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One of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in India. A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backward' is now viewed through a new set of clichés: 'hi-tech', 'materialistic', 'go-getting'....
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Penguin
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2011-01-27
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An examination of population movements, both forced and voluntary, within the broader context of Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, in both Western and Eastern Europe. The authors bring to life problems of war and post-war chaos, and assess lasting social,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-01-26
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A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the "pivot of history," a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road traders changed the destinies of states that ringed its borders,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-01-26
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A unique study of how a deeply religious country like India acquired the laws and policies of a secular state, highlighting the contradictory effects of British imperial policies, the complex role played by Indian Christians, and how this highly divided community shaped...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-01-26
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At the age of five, Ingrid Pitt found herself in a concentration camp. Ingrid and her mother escaped from the guards while on a forced march and presented themselves to the partisans, unsure if they would kill them. They spent the rest of the war in the forests. Ingrid...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2011-01-25
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More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England's Ulster Plantation in Northern...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-01-25
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As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for nearly three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield. Because of her double marriage to the Greek King...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-01-25
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On May 7th, 1915 a passenger ship crossing the Atlantic sank with the loss of 1200 lives.On board were some world-famous figures, including multimillionaire Alfred Vanderbilt. But this wasn't the Titanic and there was no iceberg. The liner was the Lusitania and it was...
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Transworld Digital
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2011-01-25
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Processing the Past explores the dramatic changes taking place in historical understanding and archival management, and hence the relations between historians and archivists. Written by an archivist and a historian, it shows how these changes have been brought on by new...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-01-21
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In the 144 years since Karl Marx's Das Kapital was published, the doctrine that bears his name has been embraced by millions in the name of equality, and just as dramatically has fallen from grace with the retreat of communism from the western world. But as the free...
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Abacus
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2011-01-20
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The great echoing phrases of the King James Bible that have boomed through the English-speaking mind for 400 years - an eye for an eye . . . eat, drink and be merry . . . . death, where is thy sting? . . . man shall not live by bread alone - are largely the work of a...
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Abacus
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2011-01-20
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Memory of War in France examines France in the era of world war through the unconventional eyes of the veteran, activist and novelist, César Fauxbras. It encompasses the French navy at war, the naval mutinies of 1919, the experience of unemployment, interwar pacifism,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-01-19
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Although the Igbo constitute one of the largest ethnic nationalities of Nigeria and the West African sub-region, little is known about their political history before the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. This book is a pioneer study of the broad changes Igbo political systems...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-01-17
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Americans often look back on Paris between the world wars as a charming escape from the enduring inequalities and reactionary politics of the United States. In this bold and original study, Brooke Blower shows that nothing could be further from the truth. She reveals...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-01-17
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Henry E. Sigerist (1891-1957) is known as the most influential medical historian in the first half of the 20th century. More than that he was a scholar of an unusually broad spectrum of activities. 50 years after his death he is still the subject of publications. During...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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Das Buch beschreibt Leben und Wirken des Karl Konrad Werner Wedemeyer, Professor für Römisches, Bürgerliches, Arbeits- und Zivilprozessrecht im Kaiserreich, der Weimarer Republik und sein Schicksal im Dritten Reich. Einbezogen wird die Zeitgeschichte, insbesondere die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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A Companion to the Punic Wars offers a comprehensive new survey of the three wars fought between Rome and Carthage between 264 and 146 BC. Offers a broad survey of the Punic Wars from a variety of perspectives Features contributions from an outstanding cast of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-01-13
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Germany's war against the Soviet Union raised a small army of child soldiers. Thousands of those below the enlistment age served with regular and paramilitary formations, even though they were not formally mobilised or allowed at the front. For several decades after the...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-01-13
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Beyond Borders: A History of Mexican Migration to the United States details the origins and evolution of the movement of people from Mexico into the United States from the first significant flow across the border at the turn of the twentieth century up to the present...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-01-13
Collection :
Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
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This book advances a new interpretation of the timing and character of French (and more broadly European) liberalism, and contributes to the ongoing debate concerning the place of morality, sociability, and conceptions of the "self" in modern liberal thought.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-01-12
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