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Convince you of what? Is this still necessary? I presented to my readers under this title La Préhistoire Nouvelle 15 volumes in French and English that traveled (thanks to the Internet) as much as possible the entire planet with common-sense observations based on the...
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JePublie
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2023-02-15
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JePublie présente
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Why “Similarities”? We are at the end of June 2019, after a “small” heat wave of one week (40 to 45 degrees) which puts all the Western Europe in all its states, which follows a first one in August 2003 – title of the time: 70 000 dead persons, ...
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JePublie
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01/07/2019
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A rich history of cross-racial coalitions and alliances of the Sixties' freedom movement, acclaimed historian Alice Echols's Black Power, White Heat reshapes our understanding of the entire era.
One of the most divisive issues in recent progressive politics has been...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-12-23
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Gewaltige Mengen an Alkohol gelangten in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts auf dänischen Schiffen nach Indien. Wein, Madeira, Bier und Branntwein halfen, einen steten Silberstrom nach Asien zu reduzieren. Ebenso prägten sie weit über die dänischen Handelsplätze am...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2025-12-18
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Following Hernando Cortés's conquest of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the Aztec empire became the center of the largest European colony in the Americas. It has long been assumed that Indigenous people's personal experiences of this cataclysmic era are inaccessible. Spanish...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-12-15
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From Aristotle to John Adams, great minds of government have revered Carthaginian democracy as the purest expression of a people's will. Yet today, while Phoenician influence on the Graeco-Roman worlds has been revisited and corrected from the perspectives of art,...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-12-11
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On March 2, 1945, five Mexican American families and their Jewish American lawyer filed a class-action lawsuit against four school districts in Orange County, California, to end the segregation of ethnic Mexican children. In a shocking decision, the court ruled in favor...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-12-10
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This open access book explores the background to the electoral reforms of 1907-1921 in Sweden, when the voting age was raised from 21 years to 23 for the second chamber and the municipalities, and to 27 for the county councils and the first chamber.This increase in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-12-08
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This book is a historical and cultural study of the work of the Jewish women architects who flourished in Palestine under the British Mandate (1920-1948).This comprehensive study adds a new chapter to the story of women in architecture in the twentieth century,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-12-05
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Esposte in numerose occasioni sin dalle prime scoperte del secolo scorso, le terrecotte architettoniche con fregio figurato a stampo della serie Acquarossa-Tuscania sono ora inserite in tutti gli studi relativi all’architettura palaziale e all’ideologia principesca...
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Publications de l'École française de Rome
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2025-12-03
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Collection de l'École française de Rome
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The Oxford Handbook of the Olmecs provides an up-to-date overview of research on this most elaborate of Mesoamerica's foundational cultures (ca. 1450-400 BCE). Few objects of study have sparked more debate in Mesoamerican studies than the role of Olmec culture in the...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-12-02
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This book aims to share with a wider audience a research approach that encompasses a global perspective, analyzes the dynamics and complexities of events, and transcends the barriers of disciplinary specialization through reflecting on and interpreting contemporary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-11-30
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With their distinctive and other-worldly appearance, runes--an ancient alphabet used to write Germanic languages--provide our only first-hand record of the customs and beliefs of peoples living on the northern fringe of the Roman Empire during a period of mass migration...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-11-28
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When a process popularly known as the Industrial Revolution first took hold in Germany in the mid-nineteenth century, many contemporaries were stunned by the scale and ferocity of the transformation. While Germany had long been considered a promising place to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-27
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The Order of the Hermits of St Augustine has long been sidelined as a pale imitator of the Franciscans. This book provides a fundamental cross-disciplinary re-evaluation of the lives, ideas, and impact of the Augustinian friars. By challenging the scholarly focus on the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-26
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Women, Indenture, and Resistance explores the lived experiences of Indian indentured (girmitiya) women in the Fiji Islands between 1879 and 1920, during the height of British colonial rule. Set against the backdrop of sugar-cane plantations, the book delves into themes...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-26
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Today, many readers could easily list thirty classic authors, or thirty classic works of art, literature, music, philosophy, or science. But would they be able to name thirty classic works of history? In spite of history's outsized influence in the world of ideas, the...
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Polity
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2025-11-26
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The wars between the Achaemenid Persian kings and the Greek city-states (c. 499-449 BCE)--especially Xerxes' invasion of Greece (480-479 BCE)--are often remembered as foundational events in Greek history, and therefore, we often hear about them through Greek accounts....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-26
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What is Agatha Christie's connection to the world's earliest known city?Did the first cotton farmers practice dentistry?Did the Balkans know writing before Mesopotamia?Embark on a journey through time, from the Ice Age to the Middle Ages, exploring lesser-known...
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Hachette India
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2025-11-25
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