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The most comprehensive reference work on Tacitus published in EnglishThe Tacitus Encyclopedia is the only complete reference of its kind in the field of Tacitean studies. Spanning two volumes, this unprecedented resource contains more than 1,000 entries covering every...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-05-24
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Histories you can trust.
Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it—with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can´t attain.
The Oxford History of the World encompasses the...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-24
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This open access book presents a new approach to the history of welfare state. By applying the concepts of experiencing society and the lived welfare state, the collection introduces theoretical, methodological and empirical insights for bridging the everyday life and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-23
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Armut ist ein universales gesellschaftliches Problem. Die Armenfrage wird in diesem Band anhand sehr verschiedenartiger und zugleich eindringlicher Quellen auf den Ebenen von Religion, Recht, Wirtschaft, Sozialstruktur, obrigkeitlichem Verwaltungshandeln und...
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J.B. Metzler
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2023-05-23
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On July 25, 1943, news of Mussolini's resignation and subsequent arrest stunned Italians leaving them dumbfounded. After two decades, fascism had fallen without any advance warning. As festive events marked the incredible outcome and reminders of the past were...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-05-23
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If a deep and lasting crisis shook our democracies, as happened to German society from 1929 to 1933, would we be able to resist the fascist temptation? On January 31, 1933, thirty-two million Germans, who had not voted Nazi woke up caught in the trap of dictatorship....
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Max Milo Éditions
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2023-05-22
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Jack Pease was at the heart of the British Liberal government from 1908 to 1915, holding the position of Chief Whip through two general elections, and a member of the Cabinet confronting domestic tumult, international tensions, and war. Pease was an unassuming...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-05-19
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'Vivid, atmospheric, packed with brilliant story-telling' - Humphrey Hawksley, former BBC Beijing, Hong Kong and Asia Correspondent'[An] entertaining guide, rich in anecdote and understanding for an early globalised world that has gone' - Michael Sheridan, Sunday...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2023-05-18
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From the outset, Caroline Lamb had a rebellious nature.From childhood she grew increasingly troublesome, experimenting with sedatives like laudanum, and she had a special governess to control her. She also had a merciless wit and talent for mimicry. She spoke French and...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2023-05-18
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'An incredible and compelling story' MATT COOPER'Gripping, unpretentious, brilliant and unputdownable' BUSINESS POSTA Murderer. A Leader. The Scandal of an Era.In the summer of 1982, Irish aristocrat Malcolm Macarthur embarked on a brutal killing spree in a doomed plan...
Editeur :
Hachette Books Ireland
Parution :
2023-05-18
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With a population of nearly 1.5 billion and the world’s second largest economy, China is a major player in the world today, and yet many in the West know very little about contemporary China. This book provides a clear, authoritative and up-to-date history of China...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-05-18
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This book will provide a thematic overview of one of European history’s most devastating famines, the Great Finnish Famine of the 1860s. In 1868, the nadir of several years of worsening economic conditions, 137,000 people (approximately 8% of the Finnish population)...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-17
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The Social Topography of a Rural Community is a micro-history of an exceptionally well-documented seventeenth-century English village: Chilvers Coton in north-eastern Warwickshire. Drawing on a rich archive of sources, including an occupational census, detailed estate...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-05-17
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This book discusses Marx’s relations with Russia, which have always been ambivalent. In his youth, and indeed a good way into the 1860s, Marx might even be called a “Russophobe.” Around 1870, however, his views on Russia undergo a change; he becomes acquainted with a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-17
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Most scholarship on the nineteenth and early twentieth century Constitutional Revolution in Iran has focused on the role of two groups, intellectuals and the clergy. The role of women has largely been ignored, despite their widespread participation in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-16
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This book examines the emergence of the queen consort in medieval England, beginning with the pre-Conquest era and ending with death of Margaret of France, second wife of Edward I, in 1307. Though many of the figures in this volumes are well known, such as Eleanor of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-16
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How was it possible for a well-educated nation to support a regime that made it a crime to think for yourself? This was the key question for the Stuttgart-based author Anna Haag (1888–1982), the democratic feminist whose anti-Nazi diaries are analysed in this book. Like...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-05-16
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A centuries-old secret document unravels the origin story of America and reveals the intellectual crime of the millennia in this "hugely entertaining" dive into our country’s history to discover the first, true Declaration of Independence (Andrew...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2023-05-16
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Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year has taken on a new relevance with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic. Through an exploration of two chronologically distant societies in crisis, this study compares the attitudes, beliefs, and conduct of the public...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-12
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In Third Republic France (1870-1940), the directrice of a normal school (école normale) for training women teachers was the most important woman representative of public primary education in each department. Her role was central to the republican educational project...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-05-12
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