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The Palatine Family and the Thirty Years' War examines the experience of exiled royal and noble dynasties during the early modern period through a study of the rulers of the Electorate of the Palatinate during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648). By drawing on a wide...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-06-01
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Peacebuilding and reconciliation between groups and entire nations that share a violent past are among the toughest, yet most important, challenges for modern societies. Opposing perspectives, disagreements about the interpretation of historical events or even entirely...
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Springer VS
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2023-05-31
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Economists in the Cold War is an account of the economic drivers and outcomes of the Cold War, told through the stories of seven international economists, who were all closely involved in theory and policy in the period 1945-73. For them, the Cold War was a battle of...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-31
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2024 PEN America E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award FinalistThe "high-stakes" true story of how an absent-minded inventor and a down-on-his-luck salesman joined forces to create a once‑in‑a‑generation lifesaving product:...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2023-05-30
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Emerging from collapse of the Han empire, the founders of Northern Wei had come south from the grasslands of Inner Asia to conquer the rich farmlands of the Yellow River plains. Northern Wei was, in fact, the first of the so-called "conquest dynasties" complex states...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-05-30
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Exam board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First assessment: Summer 2018Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told...
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Hodder Gibson
Parution :
2023-05-26
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Was war die Hanse? Ein Städtebund? Diese Untersuchungen betrachten die «Städtehanse» unter einem neuen Aspekt und kommen zu einer anderen Antwort auf diese seit hundert Jahren strittige Frage. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Ratsherren, die als Delegierte Städte auf dem...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-05-26
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Exactly a century ago, intelligence agencies across Europe first became aware of a fanatical German nationalist whose political party was rapidly gathering momentum. His name was Adolf Hitler.
From 1933, these spy services watched with growing alarm as they tried to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-05-26
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Exam board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First assessment: Summer 2018Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told...
Editeur :
Hodder Gibson
Parution :
2023-05-26
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Exam board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First assessment: Summer 2018Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told...
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Hodder Gibson
Parution :
2023-05-26
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Dieses Glossar bündelt die sprachlichen Besonderheiten der städtischen Kultur des Mittelalters erstmals in zentraler Form. Hierbei wird das Siedlungsphänomen Stadt in vierfacher Hinsicht definiert und erschlossen: Hinsichtlich seiner Rechtsnatur und Verfassung, seiner...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-05-26
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A new account of the Mediterranean economy in the 10th to 12th centuries, forcing readers to entirely rethink the underlying logic to medieval economic systems. Chris Wickham re-examines documentary and archaeological sources to give a detailed account of both...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-05-26
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'Nerve-shattering, enlightening and deeply moving' - JOHN NICHOL'A powerful and compelling read' - ROWLAND WHITEOn 5 December 2002, trainee pilot Nathan Gray walked away from an 'unsurvivable' crash at RAF Wittering in Cambridgeshire. His instructor, seated behind...
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Headline
Parution :
2023-05-25
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A sweeping historical account of the Later Roman Empire incorporating the latest scholarly research In the newly revised 3rd edition ofA History of the Later Roman Empire, 284-700, distinguished historians Geoffrey Greatrex and Stephen Mitchell deliver a thoroughly...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-05-25
Collection :
Blackwell History of the Ancient World
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A hilarious look at how the line between 'genius' and 'extremely lucky idiot' is finer than we'd like to admit.The more you delve into the stories behind history's greatest names, the more you realise they have something in common: a mystifying lack of common sense....
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Wildfire
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2023-05-25
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A gripping and atmospheric Black Forest Investigation featuring Detective Inspector Louise Bonì."Oliver Bottini is one of the most sophisticated crime writers of modern times" Sunday TimesIn a Berlin hotel a man is beaten up, but it's more than a random assault and the...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2023-05-25
Collection :
The Black Forest Investigations
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Xenophon wrote the Cyropaedia to outline his political and moral philosophy. He did this by endowing a fictional version of the boyhood of Cyrus the Great, founder of the first Persian Empire, with the qualities of whatXenophon considered the ideal ruler.
The Cyropaedia...
Editeur :
Pekka Mansikka
Parution :
2023-05-24
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Histories you can trust.
The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin? When did it end? And what did it include?
Traditionally regarded as a revival of classical art and learning, centred upon fifteenth-century...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-05-24
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