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Towards the end of the Khrushchev era, a major Soviet initiative was launched to rekindle popular enthusiasm for the revolution, which eventually gave rise to over 150 biographies and historical novels (The Fiery Revolutionaries/Plamennye revoliutsionery series),...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-08-14
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The Metaphysical Society was founded in 1869 at the instigation of James Knowles (editor of the Contemporary Review and then of the Nineteenth Century) with a view to 'collect, arrange, and diffuse Knowledge (whether objective or subjective) of mental and moral...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-08-13
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In England from the 1670s to the 1820s a transformation took place in how smell and the senses were viewed. The role of smell in developing medical and scientific knowledge came under intense scrutiny, and the equation of smell with disease was actively questioned. Yet...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-08-13
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In England from the 1670s to the 1820s a transformation took place in how smell and the senses were viewed. The role of smell in developing medical and scientific knowledge came under intense scrutiny, and the equation of smell with disease was actively questioned. Yet...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-08-13
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Over the course of the Great War, a quarter of million settlers and subjects from Algeria served in French forces. Thousands more crossed the Mediterranean to work in the war industries of metropolitan France. On the Algerian Home Front, men, women, and children of all...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-08-13
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Over the course of the Great War, a quarter of million settlers and subjects from Algeria served in French forces. Thousands more crossed the Mediterranean to work in the war industries of metropolitan France. On the Algerian Home Front, men, women, and children of all...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-08-13
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This edited collection explores how migrants played a major role in the creation and settlement of the British Empire, by focusing on a series of Australian case studies. Despite their shared experiences of migration and settlement, migrants nonetheless often exhibited...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-08-12
Collection :
Britain and the World
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This book provides the first comprehensive study of diverse migrant memories and what they mean for Australia in the twenty-first century. Drawing on rich case studies, it captures the changing political and cultural dimensions of migration memories as they are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-08-10
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The classic, bestselling biography of one of the most controversial figures in British history from 'One of the finest historians of the age'The Times Literary SupplementFrom Fenland farmer and humble backbencher to stalwart of the good old cause and the New Model Army,...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2019-08-08
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The Metaphysical Society was founded in 1869 at the instigation of James Knowles (editor of the Contemporary Review and then of the Nineteenth Century) with a view to 'collect, arrange, and diffuse Knowledge (whether objective or subjective) of mental and moral...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-08-08
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'Jill Lepore is that rare combination in modern life of intellect, originality and style' Amanda Foreman'A thoughtful and passionate defence of her vision of American patriotism' New York TimesFrom the acclaimed New York Times bestselling historian, Jill Lepore, comes a...
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John Murray
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2019-08-08
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How do the things which connect us also serve to divide us? Electric News in Colonial Algeria traces how news circulated in a particularly divided society: Algeria under French rule in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It tells a different history of...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-08-08
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How do the things which connect us also serve to divide us? Electric News in Colonial Algeria traces how news circulated in a particularly divided society: Algeria under French rule in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It tells a different history of...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-08-08
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This book historicizes the debate over how democratic regimes deal with anti-democratic groupings in society. Democracies across the world increasingly find themselves under threat from enemies, ranging from terrorists to parties and movements that undermine democratic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-08-07
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Political History
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History
The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations
Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-08-07
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In this news-breaking narrative, decades of women who brought down sexual predator Larry Nassar offer groundbreaking new insight, with the first known survivor and many others sharing their stories exclusively for the first time.We think of Larry Nassar as the...
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Seal Press
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2019-08-06
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This collection examines the afterlives of early modern English and French rulers. Spanning five centuries of cultural memory, the volume offers case studies of how kings and queens were remembered, represented, and reincarnated in a wide range of sources, from...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-08-06
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This book is a social history of Irish officers in the British army in the final half-century of Crown rule in Ireland. Drawing on the accounts of hundreds of officers, it charts the role of military elites in Irish society, and the building tensions between their dual...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-08-05
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From Benjamin Franklin to Ragged Dick to Jack Kelly, hero of the Disney musical Newsies, newsboys have long intrigued Americans as symbols of struggle and achievement. But what do we really know about the children who hawked and delivered newspapers in American cities...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-08-05
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Fürstliches Agieren nördlich und südlich der Elbe – die Dynastie der Welfen hat für eine überregional ausgerichtete Politik gleich mehrere Beispiele hervorgebracht, darunter Albrecht I. von Braunschweig, Urenkel Heinrichs des Löwen: Ausgehend vom 1235 neu begründeten...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2019-08-05
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