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"Zanna Sloniowska writes beautifully; with empathy, sensitivity, and with real political impact . . . an important new voice in Polish literature" OLGA TOKARCZUK, Nobel Prize-winning author of Flights"Remarkable, a gripping, Lvivian evocation of a city and a family...
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Maclehose Press
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2017-09-21
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MacLehose Press Editions
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‘A riveting account of the pre-First World War years . . . The Age of Decadence is an enormously impressive and enjoyable read.’ Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times‘A magnificent account of a less than magnificent epoch.’ Jonathan Meades, Literary Review The folk-memory of...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2017-09-21
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This book explores the secrets of the extraordinary editorial success of Jacobus Acontius' Satan's Stratagems, an important book that intrigued readers and outraged religious authorities across Europe. Despite condemnation by the Catholic Church, the work, first...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-19
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This volume examines the French Revolution’s relationship with and impact on religious communities and religion in a transnational perspective. It challenges the traditional secular narrative of the French Revolution, exploring religious experience and representation...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-18
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During the twentieth century 'affluence' (both at the level of the individual household and that of society as a whole) became intimately linked with access to a range of prestige consumer durables. The Market Makers charts the inter-war origins of a process that would...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-15
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During the twentieth century 'affluence' (both at the level of the individual household and that of society as a whole) became intimately linked with access to a range of prestige consumer durables. The Market Makers charts the inter-war origins of a process that would...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-15
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This book explores leisure-related voluntary associations in France during the nineteenth century as practical expressions of the Revolutionary concept of fraternité. Using a mass of unpublished sources in provincial and national archives, it analyses the history,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-14
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This book examines the letters, diaries, and published accounts of English and Scottish travelers to Greece in the seventeenth century, a time of growing interest in ancient texts and the Ottoman Empire. Through these early encounters, this book analyzes the travelers’...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-14
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This book is a study of the legal reckoning with the crimes of the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police and its political dimensions in the Soviet Union, West and East Germany, and the United States in the context of the Cold War. Decades of work by prosecutors have...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-11
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For centuries the British developed a reputation as a nation of explorers. From Francis Drake’s circumnavigation of the globe to the ascent of Everest, British explorers crossed oceans and continents and ventured where few, if any, had gone...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-09-11
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This book presents and explores a challenging new approach in book history. It offers a coherent volume of thirteen chapters in the field of early modern book history covering a wide range of topics and it is written by renowned scholars in the field. The rationale and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-07
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SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, FT AND EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain.In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It...
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Penguin
Parution :
2017-09-07
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This book address the relationship between utopian and radical thought, particularly in the early modern period, and puts forward alternatives approaches to imagined ‘realities’. Alternative Worlds Imagined, 1500-1700 explores the nature and meaning of radicalism in a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-07
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Much has been written about the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, but one story remains untold: that of the grassroots activism that maintained local communities in the face of violence. This book speaks through the voices of the activists themselves, drawn...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-09-06
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Die Schweiz hebt sich von seinen europäischen Nachbarn deutlich ab. Nur von ihren Nachbarn? Nein, die Schweiz ist weltweit einzigartig. Ein Staat mit einer einzigartigen Geschichte, einer Geschichte, bei der noch immer viel im Dunkel liegt. Wann fand der Rütlischwur...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2017-09-01
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Für Dummies
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This book examines diverse encounters between the British community and the thousands of French individuals who sought haven in the British Isles as they left revolutionary and Imperial France.This painstaking research into the emigrant archival and memorial...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-25
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This book focuses on the nature and extent of social change, integration and identity transformation within the Jewish community of Britain during the interwar years. It probes the notion – widely articulated by Jewish communal leaders at this time – that the immigrant...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-22
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This book analyses four case studies of Holocaust memory activism in Poland, contextualized within recent debates about Polish-Jewish relations and approached through a theoretical framework informed by critical theory. Three cases are advocacy groups, each located in a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-21
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This book discusses historical continuities and discontinuities between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, interwar Poland, the Polish People’s Republic, and contemporary Poland. The year 1989 is seen as a clear point-break that allowed the Poles and their country...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-21
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The complexity and importance of underage drinking prompted ERAB and ABMRF to initiate a state of the art review. It explores the extent of underage drinking across Europe and North America, as well as our current understanding of factors that increase the risk of this...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de Louvain
Parution :
2017-08-18
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Hors Collections
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