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This study analyzes the Soviet Union’s strategic interests and policies toward Mongolia, emphasizing Joseph Stalin’s perception of its geopolitical importance. It examines why Mongolia’s independence was a key condition Stalin set at the Yalta Summit...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-06-12
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The 1950s are usually portrayed as conservative, conformist, and apathetic, but was there more to this much-maligned decade than that? In Britain, the convergence of conflicting political moments-the Cold War, the Bomb, the rise of America, the decline of the empire,...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-06-12
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Beginning in the late nineteenth century, British companies used the resources of empire to create an imperial oil industry that controlled 20% of global oil reserves by 1939 and allowed for the movement of capital and labor between regions and companies. The imperial...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-06-11
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This book collects together all contemporary and near-contemporary accounts of the 1467 emprise, a particular performative feat of arms, between Anthony Woodville, Lord Scales—brother of Elizabeth Woodville, wife of King Edward IV of England—and Antoine,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-06-09
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During the long nineteenth century, faced with an increasingly powerful and arrogant West, the Ottoman Empire modernised itself with the objective of dealing with an increasingly precarious situation. The history of this modernity, strongly marked by Westernisation,...
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Collège de France
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2025-06-06
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Leçons inaugurales
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Before the First World War Germany was a global empire with colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Annexed to this empire in 1900 was Samoa, a thriving Polynesian trading hub which had previously been the site of conflict between Britain, Germany, and the United...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-06-04
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June 1940: France surrenders to Germany. The Gestapo is searching for Heinrich Mann and Franz Werfel, Hannah Arendt, Lion Feuchtwanger and many other writers and artists who had sought asylum in France since 1933. The young American journalist Varian Fry arrives in...
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Polity
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2025-06-03
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This book examines the cultural legacies of the fifteen years that Mary Queen of Scots spent as a prisoner in the household of Bess of Hardwick and her fourth husband, the Earl of Shrewsbury. It proposes four main areas of influence: first, that although Mary never...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-05-29
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Up until recently, Europe’s three imperial monarchies – the German, Austrian, and Russian Empires – were seen as moribund political entities, unable to accommodate the forces of political, social, economic, and cultural modernization, and as a result collapsed...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-05-28
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A narrative blend of history, cultural criticism, and memoir in celebration of everyday queer women, based on a lesbian helpline that existed in North London in the nineties, and "a clear-eyed and moving addition to the still-expanding record of lesbian lives"...
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Legacy Lit
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2025-05-27
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Shakespeare stellt in seinen Dramen diverse politische Regime mit ihren jeweiligen Vorzügen und Defiziten dar. Er präsentiert dabei die Monarchie als eine der geeignetsten Staatsformen, sieht aber durchaus auch deren Schwierigkeiten. So entwickelt er die Idee, die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-05-27
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Beginning in the late nineteenth century, British companies used the resources of empire to create an imperial oil industry that controlled 20% of global oil reserves by 1939 and allowed for the movement of capital and labor between regions and companies. The imperial...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-26
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This book examines the history of a pioneering Thoroughbred horse breeding operation, the Irish National Stud. By incorporating and integrating a diverse array of primary sources from various repositories and supplementing them with contemporary and secondary materials,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-05-24
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A profoundly personal portrait of a people and their on-going journey, shedding new light on Romani history and what it means to be Romani in Europe today.‘An exhilarating history of resistance and survival’ Observer‘A fascinating look at a marginalised and...
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Vintage Digital
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2025-05-22
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History loves a villain.Across the entire span of human civilisation, certain people and groups have been identified as being responsible for the ills of the world, and have remained hated for it. In his continuing desire to separate out the facts from the fiction of...
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Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
Parution :
2025-05-22
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The book is the first historical reconstruction of Italian political events over the last thirty years, that is, the period from the Tangentopoli crisis of the early 1990s to the present day. In particular, the book examines, for the first time in a systematic and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-05-20
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Before the First World War Germany was a global empire with colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Annexed to this empire in 1900 was Samoa, a thriving Polynesian trading hub which had previously been the site of conflict between Britain, Germany, and the United...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-19
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Following the defeat of the Paris Commune in May 1871, thousands of Commune militants fled France to avoid imprisonment, deportation, or death. As a result, and due in large part to Britain's liberal asylum policy, around 3500 refugees arrived in Britain in the early...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-14
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The late-eighteenth-century 'age of revolutions' has long been identified as a key moment in the gendering of modern democratic politics, one which opened up new debates on the 'rights of women' while often re-affirming the masculinity of the political citizen. In...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-14
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The astonishing inside story of the Wagner Group, the world’s deadliest militia “Putin’s Sledgehammer provides an in-depth account of, and essential political and economic background to, the story of Prigozhin’s meteoric rise and abrupt...
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PublicAffairs
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2025-05-13
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