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Eine Welt – viel Geschichte Weltgeschichte – das ist ein faszinierendes Geflecht aus Abertausenden von Ereignissen, die oft enger verwoben sind, als es auf den ersten Blick scheint. Christa Pöppelmann führt sowohl Laien wie Geschichtsfreaks durch alle Epochen und...
Editeur : Wiley-VCH
Parution : 2025-07-10
Format(s) : ePub
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Editeur : Brazen
Parution : 2025-07-10
Format(s) : ePub
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Have you ever wondered... Who fired the first British shot of the First World War? Who claimed the glory of downing the Red Baron? Who was the first WW1 soldier to receive the Victoria Cross?Telling the stories of the battles, the aircraft, the weapons, the soldiers,...
Editeur : Summersdale
Parution : 2025-07-10
Format(s) : ePub
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Have you ever wondered... Who was the deadliest sniper of the war? How low did the Dambusters fly? How many ships were sunk at Pearl Harbor?Telling the stories of the Battle of Britain, the Siege of Leningrad, the horrors of the Holocaust, the D-Day landings and the...
Editeur : Summersdale
Parution : 2025-07-10
Format(s) : ePub
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Victory and Celebration traces how athletic success was transformed into broader social and political capital in ancient Greece in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE--how being a good boxer or wrestler, or having a fast son or superior horses was made into something of...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-07-09
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The series of rebellions against royal authority and the violent clashes between aristocratic families that occurred in England between 1455 and 1487 have long been characterized as the 'Wars of the Roses'. Yet, far from being a continuous period of civil war, the Wars...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-07-09
Format(s) : PDF
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The introduction of the principle of women's reproductive liberty in France, tentatively by the family planning movement after 1960 and explicitly by the women's liberation movement after 1970, marked a deep shift, transforming public discourses. Yet this principle...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-07-09
Format(s) : ePub
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The overseas enterprises of Spain expanded dramatically following the first voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492.The Spanish had already conquered the Canary Islands, which served as a base for the later conquest of lands in the Americas (known as the Indies) that...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-07-09
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The Body and the Senses in Greek Tragedy is the first book to approach the corporeality of Greek drama in terms of its capacity to involve audiences in the construction of meaning, not only on an affective but also on an intellectual level. Afroditi Angelopoulou argues...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-07-09
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Das Buch untersucht die Anwerbung und den Einsatz italienischer Arbeitskräfte in der deutschen Kriegswirtschaft. In einer ersten Phase (1938-1942) waren Einberufung und Beschäftigung Teil des deutsch-italienischen Bündnisses, der...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2025-07-09
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER | INDIE BESTSELLER | New York Times's 10 Books our Readers Are Most Excited About | New York Times's 21 Nonfiction Books Coming This Summer | Boston Globe's Best Books of Summer 2025 | A Publishers Weekly Most...
Editeur : Little, Brown and Company
Parution : 2025-07-08
Format(s) : ePub
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Purses and bags have always been much more than a fashion accessory.
For generations of Americans, the purse has been an essential and highly adaptable object, used to achieve a host of social, cultural, and political objectives. In the early 1800s, when the slim fit...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-07-07
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In this groundbreaking reflection on America's relationship with war in the modern era, Gregory A. Daddis explores the deep-seated tension between faith in and fear of war that has shaped US grand strategy and helped militarize US foreign policy with great costs at home...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-07-07
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Even before we get to introduce ourselves by name, our hair has already started to tell stories about who we are, where we are from and where we are at. Our hair is tangled up in the interplay of race, gender, class, nationality, sexuality, power and beauty. It is an...
Editeur : Coronet
Parution : 2025-07-03
Format(s) : ePub
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Die Entstehung der translatorischen Ausbildung in Deutschland fällt in den Zeitraum von den frühen 1880er Jahren bis in die späten 1940er Jahre. In diesen 70 Jahren wurde mit ersten Institutions- und Methodenbildungen die Grundlage für die heutige translatorische...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2025-07-03
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The 1950s are usually portrayed as conservative, conformist, and apathetic, but was there more to this much-maligned decade than that? In Britain, the convergence of conflicting political moments-the Cold War, the Bomb, the rise of America, the decline of the empire,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-07-02
Format(s) : PDF
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This book explores the automata of the Medici Villa Pratolino, focusing on the intersection of art, engineering, and philosophy in the late sixteenth century. The author examines how these ‘living sculptures’ went beyond traditional Renaissance static forms,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-02
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Dieses Buch fügt der wachsenden Literatur über die Geschichte des Kapitalismus einen entscheidenden Schwerpunkt auf die Moral hinzu, indem es soziale und kulturelle Perspektiven auf die kapitalistische Wirtschaftsordnung in der Moderne untersucht. Die...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2025-07-01
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This book explores sheltered employment for disabled people in the British welfare state, focusing on Remploy as the flagship provider. It considers the fundamental areas of understanding Remploy, in terms of why it was created, how it functioned, who it employed, and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Eighteenth-century accounts of Vienna portray the city as one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse in Europe, yet most scholarship about Viennese music at that time focuses on Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, painting a disproportionately Austro-German picture of...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-06-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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