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Early in the modern period, prisoners of war with the rank of officer or equivalent had the right to petition for parole. By effectively pawning their personal honour, they were able to purchase freedom of movement and other privileges-in-captivity. Increasingly, other...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-01-22
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This book investigates the beginnings of Spanish colonialism in Morocco in the mid-nineteenth century, focusing on the Spanish invasion of northern Morocco and the twenty-seven-month occupation of the city of Tetouan from 1859 to 1862. By homing in on specific events,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-21
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This is the first book-length treatment of the life and thought of the Communist intellectual A. L. Morton (1903–1987) who pioneered studies of utopianism, radical history, and English national identity. Morton is now best known for A People's History of England (1938)...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-21
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Palgrave Studies in Utopianism
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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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2025-01-20
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The Scientific Sublime in Imperial Rome charts the role of the sublime in first-century debates about how and why we investigate the natural world. It shows how the sublimity of the study of nature--the scientific sublime--animates Manilius' Astronomica, Seneca's...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-01-20
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This book offers the first-ever scholarly study of Wilhelm I as Germany’s first Kaiser. For decades, Wilhelm has been dismissed by historians as a political nullity and an unwilling imperial figurehead, who was perpetually overruled by chancellor Otto von Bismarck. As a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-01-17
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Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy
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The eighteenth century saw more years of war than of peace. Though victimhood might jump most readily to mind when thinking about how this affected young people, it is only a small part of the picture.The Seven Years' War and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-15
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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 dead are everywhere in family life....
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OUP Oxford
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2025-01-13
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Prima di diventare una città sepolta sotto alle ceneri, Pompei è stata una città di macerie, dopo un forte terremoto, seguito da altre scosse fino al 79 d.C. Come è stata ricostruita Pompei dopo questi episodi? Secondo quali strategie e con quali tecniche? Questo libro,...
Editeur :
Publications du Centre Jean Bérard
Parution :
2025-01-13
Collection :
Études
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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
Parution :
2025-01-13
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The eighteenth century saw more years of war than of peace. Though victimhood might jump most readily to mind when thinking about how this affected young people, it is only a small part of the picture.The Seven Years' War and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-12
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How did Gettysburg become the most famous battle of the American Civil War and one of the most consequential in world history? Why is the most visited battlefield, the place where veterans came in the greatest numbers, where Presidents pay homage, and millions of...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-01-12
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In this groundbreaking study, Arthur Scherr examines the positions on slavery held by two of the most famous New Yorkers of the early American Republic: John Jay and Alexander Hamilton. Using Hamilton's 1779 proposal to free Southern slaves on the condition that they...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-10
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This contributed volume focuses on Philippa Plantagenet (1360–1415), queen of Portugal for almost three decades, and the complexion of the court. Chapters thoroughly examine the Portuguese royal court in the few decades around the turn of the fourteenth century, a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-09
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In this book, Catherine Nealy Judd demonstrates the profound significance of a U.S military siege rashly launched from Fort Kearny against a small war party of Northern Cheyenne. This event occurred on the Platte River Road in August 1856 and triggered four Cheyenne...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-08
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This book uncovers how fascism reshaped Italian society according to its ideological and historical interpretation of the Italian nation and people and identifies the strengths of this transformation, but also the resistance encountered from, for example, women and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-08
Collection :
Italian and Italian American Studies
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For 900 years the Polish shtetl was a home to generations of Jewish families. In 1944 almost every Jew was murdered and with them died a way of life that had survived for centuries. Yaffa Eliach has written a landmark history of the shtetl.
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Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2025-01-07
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The book in your hands is a subtle attempt to research a piece of the vast lands of aesthetics, philosophy, art and literature at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. This period is remarkable for the evolution of the Symbolism which was able to stretch through all...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2025-01-07
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Disgraced is a sweeping religious and cultural history of Protestant sex scandals in nineteenth and twentieth century America. Suzanna Krivulskaya investigates the cultural consequences of scandal, what demands the public made of religion in response to revelations of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-01-03
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Cette publication réunit des travaux de chercheurs et chercheuses francophones et Anglophones travaillant sur les productions de missionnaires chrétiens entre 1830 et 1970 en diverses régions du monde (Asie, Afrique et Océanie). Dans une perspective d’anthropologie...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-01-03
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