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The question of how ordinary people related to totalitarian regimes is still far from being answered.The tension between repression and consensus makes analysis difficult; where one ends and the other begins is never easy to determine. In the case of fascist Italy,...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-07-19
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This volume brings together historians, economists, political scientists, and anthropologists to present a global perspective on the new forms of lending and borrowing that have become a key feature of twentieth-century mass consumer societies,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-07-16
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In the twentieth century's first decades, U.S. workers waged an epic struggle to achieve security through unions; simultaneously Americans came to interpret current events through newspaper photographs. Eyes on Labor brings these two revolutions together, revealing how...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-07-16
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We are where we are has become one of the great truisms of the current crisis facing the country. But how did we get here and can an inspection of the roots of our modern failings - of government, state agencies and church - help us to pave a way forward? Scandal Nation...
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Hachette Books Ireland
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2012-07-16
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Der deutsch-dänische Konflikt des Jahres 1864 spielt in der deutschen Geschichtswissenschaft eine eher untergeordnete Rolle. Vornehmlich wird er nur als Auftaktveranstaltung und militärischer Probelauf zur deutschen Einigung gesehen. Bismarcks im Titel aufgegriffene...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-13
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J.M.W. Turner's The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to her Last Berth to be Broken Up (1838) was his masterpiece. Sam Willis tells the real-life story behind this remarkable painting. The 98-gun Temeraire warship broke through the French and Spanish line directly astern of...
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Quercus
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2012-07-12
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Hearts of Oak Trilogy
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The adventurous young women who sailed to India during the Raj in search of husbands.From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and businessmen. With...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-07-12
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In this impressive synthesis, William Harris narrates the history of the sectarian communities of Mount Lebanon and its vicinity. He offers a fresh perspective on the antecedents of modern multi-communal Lebanon, tracing the consolidation of Lebanon's Christian, Muslim,...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-07-11
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With the publication of The New Negro in 1925, Alain Locke introduced readers all over the U.S. to the vibrant world of African American thought. As an author, editor, and patron, Locke rightly earned the appellation "Godfather of the Harlem Renaissance." Yet, his...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-07-10
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Most Australian have heard of Lone Pine. Too few know why. Over four days in August 1915, Australians and Turks were thrown into some of the fiercest fighting of the war, on a small plateau in Gallipoli known as Lone Pine. Thousands of lives were lost. Seven of...
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E-Penguin
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2012-07-10
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It is the early 1950s. Kristen Iversen is enjoying a carefree childhood surrounded by desert and mountains. But just a few miles down the road, the US government decides to build a secret nuclear weapons facility at Rocky Flats. Kirsten and her siblings jump streams,...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-07-05
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This seminal work of scholarship, which traces the development of literacy in medieval England, is now fully updated in a third edition. This book serves as an introduction to medieval books and documents for graduate students throughout the world Features a completely...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-07-05
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The Scottish Nation examines the social, political, religious and economic factors that have shaped modern Scotland. Drawing on extensive research and exploring everything from the high politics of the devolved parliament to the everyday effects of huge and growing...
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Penguin
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2012-07-05
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The classic account of the war on the Eastern Front between the Russians and the Germans - the greatest clash of arms the world has ever seen.Carefully researched and beautifully written, this book is a classic of military history. Alan Clark vividly narrates the course...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-07-05
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In the course of the fifth century, the farms and villas of lowland Britain were replaced by a new, distinctive form of rural settlement: the settlements of the Anglo-Saxons. This volume presents the first major synthesis of the evidence - which has expanded enormously...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-07-05
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Geza Vermes, translator and editor of The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls and worldwide expert on the life and times of Jesus, tells the enthralling story of early Christianity and the origins of a religion. The creation of the Christian Church is one of the most important...
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Penguin
Parution :
2012-07-05
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Conventional chronologies of world history concentrate on the reigns of kings and queens, the dates of battles and treaties, the publication dates of great books, the completion of famous buildings, the deaths of iconic figures, and the years of major discoveries. But...
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Quercus
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2012-07-05
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Britain has not been successfully invaded since 1066; nor, in nearly 1,000 years has it known a true revolution – one that brings radical, systemic and enduring change. The contrast with Britain’s European neighbours, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Russia, is...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-07-05
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Broadcasting was born just as the British empire reached its greatest territorial extent, and matured while that empire began to unravel. Radio and television offered contemporaries the beguiling prospect that new technologies of mass communication might compensate for...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-07-05
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Following the execution of the king in 1649, the new Commonwealth and then Oliver Cromwell set out to drive forward a puritan reformation of manners. They wanted to reform the church and its services, enforce the Sabbath, suppress Christmas, and spread the gospel. They...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-07-05
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