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The Great Western Schism (1378-1417) is considered the deepest crisis of the late medieval Church.The contested election of Pope Urban VI in 1378 divided the Catholic Church into two competing factions: the Roman papacy under Pope Urban VI and the French papacy under...
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Publications de l'École française de Rome
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2025-08-26
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Collection de l'École française de Rome
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"Basierend auf beeindruckender multiarchivaler Forschung und einem feinen Gespür für gute Erzählungen stellt uns der Autor die komplexen, miteinander verflochtenen Netzwerke der wenig bekannten Atlantik-Brücke und des American Council on Germany vor. Eine fantastische...
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Springer
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2025-08-21
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We are living, it is often said, in a golden age of stupidity, in which boneheaded, mendacious politicians get elected by voters who’ve become too mindless to realize their interests are ill served by narcissists, while vapid social media influencers corrupt their no...
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Polity
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2025-08-21
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WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY MAX HASTINGSWINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2001WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL TILTMAN PRIZE 2002WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2003'A ground-breaking book . . . The story of Europe's diplomatic meltdown has never been better told'...
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John Murray
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2025-08-14
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A gripping account of East Germany in the late '70s and early '80s, and of one man's fated struggle for freedom.Friday, April 10th, 1981: 23-year-old Mathias Domaschk boards the fast train from Jena to Berlin, on his way to a birthday party. But he never arrives . ....
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Maclehose Press
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2025-08-14
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Rivers are the great natural arteries that run through our lives. We have navigated them, dammed them and worshipped at them. From the ancient ecosystems of Egypt to the sinking cities of Shanghai and London, what we do with our rivers tells us about who has power and...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2025-08-14
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Scotland's Clans & their Tartans offers an authoritative exploration of the origins and evolution ofScotland's unique clan system, tracing its roots back to the 5th century in Ireland, where the Scots originally lived. From the Abercrombies to the Wemyss clan, this...
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Cassell
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2025-08-14
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Dieses Sachbuch bietet eine Einführung in Geschichte und Verlauf des russisch-ukrainischen Kriegs. Durch dieses Buch sollen die LeserInnen:
Daten, Fakten und ein allgemeines Verständnis über den aktuellen Krieg Russlands gegen die Ukraine erhalten;
die...
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Springer
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2025-08-11
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'A brilliantly entertaining and revealing new transcription of Pepys's diary' Claire TomalinA collection of the most personal aspects of Samuel Pepys' diaries, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of their publicationThe Diary of Samuel Pepys is the most celebrated...
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Abacus
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2025-08-07
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History and Decolonization: Essays from Southern Europe takes a fresh approach to world history by integrating the historical experience of Southern Europe into debates on colonialism, racism and patriarchy. To approach Europe from its southern fringes can open new...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2025-08-04
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During discussions for the Government of Ireland Act 1920, Northern Ireland as we know it was created. However, there were discussions of the Irish boundary line, including partitioning the full province of Ulster. This raises a fundamental 'what if' within Irish...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-07-30
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Das Buch bietet einen erzählerischen Zugang zu Platon: Wie fühlt es sich an, die abendländische Philosophie ohne Vorbild zu begründen und innerlich zerrissen zu sein? Platon erscheint nicht als abgehobener Denker im Elfenbeinturm, sondern als Mensch,...
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Springer
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2025-07-28
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Monoray
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2025-07-24
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This open access book explores how China had already established political and economic dualisms—political by the Common Era and economic by the 10th century—long before the West developed its dualism of state and society in the 17th and 18th centuries. In...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-22
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America’s Founding Fathers feared that a standing army would be a permanent political danger, yet the U.S. military has in the 250 years since become a bulwark of democracy. Kori Schake explains why in this compelling history of civil-military relations from...
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Polity
Parution :
2025-07-21
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For two centuries, from the middle of the 6th century to the end of the 4th century BCE, hundreds of scenes of play were depicted on Attic and South Italian vases. They bring to life warriors, children, girls and boys enjoying a large variety of ludic...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de Liège
Parution :
2025-07-17
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Jeu / Play / Spiel
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Mountain of Paradise challenges conventional taxonomies of world civilizations by introducing a new and formidable candidate: the civilization of Greater California presently incubating as the evolution of California into a veritable «nation-state» or «world...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-07-14
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This volume explores different aspects of Ireland, its history and cultural as well as artistic expressions, around the theme of the concert of nations, since independence and the partition of the country back in 1922. The angle chosen is at once historical, political...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de Caen
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2025-07-11
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Symposia
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Eine Welt – viel Geschichte Weltgeschichte – das ist ein faszinierendes Geflecht aus Abertausenden von Ereignissen, die oft enger verwoben sind, als es auf den ersten Blick scheint. Christa Pöppelmann führt sowohl Laien wie Geschichtsfreaks durch alle Epochen und...
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Wiley-VCH
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2025-07-10
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