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Learn about the first time in history that people of color overthrew a European colonial regime to establish an independent country Describing the only successful slave revolt in world history, the newly revised Second Edition of A Concise History of the Haitian...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-11-23
Collection :
Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
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This book examines the legacies and depictions of monarchs in an international context, focusing on both self-representation and commemoration by others. Spanning ancient India through to eighteenth-century Russia, this volume offers several case studies to demonstrate...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-22
Collection :
Queenship and Power
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This volume explores the politics and poetics of Victorian surfaces in their manifold manifestations. In so doing, it examines various cultural products ‘as they are’ and highlights the art of surface composition in the Victorian era as well as the socio-cultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-20
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This new edited collection brings together historians and social scientists to engage with the global history of Universal Basic Income (UBI) and offer historically-rich perspectives on contemporary debates about the future of work. In particular, the book goes beyond a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-19
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This book explores the ways which people navigated the emotions provoked by the mad in Britain across the long eighteenth century. Building upon recent advances in the historical study of emotions, it plots the evolution of attitudes towards insanity, and considers how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-19
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A concise history of the Caribbean's long and fascinating history, from pre-contact civilisations to the present day This is a concise history, intended for travellers, but of inestimable value to anyone looking for an overview of the Caribbean and its mainland coastal...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2021-11-18
Collection :
Brief Histories
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A stunning tour de force and a remarkable achievement.- Alison WeirThis is Our Island Story for the modern age. - Charles Spencer'Not just a brilliant compendium of biographies, but the biography of an institution: a marvellous read' - Tom Holland'This royal throne of...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2021-11-18
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By any metric, Cicero's works are some of the most widely read in the history of Western thought. Natural Law Republicanism suggests that perhaps his most lasting and significant contribution to philosophy lies in helping to inspire the development of liberalism....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-11-17
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Palmyra has long attracted the attention of the world. Well before its rediscovery in the seventeenth century, the ancient city gained legendary status because of its Queen Zenobia, who in the third century CE rebelled against Rome and expanded Palmyra's territory into...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-11-17
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The extraordinary story of the Powhatan chief who waged a lifelong struggle to drive European settlers from his homeland “An accomplished work of scholarly detection... Swift, moving prose along a twisting storyline lends this brilliant book the feel of a...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2021-11-16
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This book explores the Holocaust exhibition opened within the Imperial War Museum (IWM) in 2000; setting out the long and often contentious debates surrounding the conception, design, and finally the opening of an important exhibition within a national museum in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-16
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Based on dozens of shocking interviews with some of the most influential names in sports, this is the urgent and revelatory examination of racial inequality in professional athletics America has been waiting for.Commentators, coaches, and fans alike have long touted the...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2021-11-16
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Pandemic Re-Awakenings offers a multi-level and multi-faceted exploration of a century of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, arguably the greatest catastrophe in human history. Twenty-three researchers present original...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-16
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Pandemic Re-Awakenings offers a multi-level and multi-faceted exploration of a century of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, arguably the greatest catastrophe in human history. Twenty-three researchers present original...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-16
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This book presents a panoramic and extensive exploration of Chinese political philosophy, examining key political problems of the past, and the thinkers who addressed them. As the reader will discover, China’s traditional political philosophy is one with distinctive...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-11-16
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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism presents a revaluation of the major narratives in the history of terrorism, exploring the emergence and the use of terrorism in world history from antiquity up to the twenty-first century.
The essays collected in this...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-11-15
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This book provides an in-depth history of three US-based communal societies that operated in the late 1960s and 1970s—Soul City, Stelle and Twin Oaks—with an emphasis on their financing, marketing, and entrepreneurship processes. These communities reflect the diversity...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-13
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Prominent winkt Erich Honecker vom Cover der Biographie Manfred Gerlachs (1928-2011). Erst ein genauerer Blick lässt den Biographierten schräg hinter dem Staatschef der DDR erkennen. Dem damit versinnbildlichten Problem der politischen Akteure ‚zweiter Reihe‘, ihrer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-11-12
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Reflecting a growing interest in the history of knowledge, this book explores the importance of scholarly virtues during the late nineteenth century. The practice of science is moulded on notions of scholarly values, such as diligence, impartiality, meticulousness and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-12
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This book examines the making and breaking of peripheral selves in and from postsocialist Bosnia in an empirically rich self-reflexive account of politico-economic and ideological developments. Through world systems and postcolonial theory, historical and new...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-12
Collection :
Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
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