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The dramatic story of a mutiny aboard an eighteenth-century British ship and how its owners effectively rallied the power of the British Crown to protect their investment and expand their wealth and political power across multiple generations.
In 1768, the British...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-11-04
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This book provides a unique history of the Porcelain Road against the backdrop of Chinese and Western cultural exchanges. Written by one of China’s most influential scholars, it introduces the history of Chinese Porcelain, especially the history of the imperial...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-01
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This book explores the seemingly unstoppable turn away from Europe and towards Asian powers, notably China, on the part of the Russian state in the early 21st century. Ongoing global changes, the growing complexity of international interactions and internal political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-01
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This book analyses the political discourse and activities of the constitutionalist-monarchist wing of the Polish Great Emigration, which saw the emigration of several thousand people from the territory of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1831 to 1864,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-31
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Exploring the entwined histories of British royal visits to Southern Africa in the twentieth century, this book analyses the clashing voices of dissent and cheering crowds that accompanied royal tours, providing insight into the shifting nature of ‘Black loyalism.’...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-31
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This book explores the core concept of Chinese ancient architecture from a multidisciplinary perspective. It aims to contribute to the development, inheritance, and protection of Chinese ancient architectural culture, while also benefiting the sustainable development of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-10-31
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In the period from the close of the Napoleonic Wars up through the immediate post-World-War II era the image of Martin Luther was transposed in Germany from a religious reformer and advocate of freedom to a symbol of völkisch nationalist identity, such that with the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-31
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«Che la musa della storia taccia e lasci spazio alla genetica».
Jean Tulard
«Affascinante».
Jean-Noël Fabiani,
professore emerito presso la Cattedra di Storia della Medicina
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Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2024-10-31
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Our heroes can come from the most ordinary of places. As a shy lad growing up in country Victoria, no one in the district had any idea the man Albert Jacka would become.Albert 'Bert' Jacka was 21 when Britain declared war on Germany in August 1914. Bert soon enlisted in...
Editeur :
Hachette Australia
Parution :
2024-10-30
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Brexit, populism, and Euroscepticism seem to have challenged old assumptions about European integration and raised the prospect of disintegration. This book re-examines why the European Union and its forerunners were created and investigates how and why they have...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-30
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
In 432 BCE the powerful city-state of Sparta on the peninsula of the Peloponnesus in southwestern Greece declared war on Athens, head of a mighty naval coalition. The war would last until Sparta finally brough...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-29
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Sermones Contra Hereticos presents an edition and translation of a group of mostly unpublished Latin sermons which were originally preached in the context of the Albigensian Crusade of 1226 and during the fight against heresy in northern France in 1231. The nine extant...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-29
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Trust the power of cognitive science to help students to understand more, remember more and feel more confident about their exams.This textbook is guaranteed to make learning more effective. The approach was created by author and teacher Dale Banham, who has amazing...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2024-10-25
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'Groundbreaking' Sunday Times'Beautifully written and elegiac . . . a masterpiece' Damien Lewis, Sunday Times bestselling authorSince the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909, women have worked at the very heart of British secret intelligence - yet their...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2024-10-24
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Special Operations Success establishes a new benchmark in military theory in this deeply analytic and innovative work. It answers several pressing questions: How successful have American special operations been over the past quarter-century? Are special forces fated to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-24
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Special Operations Success establishes a new benchmark in military theory in this deeply analytic and innovative work. It answers several pressing questions: How successful have American special operations been over the past quarter-century? Are special forces fated to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-24
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This handbook addresses issues around urban growth in early India. It provides theoretical and empirical insights from the perspective of the different regions of the subcontinent using various sources. The book chapters discuss how early urban forms evolved,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-10-23
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Recovered in 1755 during excavations in the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, the prosciutto sundial is the earliest known portable Roman sundial. Palm-sized and in the shape of an Italian cured ham, its silver-plated cast bronze form cleverly combines an accurate...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-10-23
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Thanks to their economic and military strength, the European empires had achieved global supremacy by 1900, with large parts of the world under their dominance in the wake of colonial expansion. This situation fuelled ideas of Europe's permanent, almost natural global...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-23
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Dieses Buch widmet sich der visuellen Kommunikation im deutsch-tschechischen Begegnungsraum in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Nicht nur die Medien Fotografie, Karikatur, Werbegrafik, Bildband und Dokumentarfilm werden in den Blick genommen, sondern auch die jeweiligen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-10-23
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