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In recent decades a significant 'transnational' turn has occurred in German Studies, with the role of India in German cultural history becoming a growing area of interest, yet there are serious challenges to the historian within this. Although teleological perspectives...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-01-31
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Although the printing giants of John Murray and Karl Baedeker dominated the nineteenth-century travel guidebook market, women were important producers and consumers of guides. This book argues that in the late nineteenth century, women were key cultural producers of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-01-31
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Land and Trade in Early Islam discusses the latest developments in the field of early Islamic economic and social history, and explores the notion of polycentrism and the dialectic between global and local between 700 and 1050 CE. The volume explores the political...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-01-30
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The Scramble for Africa astonished everyone.In 1880 most of the continent was ruled by Africans, and barely explored. By 1902, five European Powers (and one extraordinary individual) had grabbed almost the whole continent, giving themselves 30 new colonies and...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2025-01-30
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The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, 'no end of a lesson'. The public expected it to be over by Christmas, but it proved to be the longest (two and three-quarter years), the costliest (over £200 million), the bloodiest (at...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2025-01-30
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'A vivid, visceral and crucial read for our times' BETTANY HUGHES'Wonderful and insightful' ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHYThe collapse of law and order in the last years of the Roman Republic told through the rise and fall of its most famous lawyer, Cicero.In its final decades, the...
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Basic Books
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2025-01-30
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Der Band enthält Analysen zur Geschichte und Kultur zweier Nachbarstaaten, ihrer Verflechtungen und Gegensätze von 1848/49 über den Ersten Weltkrieg, Faschismus und Nationalsozialismus bis in die Gegenwart. Die Beiträge verbindet die Frage, wie Italiener:innen und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2025-01-30
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This book explores the social roots, character, and consequences of paramilitary violence in Europe in the 1940s. Paramilitarism had an impact on the lives of millions of Europeans, yet knowledge about this important topic is partial and fragmented.
The general...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-01-29
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History tells us that the Second World War broke Britain as a great power, diminishing its military strength, ruining its economy, and precipitating a striking wave of decolonization. Nationalists and new superpowers dominated the post-war landscape, and the country was...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-01-29
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The idea that a child is intellectually 'gifted' has...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-01-28
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A “brilliantly researched and surprising” (Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University) history of Southern segregationists’ long war against interracial relationships, and the century-long fight to restore the freedom to love, marry, and inherit Interracial...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2025-01-28
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A compassionate, practical guidebook for veterans transitioning from active duty to civilian life and for the loved ones supporting their journey. "Challenging yet reassuring....a key addition to every veteran’s packing list ." --Stan McChrystal,...
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Balance
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2025-01-28
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This book explores the entanglements among Spain, Portugal, and the Dutch Republic during the seventeenth century from a global perspective. It offers a compelling analysis of how Ibero-Dutch relations shifted from violence and conflict—during the Iberian Union...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-25
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National service was a defining feature for a generation of young men in post-war Britain. Around 2.3 million of them were called up between the end of World War Two and 1963, when conscription ended. However, national service was forgotten almost before it had ended, a...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-01-25
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'Mama, it's me.' I held her hand in mine, hoping it would give her the strength to hold on. Finally, she spoke, her voice barely above a whisper.'Do not cry when I die.''Quite simply the most important book you will read this year' Hazel Gaynor'An extraordinary read'...
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Seven Dials
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2025-01-23
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This book uncovers how during the origins of modernity in the nineteenth century the senses were mobilised to sell more, both through the popularisation of objects aimed at the senses (such as panoramas, optical boxes, automatons, music boxes and pianolas),...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-01-23
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Studiando le modalità con cui le élites italiane parteciparono alla gestione amministrativa, politica, militare e religiosa della Monarchia ispanica, questo libro evidenzia i vari gradi e forme del loro contributo all’egemonia spagnola. Lo studio si inserisce nei...
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Publications de l'École française de Rome
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2025-01-23
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Collection de l'École française de Rome
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Annemarie Schwarzenbach was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable women, possibly the greatest sexual and political radical of the 1930s. But until now she’s been largely ignored. Born to a wealthy family in Switzerland, as a teenager she rebelled against her...
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Polity
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2025-01-23
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It is well-known that gender distinctions structure the modern labour market, but why is this so and how far back in time does the pattern extend? Gender, Work, and the Transition to Modernity in Northwestern Europe, 1720-1880 uses a unique method to map and explain how...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-22
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The end of Britain's empire in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-22
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