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Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and accessibility....
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2016-11-21
ePub
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Die Stadt Ekaterinodar in der südrussischen Provinz des Russischen Reiches steht im Mittelpunkt dieses Buchs; sie stellte in vielen Aspekten unter den Provinzstädten einen Sonderfall dar. Der Autor untersucht den Veränderungsprozess von staatlicher Administration zu...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-11-21
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Die out-of-area-Debatte der NATO wurde im untersuchten Zeitraum vom Ausgreifen des Kalten Krieges auf Afrika und Asien sowie von der Kolonialpolitik fünf ihrer Partnerstaaten erfasst.Die Debatte belastete das Bündnis und übte einen maßgeblichen Einfluss auf die Struktur...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-11-21
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WINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZEThe compelling, inspiring, (often comic) coming-of-age story of Trevor Noah, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.One of the comedy world's brightest new voices, Trevor Noah is a light-footed...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2016-11-17
ePub
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Slavery in Small Things:Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits isthe first book to explore the long-range cultural legacy of slavery through commonplace daily objects. Offers a new and original approach to the history of slavery by an acknowledged expert on the topic...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-11-16
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Cocktail marketers and male bartenders like to tell women what we want to drink and it’s usually fruity, frilly, fancy, and pink. In Drink Like a Woman, Jeanette Hurt shakes up barroom expectations, stirs up some new ideas, and pours a lively collection of...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2016-11-15
ePub
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An illuminating, elegant history of New York City, told through the stories of the women who made it the most exciting and influential metropolis in the world Read any history of New York City and you will read about men. You will read about men who were political...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2016-11-15
ePub
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Rather than providing a dictionary of superstitions, of which there are already numerous excellent, exhaustive and, in many cases, academic works which list superstitions from A to Z, Bainton gives us an entertaining flight over the terrain, landing from time to time in...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2016-11-10
Collection :
Mammoth Books
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George Hudson - the eponymous Railway King - started his career with a stroke of luck, inheriting £27,000 (a fortune in 1827) from a distant relative. He invested successfully in the North Midland Railway, then formed his own Midland Railway, raising £5 million and...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2016-11-10
ePub
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On 7 December 1941, an armada of 354 Japanese warplanes launched a surprise attack on the United States, killing 2,403 people and forcing America's entry into the Second World War. With vivid prose and astonishing detail, Craig Nelson combines thrilling historical drama...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2016-11-10
ePub
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This special ebook has been created by historian Saul David from his acclaimed work 100 Days to Victory: How the Great War was Fought and Won, which was described by the Mail on Sunday as 'Inspired' and by Charles Spencer as 'A work of great originality and insight'....
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2016-11-10
ePub
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In this compelling history of the men and ideas that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates and analyses how, within a hundred years, Europeans persuaded and coerced Africa into becoming a subordinate part of the modern world. His...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2016-11-03
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The Battle of the Somme, fought between July and November 1916, was among the bloodiest conflicts of all time.The aim was to end the stalemate on the Western Front - the result was carnage. In a total of just over a hundred days of fighting, the death toll reached...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2016-11-03
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A Victorian Murder.A Victorian Madman.A Modern Judgement.Gateshead, April 1866The Apprentice of Split Crow Lane takes the forgotten case of a child murder in 1866 as a springboard to delve deeply into the pysche of the Victorians. What Jane Housham finds, in this...
Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2016-11-03
ePub
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Andrew Leach’s Rome is the first book in Polity’s exciting new ‘Cities in World History’ series, which aims to provide the general reader and traveller with historically informed companions to the world’s greatest cities. Most city guides are good on practical details...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-11-02
Collection :
Cities in World History
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An intimate, authoritative history of the first black soldiers to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War Soon after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, abolitionists began to call for the creation of black regiments. At first,...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2016-11-01
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The circulation of goods, ideas, and people has shaped a common European food culture. But practical questions pertaining to this process remain unanswered. How and why do changes in food habits occur and what are their implications? What are the social and cultural...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2016-10-31
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SUNDAY TIMES FILM BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Uproariously readable ... Levy is a master of the group biography' Sunday Times'Teeming with satisfying gossipy details' Guardian'Exalts the intoxicating, beguiling dreaminess of Rome in its celluloid heyday' TLS 1950s Rome. From...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2016-10-27
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The classic, “gripping” (New York Times) history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved peopleWinner of the Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians Winner of the Sidney Hillman Prize...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2016-10-25
ePub
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A vivid account of German-occupied Europe during World War II that reveals civilians' struggle to understand the terrifying chaos of warIn An Iron Wind, prize-winning historian Peter Fritzsche draws diaries, letters, and other first-person accounts to show how civilians...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2016-10-25
ePub
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