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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...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-11-11
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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-09
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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-09
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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...
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Springer
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2024-11-09
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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...
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Springer VS
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2024-11-08
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'A fascinating study of historical mythmaking . . . concise and absorbing'Paul Freedman, author of Out of the East'Lively, original and fascinating'David Abulafia, Literary Review'An enthralling study . . . exceptionally fascinating'Washington PostRodrigo Díaz lived a...
Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2024-11-07
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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...
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Short Books
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2024-11-07
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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...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-11-06
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By using informers to provide intelligence on terrorism, the security and intelligence agencies who handle them gain knowledge of their offences. Charges may then be brought against them, provided evidence supports this course of action. But if imprisoned, an informer...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-06
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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
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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-05
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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
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2024-11-05
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An intricate portrayal of the early American settlers who came to be known as Scotch-Irish, who through collusion and bloody conflict acted as the tip of the spear for white colonial expansion into Indian lands, embodying what became the American pioneer spirit.
Hard...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-11-04
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“Let the muse of history be silent, and make way for genetics.” Jean Tulard
“Fascinating.” Jean-Noël Fabiani, Professor Emeritus, Chair of the History of Medicine
Until recent years, many mysteries and rumors have surrounded Napoleon. Was Napoleon's body taken by the...
Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
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2024-11-04
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The dramatic story of a mutiny aboard an eighteenth-century British ship and how its owners effectively rallied the power of the British Crown to protect their investment and expand their wealth and political power across multiple generations.
In 1768, the British...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-11-04
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This book provides a unique history of the Porcelain Road against the backdrop of Chinese and Western cultural exchanges. Written by one of China’s most influential scholars, it introduces the history of Chinese Porcelain, especially the history of the imperial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-01
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This book explores the seemingly unstoppable turn away from Europe and towards Asian powers, notably China, on the part of the Russian state in the early 21st century. Ongoing global changes, the growing complexity of international interactions and internal political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-01
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This book analyses the political discourse and activities of the constitutionalist-monarchist wing of the Polish Great Emigration, which saw the emigration of several thousand people from the territory of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1831 to 1864,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-31
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Exploring the entwined histories of British royal visits to Southern Africa in the twentieth century, this book analyses the clashing voices of dissent and cheering crowds that accompanied royal tours, providing insight into the shifting nature of ‘Black loyalism.’...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-31
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This book explores the core concept of Chinese ancient architecture from a multidisciplinary perspective. It aims to contribute to the development, inheritance, and protection of Chinese ancient architectural culture, while also benefiting the sustainable development of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-10-31
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