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Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours helping her to get dressed and undressed, caring for her clothes and jewels, listening to her...
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2024-04-25
Format(s) : ePub
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This book offers a detailed case study of the transfer of ownership to Nigeria in November 2022 of the 72 artworks in the Horniman’s collections looted by the British from Benin City in 1897, as an occasion to explore the current state of the issue of restitution of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-04-25
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Editeur : Wildfire
Parution : 2024-04-25
Format(s) : ePub
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6,99€ (-86%)
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Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow. The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramatic and dangerous period of the Cold War. What's less well known is...
Editeur : PublicAffairs
Parution : 2024-04-23
Format(s) : ePub
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16,99€ (-12%)
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This book is the first to explore street names and street-naming in the formation of a Greek-Cypriot identity in the cityscape of Nicosia between 1878 and 1975. Rather than treating toponymy as a direct linguistic act of spatial orientation, the book approaches...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-04-23
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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An entertaining and deeply insightful history of a decade that matters more than we think: the 1990s.
Nearly a quarter century after the decade of the 1990s ended, what really mattered in America during that era is finally coming into focus. Many of the most important...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2024-04-23
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This volume of newly commissioned essays marks a collaborative effort among scholars of ancient Greece and early China to investigate discourses of emotions in ancient philosophy, medicine, and literature from c. 5th century BCE-2nd century CE. The aim is to bring...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2024-04-23
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin and was remarkable for both its diversity and its uniformity. As Greeks dispersed throughout the Mediterranean, the different environmental and human...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2024-04-23
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The first history of the formidable campaign that transformed Los Angeles into one of the world's greatest coastal metropolises, revealing how the city's man-made shores became the site for the reinvention of seaside leisure and the triumph of modern bodies.
The Los...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2024-04-23
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The woman scientist who saved Americans from thalidomide
In the early 1960s, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration became one of the most celebrated women in America when she prevented a deadly sedative from entering the U.S. market. A...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2024-04-23
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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For over a thousand years, the practice of animal sacrifice held a central place in ancient Graeco-Roman culture as a means of both demonstrating piety to the gods and structuring social relationships. As Christianity took root in Rome in the third century CE, the...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2024-04-23
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book challenges the definition of a new approach for integrating protection and enhancing the Chinese heritage category of “Traditional Villages”. By applying a specific case study in the Hancheng context, Shaanxi Province, which lacks sound studies, the book...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2024-04-23
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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It was where World War II began on September 1, 1939. Its wartime experience was immortalized in Günter Grass`s The Tin Drum. Later it attracted worldwide attention as the site where workers` strikes led by Lech Walesa and the ensuing Solidarity movement led to the fall...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2024-04-23
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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From the Emmy Award-winning Squid Game to streaming sensations like The Glory and Crash Landing on You, Korean television has emerged onto the global pop culture scene as compelling television—but what exactly makes these shows so irresistibly bingeable?...
Editeur : Running Press Adult
Parution : 2024-04-23
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
12,99€ (-8%)
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In diesem Buch wird beschrieben, wie Forscher:innen in der Zeit des Kalten Kriegs die Meinungen von Expert:innen nutzten, um Prognosen über Entwicklungen von geopolitischer Bedeutung zu konstruieren. Am Beispiel der RAND Corporation, einer US-amerikanischen Denkfabrik...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2024-04-22
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 on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The period between the 1960s and the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-04-22
Format(s) : PDF
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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 on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The period between the 1960s and the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-04-22
Format(s) : ePub
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This book deals with the complex process of national identity formation in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic, during a crucial period characterized by transformative events that reshaped both the state and society. These events included revolutions,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-04-17
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present (1843) was a prophetic warning of impending disaster for mid-Victorian Britain that was delivered in what the author described as a 'miraculous thunder-voice, from out of the centre of the world.' The impact of Carlyle's social...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-04-16
Format(s) : PDF
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Who were Romania’s diplomatic representatives in the Balkans during the Second World War? How did they select and forward information? What personal mark did they add to negotiations and diplomatic notes? What was the relationship between the career diplomats and the...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2024-04-16
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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