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In the late 1890s, Britain was basking in the high noon of empire, albeit with the sobering experience of the Boer War just around the corner. By 1956, the year of the Suez debacle and less than a lifetime later, the age of empire was drawing rapidly to a close and...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-10-19
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Exploring the experiences of early to mid-twentieth century British theatre-makers in Russia, this book imagines how these travellers interpreted Russian realism, symbolism, constructivism, agitprop, pageantry, dance or cinema.With some searching for an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-13
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Did you know… William IV was wont to speak his mind and could sometimes lack tact, which is said to have inspired the nickname ‘Silly Billy’? Edward III banned all sports, including football, on Sundays, so that his subjects could be free to concentrate solely on their...
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Summersdale
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2016-10-13
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For Londoners of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, debt was a part of everyday life. But when your creditors lost their patience, you might be thrown into one of the capital’s most notorious jails: the Marshalsea Debtors’ Prison.In Mansions of Misery, acclaimed...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-10-06
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Towards the end of the nineteenth century the British Empire was confronted by two great Chinese questions. The first of these questions (often known as the 'Far Eastern question') related specifically to the maintenance of British interests on the China Coast and the...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-10-06
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Towards the end of the nineteenth century the British Empire was confronted by two great Chinese questions. The first of these questions (often known as the 'Far Eastern question') related specifically to the maintenance of British interests on the China Coast and the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-10-06
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Silent Partners restores women to their place in the story of England's Financial Revolution. Women were active participants in London's first stock market beginning in the 1690s and continuing through the eighteenth century. Whether playing the state lottery, investing...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-10-06
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Silent Partners restores women to their place in the story of England's Financial Revolution. Women were active participants in London's first stock market beginning in the 1690s and continuing through the eighteenth century. Whether playing the state lottery, investing...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-10-06
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Covenanting Citizens throws new light on the origins of the English civil war and on the radical nature of the English Revolution. An exercise in writing the 'new political history', the volume challenges the discrete categories of high and popular politics and the...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-10-06
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Writing biographies (life stories) for a long time had been a male hegemonic project-writing the lives of great (white) men. Ever since Plutarch and Sueton composed their vitae of the greats of classical antiquity, to the medieval obsession with the hagiographies of...
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innsbruck university press
Parution :
2016-09-29
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Contemporary Austrian Studies
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After the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Austria transformed itself from an empire to a small Central European country. Formerly an important player in international affairs, the new republic was quickly sidelined by the European concert of powers. The...
Editeur :
innsbruck university press
Parution :
2016-09-29
Collection :
Contemporary Austrian Studies
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In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird erstmals explizit die Österreichische Geschichte aus französischer Perspektive beleuchtet. Dabei skizziert der Autor zunächst die relevanten Richtungen der französischen Geschichtswissenschaften, um anschließend wichtige Personen (Maria...
Editeur :
innsbruck university press
Parution :
2016-09-29
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Studien des Interdisziplinären Frankreich-Schwerpunkts
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Wolfgang Schüssel was a dominating actor in the Austrian political arena over a period of twenty years. He served as minister of economics (1989-1995), and vice chancellor and foreign minister (1995-2000) in ÖVP/SPÖ grand coalition governments. As chairman of the ÖVP...
Editeur :
innsbruck university press
Parution :
2016-09-29
Collection :
Contemporary Austrian Studies
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After the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Austria transformed itself from an empire to a small Central European country. Formerly an important player in international affairs, the new republic was quickly sidelined by the European concert of powers. The...
Editeur :
innsbruck university press
Parution :
2016-09-29
Collection :
Contemporary Austrian Studies
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In the past quarter century we have moved from the Cold War to the Post-Cold War era in Austria, Europe and the world at large. Yet relatively little assessment is available what the change from the Cold War to the Post-Cold War era signaled for Austria's position in...
Editeur :
innsbruck university press
Parution :
2016-09-29
Collection :
Contemporary Austrian Studies
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Voices of Conscience analyzes how the link between politics and conscience was articulated and shaped throughout the seventeenth century by confessors who acted as counsellors to monarchs. Against the backdrop of the momentous intellectual, theological, and political...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-29
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What was it like to live in Britain during the second half of the twentieth century? In a successor to his acclaimed Nine Wartime Lives: Mass Observation and the Making of the Modern Self, James Hinton uses autobiographical writing contributed to Mass Observation since...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-29
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This book explores the role of mayors in navigating the realities of living and governing under Nazi occupation. In Western Europe under Nazi occupation, mayors of villages and cities were forced into strategic cooperation with the occupier. Mayors had to provide good...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-26
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This book examines the ways in which studies of science intertwined with Cold War politics, in both familiar and less familiar “battlefields” of the Cold War. Taken together, the essays highlight two primary roles for science studies as a new field of expertise...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-24
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This book is about the principal writings that shaped the perception of Turkey for informed readers in English, from Edward Gibbon’s positing of imperial Decline and Fall to the proclamation of the Turkish Republic (1923), illustrating how Turkey has always been a part...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-23
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