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"Did You know? The urban population during Akbar's rule had exceeded the urban population of the entire Europe of that time!By 1500 CE, the city of Hampi was the world's second-largest medieval-era city after Beijing. Dholavira, the Harappan desert city, adopted highly...
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Hachette India
Parution :
2023-10-30
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This book addresses a conundrum. Alone of the major competing political interests during the civil wars of the 1640s, royalism needed to transcend attachment to one nation or one religious tradition and recruit a support base in each of England, Ireland and Scotland....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-30
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This book studies the academic history of the humanities of Southwestern Associated University from the following aspects: the general situation of academic research, research institutions and academic journals, philosophical research, historical research, literary...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-10-30
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In 1938 and 1939, some 10,000 children and young people fled to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. Known as the ‘Kindertransport’, this effort has long been hailed as a wartime success story – but there are uncomfortable truths at its heart. The Kindertransport was a...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-10-27
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New edition to match the revised Cambridge IGCSE™, IGCSE (9-1) and O Level syllabuses (0470/0977/2147) for examination from 2024.Reinforce knowledge and skills using a concise summary of the syllabus content and step-by-step support from an experienced author.> Target...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
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2023-10-27
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This book traces how Gottfried Feder and Fritz Todt made technology essential to the Nazi ‘world view’. They groomed engineers with a racist technical ideology that prepared them to later supervise slave labor and the Holocaust. Their concepts evolved from völkisch...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-26
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Editeur :
Quercus
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2023-10-26
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The Russian coal sector today faces challenges in the form of global decarbonization, sanctions, and difficulties in retaining market access and competitiveness. This new market environment warrants an examination of what lessons can be drawn from the past tribulations...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-26
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This volume explores how different post-Soviet countries have reinterpreted and diverged from the Soviet gender roles and values. It synthesizes results from multiple empirical studies that attend to increasingly conservative features of political governance in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-26
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When America began to emerge as a world power at the end of the nineteenth century, Italy was a young nation, recently unified. The technological advances brought about by electricity and the combustion engine were vastly speeding up the capacity of news, ideas, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-25
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Editeur :
Riverrun
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2023-10-24
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The British coal industry no longer exists and yet the figure of the coal miner lives on in the British cultural imagination. In feature films and documentaries, miners are typically portrayed as proletarian traditionalists working in a dying industry. Taking this...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-18
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This book explores the extraordinary story of Jewish POWs in German captivity during the Second World War - extraordinary because of the contrast between Germany's genocidal policy towards Jews on one hand, and its relatively non-discriminatory treatment of Jewish POWs...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-18
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John II Komnenos was born into an empire on the brink of destruction, with his father Alexios barely preserving the empire in the face of civil wars and invasions. A hostage to crusaders as a child, married to a Hungarian princess as a teenager to win his father an...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-18
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This book offers a new account of the connections between seventeenth century English history and the history of the rest of the world. Eschewing nationalist narratives, it demonstrates how greater engagement with the world beyond Europe shaped signature aspects of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-18
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Explore and celebrate Korean culture in America through photographs and interviews by award-winning photographer Emanuel Hahn. "Photographer Hahn's animated and vivid debut . . . is exceptional." —Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review Since the...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2023-10-17
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The Middle East, often referred to as the cradle of the three monotheisms, is saturated with symbolism. Situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, it is a land marked by the rich confluence of religions and peoples. It has also been the focal point of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-10-16
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The southwestern borderland in imperial China covers the area encompassing present-day Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou, southwestern Sichuan, and the northern part of the Indochina Peninsula, once under the Central Plains dynasty’s rule. For more than two millennia, China...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-10-16
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This volume compiles writings by and about Mary Ann Shadd Cary, a nineteenth-century Black radical feminist, an abolitionist, suffragist, and one of the first Black woman newspaper editors in North America.
Mary Ann Shadd Cary includes letters, newspaper articles,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-10-13
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Without language, not much else would exist: no writing, no computer – as a matter of fact, no technical or medical progress that make our lives less painful, and easier indeed; but also not some horrors that characterize our world. In fact, language is what defines...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-10-12
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