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Did You Know? This book is available as a Wiley E-Text. The Wiley E-Text is a complete digital version of the text that makes time spent studying more efficient. Course materials can be accessed on ……続きを見る

This book is a collection of the most inspiring, haunting, and incredible life stories that Burma Link has had the privilege to document and transform into written narratives. These are stories that……続きを見る

This book focuses on how Irish remembrance of the First World War impacted the emerging Irish identity in the postcolonial Irish Free State. While all combatants of the “war to end all wars” commemo……続きを見る

In het publieke debat is in de loop der jaren veel kritiek geleverd op het neoliberalisme, maar wat dit neoliberalisme precies inhoudt, blijft meestal vaag. We denken al snel aan Thatcher en Reagan ……続きを見る

First published in 1990. During the last twenty years, prodigious scholarly effort has gone into the study of fascism and the right in twentieth-century Europe. Quite apart from the study of particu……続きを見る

In Mussolini and Fascist Italy Martin Blinkhorn explains the significance of the man, the movement and the regime which dominated Italian life between 1922 and the closing stages of the Second World……続きを見る

The need to control violent and non-violent harm has been central to human existence since societies first emerged. This book analyses the problem of harm in world politics which stems from the fact……続きを見る

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Copernicus? s sun-centred universe, he famously discov……続きを見る

How did writers understand the soul in late seventeenth-century England? This book considers depictions of the soul in literary texts that engage with Lucretius's Epicurean philosophy in De rerum na……続きを見る

The World of Mr Casaubon takes as its point of departure a fictional character - Mr Casaubon in George Eliot's classic novel, Middlemarch. The author of an unfinished 'Key to All Mythologies', Casau……続きを見る

Nagasaki, on the west coast of the Japanese island of Kyushu, is known in the West for having been the target of an atomic bomb attack on August 9, 1945. Less well known is that the city was founded……続きを見る

Erzählt wird die Geschichte von Frauen, die in den Gerichtsakten des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts auftauchen – nicht etwa als Hexen, sondern als Kindsmörderinnen, Ehebrecherinnen oder gerissene Beutelsc……続きを見る

The only grandson of a Scots Banker and Milanese Mafia boss, brought up in Edinburgh by the house keeper, has absorbed her values. Shes devout, from a Tuscany hilltop village where most folk are com……続きを見る

Starting in the late 1970s, tens of thousands of American industrial workers lost jobs in factories and mines. Deindustrialization had dramatic effects on those workers and their communities, but it……続きを見る

This book examines the history of state formation in postcolonial Indonesia by starting with the death of Jan Djong, an activist and a former village head in the little town of Maumere. It historici……続きを見る

Generaties Nederlandse dienstplichtigen hebben in Suriname gediend, voordat dit land in 1975 onafhankelijk werd en de Surinaamse Krijgsmacht de defensie overnam. De geschiedenis die in dit boek word……続きを見る

Subtlety, is about a universal force that is present in all things at every scale from atoms to the stars, and this book makes an attempt to explain this subtle force which resides in all things. 続きを見る

Dieses Buch führt umfassend und gut lesbar in Leben und Werk von Paul F. Lazarsfeld ein. Es werden vor allem zwei von Lazarsfelds Forschungsarbeiten und deren Publikation in Buchform als zentrale We……続きを見る

In Griechenland erinnert man sich bis heute an die deutsche Besatzung der Jahre 1941–1944, im deutschen Gedächtnis hingegen ist dieses Kriegsgeschehen vergessen oder wird beschwiegen. Die Asymmetrie……続きを見る

The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern Americaーfrom eugenics and posture pageants to today’s promoters of “paleo posture” In 1995, a scandal erupted w……続きを見る

Völkerwanderung, Varusschlacht. Mythologie: Dies sind nur einige Stichworte zu einem umfassenden Thema, mit welchem sich Frank Ausbüttel in seinem neuen Buch über die Germanen verständlich und klar ……続きを見る

Originally published in 1935 and authored by a supporter of Scottish Nationalism, this book ascribes many of Scotland’s misfortunes in history to the sectarian wars and those of Edward I, as well as……続きを見る

Il 24 marzo 1944, 335 persone vengono fucilate a Roma, nelle Cave Ardeatine. Non è l’unico crimine nazifascista in Italia né quello più sanguinoso. Eppure, a ottant’anni di distanza, continua a susc……続きを見る

Although the dominant political ideology in Scotland between 1707 and the present, unionism has suffered serious neglect. One of the most distinguished Scottish historians of our time looks afresh a……続きを見る

'A beautifully written portrait of an overlooked prime minister and a fascinating account of his assassination during the Napoleonic Wars**'** ANTONY BEEVOR, author of Stalingrad Four American presi……続きを見る

In the 1930s Spain underwent a period of intense and bloody upheaval that culminated in three years of civil war and the triumph of the Nationalist rebels under General Franco. Hundreds of thousands……続きを見る

What has between the `radical' and the `conservative' right in twentieth-century Europe? In Fascists and Conservatives thirteen distinguished authorities on the European right explore this major the……続きを見る

German Bodies explores the cultural representations of German identity and citizenship before and after World War II, and offers a critical analysis of race, violence, and modernity in German histor……続きを見る

Barely two centuries ago, most of the world's productive land still belonged either communally to traditional societies or to the higher powers of monarch or church. But that pattern, and the ways o……続きを見る

This edition contains a limited number of illustrations. Due to the level of detail, maps are best viewed on a tablet. The epic story of how the gigantic land of America acquired its unique shape ac……続きを見る