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We are living, it is often said, in a golden age of stupidity, in which boneheaded, mendacious politicians get elected by voters who've become too mindless to realize their interests are ill served by narcissists, while vapid social media influencers corrupt their no...
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Polity
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2025-08-21
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Die Magdeburger Bischofschronik ist eine zentrale Quelle zur Geschichte der Stadt und des Erzbistums Magdeburg im Früh- und Hochmittelalter.Die Chronik gewährt Einblicke in die Entwicklung des Erzbistums und das Wirken seiner Erzbischöfe. Wann das...
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Springer VS
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2025-08-20
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This book explores the history of the Medieval Maritime Silk Route between the 4th and 17th Centuries CE as a dynamic network that facilitated extensive commercial exchange and profound cultural, political, and religious interactions across Eurasia and beyond. It...
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Springer
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2025-08-20
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This book offers a radical re-examination of the history of the Cornish language, challenging the long-held belief that it became extinct with the death of Dolly Pentreath in 1777. Instead, it reveals compelling evidence that Cornish continued to be used throughout the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-08-16
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A sweeping and comprehensive history of Prague--from its origins in the ninth century to the present day--that traces its past as a political center and a city on the periphery of empires.
Poets have called Prague the City of One Hundred Spires, Golden Prague, Magic...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-08-14
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WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY MAX HASTINGSWINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2001WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL TILTMAN PRIZE 2002WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2003'A ground-breaking book . . . The story of Europe's diplomatic meltdown has never been better told'...
Editeur :
John Murray
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2025-08-14
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Scotland's Clans & their Tartans offers an authoritative exploration of the origins and evolution ofScotland's unique clan system, tracing its roots back to the 5th century in Ireland, where the Scots originally lived. From the Abercrombies to the Wemyss clan, this...
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Cassell
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2025-08-14
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A gripping account of East Germany in the late '70s and early '80s, and of one man's fated struggle for freedom.Friday, April 10th, 1981: 23-year-old Mathias Domaschk boards the fast train from Jena to Berlin, on his way to a birthday party. But he never arrives . ....
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Maclehose Press
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2025-08-14
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Rivers are the great natural arteries that run through our lives. We have navigated them, dammed them and worshipped at them. From the ancient ecosystems of Egypt to the sinking cities of Shanghai and London, what we do with our rivers tells us about who has power and...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2025-08-14
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The studies in this volume present some of the major “historiographical wars” over the medieval Balkan past fought by the historians of competing nation states in the region. ?thnic origins and “national” makeup of medieval states and disputed...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-12
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Dieses Sachbuch bietet eine Einführung in Geschichte und Verlauf des russisch-ukrainischen Kriegs. Durch dieses Buch sollen die LeserInnen:
Daten, Fakten und ein allgemeines Verständnis über den aktuellen Krieg Russlands gegen die Ukraine erhalten;
die...
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Springer
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2025-08-11
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This book explores the evolving role of women in Georgian society through the lens of food and cooking. Drawing on ethnographic research in Ozurgeti, it reveals how domestic practices serve as powerful expressions of female agency. From the 19th century to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-08-11
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'A brilliantly entertaining and revealing new transcription of Pepys's diary' Claire TomalinA collection of the most personal aspects of Samuel Pepys' diaries, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of their publicationThe Diary of Samuel Pepys is the most celebrated...
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Abacus
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2025-08-07
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Gender history has alerted us to the fact that it is misleading to assume transhistorical features when it comes to issues such as childbearing, mother- and fatherhood, and gendered systems of labour division. Instead, all of these are culturally inflected and thus...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-08-05
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At the Restoration of 1660, there was no distinctive banking sector, and banking services were provided by a variety of traders, most notably the London goldsmiths. In the later seventeenth century, the first specialists appeared against a background of rapid economic...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-08-05
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Petitioning was the main route by which the agency of subjects engaged the authority of rulers. Most studies explore it as a practice for sending requests to central and local representatives of state power in empires, kingdoms, and city-states. Yet the practice occurs...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-08-05
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We are used to thinking that the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s was an essentially Western phenomenon. The surge in pornographic production, effective oral contraception, and new developments in fashion and popular culture all seem to be inextricably linked...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-08-05
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2025 PICK From the author of Madame Restell and Get Well Soon, a biography of Mamie Fish that explores how women used parties and social gatherings to gain power and prestige. Marion Graves Anthon Fish, known...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2025-08-05
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This book offers a comprehensive history of the Ethiopian labour movement, exploring the impact of trade unions and workers’ militancy from the 1960s onwards. The author analyses the sharp variation in the orientation and vicissitudes of the labour movement over...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-04
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