neuzeit nicht nur ein Grund zur familiären Freude, sondern weckte auch Hoffnungen auf Erhalt und Steigerung dynastisch-politischer Macht. Sinnbildlich wurden diese Erwartungen im Tauffest mit der Aufnahme des Kindes...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-18
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Biblical texts have been one of the most potent sources in the Western political imagination. Presenting a new account of how the Bible's liberationist texts were deployed and disputed at critical junctures in British and American history from the Reformation to the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-11-18
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Awarded Honorable Mention for the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award
In nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, the Jewish-run tavern was often the center of leisure, hospitality, business, and even religious festivities. This unusual situation came about because the nobles who...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-11-18
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Every year over 5000 royal engagements take place around the world, from the Queen's famous summer garden parties to the mysterious world of the Privy Council and high-profile overseas tours. But little is widely known about the inner workings of the institution that...
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Ebury Digital
Parution :
2013-11-18
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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Iliad and The Odyssey + Homer and His Age” contains 2 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Iliad and the Odyssey are two epic poems written by Homer around the 9th...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2013-11-15
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To cut off time and seal away the past, to proclaim a new beginning in the present and project a better future onto tomorrow – and thus to make history – is a key signature of modern social, political and cultural discourses. In this book, this practice is represented...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2013-11-15
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Der Berliner Kongress 1878 sprach Österreich-Ungarn das Recht zur Besetzung Bosnien-Herzegowinas und eine Truppenpräsenz im Sandžak Novipazar zu. Aufgaben waren die Sicherstellung von Ruhe und Ordnung gemeinsam mit den Autoritäten des Osmanischen Reiches und die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-15
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Die Napoleonischen Kriege von 1805 bis 1814 stellten die Menschen in Deutschland nicht nur aufgrund von Kriegsbelastungen, sondern auch hinsichtlich gesellschaftlicher, politischer und wirtschaftlicher Veränderungen vor neue Herausforderungen. Das Buch untersucht diese...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-15
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Kriston R. Rennie examines the origins and development of medieval papal representation by exploring the legate's wider historical, legal, diplomatic, and administrative impact on medieval European law and society. This critical study is key to understanding the growth...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-15
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