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Exam board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First exam: Summer 2018Practice makes permanent. Feel confident and prepared for the SQA National 5 History exam with this two-in-one book, containing practice questions for every question...
Editeur :
Hodder Gibson
Parution :
2019-12-02
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There is growing alarm over how drugs empower terrorists, insurgents, militias, and gangs. But by looking back not just years and decades but centuries, Peter Andreas reveals that the drugs-conflict nexus is actually an old story, and that powerful states have been its...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-12-02
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Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: HistoryPractice makes permanent. Feel confident and prepared for the SQA Higher History exam with this two-in-one book, containing practice questions for every question type and the most popular topics, plus two practice papers.-...
Editeur :
Hodder Gibson
Parution :
2019-12-02
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While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librarians, archivists, and scholars traveled abroad to collect books and documents to aid the military cause. Galvanized by the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-12-02
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This edited collection explores the perceptions and memories of parliamentarianism across Europe, examining the complex ideal of parliament since 1800. Parliament has become the key institution in modern democracy, and the chapters present the evolution of the ideal of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-30
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Sport has never been a man’s world. As this volume shows, women have served key roles not only as athletes and spectators, but as administrators, workers, decision-makers, and leaders in sporting organizations around the world. Contributors excavate scarce archival...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-29
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
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Katharina Dück widmet sich in diesem Buch dem umfangreichen Doktrinenschatz des Begriffs „Materia prima“ im Spannungsfeld von Theorie und wiederholbarer Praxis in deutschsprachigen alchemisch-naturkundlichen Sachschriften des 16. Jahrhunderts. Sie trägt damit neue...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-11-29
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In the decades before colonial partition in Africa, the Church Missionary Society embarked on the first serious effort to evangelize in an independent Muslim state. Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther led an all-African field staff to convert the people of the Upper Niger and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-28
Collection :
African Histories and Modernities
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Emotions in a Crusading Context is the first book-length study of the emotional rhetoric of crusading. It investigates the ways in which a number of emotions and affective displays — primarily fear, anger, and weeping — were understood, represented, and utilized in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-28
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Emotions in a Crusading Context is the first book-length study of the emotional rhetoric of crusading. It investigates the ways in which a number of emotions and affective displays — primarily fear, anger, and weeping — were understood, represented, and utilized in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-28
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Jennie Churchill was said to have had two hundred lovers, three of whom she married. But her love for her son Winston never wavered.Jennie Churchill is an intimate picture of her glittering but ultimately tragic life, and the powerful mutual infatuation between her and...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2019-11-28
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The Enlightenment that Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initiatives that appealed exclusively to elites and those aspiring to enlighten all of society by raising mankind's awareness, freedoms, and educational level generally....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-28
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The Enlightenment that Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initiatives that appealed exclusively to elites and those aspiring to enlighten all of society by raising mankind's awareness, freedoms, and educational level generally....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-28
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Committing one's country to war is a grave decision. Governments often have to make tough calls, but none are quite so painful as those that involve sending soldiers into harm's way, to kill and be killed. The idea of 'just war' informs how we approach and reflect on...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-27
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Committing one's country to war is a grave decision. Governments often have to make tough calls, but none are quite so painful as those that involve sending soldiers into harm's way, to kill and be killed. The idea of 'just war' informs how we approach and reflect on...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-27
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This edited collection is a global history of workers’ organisations since 1919, the year when the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the Comintern and the International Federation of Trade Unions were formed.This historical moment represents a caesura in labour...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-26
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The definitive history of American xenophobia "A sweeping record of xenophobia in the U.S., highlighting the different ways minority groups have been humiliated, discriminated against and even deported."—TimeThe United States is known as a nation...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2019-11-26
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This groundbreaking book explores the interpretative potential and analytical capacity of the concept ‘fascist warfare’. Was there a specific type of war waged by fascist states? The concept encompasses not only the practice of violence at the front, but also war...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-26
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This book explores the work and legacy of Professor David Cesarani OBE, a leading British scholar and expert on Jewish history who helped to shape Holocaust research, remembrance and education in the UK. It is a unique combination of chapters produced by researchers,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-25
Collection :
The Holocaust and its Contexts
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Possessing the City is a social history of the property market in late-colonial Delhi; a period of much turbulence and transformation. It argues that historians of South Asian cities must connect transformations in urban space with the economy of the city. Using new...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-21
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