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How has militarisation come to define Australian valour? Why has the long shadow of World War I dominated our sense of patriotism?ON PATRIOTISM explores what it really means to love and serve your country. Paul Daley contemplates ways to escape the cultural binds that...
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Hachette Australia
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2020-03-31
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On Series
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In 2011 Michel Aberson, Maria Cristina Biella, Massimiliano Di Fazio and Manuela Wullschleger (two Italians and two Swiss, two archaeologists and two historians of antiquity) met in Geneva at the Fondation Hardt pour l'étude de l'Antiquite classique and decided to...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-03-31
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Why do states ban certain statements and interpretations of the past, how do they ban them and what are the practical consequences? This book offers an answer to these questions and at the same time examines, whether the respective legislation was supply-or...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-03-31
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The book offers new perspectives on the history of China’s late imperial period and presents a much-needed novel explanation for China’s stagnation and decline in recent centuries. It begins by questioning all the conventional wisdom on the factors behind China’s...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-03-31
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An innovative approach to the study of ten centuries of Jewish culture and history A Companion to Late Ancient Jews and Judaism explores the Jewish people, their communities, and various manifestations of their religious and cultural expressions from the third century...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2020-03-26
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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A "marvelous" (Sports Illustrated) portrait of the three men whose lives were forever changed by WWI-era Boston and the Spanish flu: baseball star Babe Ruth, symphony conductor Karl Muck, and Harvard law student Charles Whittlesey. In the fall of 1918, a...
Editeur :
Basic Books
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2020-03-24
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A story about baseball, family, the American Dream, and the fight to turn Los Angeles into a big league city.Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But the story of how it came to be goes far beyond baseball. The hills that cradle the stadium were once home to three...
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PublicAffairs
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2020-03-24
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Almost everyone has heard of Adam Smith, founding father of modern economics and author of Wealth of Nations. There is, however, much more to him than this. This new introduction gives a crystal clear overview of the entirety of Smith’s thought. It demonstrates how...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-03-23
Collection :
Classic Thinkers
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A superb study of one of the most important, romantic and dynamic figures of European history.'A fine book ... the web of political intrigue unfolds like an appetising detective novel' ScotsmanThe last king of Poland owed his throne largely to his youthful romance with...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2020-03-19
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This is the story of Shirley Rosalyn Kraus Tydor, the American-born daughter of
early 20th-century Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Her father was an
atheist\communist and her mother a traditional Jew.
Shirley, the rebel, became a career woman and married her...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-03-17
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From a Harvard historian, this riveting portrait of four trailblazing American journalists highlights the power of the press in the interwar period. In the fragile peace following the Great War, a surprising number of restless young Americans abandoned their homes and...
Editeur :
Basic Books
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2020-03-17
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**Winner of the 2021 Texas Institute of Letters Carr P. Collins’ Award for Best Book of Nonfiction**One part Columbine, one part God Save Texas, Joe Holley's riveting, compassionate book examines the 2017 mass shooting at a church in a small Texas town,...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2020-03-17
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The new edition of the popular survey of Near Eastern civilization from the Bronze Age to the era of Alexander the Great A Companion to the Ancient Near East explores the history of the region from 4400 BCE to the Macedonian conquest of the Persian Empire in 330 BCE....
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-03-17
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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The White Men's Countries explores how a shared ideal of race united the American and Australian governments during World War II and the early Cold War periods. This interpretation places cultural and ideological factors alongside the traditional emphasis on pragmatic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-03-10
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'What if you could listen in on any phone conversation in town? Irresistible!' Kathryn Stockett, bestselling author of THE HELP'Glorious, gossipy, delicious and perfect' Jill Mansell, bestselling author of AND NOW YOU'RE BACKREADERS LOVE THIS BOOK!* 'Unique and quirky...
Editeur :
Review
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2020-03-10
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This book thematically analyses and surveys areas of Caribbean history and society. The work is divided into three parts: part one addresses migration and identity; part two explores policy and development; and part three explores music and literature. The volume places...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-03-10
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This book presents you with the background profiles of those mass exterminators of National Socialism who wound up in court. It pictures their ‘route to crime’ and explains why their court room profiles have always remained so controversial in the eyes of post-war...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-03-09
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This book examines transcultural processes between the Eurasian and Inner-Carpathian worlds in the Aeneolithic and Early Bronze Age from the perspectives of archaeology, history, anthropology, ethnology, art and philosophy. Based on archaeological sources, the authors...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-03-09
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The key battle of the First World War from the German point of viewThe Battle of the Somme has an enduring legacy, the image established by Alan Clark of 'lions led by donkeys': brave British soldiers sent to their deaths by incompetent generals. However, from the...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2020-03-05
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A stonemason's story of the building of Britain: part archaeological history, part deeply personal insight into an ancient craft. In his thirty-year career, stonemason Andrew Ziminski has worked on many of our greatest monuments. From Neolithic monoliths to Roman baths...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2020-03-05
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