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Das Inkareich war das größte bekannte Imperium des Altertums der Neuen Welt. Wie es entstanden ist und wie es in nur drei Generationen die Ausdehnung des römischen Reiches erreichen konnte, gilt als Rätsel. Zwischen Historikern und Archäologen führt das zu Diskussionen....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-25
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The updated and enhanced third edition of A History of Latin America to 1825 presents a comprehensive narrative survey of Latin American history from the region's first human presence until the majority of Iberian colonies in America emerged as sovereign states c. 1825....
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-08-24
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Blackwell History of the World
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Thoroughly updated and revised, the second edition of this successful and widely praised textbook offers an account of the ‘classical’ period of Greek history, from the aftermath of the Persian Wars in 478 BC to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. Two important...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-08-24
Collection :
Blackwell History of the Ancient World
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The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the...
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PublicAffairs
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2011-08-23
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A fascinating history of the lives of two of Africa's most notorious dictators. Each in their own ways, Idi Amin and Bokassa set new levels of sheer madness and cruelty, and helped to define the modern tyrant. From Idi Amin's obsession with Queen Victoria, to Bokassa's...
Editeur :
Magpie
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2011-08-18
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The Secret History of the Great Dictators
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A condensed account of the crimes of Saddam Hussein, tyrannical ruler of Iraq from 1979 until 2003. As president, he maintained power through the Iran-Iraq War and first Gulf War. During these conflicts, Saddam ruthlessly suppressed Shi'a and Kurdish movements, using...
Editeur :
Magpie
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2011-08-18
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The Secret History of the Great Dictators
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Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan have written the definitive account of 9/11. The shockwaves of the September 11, 2001 attacks in America reverberate to this day. Though Osama Bin Laden has been killed, questions remain. What exactly happened? Could 9/11 have been...
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Transworld Digital
Parution :
2011-08-18
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OPERATION STORM is the inside story - told by those who took part - of the greatest secret war in SAS history. The tipping point, Mirbat, South Oman, 19 July 1972 is one of the least-known yet most crucial battles of modern times. If the SAS had been defeated at...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2011-08-18
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A thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for understanding our past but also the present day.In this panoramic history, Jeremy Black tells how slavery was first developed in the ancient world, and reaches all the way to the...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2011-08-18
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Brief Histories
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Being Soviet adopts a refreshing and innovative approach to the years between the Nazi-Soviet Pact and Stalin's death in the USSR.
Timothy Johnston draws on newspapers, films, plays, and popular music in order to examine the changing nature of Soviet identity in this...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-08-18
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Until recently, there has been little concrete evidence linking the American Federation of Labor (AFL) to the U.S. government’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In this book, based upon recently opened archival collections, the author...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-18
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This book examines the impact of classical Chinese literature on Mao Zedong’s political rhetoric and his vision of a tripolar geopolitical landscape at the peak of the Cold War. The historical novel The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, in which two weaker sovereign powers...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-18
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Untersucht wird die Entwicklung des Tourismus für den Rheinabschnitt Mainz–Bonn zwischen 1756 bis ca. 1914 durch die Analyse von Reiseliteratur. Vor allem das heutige UNESCO-Weltkulturerbe Oberes Mittelrheintal faszinierte schon früh als Reiseziel. Der Verlag Karl...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-16
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Starting with the first man-made satellite 'Sputnik' in 1957 and culminating four years later with the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, space became a new utopian horizon. This book explores the profound repercussions of the Soviet space exploration program on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-08-16
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Religious Transactions in Colonial South India locates the "making" of Protestant identities in South India within several contesting discourses. It examines evolving attitudes to translation and translation practices in the Tamil literary and sacred landscapes...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-08-15
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The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists is the culmination of seven years of research into the 1886 Haymarket bombing and subsequent trial. It not only overturns the prevailing consensus on this event, it documents in detail how the basic facts, as far as they can be...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-08-14
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Despite attempts to suppress early women's speech, this study demonstrates that women were still actively engaged in cultural practices and speech strategies that were both complicit with the patriarchal ideology whilst also undermining it.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-08-14
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The book explores the hotly disputed process by which the census was created and developed and examines how a wide cast of characters, including statisticians, novelists, national and local officials, political and social reformers, and journalists responded to and used...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-08-14
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On a spring morning in 1903, Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald, one of Britain's greatest military heroes, took his life in a hotel room in Paris. A few days later he was buried hastily in an Edinburgh cemetary as his fellow countrymen tried to come to terms with the...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-08-12
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There are many detailed accounts of nineteenth-century emigrants, of their journeys and settlements abroad – but what of those they left behind? This book delves into the heart of Georgian Britain to explore the role that the men and women of the Scottish Borders played...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-12
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