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America's preeminent naval historian offers a history of the Second World War based on the experiences of the young officers--fresh out of the United States Naval Academy--who served on its front lines.
They arrived in Annapolis as teenagers the year Hitler...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-05-05
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Aracy de Carvalho (1908-2011), 'Righteous Among the Nations', saved German Jews by facilitating their emigration to Brazil in the late 1930s, while working at the Brazilian consulate in Hamburg. Margarethe Levy (1908-2011), who left for Brazil shortly after...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-04-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Until recently, historians tended to...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-04-30
Format(s) : PDF
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This book provides an in-depth exploration of how Liang Qichao's political and intellectual thought was shaped by Japanese influences during his exile, offering a fresh perspective on modern Chinese intellectual history. It examines Liang’s engagement with Japan’s...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-04-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Ludger Kühnhardt, a globally active political scientist, consultant, and publicist, provides vivid and personal insights into the people and sources that shaped him, the thought paths he has followed, and the impulses his work in research and teaching has triggered over...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-04-29
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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A New York Times Bestseller From actor, comedian, writer, and host of the hit history podcast SNAFU, Ed Helms brings you an absurdly entertaining look at history’s biggest blunders, complete with lively illustrations. History contains a...
Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2025-04-29
Format(s) : ePub
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This book offers a compelling exploration into the untold history and social dynamics of Indian engineers. Through a series of ten insightful essays, it brings together the perspectives of social scientists and historians from India, the United States, and France....
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-04-29
Format(s) : ePub
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From actor, comedian, writer, and host of the hit history podcast SNAFU, Ed Helms brings you an absurdly entertaining look at history's greatest screwups, complete with lively illustrations. History contains a plethora of insane screwups-otherwise known as SNAFUs....
Editeur : Wildfire
Parution : 2025-04-29
Format(s) : ePub
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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 : 2025-04-28
Format(s) : ePub
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This book presents a comprehensive account of the history of the Grand Canal of China, which is over 6,000 miles long and more than 2,500 years old. The Grand Canal of China flows through Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang, connecting the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-04-26
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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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 : 2025-04-26
Format(s) : ePub
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'A delightful exploration of one of our most important cultural figures in the community, the postman. Postal Paths journeys around the UK, unearthing forgotten stories... You will never look at a postman in the same way again.' -REBECCA SMITH, author of Rural: The...
Editeur : Monoray
Parution : 2025-04-24
Format(s) : ePub
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Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2025-04-24
Format(s) : ePub
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This book focuses on women’s participation in the Moravian Church during the eighteenth century, focusing on the intentional practice of international marriage and migration that supported their missionary work amongst enslaved populations in the Caribbean. It argues...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-04-24
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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A new perspective on Japanese tactics during the Asia-Pacific War, using remarkable first-hand Japanese source material.Even after eighty years since the end of a conflict that killed at least thirty-five million people, there remains a deep well of bitterness and anger...
Editeur : Wildfire
Parution : 2025-04-24
Format(s) : ePub
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This volume of essays explores how the global city is confronting new forms of crises and disruption. Examining cities in the Caribbean, North America, Africa, the Persian Gulf, Asia and Australia, the essays use literary and cultural analysis to examine the pasts,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-04-23
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This book revisits the history of the international garden city town planning movement in the early twentieth century, focusing on the significance of various forms of 'physical culture' - sport, recreation, leisure, and other active body practices - within...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-04-23
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Making Domesday presents a fresh interpretation of William the Conqueror's survey of England, made possible by a major collaborative study and a new online edition of Exon Domesday, the earliest of the three original manuscripts to survive from the Domesday survey. The...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-04-23
Format(s) : PDF
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In the 1890s, the choice between the gold standard and the free coinage of silver upended American politics. The gold standard linked the United States to the larger international financial system, in which gold was the common denominator. The free coinage of silver...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-04-17
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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