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"Caterina Pascual Söderbaum has left a major European literary work of art as her legacy" STEVE SEM-SANDBERG, author of Emperor of LiesThe Oblique Place is a captivating journey of the imagination, a prize-winning novel that probes the ruinous legacies of Fascist Europe...
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Maclehose Press
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2018-09-20
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MacLehose Press Editions
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How did Americans imagine the Civil War before it happened? The most anticipated event of the nineteenth century appeared in novels, prophecies, dreams, diaries, speeches, and newspapers decades before the first shots at Fort Sumter. People forecasted a frontier...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-09-20
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The Useful Knowledge of William Hutton shows the rapid rise of a self-taught workman and the growing prominence of the city of Birmingham during the two major events of the eighteenth-century - the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment. Hutton achieved wealth,...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-09-20
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This book re-evaluates the role of local agency and provides a new perspective to the political, social and cultural history of state formation, taking a microhistorical approach and through close analysis of archival sources between 1550 to 1700. The backcountry of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-19
Collection :
Early Modern History: Society and Culture
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"First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out-Because I was not a Communist . . . " Few today recognize the name Martin Niemör, though many know his famous confession. In Then They Came for Me, Matthew Hockenos traces Niemör's evolution from a Nazi...
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Basic Books
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2018-09-18
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**From the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches, now a major Sky original TV series** Return to the enchanting world of the All Souls trilogy for a love story like no other... Marcus Whitmore was made a vampire in the eighteenth century. Over two...
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Headline
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2018-09-18
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The justification for the atomic bomb was simple: it would defeat Hitler and end the Second World War faster, saving lives.The reality was different.Fallout dismantles the conventional story of why the atom bomb was built. Peter Watson has found new documents showing...
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PublicAffairs
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2018-09-18
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This book provides a narrative history of the BBC Radio Variety Department exploring, along chronological lines, the workings of, tensions within and the impact of BBC policies on the programme-making department which generated the organisation’s largest audiences. It...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-17
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
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This book examines the gendered dimensions of emotions and the emotional aspects of gender within Byzantine culture and suggests possible readings of such instances. In so doing, the volume celebrates the current breadth of Byzantine gender studies while at the same...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-17
Collection :
New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
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Perpetua was an early Christian martyr who died in Roman Carthage in 203 CE, along with several fellow martyrs, including one other woman, Felicitas. She has attracted great interest for two main reasons: she was one of the earliest martyrs, especially female martyrs,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-09-17
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Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: Summer 2018The recent changes in assessment for National 5 History have been fully incorporated in this new edition, as have changes in subject content which affect some but not...
Editeur :
Hodder Gibson
Parution :
2018-09-17
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Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS), Summer 2017 (A-level)Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and...
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Hodder Education
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2018-09-17
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Exam board: OCRLevel: A LevelSubject: History First teaching: September 2015First exams: AS: Summer 2016, A Level: Summer 2017An OCR endorsed resourceSuccessfully cover Unit Group 2 with the right amount of depth and pace; this bespoke series from the leading History...
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Hodder Education
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2018-09-17
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Covers the history of the entire African continent, from prehistory to the present day A Companion to African History embraces the diverse regions, subject matter, and disciplines of the African continent, while also providing chronological and geographical coverage of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-09-17
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
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Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: Summer 2018The recent changes in assessment for National 5 History have been fully incorporated in this new edition, as have changes in subject content which affect some but not...
Editeur :
Hodder Gibson
Parution :
2018-09-17
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This book offers a timely and multifaceted reanalysis of student radicalism in postwar Japan. It considers how students actively engaged the early postwar debates over subjectivity, and how the emergence of a new generation of students in the mid-1950s influenced the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-17
Collection :
New Directions in East Asian History
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The Rhine is one of the world's greatest rivers. Once forming the outer frontier of the Roman Empire, it flows 800 miles from the social democratic playground of the Netherlands, through the industrial and political powerhouses of Germany and France, to the wealthy...
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John Murray
Parution :
2018-09-13
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The Eastern Desert of Egypt extends over a vast area of mountains and sandy plains between the Nile and the Red Sea. Its natural riches –gold, gems and high quality stones (such as granite from Mons Claudianus, Tiberianè or Ophiatès, porphyry from Porphyritès, basanites...
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Collège de France
Parution :
2018-09-13
Collection :
Institut des civilisations
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With almost every news broadcast, we are reminded of the continuing instability of the Middle East, where state collapse, civil wars, and terrorism have combined to produce a region in turmoil. If the Middle East is to achieve a more stable and prosperous future,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-09-12
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Dieses Buch bietet eine anschaulich erzählte und spannend zu lesende Gesamtdarstellung der deutschen Geschichte von 1945 bis 1990, der Geschichte einer in zwei Staaten geteilten Nation. Es berichtet von dem erstaunlichen Weg, den die Bundesrepublik Deutschland seit...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-09-11
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