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A new perspective on Japanese tactics during the Asia-Pacific War, using remarkable first-hand Japanese source material.Even after eighty years since the end of a conflict that killed at least thirty-five million people, there remains a deep well of bitterness and anger...
Editeur :
Wildfire
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2025-04-24
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This volume of essays explores how the global city is confronting new forms of crises and disruption. Examining cities in the Caribbean, North America, Africa, the Persian Gulf, Asia and Australia, the essays use literary and cultural analysis to examine the pasts,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-23
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This book revisits the history of the international garden city town planning movement in the early twentieth century, focusing on the significance of various forms of 'physical culture' - sport, recreation, leisure, and other active body practices - within...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-23
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Making Domesday presents a fresh interpretation of William the Conqueror's survey of England, made possible by a major collaborative study and a new online edition of Exon Domesday, the earliest of the three original manuscripts to survive from the Domesday survey. The...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-23
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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
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2025-04-22
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'Rich and replenishing ... I felt lovesick for it after it was done' ELEANOR CATTON, Booker Prize-winning author'A fascinating, original story' TLS'I really loved this book' JENN ASHWORTH'A real treasure' ROWAN WILLIAMS, former Archbishop of Canterbury__________In the...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2025-04-17
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13,99€
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In the 1890s, the choice between the gold standard and the free coinage of silver upended American politics. The gold standard linked the United States to the larger international financial system, in which gold was the common denominator. The free coinage of silver...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-17
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An intergenerational story of war, forgiveness, and memory told through stolen and returned battlefield souvenirs. How do we remember war? How do we forgive? In Blood, Flowers Bloom illuminates one of the last untold stories of World War...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2025-04-15
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Der offene Überfall Russlands auf die Ukraine im Februar 2022 hat der westlichen Öffentlichkeit die Wichtigkeit der ukrainischen Kulturgeschichte bewusst gemacht. Es mangelt allerdings an grundlegenden Handbüchern. Auf Deutsch liegt keine ukrainische Literaturgeschichte...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-04-12
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Making Domesday presents a fresh interpretation of William the Conqueror's survey of England, made possible by a major collaborative study and a new online edition of Exon Domesday, the earliest of the three original manuscripts to survive from the Domesday survey. The...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-12
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An exploration of the mind of one of America's most beloved Founding Fathers and most brilliant minds, through the books he read and his social circles in the United States and Europe.
Arguably the most intellectual, creative, cosmopolitan, and curious of the Founding...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-04-11
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This open access book is an innovative history of community health practitioners’ responses to the seemingly intractable problem of men (and on rare occasions, women) sexually abusing children within the private family home. It is situated within a social...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-10
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'An instant classic'RICHARD CURTIS'A non-fiction Catch-22'MATT HAIG Readers are LOVING The Accidental Soldier:'One of the funniest books you will ever read' ?????'I absolutely loved it - it's so very funny but also very poignant in...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2025-04-10
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Joy of Leaving Your Sh*t All Over the Place, this is a hilarious and delightfully packaged celebration of womanhood and one-of-a-kind historical record of boobs—for women, and the people who love them. ...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2025-04-08
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Gulf South Rebels, Insurgents, and Revolutionaries is a collection of essays on the tangled yet variegated histories of rebellious actors in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuryGulf South and its linked environs. Following diverse rebels, revolutionaries, militants,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-07
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Während der westeuropäische Humanismus im zaristischen Russland nur wenig Resonanz fand, ging er seit den dreißiger Jahren als proletarischer und später als sozialistischer Humanismus in die politische Rhetorik der Sowjetunion ein und wurde...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2025-04-07
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Historik ist eine systematisch angelegte Reflexion auf die Grundlagen und soziokulturellen Voraussetzungen sowie auf die Funktionen der Geschichtswissenschaft. Sie thematisiert die maßgebenden Sinnkriterien des historischen Denkens und dessen disziplinäre...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-04-04
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Libya and the West: What Everyone Needs to Know® is a welcome update to the literature on Western diplomatic relations with Libya. It specifically analyzes the complicated relationships that Italy, Britain, the United States, and France developed withLibya beginning in...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-04-03
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The Iron Horse in Indian Country examines the relationships between Indigenous peoples and railroads that unfolded in the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Historians have long pondered the railroad's profound and far-reaching role in...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-04-03
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Celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE Day in this fully illustrated insight into the final months of the Second World War.From the long-awaited opening of the second front in the West on D-Day, 6 June 1944, to the final surrender of Germany on 8 May 1945, the Allied...
Editeur :
Welbeck
Parution :
2025-04-03
ePub
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16,99€
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