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Explains how William Gladstone responded to the 'Irish Question', and in so doing changed the British and Irish political landscape. Religion, land, self-government and nationalism became subjects of intensive political debate, raising issues about the constitution and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-11-24
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A fascinating anthology of narratives from the period 1735-1830, by European women who recount their enslavement in North Africa. The first such collection, it includes an extensive introduction which links the discourse on contemporary Western women captives in Iran,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-11-24
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Highlighting the contributions of feminist media history to media studies and related disciplines, this book focuses on feminist periodicals emerging from or reacting to the Edwardian suffrage campaign and situates them in the context of current debates about the public...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-11-24
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Exploring aspects of Irish medical history, from the nature and proposed remedies for various illnesses in eighteenth century Ireland, to the treatment of influenza in twentieth-century Ireland, this book shows how the cultures of medical care evolved over three...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-11-24
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In her first book, Shana Bernstein reinterprets U.S. civil rights activism by looking at its roots in the interracial efforts of Mexican, African, Jewish, and Japanese Americans in mid-century Los Angeles. Expanding the frame of historical analysis beyond black/white...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-11-24
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«Erzählen heißt, der Wahrheit verschworen sein.» – Diesem Motto entsprechend schildert Raoul Auernheimer (1876-1948), österreichischer Autor und Angehöriger des «Jung-Wiener-Kreises», das Innenleben des Konzentrationslagers Dachau. Als Augenzeuge und Überlebender hielt...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-23
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The Honorable Burden of Public Office traces the rise of civic humanism in England through the lives and careers of six prominent Elizabethans – John Cheke, Walter Haddon, Thomas Wilson, Thomas Smith, Nicholas Bacon, and William Cecil. It not only recreates the network...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2010-11-23
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Im Jahre 1809 kam es in Tirol zu einer Erhebung, die in einem Volksaufstand unter der Führung des Land- und Gastwirts sowie Passeirer Schützen Andreas Hofer mündete. Am Ende wurde der Tiroler Widerstand durch napoleonische Truppen niedergeschlagen, was blieb war die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-23
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In den von politischer Wissenschaft und Publizistik mit großer Leidenschaft bestrittenen Debatten darüber, ob die Welt es mit einem American Empire zu tun hat und was dies bedeutet, ist stets ein Fragenkomplex zentral:In welchem Verhältnis stehen Demokratie und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-23
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Peter der Große wird in seinem Wirken als Militärreformer sowie als Truppenkommandeur und Feldherr geschildert. Mit dem Vergleich der Schlachten bei Lesnaja und bei Poltawa werden neue Akzente gesetzt. Der russische Sieg bei Poltawa wird als ein Streitpunkt in den...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-23
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Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this book investigates the everyday human experience of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars by French military and civilians, the impact of these wars on the French nation and society, and the rise of a new kind of war in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-11-23
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This book explores one of the most dramatic and scandalous events in the movement for American democratic reform. Dubbed the Memorial Day Massacre, it saw Chicago police shoot and kill ten demonstrators and beat more than one hundred others as they tried to form a mass...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-11-22
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The International Polar Years and the International Geophysical Year represented a remarkable international collaborative scientific effort that has been largely neglected by historians. This groundbreaking collection seeks to redress that neglect and illuminate...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-11-22
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What is the difference between writing a novel about the Holocaust and fabricating a memoir? Do narratives about the Holocaust have a special obligation to be 'truthful'--that is, faithful to the facts of history?
Or is it okay to lie in such works?
In her provocative...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-11-19
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Irish culture is obsessed with the past, and this book asks why and how. In an innovative reading ofIrish culture since 1980, Emilie Pine provides a new analysis of theatre, film, television, memoir and art, and interrogates the anti-nostalgia that characterizes so much...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-11-17
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Many of the foremost experts in the study of European fascism unite to provide a contemporary analysis of the theories and historiography of fascism. Essays discuss the most recent debates on the subject and how changes in the social sciences over the past forty years...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-11-17
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Told from the perspective of its former Foreign minister, this is a uniquely candid account of Chechnya's struggle for independence and its two wars against Russia which will revise our understanding of the conflict and explain how it continues. Features new insights,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-11-14
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Through his writings, the leading East India Company servant, Sir John Malcolm helped to shape the historical thought of British empire-building in India. This book uses his works to examine the intellectual history of British expansion in South Asia, and shed light on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-11-14
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Levant is a book of cities. It describes the role of Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut as windows on the world, escapes from nationality and tradition, centres of wealth, pleasure and freedom. By their mix of races and religions, they challenge stereotypes. France and...
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John Murray
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2010-11-11
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The exceptionally dramatic and previously unchronicled life of the medieval queen Joanna I.On 15 March 1348, Joanna I, Queen of Naples, stood trial for her life before the pope and his court in Avignon. She was 22 years old. Her cousin and husband, Prince Andrew of...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-11-11
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