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This is the first scholarly treatment of the history of public eating in London in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
The quotidian nature of eating out during the working day or evening should not be allowed to obscure the significance of the restaurant (defined...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-06-28
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The Practice of Socialist Internationalism examines the efforts of the British, French, and German socialist parties to cooperate with one another on concrete international issues. Drawing on archival research from twelve countries, it spans the years from the First...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-12-08
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This book is an examination of why and how the elective principle, already established in Transylvanian and Polish political culture in the late medieval period, was transformed in the early elections of the 1570s. In this period, the two polities adopted constitutional...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-12-01
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This book is an examination of why and how the elective principle, already established in Transylvanian and Polish political culture in the late medieval period, was transformed in the early elections of the 1570s. In this period, the two polities adopted constitutional...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-12-01
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Flash! presents a fascinating cultural history of flash photography, from its mid-nineteenth century beginnings to the present day. All photography requires light, but the light of flash photography is quite distinctive: artificial, sudden, shocking, intrusive, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-11-28
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Flash! presents a fascinating cultural history of flash photography, from its mid-nineteenth century beginnings to the present day. All photography requires light, but the light of flash photography is quite distinctive: artificial, sudden, shocking, intrusive, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-11-17
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THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE . . . Who was Jack the Ripper? Where did the Nazis stash their gold? Who are the real Men in Black? Did aliens send the 'WOW' signal? And how will the world end? 100 Things They Don't Want You to Know sets out to uncover the truth behind the...
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Greenfinch
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2017-11-02
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100 Things
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The Victorians built tens of thousands of churches in the hundred years between 1800 and 1900. Wherever you might be in the English-speaking world, you will be close to a Victorian built or remodelled ecclesiastical building. Contemporary experience of church buildings...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-10-06
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The Victorians built tens of thousands of churches in the hundred years between 1800 and 1900. Wherever you might be in the English-speaking world, you will be close to a Victorian built or remodelled ecclesiastical building. Contemporary experience of church buildings...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-09-29
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'Highly readable . . . an intimate and varied account of fascinating stories of people at war' History of WarWar Stories is a fascinating account of ordinary men and women swept up in the turbulence of war. These are the stories - many untold until now - of thirty-four...
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John Murray
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2017-09-21
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From the turbulent 1960s until today, Hong Kong has been a city shaped by civil disobedience. The latest wave of protests in Hong Kong's long history of public dissent culminated in the Occupy Central movement of 2014. What emerges from these grassroots movements is a...
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E-Penguin
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2017-07-01
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Der dritte Band einer ‚Geschichte professioneller Kontrolle’ untersucht die Entwicklung eines ständig wachsenden Psychiatrie-Komplexes. Nach einer langen Vorgeschichte beginnt sie staatsnah im langen 19. Jahrhundert mit forensischen Gutachten und dem Ausbau einer...
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Springer VS
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2017-06-23
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During the Holocaust, 99 percent of all Jewish killings were carried out by members of state organizations. In this groundbreaking book, Stefan Kühl offers a new analysis of the integral role that membership in organizations played in facilitating the annihilation of...
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Polity
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2017-05-23
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Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era. It focuses on the ecological dimensions of the explosive growth of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-31
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Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era. It focuses on the ecological dimensions of the explosive growth of...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-31
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Modern Spain: 1808 to the Present is a comprehensive overview of Spanish history from the Napoleonic era to the present day. Places a large emphasis on Spain's place within broader European and global history The chronological political narrative is enriched by...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2017-03-07
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A New History of Modern Europe
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Oral history gives history back to the people in their own words. And in giving a past, it also helps them towards a future of their own making.Oral history and life stories help to create a truer picture of the past and the changing present, documenting the lives and...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-02-24
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A History of the Modern Middle East examines the profound and often dramatic transformations of the region in the past two centuries, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the challenge of Western imperialism, to the impact of US foreign policies. Built around...
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Westview Press
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2016-07-12
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The disintegration of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s is often described as the starting-point of the EEC/EU involvement in Western Balkan politics, as if no political relations had developed between the EEC and Yugoslavia during the Cold War era. Instead, this book shows...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-06-09
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Why have some nations acquired nuclear weapons while others have refrained from doing so? Most research related to this question has focused on states that have built nuclear weapons, yet little attention has been devoted to countries that have chosen nuclear restraint....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-11
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