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For a time in the Second World War, Crete was the prize both sides wanted. The Allies had it and the Germans wanted it. The Germans won. The man in charge of hanging on to it was Bernard ('Tiny') Freyberg, the New Zealand Division commander. With him was a ragtag army...
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Hodder Moa
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2013-03-26
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Drawing on 28 original essays, A Companion to the Early Middle Ages takes an inclusive approach to the history of Britain and Ireland from c.500 to c.1100 to overcome artificial distinctions of modern national boundaries. A collaborative history from leading scholars,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-03-26
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Blackwell Companions to British History
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An in-depth analysis of Great Britain's policy in the oil-rich Persian Gulf region during the last years of British imperialism in the area, covering the period from the independence of Kuwait to the decision of the Wilson Government to withdraw from the Gulf.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-03-25
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In this provocative book, Andrew Bacevich warns of a dangerous dual obsession that has taken hold of Americans, both conservatives and liberals alike. It is a marriage of militarism and utopian ideology, of unprecedented military might wed to a blind faith in the...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-03-22
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Scousers believe they live in a special place, one that has more in common with Salvador da Bahia, New Orleans or Gdansk than anywhere in England, and the city has always punched above its weight. In less than a hundred years, however, Liverpool's image has declined...
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Mainstream Digital
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2013-03-22
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From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations.Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond's Collapse uncovers the secret...
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Penguin
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2013-03-21
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Assimilation was an ideology central to European expansion and colonisation, an ideology which legitimised colonisation for centuries.Assimilation and Empire shows that the aspiration for assimilation was not only driven by materialistic reasons, but was also motivated...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-03-21
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Britain's underground economy flourished during the 1940s and early 1950s thanks to rationing and price control, producers, traders, and professional criminals helped consumers to get a little extra on the side, from under the counter, or off the back of a lorry. Yet...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-03-21
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Women and the Bible in Early Modern England provides an account of the uniquely important role of the Bible in the development of female interpretative and literary agency, as well as in the expression of female subjectivity in early modern England. In the later...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-03-21
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Based on the case of the ILO, both as an actor and driver of international social policy, this collection explores the internationalization process of social rights, in a number of national and international contexts. This collection brings together a variety of new...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-03-20
Collection :
International Labour Organization (ILO) Century Series
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Islamophobia in America offers new perspectives on prejudice against Muslims, which has become increasingly widespread in the USA in the past decade. The contributors document the history of anti-Islamic sentiment in American culture, the scope of organized anti-Muslim...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-03-20
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In this book, the first written about the globalization of the English language by a professional historian, the exploration of English's global ascendancy receives its proper historical due. This brief, accessible volume breaks new ground in its organization, emphasis...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-03-20
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Empowered by new wealth and by their faith, early modern Londoners began to use philanthropy to assert their cultural authority in distant parts of the nation. Culture, Faith, and Philanthropy analyzes how disputes between London and provincial authorities over such...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-03-20
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An impassioned, controversial plea for us to recognise the importance of writing history - from world-famous historian David CannadineDavid Cannadine is one of Britain's most distinguished historians and this is his masterpiece. The Undivided Past is an agonised attempt...
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Penguin
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2013-03-19
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This first book-length study of the work and life of L. Susan Stebbing relates the development of her thought to the philosophical, social and political background of her life. It also assesses Stebbing's contribution in the light of developments both in analytic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-03-18
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The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and varied waterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and seemingly endless continental shorelines. But with the voyages of Captain James Cook, global attention turned to...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-03-18
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The pilgrimage to Mecca, or Hajj, has been a yearly phenomenon of great importance in Muslim lands for well over one thousand years. Each year, millions of pilgrims from throughout the Dar al-Islam, or Islamic world, stretching from Morocco east to Indonesia, make the...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-03-15
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A Woman in Charge reveals the true trajectory of Hillary's astonishing life and career. From a staunchly Republican household and apparently idyllic Midwestern girlhood - her disciplinarian father here revealed as harsher than she has acknowledged - we see the shaping...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2013-03-15
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The royal family's darkest secret and the establishment cover-up. Half a century before Dodi and Diana, another Prince of Wales would be involved in a deadly love triangle with a fabulously wealthy Egyptian "prince." Prince Edward was the future King of England, a...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2013-03-14
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Prussian discipline is legendary. Central to debates about modern German history is the view that an oppressivePrussian state cast a shadow on the development of civil society. In particular, historians have seen the absence of a revolution in the eighteenth century as...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-03-14
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