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A dramatic narrative of the six months leading up to President Paul von Hindenburg's decision to appoint Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933. Takeover brings to life the secret meetings, political manoeuvrings, and shifting loyalties involved in...
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Headline
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2024-03-26
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„Eine Frau muß Geld und ein eigenes Zimmer haben, um schreiben zu können“, lautete die Forderung Virginia Woolfs aus dem Jahr 1929. Der Band setzt sich mit den verschiedenen Formen auseinander, die dieses Thema in den fiktionalen und nichtfiktionalen Texten von...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-03-25
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Animals and Science Fiction is the first edited collection to be published focusing on the intersection of animal studies and science fiction studies. It offers a broad range of theoretical approaches and primary source texts—including novels, short stories,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-03-22
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The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery and, after a four-year struggle to become an independent slaveholding republic, died as emancipation dawned. Between Fort Sumter to Appomattox, Confederates bought and sold thousands African American men,...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-03-22
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Il presente volume raccoglie sedici contributi che analizzano le costanti Studies on Periodicals and Newspapers e le variabili storiche e di genere dello speciale rapporto tra la riflessione e la discussione sulla lingua e i giornali cartacei ed elettronici pubblicati...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-03-20
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What was Christianity like for ordinary people between the turn of the millennium and the coming of the Black Death?What changed and what continued, in their experiences, habits, feelings, hopes, and fears? How did they know themselves to be Christians, and indeed to be...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-03-20
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This book advocates for the necessity of recovering the value of utopias as political projects that open new channels of action. The criticism of modern political utopias is based on the supposed impossibility of creating for the future because there is no longer a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-03-19
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This book provides a unique account of the financial and political history of the South African War by analysing the organisation and operations of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), the oldest existing stock exchange in the African continent. Identifying...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-03-19
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The histories of Europe and Africa are closely intertwined. At times, this closeness has been emphasized, at other times, suppressed and denied. Since the nineteenth century, European imperial powers have carved up the continent of Africa among themselves, drawing...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-03-19
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Maria W. Stewart was a trailblazing political philosopher and social reformer, who migrated from the Connecticut of her birth, south to Baltimore and then Washington, D.C. on the eve of the Civil War. Stewart was a free-born African American who became a teacher,...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-03-19
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How rhetoric—the art of persuasion—can help us navigate an age of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and political acrimony The discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for over two thousand years. Only recently has its perceived...
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Basic Books
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2024-03-19
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This book explores the Australian press reporting of the persecution and genocide of European Jews, and the extent to which the news of the Holocaust was known and believed, revealed and hidden, and acknowledged and minimised. Spanning the coverage of Hitler’s political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-03-18
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This book gathers the proceedings of the international round-table Saint-Pierre d'Osor et le monachisme bénédictin dans l'espace adriatique held in 2018 at Osor on the island of Cres (Croatia), which marked the culmination of twelve archaeological campaigns (2006-2017)....
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Publications de l'École française de Rome
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2024-03-17
Collection :
Collection de l'École française de Rome
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This book explores Britain’s involvement in the Dhofar War of 1963-1976, focusing on the military aspects of this conflict in Southern Oman. It reveals how both the Conservative and Labour governments in office during this time provided military and security assistance...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-03-16
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"The era that taste forgot..."Famous for glam rock, flares and platform shoes, the 1970s also saw the emergence of new ideas, movements and trends that continue to influence our world today. From the Watergate Scandal to the growing feminist and LGBTQ+ movements, the...
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OH
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2024-03-14
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How do we understand differences and disputes among various branches of Islam? This book places intimacies, rather than radical incompatibilities, at the centre of its in-depth ethnographic account of mass-publicized theological polemics among Sunni Muslims in the south...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-03-14
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This book examines the memories of the Partition of India in 1947 with a focus on the generation of postmemory (those who came after it) and how partition experiences have been shared (or not) and understood. It explores the formal and narrative properties of different...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-03-13
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A one-of-a-kind exploration of archaeological evidence from the Roman Empire between 44 BCE and 337 CE InA Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, distinguished scholar and archaeologist Professor Barbara Burrell delivers an illuminating and wide-ranging...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2024-03-13
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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