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Following the defeat of the Paris Commune in May 1871, thousands of Commune militants fled France to avoid imprisonment, deportation, or death. As a result, and due in large part to Britain's liberal asylum policy, around 3500 refugees arrived in Britain in the early...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-05-14
Format(s) : PDF
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The late-eighteenth-century 'age of revolutions' has long been identified as a key moment in the gendering of modern democratic politics, one which opened up new debates on the 'rights of women' while often re-affirming the masculinity of the political citizen. In...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-05-14
Format(s) : PDF
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This book volume presents a nuanced perspective on comprehending power and authority in Indian history by offering a collection of case studies from different regions of India from different periods. The chapters in the book shed light on the sociological, cultural,...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-05-13
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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"McNally masterfully combines many disparate lineages of political, social, art, and pop history into one singular, sweeping portrait. The result is a stunning vision of a broad and powerful idealism that gripped the world for more than two...
Editeur : Da Capo
Parution : 2025-05-13
Format(s) : ePub
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A gripping chronicle of the relentless fight for Black educational freedom—and the bold strategies to protect, nourish, and empower Black minds. The Battle for the Black Mind is an explosive historical account of the struggle for...
Editeur : Legacy Lit
Parution : 2025-05-13
Format(s) : ePub
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The astonishing inside story of the Wagner Group, the world’s deadliest militia—“a must-read for anyone interested in the future of Russia and how to counter the Kremlin’s wars” (H. R. McMaster) In June 2023, the Wagner Group assembled...
Editeur : PublicAffairs
Parution : 2025-05-13
Format(s) : ePub
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThis is the untold story of the rediscovery of the ancient City of David in Jerusalem and the powerful evidence that proves the Jewish people’s historical and indigenous connection to the Holy Land. Since the founding of...
Editeur : Center Street
Parution : 2025-05-13
Format(s) : ePub
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This book explores the history of the Holocaust in relation to Latin America. It is estimated that about 100,000 Jewish refugees immigrated to the region between 1933 and 1945. Despite the critical role Latin America played in sheltering Jewish refugees from...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-05-12
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The Midwest region holds a pivotal place in the tapestry of American history.The Oxford Handbook of Midwestern History delves into this rich heritage with chapters on topics ranging from the early Native American and French Midwest to the impact of the Northwest...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-05-09
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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From Sergeant Stubby to Antis the radar dog, meet the heroic hounds who put their lives on the line in this inspiring compendium of real-life war dog storiesWe all know that a dog is a human's best friend, but they are even more than that. The truth is that these...
Editeur : Summersdale
Parution : 2025-05-08
Format(s) : ePub
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5,49€ (-82%)
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The former head of Lockheed's SKUNK WORKS reveals the amazing story of the secret aircraft that changed the course of history - from the U-2 to the Stealth Fighter. A must-read for anyone interested in aviation, advanced technologies, Cold War history, and thrilling...
Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2025-05-08
Format(s) : ePub
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A powerful, unsparing new history of World War II, recasting the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers. In popular memory, World War II was an unalloyed victory for freedom over totalitarianism, marking the demise of...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2025-05-08
Format(s) : ePub
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The little boy did not cry or speak. He just stood there and stared at me intensely. With great effort I stood up and tested to see if I could walk with my injured foot. When I did, he came to stand even closer to me and, without saying a word, grabbed my little finger...
Editeur : Monoray
Parution : 2025-05-08
Format(s) : ePub
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During the 1950s and first half of the 1960s the Indonesian Communist Party grew from a few thousand members to become the third largest communist party in the world, before it was annihilated in a violent purge in 1965-6 that saw perhaps half a million alleged...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-05-07
Format(s) : PDF
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This book follows the campaign to disestablish religion in Virginia from 1776 to 1786, when Thomas Jefferson’s bill to establish religious freedom was passed.This volume seeks to tell the story of Jefferson and James Madison’s collaboration with...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-05-06
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The first volume of the landmark study, tracing the emergence and formation of sociological thought from the French liberal school to the Marxists Main Currents in Sociological Thought remains a foundational synthesis in the field. In this first part of his...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2025-05-06
Format(s) : ePub
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The second volume of the landmark study, examining the work of sociology’s defining thinkers from the turn of the nineteenth century to the interwar periodMain Currents in Sociological Thought remains a foundational synthesis in the field. In this second and final...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2025-05-06
Format(s) : ePub
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Weaving together poetry, personal narrative, and never-before-seen documents from the Jefferson Lewis Edmonds' family archive, Arianne Edmonds provides a wide-ranging look at how the Black Press of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries defined Black...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-05-05
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book is a biographical study of unprecedented scope and detail of the celebrated Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland, whose magnificent repertory of old Scottish ballads attracted the fascinated attention of intellectuals and song collectors during the later years...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-05-05
Format(s) : PDF
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This book draws attention to the importance of theoretical problems in archaeological research in China. At present, Chinese archaeology has adoped the traditional culture-historical paradigm, with research themes has mainly focused on chronology and cultural...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-05-05
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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