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Since the colonization of the Philippines by Spain in the sixteenth century, the island archipelago has been at the center of global trade flows. And from its status as the main base of Spain's Pacific galleon trade to its conquest centuries later by late-arriving...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-09-10
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This pioneering book is the first English volume on Korean memories. In it, Mikyoung Kim introduces ‘psycho-historical fragmentation’, a concept that explains South Korea’s mnemonic rupture as a result of living under intense temporal, psychological and physical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-09-09
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Thirty-two years after his assassination, Thomas Sankara's name remains appealing throughout Africa and beyond. The revolutionary leader's legacy consists of a call to unity, selfconfidence and good governance. To the world's leaders, Sankara's concern for the less...
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Editions L'Harmattan
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2019-09-09
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Études africaines
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The Italian Army’s participation in Hitler’s war against the Soviet Union has remained unrecognized and understudied. Bastian Matteo Scianna offers a wide-ranging, in-depth corrective. Mining Italian, German and Russian sources, he examines the history of the Italian...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-09-09
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Provide students with a solid foundation in Caribbean history and encourage social studies skills, with an active approach to the study of social history for Lower Secondary. - Ensure full coverage with content spanning history from ancient civilisations to more recent...
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Hodder Education
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2019-09-09
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In der Welt bewähren und wandeln sich Haus und Staat als Basisinstitutionen menschlichen Zusammenlebens. Sie sind auf einer ökotheoretischen Grundlage Gegenstand einer vergleichenden Studie. Im globalen Rahmen haben sich in Haus und Staat die Modi gesellschaftlicher...
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Springer VS
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2019-09-09
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**DAILY MAIL BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2019****SUNDAY TELEGRAPH CHRISTMAS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2019**'So blissfully good that I'd give it to a reader of any age . . . deeply touching, unforgettable family memoir'ALLISON PEARSON, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Uplifting and enlightening . . ....
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2019-09-05
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Today is the sound of history being made - live on air.In an era of fake news, echo chambers and new fault lines in global politics, millions of listeners turn to BBC Radio 4'sToday programme each morning to help them make sense of the world around them. The first ever...
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Brazen
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2019-09-05
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'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific learning, enthusiasm and good humour, Holland's book is not just supremely provocative, but often very funny' Sunday Times...
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Little, Brown Book Group
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2019-09-05
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Dilly's Story
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Once upon a time, the worst words you could utter were short, simple and tended to be four letters in length. Now things are more complicated. To be insulted as a 'snowflake' or an 'expert' is arguably worse than being called a **** or a **** or even a ****.So what are...
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Robinson
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2019-09-05
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Whether you're eager to hold on to EU citizenship post-Brexit or simply interested in exploring your family's past, learn how to research and document your Irish ancestry with this essential guide, newly updated to include the latest genealogy tools.The purpose of this...
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Robinson
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2019-09-05
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This book charts the varieties of political moderation in modern European history from the French Revolution to the present day. It explores the attempts to find a middle way between ideological extremes, from the nineteenth-century Juste Milieu and balance of power,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-04
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West Germany and the Iron Curtain takes a fresh look at the history of Cold War Germany and the German reunification process from the spatial perspective of theWest German borderlands that emerged along the volatile inter-German border after 1945. These border regions...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-09-04
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The Pearl of Greatest Price narrates the history of Mormonism's fourth volume of scripture, canonized in 1880.The authors track its predecessors, describe its several components, and assess their theological significance within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-09-04
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Become an expert on the Revolutionary War American Revolution For Dummies capitalizes on the recent resurgence of interest in the Revolutionary War period—one of the most important in the history of the United States. From the founding fathers to the Declaration of...
Editeur :
For Dummies
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2019-09-04
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When war engulfed Europe in 1914, the conflict quickly took on global dimensions. Although fighting erupted in Africa and Asia, the Great War primarily pulled troops from around the world into Europe and the Ottoman Empire. Amid the fighting were large numbers of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-03
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Modern Israel's founding fathers provided some of the boldest and most principled leadership of any nation--now Israel needs their example more than ever.Modern Israel's founding fathers provided some of the boldest and most principled leadership of any nation. Now...
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PublicAffairs
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2019-09-03
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This monograph traces the history of the dissident as a transnational phenomenon, exploring Soviet dissidents in Communist Central Europe from the mid-1960s until 1989. It argues that our understanding of the transnational activist would not be what it is today without...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-03
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Hailed as "masterly" (Wall Street Journal) and a "monumental achievement" (Douglas Brinkley), this book tells the riveting, true story of the group of elite US and Canadian soldiers who sacrificed everything to accomplish a crucial but nearly...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2019-09-03
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Scholars attribute the collapse of the Soviet Union in part to the militarization of its economy. But during the Cold War, economic studies of the USSR largely neglected the military sector of the Soviet economy-its dominant and most successful part. This is all the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-09-02
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