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A story of espionage, shadow diplomacy, foreign scheming, and domestic backstabbing in the formative years of the American republic.
Tyson Reeder's book traces early America's rocky beginnings, when foreign interference and political conflict threatened to undermine...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-06-03
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A unique perspective on war and its impact.Poets have written about the experience of war since ancient times, but the young soldier poets of the First World War established war poetry as a literary genre. Leaving an indelible mark on literature, their poems offered a...
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OH
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2024-06-01
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Die Mindener Stadtrechtsreformation aus dem Jahre 1613 schlummerte bisher fast unbeachtet in den Archiven. Sie wird nun erstmalig aufgearbeitet und rechtshistorisch eingeordnet. Diese Analyse fokussiert sich auf mögliche Quellen des Rechtstextes, insbesondere ältere...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-05-31
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80th ANNIVERSARY EDITIONProduced in collaboration with Imperial War MuseumsRelive the day that changed the course of history. On 6 June 1944, D-Day marked the beginning of a campaign that involved more than a million men and helped seal the fate of Hitler's...
Editeur :
Welbeck
Parution :
2024-05-30
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This handbook offers an updated and comprehensive presentation of knowledge on Korean modern and contemporary food history. It covers the changes in food availability, nutrition, and the health status of Koreans, and the Korean food industry's development from the late...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-05-29
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From being the last country in the world to open its doors to global trade in the 1850s to becoming the second industrialized nation in the 1960s, Japan has experienced impressive economic and social development over the last two centuries. In the last three decades,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-05-27
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This book aims to address a neglected field of research by providing evidence-based insights into how contemporary visitors of different national and generational background, especially those of Polish and Jewish descent, experience and reflect on their visits, or on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-26
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The best queer history book you'll read this year.LONGLISTED FOR THE BREAD & ROSES AWARDShoulder to Shoulder is a love letter to the LGBTQ+ pioneers of solidarity and coalition. Offering a new global look at forgotten moments when those from marginalised backgrounds...
Editeur :
Trapeze
Parution :
2024-05-23
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Editeur :
Monoray
Parution :
2024-05-23
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The term “othering” refers to a persistent Us and Them dynamic between museums and their participating public. To reframe this historically paternalistic subject-positioning, over the last decade or so many museums have made firm attempts to address this by...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-23
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Accusatory, libellous, or just bizarre, Penning Poison unveils the history of anonymous letter-writing.
'er at number 14 is dirty
Receiving an unexpected and unsigned note is a disconcerting experience. In Penning Poison, Emily Cockayne traces the stories of such...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-05-23
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From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I tells the story of the troubled accession of England's first Scottish king and the transition from the age of the Tudors to the age of the Stuarts at the dawn of the seventeenth century.
From Tudor to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-05-22
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«A unique, invaluable, and potent reminder that the past shapes the future and yet all the while is being rewritten and reinterpreted.»
(Dr. Dennis Deletant, OBE, Emeritus Professor, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London)
«Points out on...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-05-21
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A “rollicking,” “vividly re-created,” and “enticing romp” that tells the true story of an obsessive quest to find El Dorado, set against the backdrop of Elizabethan political intrigue and a competition with Spanish...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2024-05-21
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The volume is divided into three chapters which, starting from some fragments of Cassio Emina, reconstruct the cultural climate, the forms, the method and the constants of the historiographical activity of this author.The profile of a multifaceted intellectual...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-05-21
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This book contends that the development of modern Chinese international thought has been profoundly shaped by the distinctive nature of the Chinese state as a contender state and its global positioning since 1912. The argument posited demonstrates that, notwithstanding...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-17
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The Oxford Handbook of Galen provides a comprehensive overview of the life, work, and legacy of Galen (129--c. 216 CE), arguably the most important medical figure of the Graeco-Roman world. It contains essays by thirty leading experts on Galen's life and background, his...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-05-17
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The book is a new, revisionist account of Sixties protest movements in West Germany. It challenges established narratives centring male intellectuals by foregrounding families, private lives, women, and old people. Worked from a wealth of new archival sources, the book...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-05-17
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