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This innovative collection of essays is the first to situate comedy and laughter as central rather than peripheral to nineteenth century life. Victorian Comedy and Laughter: Conviviality,Jokes and Dissent offers new readings of the works of Charles Dickens, Edward...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-06
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Why are a United States of Europe, in theory and abstract the most rational option, practically impossible today? This book analyses the contradiction implied in having enormous world-level potential whilst lacking the force to execute this due to the current structural...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2020-08-06
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In the nineteenth century, state policy towards prostitution was primarily shaped by an assessment of its role in spreading venereal diseases.In this book, the author traces normative and organisational efforts of the authorities of the Kingdom of Poland, which sought...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-08-06
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The diaries of 'Tommy' Lascelles - as featured in the Netflix hit THE CROWN 'Brilliantly entertaining and historically priceless' Spectator'Fascinating ... as much a contribution to royal legend as to the history of the war' Daily TelegraphAs Assistant Private Secretary...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2020-08-06
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This book provides the first bilateral study of Greek–US relations during Greece’s transition to democracy in the second half of the 1970s. Following the 1974 Cyprus crisis, which led to the collapse of the Greek dictatorship and Athens’ partial withdrawal from NATO,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-05
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Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World
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This edited volume promotes a comparative and transnational approach to the complex and ambiguous relationship between West European socialism and the contemporary state over the longue durée. It encourages a better understanding of socialism while also casting an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-05
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Nobody doubts that politicians ought to fulfil their promises – what people cannot agree about is what this means in practice. The purpose of this book is to explore this issue through a series of case studies. It shows how the British model of politics has changed...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-04
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'Convincingly researched and thoroughly entertaining' - Wall Street JournalTHE TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2020'This book shows that, despite rumours of demon dwarfs, piano-playing crocodiles and world domination, the real story of the Freemasons is one of male...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2020-08-04
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Leopold Koppel (1854 –1933) war zu seiner Zeit eine der bedeutendsten Persönlichkeiten des deutschen Wirtschaftslebens, als Investor und Stifter. Sein erster großer Coup gelang ihm in der Gasbeleuchtung, sein zweiter mit elektrischem Licht – und der Marke Osram. Mittels...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2020-08-03
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The removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families remains a dark chapter in Australia’s history. Pattie Lees was just ten years old when she and her four siblings were separated from their mother on the grounds of neglect and placed into...
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Magabala Books
Parution :
2020-08-01
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Baptists in America began the eighteenth century a small, scattered, often harassed sect in a vast sea of religious options. By the early nineteenth century, they were a unified, powerful, and rapidly-growing denomination, poised to send missionaries to the other side...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-08-01
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David Parrott's book offers a major re-evaluation of the last year of the Fronde - the political upheaval between 1648 and 1652 - in the making of seventeenth-century France. In late December 1651, Cardinal Mazarin defied the order for his perpetual banishment, and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-07-31
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David Parrott's book offers a major re-evaluation of the last year of the Fronde - the political upheaval between 1648 and 1652 - in the making of seventeenth-century France. In late December 1651, Cardinal Mazarin defied the order for his perpetual banishment, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-07-31
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“This monograph is an important contribution to our understanding of the varied fortunes of British Christianity during the twentieth century.”
- Rev Dr Andrew Atherstone, Tutor in Church History and Latimer...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-31
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Four hundred years ago, a group of men and women who had challenged the religious establishment of early seventeenth-century England and struggled as refugees in the Netherlands risked everything to build a new community in America. The story of those who journeyed...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-07-30
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Follows the military lives of three soldiers across the Roman world, providing interesting, historical insight into the Roman military from the late republic to the end of antiquity in the west This book introduces readers to three historical Roman soldiers—Titus Pullo...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-07-29
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Rise and Fall of an Empire: A Progressive Caribbean emphasizes the significance of literature, media, history, slavery, culture and ideology which helped shape the Caribbean. This interdisciplinary work includes lesser known events, individuals and organizations that...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-07-29
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A sweeping history of America's long and fateful military relationship with the Philippines amid a century of Pacific warfareEver since US troops occupied the Philippines in 1898, generations of Filipinos have served in and alongside the US armed forces. In Bound by...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2020-07-28
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This critical sourcebook compiles excerpts from the extensive interviews undertaken by the Wolfenden Committee on the subject of prostitution. The Committee is remembered, first and foremost, for recommending the decriminalization of sex between men....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-25
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This Palgrave Pivot analyzes how six countries in Central America—Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama—connected to and through computer networks such as UUCP, BITNET and the Internet from the 80s to the year 2000. It argues that this story...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-24
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