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Rudolf Graf Hoyos-Sprinzenstein, Ferdinand Graf Piatti, Georg Graf Thurn-Valsassina stehen stellvertretend für Österreichs Adel. ...
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Springer VS
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2023-06-30
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This book analyzes the exchange relations between the colonies of the Iberian Empires, starting from two cities ports, Buenos Aires and Macau in the period 1580-1700. Agents, who were not professional traders such as the members of the Society of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-06-29
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The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China'A masterpiece' CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, author ofThe Defence of the Realm:The Authorised History of MI5'The book we have all been...
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Abacus
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2023-06-29
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Dilly's Story
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This book explores how narratives, exhibitions, media representations, and cultural heritage sites that communicate memories of conflicts in East Asia between 1930 and 1945 spread, interact, and are re-packaged for post-war audiences across national divisions. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-06-29
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Kirkus 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of 2023 Finalist for the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book AwardWhat did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of American foreign policy with stark lessons for...
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PublicAffairs
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2023-06-27
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The story of Charles Stewart Parnell, one of the greatest Irish leaders of the nineteenth century and also one of the most renowned figures of the 1880s on the international stage, and John Dillon, the most celebrated of Parnell's lieutenants. As Paul Bew shows, the...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-06-27
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An exploration into the curation of the self in Western civilization from Da Vinci to Kim Kardashian.In a technologically-saturated era where nearly everything can be effortlessly and digitally reproduced, we're all hungry to carve out our own unique...
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PublicAffairs
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2023-06-27
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Focusing on the integration of the Chinese civilization over the last four millennia, this book outlines the history of clashes, interactions, and fusion between the Huaxia civilization and the Grassland civilization, the two major powers shaping the history of China,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2023-06-27
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Why does an entire society believe that there are witches who must be burned? What roles did the emerging 'state', the professions of clerics and jurists, and the public involved play in each case? And how could this project be completed?From a sociological point of...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-06-26
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'Ambitious, wide-ranging and learned' Times Literary Supplement 'Vivid and extraordinary' Wall Street JournalFrom Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of female fighters. We have all heard of Joan of Arc, but not the...
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John Murray
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2023-06-22
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Hercules is a tragedy of great theatrical, poetic, and cultural value. Written probably at the intersection of the principates of Claudius and Nero, it addresses central issues of early imperial Rome, even as it speaks profoundly to our times. Among its concerns are...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-22
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Ireland has given the world so many wonderful things – Liam Neeson, of course, and loads of other stuff. Yes,Ireland is perhaps the most magical and mysterious nation on earth. No one would dare disagree – them would be fighting words.Ireland is the spiritual home – and...
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OH
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2023-06-22
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Dan Stone tells the story of the last great unknown archive of Nazism, the International Tracing Service. Set up by the Allies at the end of World War II, the ITS has worked until today to find missing persons and to aid survivors with restitution claims or to reunite...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-21
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In Forging Nations, Blaazer studies the relationships between money, power, and nationality in England, Scotland, and Ireland from the first attempts to unify their currencies following the Union of the Crowns in 1603 to the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-21
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People and goods from across the globe filled the vibrant ports of Genoa and Venice during the Renaissance. This book takes us onto the streets, bridges, and waterways of these significant, sensuous cities to reveal the ambitious schemes undertaken to promote the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-20
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Human history has always been marked by the mobility of people and populations, from the earliest movement of human beings out of Africa to the flows of migrants and refugees today. While mobility is intrinsic to human nature, migration is not always voluntary: it can...
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Polity
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2023-06-20
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Anticommunism in French Society and Politics, 1945-1953 evaluates the prevalence of anticommunism among the French population in 1945 to 1953, and examines its causes, character, and consequences through a series of case studies on different segments of French society....
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OUP Oxford
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2023-06-20
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Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia is a study of the functions and conceptions of writing and reading, documentation and archives, and the role of literate authorities in the Christian kingdoms of the northern Iberian Peninsula between the Muslim conquest of...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-06-20
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This book provides a new perspective on the study of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its monarchy – its political leadership and decisions. Moreover, it analyzes how that decision-making evolved before, during, and after the Arab–Israeli War of 1973, and the subsequent...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-19
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