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Explore the forces and movements shaping contemporary Mexican politics and society In Mexico’s Unscripted Revolutions: Political and Social Change Since 1958, distinguished historian Stephen Lewis offers a well-argued—and provocative—presentation of Mexico’s recent...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-02-09
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Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
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This book analyses the British government’s use of cultural diplomacy in South Africa from 1960 to 1994. Previously, scholarship on UK-South African relations has focussed mainly on political, economic, or military links; this book makes an important and original...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-07
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Winner, 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History
Winner, 2025 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize
Publishers Weekly Starred Review
Library Journal Starred Review
Booklist Top Ten History Books of 2024
The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most extraordinary...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-02-07
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This book looks at literary historiography in Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland, focusing on how seismic shifts in state politics and ideology after 1990 changed the writing of national literary histories in these countries. While Russia saw a return to a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-07
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Child abuse casts a long shadow over the history of childhood. Across the centuries there are numerous accounts of children being beaten, neglected, sexually assaulted, or even killed by those closest to them. This book explores this darker side of childhood history,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-02-07
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Long recognized as a cultural watershed and touchstone of modernity, the 1893 Chicago World's Fair (World’s Columbian Exposition) was the site of the first large-scale international library of writing by women. The result of years of planning and cooperation...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-06
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“The 1931 murder of 'Broadway Butterfly' Vivian Gordon exposed an explosive story of graft, corruption and entrapment that went all the way to the top of the state. Wolraich brings a journalist’s eye and a novelist’s elegance to this story of...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2024-02-06
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For fans of Oppenheimer, a riveting investigation into the modern nuclear weapons landscape. Nuclear weapons are, today, as important as they were during the Cold War, and some experts say we could be as close to a nuclear catastrophe now as we were at the height...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
Parution :
2024-02-06
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In Europe, coal was by far the most important source of energy from the beginning of industrialisation until well after the Second World War. It was indispensable in shaping the modern world, and in altering our understanding of time and space. Used foundationally in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-02-06
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«Through marvelously attentive case studies of a handful of works, some canonical, others obscure, Mark Stuart-Smith provides the most thorough exploration so far of Juan Muñoz’s mesmerizing and haunted world. He inhabits the works, analyzing their mechanisms,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-02-05
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In the first few years after the Russian Revolution, an ideological project coalesced to link the development of what Stalin demarcated as the internal "East"--primarily Central Asia and the Caucasus--with nation-building, the overthrow of colonialism, and progress...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-02-05
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This book examines how enlightened Scottish social theorists c.1740 to c.1800 understood the origin and development of religion. Challenging scholarly disregard for the topic, it shows how most prominent thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment thought deeply about the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-05
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This book involves collection of papers primarily focused on the origin and development of Chinese civilization in the concept of archaeological context from the 6000 BCE to 1300 BCE through archaeological cultural perspectives. It systematically illustrates the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-03
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This educational handbook displays grassroots experiences of peace, reconciliation, and healing in the Great Lakes region of Africa, in which Burundian, Congolese, and Rwandan authors share their understandings and practices of Memory Work. They committed to do so in a...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-02-02
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This book takes a fresh approach to the London Blitz by viewing this time through individual local boroughs of the metropolis. The term ‘London Blitz’ means that culturally we have become accustomed to understanding that the actual blitz experience was the same wherever...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-01
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This distinctive book deconstructs the foundational elements of Russian foreign policy from a Russian perspective and with references to Russian sources, rather than the typical Western perspective. The author Olga Raluca Chiriac situates her work at the intersection of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-01
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Paris, 1599. At the end of the French Wars of Religion, the widow Renée Chevalier instigated the prosecution of the military captain Mathurin Delacanche, who had committed multiple acts of rape, homicide, and theft against the villagers who lived around her château near...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-02-01
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Lenin lived a controversial life and has had a deeply controversial reputation in the centenary since his death (21 January 1924) His rise from a conventional, educated, provincial, and middle-class background to become not only the leader, even dictator, over the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-02-01
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Shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2025'Gub is unlike anything I have ever read. In a playful demotic that is exhilarating, hilarious and never forced, Scott McKendry makes magic of a Belfast that in other hands would make grim...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2024-02-01
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This book explores the trial of over 600 students arrested at the University of Tokyo in 1969 after thousands of riot police had flooded the campus to end the students’ year-long occupation of the university. The trial, which was the largest in Japanese legal history...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-01-31
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