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A history of the rediscovery of India's history...Through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Western world had very little knowledge - or an extremely distorted view - of the glorious and fascinating history of the Indian subcontinent. In fact, with little of...
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Hachette India
Parution :
2021-11-30
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How do people link the past to the present, marking continuity in the face of the fundamental discontinuities of history? A Time to Gather argues that historical records took on potent value in modern Jewish life as both sources of history and anchors of memory because...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-11-30
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Imperial and Local Citizenship in the Long Second Century CE offers a radical new history of Roman citizenship in the long century before Caracalla's universal grant of citizenship in 212 CE. Earlier work portrayed the privileges of citizen status in this period as...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-11-30
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Schon immer hatten pazifistische Friedensnobelpreiskandidaten in Deutschland einen schweren Stand und sahen sich in Einzelfällen auch politischer Verfolgung ausgesetzt. Dass aber gleich eine ganze Gruppe geächtet, verfolgt, eingesperrt oder vertrieben wurde, ist bis...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-11-30
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This book analyses the process of ‘reshaping’ liberated societies in post-1945 Europe. Post-war societies tried to solve three main questions immediately after the dark times of occupation: Who could be considered a patriot and a valuable member of the respective...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-27
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This book explores the uncharted territory of the history of archaeology under Communism through the biographies of five women archaeologists from the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and Poland. They were working in medieval archaeology, with a specific focus...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-27
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This book traces the life of Maria Mia Truskier, who fled the Nazis as a young Polish Jew in early 1940 and once safely resettled in the United States, became an activist for other refugees, earning renown in the Bay Area as “the oldest refugee” of the East Bay...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-26
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What is Pakistan? The name refers to a seventy-year-old post-colonial product of the bloodiest partition of territory and population that accompanied the end of British empire in South Asia. But the region of the Indus Valley has a four-thousand-year-old history, and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-25
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What is Pakistan? The name refers to a seventy-year-old post-colonial product of the bloodiest partition of territory and population that accompanied the end of British empire in South Asia. But the region of the Indus Valley has a four-thousand-year-old history, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-25
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Parish churches have been at the heart of communities for more than a thousand years. But now, fewer than two in one hundred people regularly attend services in an Anglican church, and many have never been inside one. Since the idea of 'church' is its people, the...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2021-11-25
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'One of the great Second World War memoirs ... will be read as long as that war is remembered' John Keegan'Extraordinary realism' SUNDAY TIMES'A touch of the Somme and more than a hint of Wilfred Owen' TLSA classic of WWII, this is the vivid memoir of Private Bowlby,...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2021-11-25
Collection :
W&N Military
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The remarkable story of Mohammed Helmy, the Egyptian doctor who risked his life to save Jewish Berliners from the Nazis. One of the people he saved was a Jewish girl called Anna. This book tells their story.
The Israeli holocaust memorial at Yad Vashem has to date...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-25
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The remarkable story of Mohammed Helmy, the Egyptian doctor who risked his life to save Jewish Berliners from the Nazis. One of the people he saved was a Jewish girl called Anna. This book tells their story.
The Israeli holocaust memorial at Yad Vashem has to date...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-25
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WINNER OF THE RNA JOAN HESSAYON AWARD 2022'A gripping story of love and loss, rich in period detail. I loved it!' Clare Marchant'What a gorgeous debut!' Amazon Reviewer, Five Stars'If you like a good historical romance then this is the book for you. Highly recommend.'...
Editeur :
Orion Dash
Parution :
2021-11-25
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For centuries, the Catholic Church around the world insisted it had a right to provide and organize its own schools. It decreed also that while nation states could lay down standards for secular curricula, pedagogy, and accommodation, Catholic parents should send their...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-24
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For centuries, the Catholic Church around the world insisted it had a right to provide and organize its own schools. It decreed also that while nation states could lay down standards for secular curricula, pedagogy, and accommodation, Catholic parents should send their...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-24
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The Age of Mass Child Removal in Spain analyses the ideas and practices that underpinned the age of mass child removal. This era emerged from growing criticisms across the world of 'dangerous' parents and the developing belief in the nineteenth century that the state...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-23
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The Age of Mass Child Removal in Spain analyses the ideas and practices that underpinned the age of mass child removal. This era emerged from growing criticisms across the world of 'dangerous' parents and the developing belief in the nineteenth century that the state...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-23
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Provides undergraduate students with a vibrant account of the religious world of ancient Greece, now in its third edition Ancient Greek Religion offers a detailed yet accessible introduction to the beliefs, myths, rituals, and deities of Greek religion. Author Jon...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-11-23
Collection :
Blackwell Ancient Religions
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