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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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JePublie présente
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Discover the 50 key developments and events that form the backbone of the story of humanity. People often complain that in history lessons at school they were taught just a few topics - the Romans, the Tudors, the Nazis - and how they have no idea about what happened in...
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Greenfinch
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2026-06-18
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50 Ideas You Really Need to Know series
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In August 1940, a man walked into Leon Trotsky's study in Mexico City and drove an ice pick into his skull. The killer? Ramón Mercader - an aristocratic Spaniard turned Soviet assassin. The mastermind? Joseph Stalin.But this was no simple hit. It was the climax of a...
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John Murray
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2026-02-26
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Since antiquity, governments have used torture to gather information and determine guilt. But its track record is shaky, to say the least: thinkers from Aristotle to the present have observed that torture does not work, and thinkers from Foucault to Orwell have doubted...
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Polity
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2026-02-04
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History of Violence
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The groundbreaking guide to trans history in America, revised and updated for a new political era.Transgender History is the modern classic on transgender life in America since the nineteenth century, encompassing the major movements, writings, and events that shape...
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Seal Press
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2026-02-03
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This book examines the contents of libraries of Western individuals and trading companies in the Mediterranean and India between approximately 1600 and 1750. Relying on extensive archival research, it provides a rare contribution to global book history.The libraries...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-31
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While the Armenian Genocide has received significant international recognition, the related experiences of Greeks and Assyrians are largely unknown and overlooked. In an original contribution to genocide studies, Themistocles Kritikakos examines the enduring legacies of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-30
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All cultures change – but some aspects change more rapidly than others. Drawing on extensive experience of various cultures, in this book David Lewis develops a model that differentiates between the rates of change in different aspects of a culture.Culture...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-28
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Famine is humanity's oldest fear.Famine memorials and stories are literally carved into the stones that lie on the beds of Europe's rivers. Our science fiction and fantasy literature often begin by evoking a world of hunger and scarcity.Famine shapes our past, it...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-28
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The Pauper Body in England and Wales 1750 to 1914 is based on a unique collection of 8 million words of pauper letters. It features fascinating body biographies of ordinary people living in deepest poverty who used their voices to secure welfare support.The Old and New...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-28
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This volume presents a newly edited text of Euripides' Electra with a scene-by-scene and line-by-line commentary that addresses a wide variety of questions, including the nature of Euripidean tragedy. In his Introduction and across several discussions in the commentary,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-28
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This book examines 'womanhood' and 'race' not only as disputed, converging, and constantly changing categories and lived experiences, but also as interrelated and unequal subjectivities and social realties that shaped all early-twentieth century Puerto Ricans. It...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-27
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This book examines patterns of national integration and the mobilisation of the peasantry across two historical regions, Central and Eastern Europe, over a long historical timeframe, spanning from the 1848 Revolution to the outbreak of the Second World War. It...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-27
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This book places print media at the centre of studying queer German history. In so doing, it explicitly interrogates the exclusions that certain media forms can engender as well as the possibilities that magazines, novels, poetry, and erotica, among others offered queer...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-25
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This book offers a comprehensive corpus and analysis of all the Formosan ‘Shooting the Sun’ myths. The 'Shooting the Sun' myths describe a series of historical events in mythology that is preceded by the origins of man myths and followed by the deluge myths....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-23
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This book encounters the figure of the royal woman in the early modern period and explores how she enables and complicates the key moment at which England was emerging as an ideology, a nation, and an empire. Queens and queens consort, historical and fictional, played...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-22
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Over the course of the early Middle Ages, Christianity changed politics and politics changed Christianity. Christianity emerged in the pagan Roman Empire and early Christians, consequently, developed a 'secular' understanding of politics, where the religious identity of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-21
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Ostia, the Roman settlement founded at the mouth of the river Tiber, was the port of the imperial capital and one of the most important urban centers in the Mediterranean world during the last decades of the Roman Republic and the Early and High Empires. The town's role...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-01-21
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