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This much needed new edition provides a complete and essential guide to this fast developing, ever changing and often tense region.This book, fully updated for 2024, examines the origins and development of the events which have dominated the headlines for the last seven...
Editeur : Teach Yourself
Parution : 2024-11-14
Collection :
TY History
Format(s) : ePub
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The Roman Empire's approach to religion has traditionally been described in paradoxical terms. On the one hand, Rome has often been regarded as almost proverbially tolerant, as well as highly flexible in its dealings with the diverse range of religious cults and...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-11-14
Format(s) : PDF
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This handbook provides the first comprehensive treatment of the Greek cities in the Roman Empire. The poleis are studied here both as urban forms, with a specific organization of space and specific public buildings, and as socio-political entities, with specific...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-11-13
Format(s) : PDF
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In the period from the close of the Napoleonic Wars up through the immediate post-World-War II era the image of Martin Luther was transposed in Germany from a religious reformer and advocate of freedom to a symbol of völkisch nationalist identity, such that with the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-11-13
Format(s) : PDF
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The book is concerned with the history of football and its role in Balkan society.The aim is to analyse and discuss various aspects of football as a social and political phenomenon. Collectively the authors address the following themes: football's political background...
Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2024-11-11
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book is a theoretical study of China's maritime development and maritime humanities and social sciences, as well as a study of China's maritime historiography. China is a large country with both land and sea, rich in biodiversity, and the ocean is an important...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2024-11-09
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book examines the search for ‘occult’ or hidden forces in the two centuries after Newton’s theory of gravity. It investigates how history has simplified the work of some of the key figures of the age, presenting them as ‘legitimate’ and removing their more complex...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-11-09
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book examines British eugenics from its origins in 1865 to the early 1990s. It considers the two institutions promoting the doctrine: the Galton Laboratory attached to the University of London; and the Eugenics Society. It charts internal and ideological changes...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-11-09
Collection :
Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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In dieser sozialhistorischen Monographie werden die beiden Theologen Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) und Martin Rade (1857–1940) in einer transatlantischen Gegenüberstellung miteinander verglichen, wobei ein besonderer Schwerpunkt auf die politisch-soziale Dimension...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2024-11-08
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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THE TIMES BOOK OFTHE WEEKNamed one of The Telegraph's 'Best Biographies of the Year 2024'Queen Victoria had forty-two grandchildren but the four Princesses of Hesse were held in her particular favour. After the sudden death of her daughter Alice, Queen Victoria took an...
Editeur : Short Books
Parution : 2024-11-07
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
16,99€ (-94%)
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Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2024-11-07
Format(s) : ePub
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This book tells the remarkable life of Balthild of Francia (c. 633-80), a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon slave who became a queen of France. Described in contemporary sources as beautiful and intelligent, she rose to power through her marriage to the short-lived King...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2024-11-06
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Subjugate the Earth traces the biography of a strange idea: the idea that human beings can subdue nature and rule over it. Born in Mesopotamia at the dawn of civilization, the idea of subjugating the Earth was included in the Bible, reached Europe through Christianity,...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-11-05
Format(s) : ePub
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 GILDER LEHRMAN LINCOLN PRIZE From the New York Times bestselling presidential biographer comes the greatest untold story of the Civil War: how two American presidents faced off as the fate of the nation hung in the...
Editeur : Little, Brown and Company
Parution : 2024-11-05
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
15,99€ (-13%)
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Historical research into female entrepreneurs has become a burgeoning field in recent years. However, there is still a lack of studies of businesswomen based on their personal documents, and such documents seem to be rare. This book, an appraisal of the nineteenth- and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-11-05
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Called upon to judge a painful affair bordering on the unspeakable, the Eumenides, guardians of destiny and divine law, delve into a tapestry of moral conflict, where blood calls for blood and the shadows of the past mingle with the aspirations of an unknown future. In...
Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2024-11-05
Format(s) : epub sans DRM
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Into the dark folds of human destiny, Aeschylus, undisputed master of Greek tragedy, leads us through the tormented events of “Libation Bearers,” the second part of the Oresteia. The scene opens on a mystery shrouded in the shadows of the past, where vengeance and...
Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2024-11-05
Format(s) : epub sans DRM
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An intense drama, in some passages lacerating, Aeschylus' “Suppliant Maidens” takes us on a journey where the echo of supplications resonates with the force of pain that only a war can cause. The daughters of Danaus, fugitives seeking asylum, amid the flames of war and...
Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2024-11-05
Format(s) : epub sans DRM
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The city of Thebes is besieged by seven valiant warriors, each armed with his own ardor and ambition. But it is not just a war of swords and shields: beneath the surface of battle lies the inexorable design of fate, orchestrated by divine forces that test men's courage...
Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2024-11-05
Format(s) : epub sans DRM
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With “Persians”, Aeschylus transports us to a time when the glory of an empire falters under the weight of its own ambitions. In this drama the echo of lost battles resounds within the ancient walls of Susa, as the once valiant and feared Persian soldiers mourn the...
Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2024-11-05
Format(s) : epub sans DRM
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