Télécharger le livre :  Working-Class Courtship, Marriage, and Divorce in Scotland, 1855–1939
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Working-Class Courtship, Marriage, and Divorce in Scotland, 1855–1939


Katie Barclay , Eleanor Gordon , Jeff Meek


This is the first book-length study of the history of working-class courtship and marriage in Scotland, from the establishment of civil registration to the introduction in 1939 of legislation which abolished irregular marriage and introduced civil marriage. Adopting a...

Parution : 2025-10-25
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Battle for the Past
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The Battle for the Past


Ivan Kurilla


This book is about the dramatic changes that the world is witnessing in its attitude toward the past. For the first time in many generations, ordinary citizens around the globe have burst into disputes about history that were previously the province of politicians and...

Parution : 2025-10-25
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Queerness in the Early Modern Russian Orthodox Church
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Queerness in the Early Modern Russian Orthodox Church


Nick Mayhew


Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church today often frame queer genders and sexualities as perverse deviations from ‘tradition’. While historians often assume the Church has always condemned homosexuality, this book reassesses the supposed...

Parution : 2025-10-24
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  A Short History of Ancient Rome
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A Short History of Ancient Rome


Pascal Hughes


'Packed with more detail and colour than many books twice its size, Hughes brings the epic story of Rome vividly to life.'PAUL COOPER, HOST AND AUTHOR OF FALL OF CIVILIZATIONSExperience the sights, sounds and smells of the Roman world, and meet its most intriguing and...

Parution : 2025-10-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Ancient Myths and Legends Without Men
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Ancient Myths and Legends Without Men


Mara Gold


Rediscover legendary tales from Ancient Mythology, centred around the stories of women, perfect for fans of Mythos, Circe, Pandora and Clytemnestra in this beautifully-illustrated bold feminist retelling of ancient mythological stories, written by expert classicist Mara...

Parution : 2025-10-23
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Ebury Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  The Nuclear Age
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The Nuclear Age


Serhii Plokhy


'Few historians write with Serhii Plokhy’s authority, clarity or global vision... Essential reading, and a marvellous book' Peter FrankopanFrom the bestselling author of Chernobyl comes a sweeping history of the geopolitics behind the nuclear arms race, from the first...

Parution : 2025-10-21
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Zero Generation Holocaust Literature
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Zero Generation Holocaust Literature


Adam J. Goldwyn


This book is about “zero generation” witness literature: texts written by those who died in the Holocaust and who knew, at the time of their writing, that they would not survive. As such, they offer a unique perspective that differs from the more widely read...

Parution : 2025-10-19
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Nourishing Networks
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Nourishing Networks


Ashley Rose Young


For much of the Crescent City's history, days began with the cries of roaming street vendors and the percussive thwack of butchers' meat cleavers echoing out from the municipal markets. Generations of New Orleanians--Black and white, enslaved and free, men and women,...

Parution : 2025-10-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Vom Kalten Krieg zum Ukraine-Krieg
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Vom Kalten Krieg zum Ukraine-Krieg


Jan Solwyn


Dieses Buch untersucht die politisch-historischen Hintergründe des russisch-ukrainischen Konflikts und ordnet insbesondere den seit 2014 eskalierenden Krieg bis hin zur großflächigen Invasion Russlands im Jahr 2022 in einen breiten historischen Kontext...

Parution : 2025-10-17
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Éditeur : Springer VS
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Télécharger le livre :  The Zorg
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The Zorg


Siddharth Kara


'A horrific tale of the slave trade, destined to become a classic' New York TimesFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Cobalt Red, discover the incredible true story and page-turning account of the 18th century slave ship, often known as the Zong yet actually...

Parution : 2025-10-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Worlds of Wartime
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Worlds of Wartime


Duncan Kelly


The First World War hardly ended with the formal Armistice in Europe on November 11, 1918, amid the continuing violence of blockades and epidemics, amid numerous forms of reconstruction and revolution. Its legacies, in fact, resonate deeply in our present. Nor is it...

Parution : 2025-10-16
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Rulers and Raptors
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Rulers and Raptors


Nadir Weber


Rulers and Raptors argues that by studying animal biographies we gain a new perspective on early modern court society. Combining court studies and historical animal studies, it brings together two vibrant but rarely combined fields of research and shows how the presence...

Parution : 2025-10-16
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Deaf People, Language, and Emancipation in Modern France, 1789–1914
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Deaf People, Language, and Emancipation in Modern France, 1789–1914


Sabine Arnaud


Following the death in 1789 of Abbé de l'Epée, the first teacher of deaf pupils renowned in France and beyond, revolutionaries committed to founding national institutes for the education of deaf pupils. There was little doubt about their ability to integrate as full...

Parution : 2025-10-16
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Once Upon a Time in Space
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Once Upon a Time in Space


James Bluemel


Featuring stunning full-colour photography from both personal collections of astronauts and NASA’s archives, the human story of space is told through intimate and powerful testimonies from the astronauts, scientists, engineers and space tourists who have lived it.It’s...

Parution : 2025-10-16
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Éditeur : Bbc Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  Writing Zoological Natural History for British India
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Writing Zoological Natural History for British India


John Mathew


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...

Parution : 2025-10-15
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Earth Capital
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Earth Capital


Alessandro Stanziani


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...

Parution : 2025-10-15
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Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Goebbels and 'Total War'
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Goebbels and 'Total War'


Peter Longerich , Jeremy Noakes , Lesley Sharpe


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...

Parution : 2025-10-14
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Land Relations in Mongolia During the Collectivization Movement
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Land Relations in Mongolia During the Collectivization Movement


Turdalai Radnaased


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...

Parution : 2025-10-13
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Encounters in Wartime Italy
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Encounters in Wartime Italy


Fabio Simonetti


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...

Parution : 2025-10-11
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Voices from a Black Miami Neighborhood
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Voices from a Black Miami Neighborhood


Sharony Green


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...

Parution : 2025-10-10
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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