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This book is a major new history of capitalism that takes account of the material and ecological underpinnings of productive activity as well as the social, political and institutional dimensions of economic life. It retraces the history of capitalism over a long time...
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Polity
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2025-10-15
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This book examines the critical role played by colonial peripheries, specifically British India, in shaping the development of zoology and other disciplines emerging from 19th-century natural history. Through an analysis of publications such as the monumental Fauna of...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-15
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The Sports Palace speech was the climax of a campaign for 'total war'; the prime example of Nazi 'mass suggestion', a barrage of propaganda, seduction, and manipulation.
On the 18th of February 1943 Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels made a speech in the Berlin...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-14
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This book describes the process of collectivisation policy and the "collectivisation movement" in Mongolia in the 20th century, which affected the entire agricultural sector and resulted in the "socialisation" of livestock.This brought about changes in the use of land...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-13
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On 10 July 1943, British soldiers landed in south-eastern Sicily as part of a major Allied invasion. As they fought their way northwards through the Italian peninsula, they frequently encountered local populations, imposing a forced cohabitation that would have a...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-11
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This Palgrave Pivot is a personal and universal history of gain and loss. Via memoir and oral histories, Sharony Green, a native of Miami with ancestral roots in the American South and the Bahamas, sheds light on ups and down of African American residents before and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-10
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This book investigates environmental issues traced through the epistolography of the late Byzantine period, which spans roughly the end of the twelfth century to the mid-fifteenth century. The book's overarching goal is to shed light on the complex ways in which the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-10
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Frank Sayi grew up in the 1970s in Mawabeni, a native reserve in colonial Rhodesia, a country under white minority rule, governed by Ian Smith's illegal regime. Reserves were places of repression and containment. There seemed toFrank to be no difference between...
Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2025-10-09
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A HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEARA definitive and refreshingly readable new translation of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War, paired with a brilliant introduction on how to read and understand Thucydides.Thucydides called his work a "possession for all time,"...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2025-10-09
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'At last, a history of the Roman state as it has always been crying out to be told, and never has been!' RODERICK BEATONThe greatest empire in Western history - told as never been told before.Rome is often remembered for its spectacular collapse. But for over two...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2025-10-09
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Petitioning was the main route by which the agency of subjects engaged the authority of rulers. Most studies explore it as a practice for sending requests to central and local representatives of state power in empires, kingdoms, and city-states. Yet the practice occurs...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-08
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We are used to thinking that the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s was an essentially Western phenomenon. The surge in pornographic production, effective oral contraception, and new developments in fashion and popular culture all seem to be inextricably linked...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-08
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Greek Personal Names in Egypt provides a comprehensive overview ofGreek onomastics in Egypt from the Ptolemaic to the Late Byzantine period, highlighting the rich and diverse onomastic landscape and paying special attention to diachronic change. The work explores naming...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-08
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The ideal of the rule of law - that the law should protect all citizens from arbitrary exercises of power - can be traced from ancient Greece to the present day.The Roman contribution to the rule of law tradition has been largely overlooked, however, both in rule-of-law...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-08
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In Aboriginal-Colonial Exchanges in New South Wales, 1800-1835, Annemarie McLaren re-tells key elements of the foundational story of Australia: the meeting between Indigenous people and colonists and the entangled world that resulted. She does so through a nuanced and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-08
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The passion play at Oberammergau in Bavaria is one of the oldest theatrical spectacles in the world, with a history of regular performance that dates back to 1634. By the dawn of the twentieth century, each season drew hundreds of thousands of spectators from Europe,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-08
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Solidarity and Pressure is the first full-length study of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM). Founded in April 1964, the IAAM spearheaded fundraising efforts, organized events, lobbied Irish politicians, and actively promoted the struggle against Apartheid South...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-08
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Solidarity and Pressure is the first full-length study of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM). Founded in April 1964, the IAAM spearheaded fundraising efforts, organized events, lobbied Irish politicians, and actively promoted the struggle against Apartheid South...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-08
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So many of the world's sports have their origins in Britain. Why is this? How did sports innovate and evolve in step with social upheaval, and political and cultural change? Why did British forms of play become so influential around the world?
Richard Holt explores...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-08
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This volume presents the first edition and translation of the Dyalogus de potentia summi pontifices, a little known, fragmentary work of fourteenth-century political theory by the Dominican Dondinus of Pavia. Dedicated to the Avignon Pope John XXII (1316-1334), it...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-07
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