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"The first childhood memory I have of my father is linked to the destruction of empires--the collapse of a world order that had once seemed eternal." So begins Avraham Burg's authoritative and deeply personal inquiry into the ambitions and failures of Israel and Judaism...
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Bold Type Books
Parution :
2018-01-09
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Provides an all-encompassing look at the history of Russia, Central Asia, and Mongolia Beginning with the breakup of the Mongol Empire in the mid-thirteenth century, Volume II of this comprehensive work covers the remarkable history of “Inner Eurasia,” from 1260 up to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-01-08
Collection :
Blackwell History of the World
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James Raven, a leading historian of the book, offers a fresh and accessible guide to the global study of the production, dissemination and reception of written and printed texts across all societies and in all ages. Students, teachers, researchers and general readers...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-01-08
Collection :
What is History?
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The biography of the last Ranee of Sarawak, born into the aristocracy as Sylvia Brett in 1885 and destined to become 'Queen of the Headhunters'.'Jaw-dropping ... If you thought White Mischief the last word in English expatriate decadence, you haven't yet met Sylvia and...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2018-01-04
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The life of one of the greatest British Prime Ministers - by an author who knows the scene from his years as a senior Minister in Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet.Robert Peel (1788-1850), as much as any man in the nineteenth century, transformed Great Britain into a modern...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2017-12-28
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The Royal College of Physicians celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2018, and to observe this landmark is publishing this series of ten books. Each of the books focuses on fifty themed elements that have contributed to making the RCP what it is today, together adding up...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2017-12-21
Collection :
500 Reflections on the RCP, 1518-2018
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The third edition of What is Military History? has been thoroughly updated, and includes a new bibliography and new case studies on naval warfare and the origins of war, as well as expanded sections on historiography, environmental history and world history. This...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-12-21
Collection :
What is History?
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Unlike works inherited from Greek or Roman Antiquity, writings from Mesopotamian civilization all come from excavations. Assyriologists work with clay tablets engraved with cuneiform characters. They piece together fragments of texts and organize them chronologically...
Editeur :
Collège de France
Parution :
2017-12-19
Collection :
Leçons inaugurales
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2019 PROSE Award finalist in the Classics category!A Social and Cultural History of Late Antiquity examines the social and cultural landscape of the Late Antique Mediterranean. The text offers a picture of everyday life as it was lived in the spaces around and between...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-12-18
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Social and Cultural Histories of the Ancient World
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An award-winning historian argues that America's obsession with security imperils our democracy in this "compelling" portrait of cultural anxiety (Mary L. Dudziak, author of War Time). For the last sixty years, fear has seeped into every area of American life: Americans...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2017-12-12
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Colin Heywood's classic account of childhood from the early Middle Ages to the First World War combines a long-run historical perspective with a broad geographical spread. This new, comprehensively updated edition incorporates the findings of the most recent research,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-12-08
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What Is the History of Emotions? offers an accessible path through the thicket of approaches, debates, and past and current trends in the history of emotions. Although historians have always talked about how people felt in the past, it is only in the last two decades...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-12-08
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Tells the story of how America’s biggest companies began, operated, and prospered post-World War I This book takes the vantage point of people working within companies as they responded to constant change created by consumers and technology. It focuses on the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-11-30
Collection :
The American History Series
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Die mailändische Zeitschrift «Biblioteca italiana» wurde 1816 auf Betreiben der österreichischen Regierung gegründet. Oft als reines Verlautbarungsblatt Österreichs von der Risorgimento-Forschung vernachlässigt, zeigt die vorliegende Studie, dass die in der Zeitschrift...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-11-27
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Diese Studie widmet sich der Entwicklung des modernen Sozial- und Interventionsstaates im Australien des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sie zeigt, dass der australische Sozialstaat unterschiedliche historische Einflüsse amalgamiert. Die Steuerfinanzierung von Sozialleistungen, das...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-11-27
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Am 23. Januar 1930, drei Jahre vor der sogenannten Machtergreifung, trat in Thüringen die erste Landesregierung mit nationalsozialistischer Beteiligung zusammen. Die Autorin wirft erstmals einen Blick hinter die Kulissen der Baum-Frick-Regierung und offenbart ihre...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-11-27
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Did You Know? This book is available as a Wiley E-Text. The Wiley E-Text is a complete digital version of the text that makes time spent studying more efficient. Course materials can be accessed on a desktop, laptop, or mobile device—so that learning can take place...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-11-23
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The story of an ambitious family at the forefront of the great middle-class land grab that shaped early American capitalismAmerican Aristocrats is a multigenerational biography of the Andersons of Kentucky, a family of strivers who passionately believed in the promise...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2017-11-21
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Provides a new narrative history of the ancient world, from the beginnings of civilization in the ancient Near East and Egypt to the fall of Constantinople Written by an expert in the field, this book presents a narrative history of Babylon from the time of its First...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-11-20
Collection :
Blackwell History of the Ancient World
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The Gilded Age is in the air! This beautifully designed, fully illustrated, insightful book by noted historian Alan Axelrod provides a vivid view of American life and thought during that era. The Gilded Age—the name coined by Mark Twain to refer to the...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2017-11-14
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