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This book presents the process of circulation and adoption of Newtonianism in the Viceroyalty of New Granada (modern-day Colombia) in the eighteenth century by examining José Celestino Mutis’s lectures at the Colegio del Rosario between the 1760s and 1770s. Mostly...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-17
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Exam board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First assessment: Summer 2018Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told...
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Hodder Gibson
Parution :
2023-06-16
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This book examines the rise of two contrasting variants of Hindu nationalism—the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) divisive cultural nationalism and the softer, less threatening variant of Hindutva espoused by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Trinamool Congress (TMC)....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-16
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The Palatine Family and the Thirty Years' War examines the experience of exiled royal and noble dynasties during the early modern period through a study of the rulers of the Electorate of the Palatinate during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648). By drawing on a wide...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-16
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Exam board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First assessment: Summer 2018Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told...
Editeur :
Hodder Gibson
Parution :
2023-06-16
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Exam board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First assessment: Summer 2018Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told...
Editeur :
Hodder Gibson
Parution :
2023-06-16
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Exam board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First assessment: Summer 2018Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told...
Editeur :
Hodder Gibson
Parution :
2023-06-16
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This book provides a breadth and depth of innovative and impactful research led by women investigators in the field of renewable energy.This book showcases the diversity of renewable energy solutions being deployed commercially in the United States and internationally,...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-06-15
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The end is in sight but the fight is long: the epic and terrifying conclusion to the greatest conflict in historyGoing into 1944, the Allies knew the tide was turning in their favour. But they still faced a monumental task to get to victory.From the beaches of Normandy...
Editeur :
Canelo
Parution :
2023-06-15
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Economists in the Cold War is an account of the economic drivers and outcomes of the Cold War, told through the stories of seven international economists, who were all closely involved in theory and policy in the period 1945-73. For them, the Cold War was a battle of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-15
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Was Hitler 'the greatest strategic genius of all time' as Nazi propaganda had it, or just an amateur?Why was the startling success of his campaigns in Poland and France followed by the blundering mistakes in Russia, North Africa and France? Might Germany even have won...
Editeur :
Canelo
Parution :
2023-06-15
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Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize 2023A Telegraph, Times, Spectator and Prospect Book of the YearOne of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French historyFew images more shocked the French population...
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Penguin
Parution :
2023-06-15
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Of the twelve Augustae who lived during the fifty years of the so-called “military anarchy” (235-284 A.D.), Ulpia Severina, wife of the “Illyrian” emperor Aurelian (270-275 AD), is certainly one of the most enigmatic and less known. The book focuses on Ulpia...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-15
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This open access handbook takes a comparative and global approach to analyse the practice of slavery throughout history. To understand slavery - why it developed, and how it functioned in various societies – is to understand an important and widespread practice in world...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-14
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From one of the country's most distinguished journalists, a revisionist and riveting look at the American politician whom history has judged a loser, yet who played a key part in the greatest social movement of the 20th century.
"Riveting. . . . A superbly written tale...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-06-14
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Il volume raccoglie sedici studi che fanno parte di ricerche in corso e inedite o presentano nuove sintesi sull’archeologia e la storia di Ostia e Portus, il porto di Roma, tra l’età repubblicana e la tarda antichità. Quattro sono i temi maggiori dei contributi: la...
Editeur :
Publications de l'École française de Rome
Parution :
2023-06-14
Collection :
Collection de l'École française de Rome
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?This book provides a new military history of Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos's campaigns in the Balkans, during the first fourteen years of his rule. While the tactics and manoeuvres Alexios used against Robert Guiscard's Normans are relatively well-known, his...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-14
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The book discusses how division affect the fabric of cities, and people’s sense of identity and agency, and are reflected in physical features, architecture, and urban planning.The question of divided cities represents a complex and multistranded...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-06-12
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«Multidisciplinary and comparative, Camps of Transit, Sites of Memory brings new materials and approaches to the study of Fascist, wartime and postwar concentration and transit camps in Italy, as well as their legacies. An essential volume for the continuing study of...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-06-12
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This Open Access book uses Mary Kaldor’s concept of “New Wars” to explore how ethnic conflict reshaped the social and environmental landscape of the Southern Caucuses following the collapse of the Soviet Union. It relies on remote sensing data and qualitative historical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-12
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