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American literature abounds with orphans who experience adoption or placements that resemble adoption. These stories do more than recount adventures of children living away from home. They tell anAmerican story of family and national identity. In narratives from the...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-04-29
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The Great Escape was one of the most remarkable episodes of the Second World War. After the attempt to break 200 men out of Hermann Gring's 'escape-proof' prisoner-of-war camp, 76 Allied officers managed to create havoc behind enemy lines before most were eventually...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-04-29
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A widespread and still contemporary political phenomenon that exercises a profound effect on societies, settler colonialism structures relationships both historically and culturally diverse. This book assesses the distinctive feature of settler colonialism, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2011-04-28
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An exploration of the little-known yet historically important emigration of British army officers to the Australian colonies in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. The book looks at the significant impact they made at a time of great colonial expansion, particularly...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2011-04-28
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Even in an age of emerging nationhood, English men and women still thought very much in terms of their parishes, towns, and counties. This book examines the vitality of early modern local consciousness and its deployment by writers to mediate the larger political,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2011-04-28
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The House of Guise was one of the greatest princely families of the sixteenth century, or indeed of any age. Today they are best remembered through the tragic life of one family member, Mary Queen of Scots. But the story of her Guise uncles, aunts and cousins is if...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-04-28
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DAILY TELEGRAPH and INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 20122011 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALISTIn the wake of Pakistan's development of nuclear weapons, unpoliceable border areas, shelter of the Afghan Taliban and Bin Laden, and the...
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Penguin
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2011-04-28
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At the beginning of 2000, with the launch of the so-called Third Chimurenga, Zimbabwean nationalism revealed some of its most grotesque aspects, resulting in a polarisation of the nation into ‘patriots’ and ‘sell-outs’ and dividing academics into groups such as ‘regime...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-04-27
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Exchange programmes have been a part of US foreign relations since the nineteenth century, but it was only during and after World War II that they were applied by the US government on a large scale to influence foreign publics in support of strategic objectives. This...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2011-04-26
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Ernst Bernheim (1850-1942) hat mit dem bekannten Lehrbuch der historischen Methode einen entscheidenden Beitrag zur Grundlegung der geschichtswissenschaftlichen Methodik geleistet. Historik im Historismus liefert neben einer biographischen Skizze eine Analyse seiner...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-04-26
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Im Zentrum der Arbeit steht die Rekonstruktion des Holocaust in Italien am Beispiel der Razzien im römischen Ghetto und im Ghetto von Venedig. Die Entstehungsgeschichte und die jeweilige Situation der jüdischen Gemeinden in Rom und Venedig zur Zeit der durchgeführten...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-04-26
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William Edmundson examines the spectacular life story of 'Colonel' John Thomas North, also known as 'The Nitrate King,' a mechanic in Leeds who became one of the best-known and richest men of his time. Forgotten in Britain and vilified in Chile and Peru, this is the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-04-25
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This book explores the memory of the Romanian Holocaust in Romanian, German, Israeli, and French cultural representations. The essays in this volume discuss first-hand testimonial accounts, letters, journals, drawings, literary texts and films by Elie Wiesel, Paul...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-04-25
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The papacy of Pius XII (1939-1958) has been a source of near-constant criticism and debate since his death, particularly because of his alleged silence during the Holocaust. Paul O'Shea examines his little-studied pre-papal life to demonstrate that Pius was neither an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-04-25
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The Lewis and Clark expedition was the greatest camping trip in history. It was one of those irresistible American adventures that many people dream of living. This book shares the delightful details of the journey that historians have gleaned from the group’s journals...
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For Dummies
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2011-04-22
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Almost since the event itself in 1757, the English East India Company's victory over the forces of the nawab of Bengal and the territorial acquisitions that followed has been perceived as the moment when the British Empire in India was born. Examining the Company's...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-04-22
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Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared impoverished, fearful...
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Abacus
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2011-04-21
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Simon Bolivar was the archetypal romantic revolutionary. Born into privilege and nurtured in the Rousseau's philosophy of the Homme Sauvage, it was not until the young colonial visited Europe that the taper of revolution was lit that sent the young man on a...
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Constable
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2011-04-21
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'The Book that really held me, in fact, obsessed me, was Rubicon . . . This is narrative history at its best. Bloody and labyrinthine political intrigue and struggle, brilliant oratory, amazing feats of conquest and cruelty' Ian McEwan, Books of the Year,...
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Abacus
Parution :
2011-04-21
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In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory - rapid, spectacular victory - had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire.In the space of a single generation, they had...
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Abacus
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2011-04-21
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