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This volume offers an innovative analysis of Roman political culture in Italy from the first to the sixth century AD on the basis of seven case studies. Its main contention is that, during the period in which Italy was subject to single rule, political culture took on a...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-03-04
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This volume offers an innovative analysis of Roman political culture in Italy from the first to the sixth century AD on the basis of seven case studies. Its main contention is that, during the period in which Italy was subject to single rule, political culture took on a...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-03-04
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Covers the entire range of the history of U.S. foreign relations from the colonial period to the beginning of the 21st century. A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations is an authoritative guide to past and present scholarship on the history of American diplomacy and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-03-04
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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''[a] memoir of modern American industrial life, written by the insider who got away - or got away enough to reflect intelligently on where they came from. Think JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy and even Tara Westover's Educated . . . We could all learn from her example.' ...
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Quercus
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2020-03-03
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Colombia's recent past has been characterized by what its Nobel laureate Gabriel García Marquez once called "a biblical holocaust" of human savagery. Along with the scourge of drug-related massacres facing the country, politically-motivated assassinations (averaging 30...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-03-03
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Pliny the Younger (c. 60-112 C.E.)--senator and consul in the Rome of emperors Domitian and Trajan, eyewitness to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79, and early 'persecutor' of Christians on the Black Sea--remains Rome's best documented private individual between Cicero and...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-03-03
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The 100th-anniversary special edition of Jailed for Freedom, the essential history and first-person account of the courageous and militant suffragists who fought for their right to vote. First published in 1920, Jailed for Freedom is the courageous, true story of the...
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Black Dog & Leventhal
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2020-03-03
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A stirring narrative of World War II's final major battle—the Pacific war's largest, bloodiest, most savagely fought campaign—the last of its kind. On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, more than 184,000 US troops began landing on the only Japanese home...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2020-03-03
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Der christliche Demokrat Karl Spiecker zählte als Führungspersönlichkeit mehrerer republikanischer Organisationen und Sonderbeauftragter zur Bekämpfung des Nationalsozialismus schon in den Jahren der Weimarer Republik zu den entschiedensten Gegnern der radikalen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-03-02
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The book "Her Story, My Story? Writing about Women and the Holocaust, is composed of 27 biographical-academic essays written by prominent women scholars worldwide. All have devoted a significant part of their professional lives to writing about aspects of Jewish women's...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-03-02
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Since the early twentieth century, nations around the world have set aside protected areas for tourism, recreation, scenery, wildlife, and habitat conservation. In Russia, biologists and geographers had been intrigued with the idea of establishing national parks before...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-02
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As the first volume of this two-part study established, major newspapers across the United States used framing and gatekeeping to shape the narratives of the tumultuous civil rights movement. Beginning with the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court Brown v. Board of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-03-02
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Inspiring reverence and blasphemy, combining paternal benignity with sexual violence, transcendent universality with tribal chauvinism, Jupiter represents both the best and the worst of ancient religion. Though often assimilated to Zeus, Jupiter differs from his Greek...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-02
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The unique relationship between word and image in ancient Egypt is a defining feature of that ancient culture's records. All hieroglyphic texts are composed of images, and large-scale figural imagery in temples and tombs is often accompanied by texts. Epigraphy and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-02-28
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The most comprehensive, best-illustrated survey of the Lone Star State—the new, updated edition of the classic textThe History of Texas offers a sweeping exploration of the Lone Star State, covering its history from the pre-Columbian period, to the era of Spanish...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-02-28
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This work offers a sweeping re-assessment of the Jiankang Empire (3rd-6th centuries CE), known as the Chinese "Southern Dynasties." It shows how, although one of the medieval world's largest empires, Jiankang has been rendered politically invisible by the standard...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-02-28
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Russia in the late nineteenth century may have been an autocracy, but it was far from silent. In the 1860s, new venues for public speech sprang up: local and municipal assemblies, the courtroom, and universities and learned societies. Theatre became more lively and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-27
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Russia in the late nineteenth century may have been an autocracy, but it was far from silent. In the 1860s, new venues for public speech sprang up: local and municipal assemblies, the courtroom, and universities and learned societies. Theatre became more lively and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-27
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During the First World War, Britain was the epicentre of global mass internment and deportation operations. Germans, Austro-Hungarians, Turks, and Bulgarians who had settled in Britain and its overseas territories were deemed to be a potential danger to the realm...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-27
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