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This volume brings together essays from leading thinkers to examine what role Asian traditions of knowledge played in the rise of modern science in Europe, the implications this has for the epistemology of science, and whether pre-modern Asian traditions can provide...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-07-26
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The Spanish-American War focused not only on foreign policy, but also on the nation's very essence and purpose. At the heart of this debate was a consensus on American nationalism. This book explains why the belief in exceptionalism still serves as the basis of American...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-07-26
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The Antarctic is one the most hostile natural environments in the world. It is an extraordinary physical space, which changes significantly in shape and size with the passing of the seasons. Politically, it is unique as it contains one of the few areas of continental...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-07-26
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Österreichs Entwicklung in den dreißiger Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts ist keineswegs «tote Geschichte». Im Gegenteil, die Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise unserer Tage, wachsende Medienkonzentration, Erosionserscheinungen der Demokratie und das Erstarken xenophober...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-26
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The story of D-Day, told in the words of those who were actually there.'The gigantic scale of the invasion is stunningly evoked' - MAIL ON SUNDAYAt fifteen minutes after midnight on June 6 1944, Operation 'Overlord', the Allied invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europe,...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-07-26
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A gripping account of the most famous military defeat and retreat in history, now the subject of a major motion picture, written and directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy and Mark Rylance.The NEW YORK TIMES of 2 June 1940 summed up the...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-07-26
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Am 19. März 2010 veranstalteten der Paul Singer Verein und die Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung eine Fachtagung zu den Wurzeln der deutschen Demokratie. Ausgangspunkt waren die Tage der Märzrevolution in Berlin 1848.Am Beispiel des Friedhofs der Märzgefallenen diskutierten 16...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-26
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The 1960s were a transformative era for American politics, but much is still unknown about the growth of conservatism during the period when it was radically reshaped and became the national political force that it is today. In their efforts to chronicle the national...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-07-25
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Alfred Weber was an important participant in the dialogue over the political and cultural crises of the late Empire and Weimar Republic. This study connects Weber's career to the social, political, intellectual, cultural, and institutional contexts of the period.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-07-25
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In dieser Arbeit kann das in der Überlieferung vorherrschende negative Bild des Oldenburger Grafen Gerhard VI. als das eines raubgierigen Gewalttäters revidiert und als Konstrukt der am Ende siegreichen Feinde Gerhards entlarvt werden. Er wird stattdessen in den...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-25
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This book advances research into the government-forced labor used widely in colonial Kenya from 1930 to 1963 after the passage of the International Labor Organization’s Forced Labour Convention. While the 1930 Convention intended to mark the suppression of forced labor...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-07-25
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This is the first in-depth historical study of Byzantine Cappadocia. The authors draw on extensive textual and archaeological materials to examine the nature and place of Cappadocia in the Byzantine Empire from the fourth through eleventh centuries.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-07-24
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This new study of Napoleon emphasizes his ties to the French Revolution, his embodiment of its militancy, and his rescue of its legacies. Jordan's work illuminates all aspects of his fabulous career, his views of the Revolution and history, the artists who created and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-07-24
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Otto von Bismarck drohte mit Selbstmord, als sein Sohn Herbert eine Verwandte Alexander von Schleinitz’ heiraten wollte. Grenzenlos war der Haß Bismarcks auf seinen Vorgänger als preußischer Außenminister. Wer war dieser Mann, den der Eiserne Kanzler als Haremsminister...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-23
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Aiming to furnish the reader with the historical data to engage with the debates surrounding the Cameron government's 'Big Society' and civil society, this book gives the reader a greater and more informed historical consciousness of how the NGO sector has grown and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-07-20
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Whether you know him as El Amigo, the Banana Man, the Gringo, or simply Z - whether you even know him at all - Sam Zemurray lived one of the greatest untold American stories of the last hundred years.A tough, uneducated Russian Jew who found himself and his fortune in...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-07-19
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The Ninjas today are the stuff of myth and legend in comics, film and electronic games. But once they were real, the medieval equivalent of the SAS: spies, saboteurs, assassins. In their secrecy, under-cover skills and determination to survive, they were the opposite of...
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Transworld Digital
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2012-07-19
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The Shock of America is based on the proposition that whenever Europeans of the last 100 years or more contemplated those margins of their experience where change occurred, there, sooner or later, they would find America. How Europeans have come to terms over the...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-07-19
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The Shock of America is based on the proposition that whenever Europeans of the last 100 years or more contemplated those margins of their experience where change occurred, there, sooner or later, they would find America. How Europeans have come to terms over the...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-07-19
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In the early 1950s Britain was still the most urbanized and industrialized nation in the world, a global power in shipbuilding and the leading European producer of coal, steel, cars and textiles. For the many millions of men and women hard at work during that time, an...
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Transworld Digital
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2012-07-19
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