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The end of three decades of dictatorship, a decade of war and revolution, and the establishment of a constitutional republic hardly quelled political dissent among the Mexican population. To the contrary, the first decade after the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920 saw...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-02-21
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As the hazards of carbon emissions increase and governments around the world seek to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, the search for clean and affordable alternate energies has become an increasing priority in the twenty-first century. However, one nation has already...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-02-21
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This volume presents a selection of David Gauthier's writings on Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and the theory of political contractarianism. The eight essays on Hobbes, written over four decades, represent the author's changing understanding of the moral and political...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-02-18
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This volume presents a selection of David Gauthier's writings on Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and the theory of political contractarianism. The eight essays on Hobbes, written over four decades, represent the author's changing understanding of the moral and political...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-18
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This book, based on a fresh understanding of Scottish governmental records rooted in extensive archival research, offers the first study of these important institutions in a period of revived royal authority. The regime which emerges from these records is one which...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-17
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Many have viewed Kaiser Wilhelm II as having personally ruled Germany, dominating its politics, and choreographing its ambitious leap to global power. But how accurate is this picture?
As The Kaiser and the Colonies shows, Wilhelm II was a constitutional monarch like...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-17
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Many have viewed Kaiser Wilhelm II as having personally ruled Germany, dominating its politics, and choreographing its ambitious leap to global power. But how accurate is this picture?
As The Kaiser and the Colonies shows, Wilhelm II was a constitutional monarch like...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-17
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England is well known as the only Protestant state not to introduce divorce in the sixteenth-century Reformation. Only at the end of the seventeenth century did divorce by private act of parliament become available for a select few men and only in 1857 did the Divorce...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-17
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England is well known as the only Protestant state not to introduce divorce in the sixteenth-century Reformation. Only at the end of the seventeenth century did divorce by private act of parliament become available for a select few men and only in 1857 did the Divorce...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-02-17
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The Ottoman Empire ruled the near East, dominated the Mediterranean, and terrorized Europe for centuries. However, its origins are obscure.The Beginnings of the Ottoman Empire illuminates the founding of the Empire, drawing on Turkish, Greek, Arabic, and Latin sources...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-02-17
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The Ottoman Empire ruled the near East, dominated the Mediterranean, and terrorized Europe for centuries. However, its origins are obscure.The Beginnings of the Ottoman Empire illuminates the founding of the Empire, drawing on Turkish, Greek, Arabic, and Latin sources...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-17
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This book examines life in the homes inhabited by the working class over the long nineteenth century. These working-class homes are often imagined as distinctly unhomely spaces, which the inhabitants struggled to fill with even the most basic of furniture, let...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-17
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This book analyses the emergence of modern parties in nineteenth-century Europe and explores their connection with the slowly developing institution of democracy. The close relationship between party and democracy was established by the founders of the first modern...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-15
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Beginning in 1955, West Germany recruited millions of people as guest workers from Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, and especially Turkey. This labor force was essential to creating the postwar German economic miracle. Employers fantasized that foreign "guest...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-02-11
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The entrancing historical read perfect for readers of Hamnet and The Manningtree Witches ***Don't miss the exquisite new novel of obsession, betrayal and ambition from Joanne Burn - THE BONE HUNTERS is available now***'Vivid and poetic' JENNIFER SAINT 'Mesmerizing'...
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Sphere
Parution :
2022-02-10
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Hong Kong has been caught between empires ever since the First Opium War (1839-1842). As a result, the study ofHong Kong history has been subjected to the influence of the empires that controlled or laid claims over it. The historical experience of the Hongkongers...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-10
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Hong Kong has been caught between empires ever since the First Opium War (1839-1842). As a result, the study ofHong Kong history has been subjected to the influence of the empires that controlled or laid claims over it. The historical experience of the Hongkongers...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-10
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'A book of ideas [...] Strathern ably guides us through these moments of glory.' -- The Times ***Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, revolutions are born and history is...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2022-02-10
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Explore an insightful and original discussion of the causes of the fall of the Roman Empire In Why Rome Fell: Decline and Fall, or Drift and Change?, celebrated scholar of Roman history Dr. Michael Arnheim delivers a fascinating and robust exploration of the causes of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-02-08
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Take a walk through history with this guide for lifelong learners The American Civil War is one of the most fascinating and impactful periods in American history. Besides bringing about the end of slavery, the war had many important economic and social effects that...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2022-02-08
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