Newly married, Jeannie Gunn accompanies her husband to 'The Elsey', the huge cattle station in the Northern Territory, several hundred miles from the nearest town. She is one of the few white women in the area and her presence is at first resented by the stockmen until...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2012-04-24

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When do you think the Second World War ended?If the end of the war was supposed to have brought 'freedom' to countries that suffered under Nazi occupation, then for millions it did not really end until the fall of Communism. In the summer of 1945 many of the countries...

Editeur : Bbc Digital
Parution : 2012-04-24

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When the 236-metre long container ship Rena ploughed into and was impaled upon the Astrolabe Reef off Tauranga at 2.20am on 5 October 2011, it began one of the biggest salvage operations and environmental disasters in New Zealand history. The Rena was carrying 1368...

Editeur : Hodder Moa
Parution : 2012-04-20

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This book was awarded the «Joop Witteveenprijs 2012». In the aftermath of the French Revolution, the role of the monarchy in Western Europe was redefined. Together with the absolutist sovereigns, the historian’s interest in courts and court life in the nineteenth...

Editeur : P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution : 2012-04-20

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Twenty-two years after his death, Thomas Bernhard’s work continues to fascinate, irritate, and please readers. This book analyzes Bernhard’s writings in the light of post-war Austrian history, challenging the prevailing formalist and psychological reception of his work....

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2012-04-20

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Dominic Sandbrook's magnificent account of the late 1970s in Britain - the book behind the major BB2 series The SeventiesIn this gloriously colourful book,Dominic Sandbrook recreates the extraordinary period of the late 1970s in all its chaos and contradiction,...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2012-04-19

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This path-breaking work on the social and economic history of colonial India traces the evolution of north Indian towns and merchant communities from the decline of Mughal dominion to the consolidation of British empire following the 1857 'mutiny'. C.A. Bayly analyses...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2012-04-19

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Utilizing new primary source material from the Papers of George Washington, a documentary editing project dedicated to the transcription and publication of original documents, A Companion to George Washington features a collection of original readings from scholars and...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2012-04-19
Collection : Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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East Wind offers the first complete, archive-based account of the relationship between China and the British Left, from the rise of modern Chinese nationalism to the death of Mao Tse tung. Beginning with the "Hands Off China" movement of the mid-1920s, Tom Buchanan...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-04-19

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The Sick Child in Early Modern England is a powerful exploration of the treatment, perception, and experience of illness in childhood, from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth century. At this time, the sickness or death of a child was a common occurrence - over...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-04-19

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East Wind offers the first complete, archive-based account of the relationship between China and the British Left, from the rise of modern Chinese nationalism to the death of Mao Tse tung. Beginning with the "Hands Off China" movement of the mid-1920s, Tom Buchanan...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-04-19

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The Little Republic examines the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-04-19

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In a rare combination of comprehensive coverage and sustained critical focus, this book examines Japan's progress through its entire history to its current status as an economic, technological, and cultural superpower. A key factor is a pragmatic determination to...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-04-17

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Using case studies of cholera, plague, malaria, and yellow fever, this book analyzes how factors such as public health diplomacy, trade, imperial governance, medical technologies, and cultural norms operated within global and colonial conceptions of political and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-04-17

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This classic provides a comprehensive account of the hstory of the Mauryas with a special emphasis on the reign and activities of Asoka. It examines the sources, socio-economic conditions, administration, Dhamma, foreign relations, and the decline of the Mauryas.This...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2012-04-16

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Jonathan Chu explores individual economic and legal behaviors, connecting them to adjustments in trade relations with Europe and Asia, the rise in debt litigation in Western Massachusetts, deflation and monetary illiquidity, and the Bank of North America.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-04-14

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The Jews of Beirut:The Rise of a Levantine Community, 1860s-1930s is the first study to investigate the emergence of an organized and vibrant Jewish community in Beirut in the late Ottoman and French period. Viewed in the context of port city revival, the author...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2012-04-13

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Founded by Churchill, Special Operations Executive (SOE) was the forerunner of the SAS, and during WWII they sent many hundreds of specially-trained agents deep undercover in Nazi-occupied Europe. Here Marcus Binney explores the extraordinary stories and daring exploits...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2012-04-12

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This is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa to be sold to the highest bidder. Ignored by their own governments, and forced to endure the harshest of conditions, very...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2012-04-12

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The 1936 Berlin Olympics brought together athletes, politicians, socialites, journalists, soldiers and artists from all over the world. But behind the scenes, they were a dress rehearsal for the horrors of the forthcoming conflict. Hitler had secretly decided the...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2012-04-12

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