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Au sortir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l’Europe libérée est traversée par une même soif de justice à l’égard des anciens ennemis et de leurs collaborateurs. Ce livre interroge ce « moment 1945 » comme une expérience, sinon totalement commune, du moins largement...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2019-09-17
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The later twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a pivotal period for the development of European government and governance. A mentality emerged that trusted to procedures of accountability as a means of controlling officers' conduct.The mentality was not inherently new,...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-09-13
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The concept of resonance collapses the binary between subject and object, perceiver and perceived, evoking a sound or image that is prolonged and augmented by making contact with another surface. This collection uses resonance as an innovative framework for...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-12
Collection :
New Transculturalisms, 1400–1800
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This book considers the doctrinal and ecclesiological trends that were present during the construction of the revised Book of Common Prayer of 1927. Through the use of the records of both Convocations and of the National/Church Assembly, it examines the debates that led...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-09-12
Collection :
Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World
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Through the long 20th century, Indian South Africans lived under the whip of settler colonialism and white minority rule, which saw the passing of a slew of legislation that circumscribed their freedom of movement, threatened repatriation, and denied them citizenship,...
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OUP India
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2019-09-12
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The World's Most Prestigious Prize:The Inside Story of the Nobel Peace Prize is a fascinating, insider account of the Nobel peace prize. Drawing on unprecedented access to the Norwegian Nobel Institute's vast archive, it offers a gripping account of the founding of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-09-12
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The World's Most Prestigious Prize:The Inside Story of the Nobel Peace Prize is a fascinating, insider account of the Nobel peace prize. Drawing on unprecedented access to the Norwegian Nobel Institute's vast archive, it offers a gripping account of the founding of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-12
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'A compassionate, wide-ranging study.'
Terry Eagleton, The Guardian
Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected.
A Biography of Loneliness is the first history of its kind to be published in English, offering...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-12
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'A compassionate, wide-ranging study.'
Terry Eagleton, The Guardian
Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected.
A Biography of Loneliness is the first history of its kind to be published in English, offering...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-12
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Despite the repression, violence, and social hardship which characterised Spanish life in the 1940s and 1950s, the Franco regime sought to win popular support by promoting its apparent commitment to social justice. David Brydan reveals the vital role which the idea of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-12
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Despite the repression, violence, and social hardship which characterised Spanish life in the 1940s and 1950s, the Franco regime sought to win popular support by promoting its apparent commitment to social justice. David Brydan reveals the vital role which the idea of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-12
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Since 1947-48, when India and Pakistan fought their first war over Kashmir, it has been reduced to an endlessly disputed territory. As a result, the people of this region and its rich history are often forgotten. This short introduction untangles the complex issue of...
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OUP India
Parution :
2019-09-11
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One of the "10 Must-Read Histories of the Palestine-Israel Conflict"—Ian Black, Literary Hub, on the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration The new edition of the acclaimed text that explores the issues continuing to define the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-09-11
Collection :
Contesting the Past
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Until surprisingly recently the history of the Irish Catholic Church during the Northern Irish Troubles was written by Irish priests and bishops and was commemorative, rather than analytical. This study uses the Troubles as a case study to evaluate the role of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-11
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Until surprisingly recently the history of the Irish Catholic Church during the Northern Irish Troubles was written by Irish priests and bishops and was commemorative, rather than analytical. This study uses the Troubles as a case study to evaluate the role of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-11
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This book analyses the successive appearances of Adolf Hitler in French fiction between 1945 and 2017. It discusses why, unlike what has been observed in the US and in the UK, it has proven problematic for French novelists to write about Hitler in their numerous...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-09-11
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A Dissenting Companion to the U.S. History Textbook Most U.S. History textbooks track the origins and evolution of American identity. They therefore present the American Revolution as the product of a gradual cultural change in English colonists. Over time, this...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-09-11
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Incredibly evocative and compelling." The Washington Post"A hugely powerful new book." Dan Snow"The most moving and chilling oral history you will read." The Times"Astonishing book about an astonishing, terrifying atrocity, relived in real...
Editeur :
Monoray
Parution :
2019-09-10
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From New York Times bestselling author and Founding Fathers' biographer Harlow Giles Unger comes the astonishing biography of the man whose pen set America ablaze, inspiring its revolution, and whose ideas about reason and religion continue to try men's souls.Thomas...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2019-09-10
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A deeply researched international history and "exemplary study" (New York Times Book Review) of how a divided world ended and our present world was fashioned, as the world drifts toward another great time of choosing.Two of America's leading scholar-diplomats, Philip...
Editeur :
Twelve
Parution :
2019-09-10
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