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From the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling, “richly detailed, entertaining” chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century Europe—Elisabeth, empress of Austria, and Eugénie,...
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Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2025-02-25
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"Michael Wolff... the shrewdest and most colourful chronicler of the Trump years," Sunday TimesAll or Nothing is the final chapter in Wolff's Fire and Fury series. With extraordinary behind-the-scenes access, it follows every turn of Donald Trump's third presidential...
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The Bridge Street Press
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2025-02-25
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'By some way the best history of the Mandate I have ever read, with the greatest scope, the widest research and the clearest moral sense' JOHN SIMPSONTom Segev's widely acclaimed work has changed the way we view the history of Israel. He discussed the three decades when...
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Abacus
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2025-02-20
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Die Antike ist die Vorläuferin und die Grundlage des heutigen Europa und der Kultur, die von Europa ausging. Insoweit ist sie uns nah. In der Allgemeinbildung ist sie allerdings fast nur noch in Form von einzelnen Aussprüchen, Legenden und Mythen präsent, wie etwa: Der...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-02-19
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Raparapa is a raw and gritty history that captures the harsh realities endured by Aboriginal drovers in the Kimberley. These storytellers capture a slice of history and showcase those who have persevered through impossible odds. Their strong work ethic is matched only...
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Magabala Books
Parution :
2025-02-08
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The most iconic of all light aircraft, the DH60 Moth was the brain-child of Geoffrey de Havilland, visionary son of an angry and disappointed Victorian clergyman. A successful designer of military aircraft, Geoffrey dreamed of doing for aircraft what Ford had done for...
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Abacus
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2025-02-06
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"The best protection any woman can have... is courage."Elizabeth Cady Stanton, US suffragetteThroughout history, women have often been silenced, their contributions overlooked, their struggles ignored. Yet, despite these barriers, countless figures have challenged the...
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OH
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2025-02-06
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On many forms in the UK where ethnicity needs to be ticked, the space for East and South East Asia is 'Chinese or Any Other Asian'. This represents a shameful sweeping together of a vastly varied heritage and experience. East and South East Asian people have lived and...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2025-02-06
ePub
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A COMPANION TO GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY Equips both specialists and newcomers with the historical, intellectual, and political context for engagement with the environment Providing multiple points of entry into a dynamic, fast-growing field,A Companion to Global...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-02-05
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
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Step into the rich tapestry of Nandom, a resilient community in West Africa, as this meticulously researched work uncovers the origins, traditions, and evolution of its people. Addressing a historical gap, the author combines academic rigor with a compelling narrative...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-02-03
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The Scramble for Africa astonished everyone.In 1880 most of the continent was ruled by Africans, and barely explored. By 1902, five European Powers (and one extraordinary individual) had grabbed almost the whole continent, giving themselves 30 new colonies and...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2025-01-30
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The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, 'no end of a lesson'. The public expected it to be over by Christmas, but it proved to be the longest (two and three-quarter years), the costliest (over £200 million), the bloodiest (at...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2025-01-30
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'A vivid, visceral and crucial read for our times' BETTANY HUGHES'Wonderful and insightful' ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHYThe collapse of law and order in the last years of the Roman Republic told through the rise and fall of its most famous lawyer, Cicero.In its final decades, the...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2025-01-30
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Der Band enthält Analysen zur Geschichte und Kultur zweier Nachbarstaaten, ihrer Verflechtungen und Gegensätze von 1848/49 über den Ersten Weltkrieg, Faschismus und Nationalsozialismus bis in die Gegenwart. Die Beiträge verbindet die Frage, wie Italiener:innen und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-01-30
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A “brilliantly researched and surprising” (Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University) history of Southern segregationists’ long war against interracial relationships, and the century-long fight to restore the freedom to love, marry, and inherit Interracial...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2025-01-28
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A compassionate, practical guidebook for veterans transitioning from active duty to civilian life and for the loved ones supporting their journey. "Challenging yet reassuring....a key addition to every veteran’s packing list ." --Stan McChrystal,...
Editeur :
Balance
Parution :
2025-01-28
ePub
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'Mama, it's me.' I held her hand in mine, hoping it would give her the strength to hold on. Finally, she spoke, her voice barely above a whisper.'Do not cry when I die.'From invasion to liberation, September 1939 to April 1945, as Renee was marched from ghetto to camp,...
Editeur :
Seven Dials
Parution :
2025-01-23
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Studiando le modalità con cui le élites italiane parteciparono alla gestione amministrativa, politica, militare e religiosa della Monarchia ispanica, questo libro evidenzia i vari gradi e forme del loro contributo all’egemonia spagnola. Lo studio si inserisce nei...
Editeur :
Publications de l'École française de Rome
Parution :
2025-01-23
Collection :
Collection de l'École française de Rome
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