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From “one of our most prodigious constitutional scholars” (Jonathan Eig), the definitive history of how the ideal of birth equality reshaped the American Constitution, from antebellum debates over slavery and secession, to the Civil War and emancipation, to...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2025-09-16
Format(s) : ePub
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This open access book provides a unique and incisive analysis of the shifting dynamics in the international order, exploring a threefold fragmentation—of power centres, geopolitical arenas, and global worldviews.
Through the lens of a carefully developed triad...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-09-16
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Greek Personal Names in Egypt provides a comprehensive overview ofGreek onomastics in Egypt from the Ptolemaic to the Late Byzantine period, highlighting the rich and diverse onomastic landscape and paying special attention to diachronic change. The work explores naming...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-09-15
Format(s) : ePub
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Haji Imdadullah (1817-1899) was a prominent Sufi shaykh of the Chishti order. The first part of his life coincided with the period when the British were consolidating their power over India. His family were long settled in the small towns in the north of the country....
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-09-15
Format(s) : ePub
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Pinning down Byzantium (or East Rome) is as difficult today as it was for contemporaries during its 1,000-year-long existence. Dimitri Obolensky sought to characterize its impact on Eastern Europe in his classic The Byzantine Commonwealth, focusing on the elements of...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-09-15
Format(s) : ePub
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The early twenty-first century ushered in a period of change in Bolivia.The country welcomed its first Indigenous president, a new constitution, and a profusion of laws that recognized individual music and dance expressions as intangible cultural heritage. Using...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-09-15
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book brings together a range of researchers to explore the growth and development of the women’s game in Britain and Ireland. They are active across a diverse range of fields, from historians and heritage practitioners, to those from the arts such as playwrights...
Editeur : Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2025-09-12
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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While virtually all early medieval historians wrote about God, they did not do so in the same way. Rather than taking their comments about God at face value then, as has been the case in much work on medieval history-writing, they are deserving of closer scrutiny, with...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-09-12
Format(s) : ePub
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The Roman emperor Julian (r. 361-363 CE) was a man of action and of letters, which he employed in an effort to return the Empire to the light of the pagan gods, and reverse the Christianization of the empire advanced by his uncle Constantine and the sons of Constantine....
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-09-12
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Inchon: the battle that saved South Korea
Operation Chromite, the American-led amphibious landing at the port of Inchon [Incheon] in September 1950, is arguably the most famous battle of the Korean War. Often hailed as a masterstroke on the part of its creator, General...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-09-12
Format(s) : ePub
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50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - now a Virago Modern Classic with a new introduction by Alexandra Harris'Full of dignity, courage and humour, and as fresh and insightful as the day it was written, FENWOMEN is a vital portrait of rural women's lives - not only as they were...
Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2025-09-11
Format(s) : ePub
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'Tony is the real deal.' Andy McNabSierra Leone, 2000.While on patrol as part of a peacekeeping mission, eleven British soldiers are kidnapped.The captors are a dangerous rebel group known as the West Side Boys. Fuelled by alcohol and drugs, the behaviour of the rebels...
Editeur : Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
Parution : 2025-09-11
Format(s) : ePub
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Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2025-09-11
Format(s) : ePub
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Pizza is the Italian food that has conquered the world: from Brussels to LA, from Beijing to Buenos Aires, pizzas and pizzerias can be found everywhere today. But what are the origins of this food and how did it rise from its humble beginnings to become the world’s...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-09-10
Format(s) : ePub
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"A fascinating family and social history and a savage indictment of the role of child slavery in the growth of the Industrial Revolution," Catherine Taylor, author of The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern TimeWe all think we know the tale. As a child, Charles Dickens was...
Editeur : The Bridge Street Press
Parution : 2025-09-04
Format(s) : ePub
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This book is about the making of intellectual property law in Vietnam across colonial and socialist space and time from 1864 to 1994. It provides a completely new, provoking narrative, disproving previously published scholarship which claimed that there was no...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-09-03
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Discover the meteoric rise of one of the most extraordinary and singular figures in American jurisprudence, Robert H. Jackson, from self-trained lawyer to influential Supreme Court Justice and chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, in this compelling new...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-09-03
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Offers a sweeping, entertaining journey through the real power structures of world history Five Thousand Years of Monarchy challenges everything you thought you knew about political history. With wit, clarity, and a deep command of historical detail, Michael Arnheim...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2025-09-03
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book offers a holistic re-evaluation of the Spithead and Nore mutinies of 1797, which immobilised the two Royal Navy fleets responsible for Britain's defence at a time when invasion seemed likely. The mutinies represent two of the most serious manifestations of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-02
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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