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Music In The Holocaust - Confronting Life In The Nazi Ghettos And Camps

de Shirli Gilbert

54,31€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Provides an account of the role of music amongst communities imprisoned under Nazism. This book documents musical activities in Nazi internment centres, and is also concerned with exploring the ways in which music contribute to our understanding of the Holocaust and the experiences of its victims.
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Arabian Frontier Of The British Raj - Merchants, Rulers, And The British In The Nineteenth-Century Gulf

de James Onley

200,06€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj tells the story behind one of the British Indian Empire's most forbidding frontiers: Eastern Arabia. Taking the shaikhdom of Bahrain as a case study, James Onley reveals how heavily Britain's informal empire in the Gulf, and other regions surrounding British India, depended upon the assistance and support of local elites.
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Windows Of The Soul - Physiognomy In European Culture 1470-1780

de Martin Porter

184,16€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 With the dawn of Romanticism, be it in the realms of science, religion, or poetry, the interest in physiognomy rekindled. This book interprets the way in which books on physiognomy were read, tracing the wider intellectual, social, and cultural changes that contributed to the metamorphosis of this way of beholding oneself and the natural world.
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Somoza And Roosevelt - Good Neighbour Diplomacy In Nicaragua, 1933-1945

de Andrew Crawley

55,64€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Examines US non-intervention in Nicaragua's affairs, and how it could be detrimental to both countries. This book analyses the relations between the US and Nicaragua during the Depression and the WWII and challenges theories about the role of the US in the creation and consolidation of one of Latin America's most enduring authoritarian regimes.
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Colonial Land Policies In Palestine 1917-1936

de Martin Bunton

121,89€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Focuses on the way in which the Palestine Mandate was part of British imperial administration. This book also presents an argument that land officials' views on sound land management were derived from their own experiences of rural England, and this was more influential on the shaping of land policies than the promise of a Jewish National Home.
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Oxford Jackson - Architecture, Education, Status, And Style 1835-1924

de William Whyte

74,19€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This is the first biography of T. G. Jackson, an architect who transformed the image of Oxford, rebuilt public schools, and became a leading architect of the arts and crafts movement. Although many of his buildings are famous, until now he has been little known. Yet his work illuminates a whole society as well as an individual.
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East German Leadership And The Division Of Germany - Patriotism And Propaganda 1945-1953

de Dirk Spilker

67,56€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This is the most detailed and up-to-date study of the division of Germany after the Second World War. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished documents, Dirk Spilker reveals the political realities of the situation in post-war Germany, and reassesses the motivations and actions of the Western Allies and the Soviet bloc as they manoeuvred to achieve their ends.
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Saints And Their Communities - Miracle Stories In Twelfth-Century England

de Simon Yarrow

140,44€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This is a study of the common social characteristics and circumstances of those among the lay society of twelfth-century England who tended to seek assistance in the form of miracles at the shrines of saints. It aims to make sense of their religious experience and motivation, re-evaluating the religious clichÃ©s of devotion found in conventional medieval narratives.
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Agents Of Moscow - The Hungarian Communist Party And The Origins Of Socialist Patriotism 1941-1953

de Martin Mevius

190,79€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 After 1945, state patriotism of communist regimes in Eastern Europe was characterized by the use of national symbols. In communist Hungary, the party (MKP) widely celebrated national holidays, and national heroes. This work examines the origins of this socialist patriotism, and how it had become the self image of party and state by 1953.
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Political Thought In Ireland 1776-1798 - Republicanism, Patriotism, And Radicalism

de Stephen Small

124,54€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This is an analysis of late 18th-century Irish patriot thought and its development into 1790s radical republicanism. Its exploration of the ideology of the movements for legislative independence, parliamentary reform, Catholic relief and separation from Britain sheds light on the Rebellion of 1798 and the origins of Irish republican nationalism.
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Shadow Sites - Photography, Archaeology, And The British Landscape 1927-1955

de Kitty Hauser

184,16€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In mid-20th-century Britain, an archaeological vision of the British landscape reassured and enchanted a number of writers, artists, photographers, and film-makers. From John Piper and Eric Ravilious to photographs of bomb damage, this book delves into these evocative interpretations and looks at how they affected the way the landscape was seen.
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Migration And Inequality In Germany 1870-1913

de Oliver Grant

149,71€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Offers an analysis of migration in Germany within the demographic and socio-economic contexts of the period studied. Focusing on the rural labour market and the factors affecting it, this work also examines the 'pull' factor to cities, and offers interpretations of German industrialization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Savages Within The Empire - Representations Of American Indians In Eighteenth-Century Britain

de Troy Bickham

162,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Explores how Britons perceived and represented American Indians during a time when the empire and its constituent peoples began to capture the nation's attention. Considering an array of contexts, this book reveals the prevailing pragmatism with which Britons of all ranks approached the empire as well as its impact on British culture.
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Carl Peters And German Imperialism 1856-1918 - A Political Biography

de Arne Perras

184,16€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Carl Peters (1856-1918) ranked among Germany's most prominent imperialists in the nineteenth century. He became known as the founder of Deutsch-Ostafrika, a region many Germans saw as the pearl of their overseas possessions, and his memory was revered in Nazi Germany. This biography reveals his role in Germany's colonial expansion.
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Bismarck Myth - Weimar Germany And The Legacy Of The Iron Chancellor

de Robert Gerwarth

45,04€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Few statesmen in history have inspired the imagination of generations of Germans more than the founder of the Kaiserreich, Otto von Bismarck. This book provides an analysis of Bismarck's legacy as a political myth that undermined parliamentary democracy in Germany and contributed to the rise of Hitler.
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Population Exchange In Greek Macedonia - The Rural Settlement Of Refugees 1922-1930

de Elisabeth Kontogiorgi

173,56€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Examines the agricultural settlement of a great number of refugees in Greek Macedonia against the background of forced migration and refugee studies more generally.
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Modernizing Nature - Forestry And Imperial Eco-Development 1800-1950

de S. Ravi Rajan

186,81€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Contributes to the debate regarding the origins, institutionalization, and politics of the sciences and systems of knowledge underlying colonial frameworks of environmental management. This work argues that tropical forestry in the nineteenth century consisted of at least two distinct approaches towards nature, resource, and people.
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Antifascism And Memory In East Germany - Remembering The International Brigades 1945-1989

de Josie Mclellan

170,91€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 AntiFascism and Memory in East Germany sheds new light on the legacy of the Spanish Civil War, the way in which societies remember, and the nature of state socialism. It combines cultural, social, and political history to examine the ways in which the legacy of the International Brigades was commemorated in the German Democratic Republic.
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Hong Kong And The Cold War - Anglo-American Relations 1949-1957

de Chi-Kwan Mark

157,66€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Placing Hong Kong at the heart of the Anglo-American relationship in the context of the Cold War in Asia, this book explores dynamic interactions of how the two allies perceived, responded to, and attempted to influence each other's policies. It also provides a reinterpretation of Hong Kong's involvement in the containment of China.
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Governments, Labour, And The Law In Mid-Victorian Britain - The Trade Union Legislation Of The 1870s

de Mark Curthoys

161,64€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book explains why governments decided to make trade unions legal, and protect strikers from the criminal law. Drawing on previously unused source material, Curthoys brings to light some of the workings of the ninteenth-century state.

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