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This book explores the history of banditry in the medieval Balkans between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. While several scholars have recognized the problems which various outlaw groups caused in the region during the Middle Ages, few have given much attention to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-10-28
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New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
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This book explores the importance of bodily fluids to the development of medical knowledge in the eighteenth century. While the historiography has focused on the role of anatomy, this study shows that the chemical analyses of bodily fluids in the Dutch Republic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-10-27
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine
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This book explores the different ways in which the early Haitian state was represented in print culture in America and Britain in the early nineteenth century.This study demonstrates that American and British arguments about the most effective forms of governance and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-10-24
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Political History
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This book presents a revolutionary new reading of manuscript records left by puritan minister Thomas Shepard in Cambridge, Massachusetts that have been studied for decades as his on-the-spot recording of oral relations of faith delivered by candidates for church...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-23
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The Oxford Handbook on Early China brings 30 scholars together to cover early China from the Neolithic through Warring States periods (ca 5000-500BCE).The study is chronological and incorporates a multidisciplinary approach, covering topics from archaeology,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-10-23
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This book delves into the history of the Horn of Africa diaspora in Italy and Europe through the stories of those who fled to Italy from East African states. It draws on oral history research carried out by the BABE project (Bodies Across Borders: Oral and Visual...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-22
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Digital history is an emerging field that draws on digital technology and computational methods. A global enterprise that invites scholars worldwide to join forces, it presents exciting and novel ways we might explore, understand and represent the past. Hannu Salmi...
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Polity
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2020-10-22
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Hawaii, 7th December 1941, shortly before 8 in the morning: Japanese torpedo bombers launch a surprise attack on the US Pacific fleet anchored in Pearl Harbor. The devastating attack claims the lives of over 2,400 American soldiers, sinks or damages 18 ships and...
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Polity
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2020-10-22
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As one of the heroes of the 1917 February Revolution and then Prime Minister at the head of the Provisional Government, Alexander Kerensky was passionately, even fanatically, lauded as a leader during his brief political reign. Symbolic artefacts – sculptures, badges...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-10-22
Collection :
New Russian Thought
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Mary S. Barton explores counterterrorism in the years between World War I and World War II, starting with the attempted assassination of French Prime Minister George Clemenceau in 1919, and taking the story up to and beyond the double assassination of King Alexander I...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-10-22
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Mary S. Barton explores counterterrorism in the years between World War I and World War II, starting with the attempted assassination of French Prime Minister George Clemenceau in 1919, and taking the story up to and beyond the double assassination of King Alexander I...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-10-22
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This book illuminates the interconnections between politics and religion through the lens of artistic production, exploring how art inspired by religion functioned as a form of resistance, directed against both Romanian national communism (1960-1989) and, latterly,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-22
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This issue of History of Universities XXXIII/2, contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.
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OUP Oxford
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2020-10-22
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This issue of History of Universities XXXIII/2, contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.
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OUP Oxford
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2020-10-22
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Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial deconstruction of western dominance. This Very Short Introduction discusses both the history and key debates of postcolonialism, and considers its...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-22
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Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial deconstruction of western dominance. This Very Short Introduction discusses both the history and key debates of postcolonialism, and considers its...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-10-22
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This book is the first to tackle the difficult and complex politics of transition in Zimbabwe, with deep historical analysis. Its focus is on a very problematic political culture that is proving very hard to transcend. At the center of this culture is an unstable but...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-21
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Hubert Kleinert legt mit diesem Buch die erste umfassende Gesamtdarstellung der Geschichte des neuen Deutschlands seit 1990 vor. Dreißig Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung präsentiert er eine anschauliche Schilderung des schwierigen Weges, den das Land seither genommen...
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Springer
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2020-10-21
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The most important collection of essays on American Women's History This collection incorporates the most influential and groundbreaking scholarship in the area of American women's history, featuring twenty-three original essays on critical themes and topics. It...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2020-10-21
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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Winner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book AwardIn a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's soul: the pro-slavery New Yorkers who kept the illegal slave trade alive and well, and the abolitionists fighting for freedom.We often think of...
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Bold Type Books
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2020-10-20
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