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"Talkin’ Greenwich Village is impeccably researched, elegantly written and consistently fascinating."--New York Times "Browne relates the extensive cast of characters and historical events with journalistic clarity and cinematic scope--so much so...
Editeur : Da Capo
Parution : 2024-09-17
Format(s) : ePub
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13,99€ (-7%)
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This book is strongly related to two essential features of human life: migratory movements and metaphors. Migratory movements can be undoubtedly defined as an enduring characteristic of our global history. As history and literature, from the Homeric poems to the Bible,...
Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2024-09-16
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Why does antisemitic messaging strike a chord in certain communities without Jews but fall flat in neighboring communities equally without Jews? This book focuses on antipathy towards Jews - expressed through successful electoral campaigns where a candidate or...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-09-14
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Taking as its starting point an investigation into the physical topography and symbolism of the two cities of Athens and Jerusalem, this book offers a cultural history of the rival superpowers—the Byzantine Empire and Fatimid Caliphate—that between them dominated the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-09-14
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Geleitet von einer verbreiteten Vermutung wird danach gefragt, ob die relative Schwäche eines Gegners oder die Wahrnehmung besonderer Verwundbarkeit des jeweiligen Kontrahenten, also von günstigen Gelegenheiten für einen Angriff, tatsächlich den Ausbruch von offenen...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2024-09-13
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This open access book sheds light on collective practices of remembering, imagining and anticipating in relation to recent acts of urban terrorism in Europe. Analysing a range of personal and collective responses to urban terrorism in contemporary Europe, this book...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-09-13
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Celebrate the wit and wisdom of Winston Churchill with this collection of inspiring quotesSir Winston Churchill had a wonderful way with words, motivating the masses with his quips, statements and speeches, and he is regarded as a British hero. His inspirational...
Editeur : Summersdale
Parution : 2024-09-12
Format(s) : ePub
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13,99€ (-43%)
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Editeur : Riverrun
Parution : 2024-09-12
Format(s) : ePub
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Historians have long used biography and life narratives as a means of understanding the French Revolution, as classic studies on major figures such as Robespierre and Napoleon attest. At the current moment, however, many of the most creative such studies are focusing on...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-09-12
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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'A crucial and compelling read' NATALIE COLLINS @GodLovesWomen'The story of Josephine Butler is astonishing, shocking, inspiring, recounted here by a narrator who understands the very core of her subject. A powerful read.' CLAIRE GILBERT, author of I, Julian'When...
Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2024-09-12
Format(s) : ePub
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This book weaves together theories of pre-Columbian trans-Pacific contact between Oceania and the Americas and analyses them from a history of ideas perspective. Despite limited factual evidence, trans-Pacific contact theories between the Americas and Oceania have been...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-09-11
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Today, the majority of the peoples of the planet live in nation-states, based upon the idea, if never the reality, of a single people, a single culture, a single rule of law and a single source of sovereign authority. But will they continue to do so in the future? None...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-09-11
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book is the first critical anthology in English on the history and legacy of race in the Caribbean. It brings together the major debates, lines of inquiry, and theories around race and racism that have emerged out of the Caribbean from the beginning of European...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-09-11
Collection :
Critical South
Format(s) : ePub
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From an award-winning historian, a new global history of Communism When the USSR collapsed in 1991, the world was certain that Communism was dead. Today, three decades later, it is clear that it was not. While Russia may no longer be Communist, Communism and...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2024-09-10
Format(s) : ePub
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17,99€ (-11%)
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From a social critic and journalist, a poignant book that encourages publicly grieving what we've lost in order to move towards a hopeful future. Our era is one of significant and substantial loss, of unraveling hopes and expectations, of dreams curtailed, of...
Editeur : Bold Type Books
Parution : 2024-09-10
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
16,99€ (-12%)
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The stories of hibakusha - Japanese for atomic bomb survivors - lie at the heart of this compelling minute-by-minute account of 6 August 1945 - the day the world changed forever as the Enola Gay dropped its payload over Hiroshima, ushering in the nuclear age. These...
Editeur : Headline Press
Parution : 2024-09-10
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
9,49€ (-90%)
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Klimonas is the oldest Mediterranean island village. Occupied ca. 8 800 cal BC, it postpones by several centuries the Neolithic presence in Cyprus, at that time located more than 80 km offshore. The village extended over more than 5,500 m2, facing the sea, 2 km from the...
Editeur : CNRS Éditions via OpenEdition
Parution : 2024-09-09
Collection :
Gallia Préhistoire Supplément
Format(s) : PDF sans DRM
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The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism is the first detailed and critical study of the intellectual and political connections that existed between some German scholars specializing on India, non-academic 'India experts,' Indian anti-colonialists and various...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-09-09
Format(s) : ePub
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For centuries, the Roman aristocracy encoded its social and cultural superiority in classical poetry. In the late Roman world, however, Christian poets--especially those in the outlying provinces of Gaul--began to experiment with poetry as a medium for exploring and...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2024-09-09
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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