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How Sex Became a Civil Liberty is the first book to show how and why we have come to see sexual expression, sexual practice, and sexual privacy as fundamental rights. Using rich archival sources and oral interviews, historian Leigh Ann Wheeler shows how the private...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-12-01
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With the growing interest in the history of peoples of African descent in the Americas, narratives addressing regions outside of the United States are becoming increasingly popular. The Conceptualization of Race in Colonial Puerto Rico, 1800–1850 illuminates the role...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-12-01
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The first book-length study to critically examine the recent wave of Hitler biopics in German cinema and television. A group of international experts discuss films like Downfall in the context of earlier portrayals of Hitler and draw out their implications for the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-11-30
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These are Anthony Burgess's candid confessions: he was seduced at the age of nine by an older woman; whilst serving in Gibraltar in World War II he was thrown into jail on VE Day for calling Franco names; he once taught a group of Nazi socialites that the English...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-11-30
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The official book behind the Academy Award-winning filmThe Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-11-30
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'The most important study on this subject in years, perhaps ever' Phillip Knightley, SUNDAY TIMESA history of drug-taking, telling the story across five centuries of addicts and users: monarchs, prime ministers, great writers and composers, wounded soldiers, overworked...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-11-29
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A Companion to World War II brings together a series of fresh academic perspectives on World War II, exploring the many cultural, social, and political contexts of the war. Essay topics range from American anti-Semitism to the experiences of French-African soldiers,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-11-29
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
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Showcasing the colorful, even raucous, political, social, and unique cultural qualities of Louisiana history, this new collection of essays features the finest and latest scholarship. Includes readings featuring recent scholarship that expand on traditional historical...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-11-29
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World History: A Concise Thematic Analysis presents the highly anticipated second edition of the most affordable and accessible survey of world history designed for use at the college level. This text offers a comparative analysis of great civilizations of Eurasia,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-11-29
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World History: A Concise Thematic Analysis presents the highly anticipated second edition of the most affordable and accessible survey of world history designed for use at the college level. An engaging narrative that contextualizes history and does not drown students...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-11-29
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Cannabis has never been a more controversial substance in Britain. Over the last decade it has been reclassified twice, has been the subject of a range of official investigations and scientific studies, and has provoked media campaigns and all manner of political...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-11-29
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This, the first volume in the History of Wales, provides a detailed history of Wales in the period in which it was created out of the remnants of Roman Britain. It thus begins in the fourth century, with accelerating attacks from external forces, and ends shortly before...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-11-29
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This groundbreaking volume examines the transnational dimensions of Black Power - how Black Power thinkers and activists drew on foreign movements and vice versa how individuals and groups in other parts of the world interpreted 'Black Power,' from African liberation...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-11-28
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Warfare in the modern era has often been described in terms of national armies fighting national wars. This volume challenges the view by examining transnational aspects of military mobilization from the eighteenth century to the present. Truly global in scope, it...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-11-28
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The Paper War and the Development of Anglo-American Nationalisms, 1800-1825 offers fresh insight into the evolution of British and American nationalisms, the maturation of apologetics for slavery, and the early development of anti-Americanism, from approximately 1800 to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-11-28
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By the author of Destiny Disrupted: An enlightening, lively, accessible, history of Afghanistan from 1840 to today, from the Afghan point of view, that illuminates how Great Power conflicts have interrupted an ongoing, internal struggle to take form as a nation. Five...
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PublicAffairs
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2012-11-27
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At the beginning of 1965, the U.S. seemed on the cusp of a golden age. Although Americans had been shocked by the assassination in 1963 of President Kennedy, they exuded a sense of consensus and optimism that showed no signs of abating. Indeed, political liberalism and...
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Basic Books
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2012-11-27
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Die Freimaurerei in Russland hat im Vergleich zu anderen Ländern nur über einen kurzen Zeitraum eine spürbarere Wirksamkeit zu entfalten vermocht. Diese fiel in die zweite Hälfte des 18. und in das erste Viertel des 19. Jahrhunderts, als es gleichsam zu einer...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-26
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Winner of the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Best First Book Prize of the American Society of Church History
Society for U. S. Intellectual History Notable Title in American Intellectual History
The story of liberal religion in the twentieth century, Matthew S....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-11-23
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A personal and lyrical rediscovery of the history of England through archaeology and the imagination.History thrives on stories. TIME'S ANVIL explores archaeology's influence on what such stories say, how they are told, who tells them and how we listen.In a dazzlingly...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2012-11-22
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