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June 1940: France surrenders to Germany. The Gestapo is searching for Heinrich Mann and Franz Werfel, Hannah Arendt, Lion Feuchtwanger and many other writers and artists who had sought asylum in France since 1933. The young American journalist Varian Fry arrives in...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-06-03
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An immersive dive into the meaning and mystique of shipwrecks
The sea is the largest museum on earth, with more than a million lost ships resting in its depths. Those shipwrecks date back thousands of years, some from civilizations long vanished, others from more...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-06-03
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The last fifty years of French history have seen immense challenges for the French: constructing a new European order, building a modern economy, searching for a stable political system. It has also been a time of anxiety and doubt.The French have had to come to terms...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-06-02
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Money in Imperial Rome offers an in-depth examination of the institutional framework within which money operated as an economic agent in the Roman empire, emphasising its systemic complexity. Analyses focus on classical Roman law as reflected in the writings of Roman...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-31
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Hearing with the Mind synthesizes two exciting approaches to music--cognitive psychology and social history--by focusing on the remarkable work of musical theorist John Holden (1729--72) during the Scottish Enlightenment. One of the first musical thinkers to propose a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-05-30
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In Protestant Relics in Early America, Jamie L. Brummitt upends long-held assumptions about religion and material culture in the early United States. Brummitt chronicles how American Protestants cultivated a lively relic culture centered around collecting supernatural...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-05-30
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Dieses Handbuch zeigt erstmals einen systematischen Überblick über die Entwicklung einzelner Infrastrukturen, z. B. des Verkehrswesens (Bahn und Straße), der Versorgungsnetze und der städtischen Infrastrukturen. Es wird systematisch in die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-05-29
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A revelatory investigation into the rise and fall of the 'woke' movement and how we can prevent it from happening again. It is no secret that we are in the midst of a cultural revolution. Activists in the 'woke' movement have claimed to be on the right side of history,...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2025-05-29
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This book examines the cultural legacies of the fifteen years that Mary Queen of Scots spent as a prisoner in the household of Bess of Hardwick and her fourth husband, the Earl of Shrewsbury. It proposes four main areas of influence: first, that although Mary never...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-05-29
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A history of the dandy from below, from Beau Brummell and Baudelaire to Bowie and Bolan... and beyond.
The historical figure of the dandy has commonly been described as an upper-class gentleman, often exemplified by well-known men such as Beau Brummell, Charles...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-28
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Up until recently, Europe’s three imperial monarchies – the German, Austrian, and Russian Empires – were seen as moribund political entities, unable to accommodate the forces of political, social, economic, and cultural modernization, and as a result collapsed...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-05-28
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy
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From an award-winning historian and New York Times bestselling author, a gripping, fly-on-the-wall account of the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln's decision to go to war against the Confederacy.1861: The Lost Peace is the story of President Lincoln’s...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2025-05-27
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From February 1998 until June 1999, a war between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army ravaged Kosovo. The counterinsurgency quickly turned into a state-led campaign of ethnic cleansing that resulted in the killing,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-05-27
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This book examines the past history, and contemporary status of subsistence whaling. The papers derive from a symposium ‘Aboriginal Whaling and Identity in the 21st Century’ held at the Eleventh Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies in Vienna, Austria in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-05-27
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While the Big Three and their continental Allies fought against Nazi Germany, another war was under way on the continent: the war to shape the political landscape of post-war Europe. In the Balkans, the war overlapped with political and ethnic conflicts, engulfing the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-27
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Shakespeare stellt in seinen Dramen diverse politische Regime mit ihren jeweiligen Vorzügen und Defiziten dar. Er präsentiert dabei die Monarchie als eine der geeignetsten Staatsformen, sieht aber durchaus auch deren Schwierigkeiten. So entwickelt er die Idee, die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-05-27
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A narrative blend of history, cultural criticism, and memoir in celebration of everyday queer women, based on a lesbian helpline that existed in North London in the nineties, and "a clear-eyed and moving addition to the still-expanding record of lesbian lives"...
Editeur :
Legacy Lit
Parution :
2025-05-27
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The Lasting Legacy of Colonial Cemeteries in South Asia explores the interplay between architecture and historical memory, highlighting how colonial cemeteries serve as enduring reminders of the British Empire in the region. During British rule, nearly two million...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-26
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This Palgrave Pivot serves as a brief exploration of the evolution of sociological thinking in Japan from the Meiji era to the early 21st century. The authors unfold the narrative of societal changes, cultural shifts, and the interplay between tradition and modernity,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-05-26
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Beginning in the late nineteenth century, British companies used the resources of empire to create an imperial oil industry that controlled 20% of global oil reserves by 1939 and allowed for the movement of capital and labor between regions and companies. The imperial...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-26
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