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As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long and violent history.
The decline of Rome has been a constant source of discussion for more than 2200 years. Everyone from...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-07-05
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This book explores imperial power and the transnational encounters of shipowners and merchants in the South China Sea from 1840 to 1930. With British Hong Kong and French Indochina on its northern and western shores, the ‘Asian Mediterranean’ was for almost a century a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-02
Collection :
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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This book examines how left-wing political and cultural movements in Western Europe have considered Jews in the last two hundred years. The chapters seek to answer the following question: has there been a specific way in which the Left has considered Jewish minorities?...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-02
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This open access book traces the development of sociology in Germany from the late 19th century to the present day, providing a concise overview of the main actors, institutional processes, theories, methods, topics and controversies. Throughout the book, the author...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-02
Collection :
Sociology Transformed
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Exam board: AQA; OCRLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better grades for over...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2021-07-02
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WINNER OF THE LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2022'A hilarious and depressing account of the shrivelling of local journalism' GRAHAM ROBB, Spectator Books of the Year 'For those who know about provincial newspapers, this will be a classic and a gem. Those who don't know...
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Robinson
Parution :
2021-07-01
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A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost..In 1941, the Second World War became global, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union; Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor; and Germany declared war...
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Robinson
Parution :
2021-07-01
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Eine große Synthese der Geschichte Polens im Ersten Weltkrieg, die einhundert Jahre historischer Forschung zusammenfasst und neue Forschungswege beschreitet.Eine eingehende Darstellung der russischen, deutschen und österreich-ungarischen Gebiete des geteilten Polen, die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-06-30
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'Trust me, this is a great true story' - Ken Follett 'This is an unbelievable story that is all completely true. The life described is astonishing. John Carr has done an extraordinary and riveting job uncovering the real father behind the dad he thought he knew.' - Lord...
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Coronet
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2021-06-24
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The Italian Empire and the Great War brings an imperial and colonial perspective to the Italian experience of the First World War. Italy's decision for war in 1915 built directly on Italian imperial ambitions from the late nineteenth century onwards, and its conquest of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-06-24
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The Italian Empire and the Great War brings an imperial and colonial perspective to the Italian experience of the First World War. Italy's decision for war in 1915 built directly on Italian imperial ambitions from the late nineteenth century onwards, and its conquest of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-06-24
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Prague in the seventeenth century is known as home to a scintillating imperial court crammed with exotic goods, scientists, and artisans, receiving ambassadors from Persia, and also as a city suffering plagues, riots, and devastating military attacks. ButPrague was also...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-06-24
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Prague in the seventeenth century is known as home to a scintillating imperial court crammed with exotic goods, scientists, and artisans, receiving ambassadors from Persia, and also as a city suffering plagues, riots, and devastating military attacks. ButPrague was also...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-06-24
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'An extraordinary book . . . vivid and heart-breaking'The Jewish ChronicleThrough the discovery of a precious friendship album which belonged to 12-year-old Alie, a Jewish schoolgirl in Amsterdam, Claudia Carli has traced and preserved the lives of an entire class of...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2021-06-24
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In his 1995 Teubner edition, J. B. Hall separates Tristia 1.5, 1.9, 3.4, 4.4, 5.2, and 5.7 into two poems. One reviewer of Hall’s edition is highly critical of the editor for not justifying the separation of these poems despite the fact the divisions have manuscript...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-06-23
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West Africa and the Europeans Since the 15th Century: Essays in Honour of Patience Okwuchi Erim discusses and analyses the character and dynamics of interaction betweenWest Africa and the Europeans from the mid-fifteenth century to present. Premium is given to diverse...
Editeur :
Galda Verlag
Parution :
2021-06-23
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This is the history of temperance and prohibition as you've never read it before: redefining temperance as a progressive, global, pro-justice movement that affected virtually every significant world leader from the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries.
When...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-06-22
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This book traces the reception and resettlement of Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Israel during the 'boat people' crisis of 1975–79. These years saw hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-21
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Migration History
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Specializing in covert reconnaissance, counter-terrorism and hostage rescue, the SAS is one of the world's most famous, feared and respected elite fighting forces. This book tells the full, fascinating story of the regiment, from formation in the sand dunes of Africa...
Editeur :
Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
Parution :
2021-06-18
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This book focuses upon the secret agricultural biological warfare programme codenamed Ekologiya – which was pursued by the Soviet Union from 1958 through to the collapse of the USSR in 1991. It was the largest offensive agricultural biowarfare project the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-18
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