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In March 2008, Bertie Ahern announced his resignation as Taoiseach, prompted by ongoing evidence in a planning inquiry that uncovered he had received large sums of money when minister for finance. Yet, even in defeat, he remained the most popular politician of his...
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Hachette Books Ireland
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2012-07-30
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A gripping account of the most famous military defeat and retreat in history, now the subject of a major motion picture, written and directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy and Mark Rylance.The NEW YORK TIMES of 2 June 1940 summed up the...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-07-26
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Österreichs Entwicklung in den dreißiger Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts ist keineswegs «tote Geschichte». Im Gegenteil, die Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise unserer Tage, wachsende Medienkonzentration, Erosionserscheinungen der Demokratie und das Erstarken xenophober...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-26
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Am 19. März 2010 veranstalteten der Paul Singer Verein und die Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung eine Fachtagung zu den Wurzeln der deutschen Demokratie. Ausgangspunkt waren die Tage der Märzrevolution in Berlin 1848.Am Beispiel des Friedhofs der Märzgefallenen diskutierten 16...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-26
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In dieser Arbeit kann das in der Überlieferung vorherrschende negative Bild des Oldenburger Grafen Gerhard VI. als das eines raubgierigen Gewalttäters revidiert und als Konstrukt der am Ende siegreichen Feinde Gerhards entlarvt werden. Er wird stattdessen in den...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-25
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This book advances research into the government-forced labor used widely in colonial Kenya from 1930 to 1963 after the passage of the International Labor Organization’s Forced Labour Convention. While the 1930 Convention intended to mark the suppression of forced labor...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-07-25
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This new study of Napoleon emphasizes his ties to the French Revolution, his embodiment of its militancy, and his rescue of its legacies. Jordan's work illuminates all aspects of his fabulous career, his views of the Revolution and history, the artists who created and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-07-24
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Otto von Bismarck drohte mit Selbstmord, als sein Sohn Herbert eine Verwandte Alexander von Schleinitz’ heiraten wollte. Grenzenlos war der Haß Bismarcks auf seinen Vorgänger als preußischer Außenminister. Wer war dieser Mann, den der Eiserne Kanzler als Haremsminister...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-23
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Aiming to furnish the reader with the historical data to engage with the debates surrounding the Cameron government's 'Big Society' and civil society, this book gives the reader a greater and more informed historical consciousness of how the NGO sector has grown and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-07-20
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The Shock of America is based on the proposition that whenever Europeans of the last 100 years or more contemplated those margins of their experience where change occurred, there, sooner or later, they would find America. How Europeans have come to terms over the...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-07-19
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The Shock of America is based on the proposition that whenever Europeans of the last 100 years or more contemplated those margins of their experience where change occurred, there, sooner or later, they would find America. How Europeans have come to terms over the...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-07-19
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In the early 1950s Britain was still the most urbanized and industrialized nation in the world, a global power in shipbuilding and the leading European producer of coal, steel, cars and textiles. For the many millions of men and women hard at work during that time, an...
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Transworld Digital
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2012-07-19
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The question of how ordinary people related to totalitarian regimes is still far from being answered.The tension between repression and consensus makes analysis difficult; where one ends and the other begins is never easy to determine. In the case of fascist Italy,...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-07-19
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Der deutsch-dänische Konflikt des Jahres 1864 spielt in der deutschen Geschichtswissenschaft eine eher untergeordnete Rolle. Vornehmlich wird er nur als Auftaktveranstaltung und militärischer Probelauf zur deutschen Einigung gesehen. Bismarcks im Titel aufgegriffene...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-13
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The classic account of the war on the Eastern Front between the Russians and the Germans - the greatest clash of arms the world has ever seen.Carefully researched and beautifully written, this book is a classic of military history. Alan Clark vividly narrates the course...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-07-05
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Britain has not been successfully invaded since 1066; nor, in nearly 1,000 years has it known a true revolution – one that brings radical, systemic and enduring change. The contrast with Britain’s European neighbours, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Russia, is...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-07-05
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Broadcasting was born just as the British empire reached its greatest territorial extent, and matured while that empire began to unravel. Radio and television offered contemporaries the beguiling prospect that new technologies of mass communication might compensate for...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-07-05
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Following the execution of the king in 1649, the new Commonwealth and then Oliver Cromwell set out to drive forward a puritan reformation of manners. They wanted to reform the church and its services, enforce the Sabbath, suppress Christmas, and spread the gospel. They...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-07-05
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This is the first comprehensive study in English of Soviet women who fought against the genocidal, misogynist, Nazi enemy on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Drawing on a vast array of original archival, memoir, and published sources, this book captures...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-06-26
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Below Scotland's capital, hidden for almost two centuries, is a metropolis whose very existence was all but forgotten. For almost 250 years, Edinburgh was surrounded by a giant defensive wall. Unable to expand the city's boundaries, the burgeoning population built over...
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Mainstream Digital
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2012-06-15
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