Regionalgeschichte

Gromkie dela: Prestupleniya i nakazaniya v SSSR

Eva Merkachyova

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Gromkie dela: Prestupleniya i nakazaniya v SSSR

Eva Merkachyova

book about the most notorious criminal cases of the Soviet era. Many materials were not previously published and were first issued from the archives personally to the author. Thanks to access to t...

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Izobreteno v SSSR: Istoriya izobretatel'skoy mysli s 1917 po 1991 god

Tim Skorenko

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Izobreteno v SSSR: Istoriya izobretatel'skoy mysli s 1917 po 1991 god

Tim Skorenko

Inventive thought in the Soviet Union developed in a peculiar way. It was encouraged in select areas - space, military, scientific - and practically ignored in everyday life. In other words, we we...

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The Arabs: A History

Eugene Rogan

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The Arabs: A History

Eugene Rogan

Five centuries of Arab history and all the Arab states of North Africa, the Fertile Crescent and the Arabian Peninsula. The story begins with the Battle of Marj Dabiq in 1516, when the Mamluk Sult...

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The Long '68: Radical Protest and Its Enemies

Richard Vinen

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The Long '68: Radical Protest and Its Enemies

Richard Vinen

The year 1968 was marked by an extraordinary scale of protests throughout the Western world. In terms of scope, intensity and consequences, everything that happened then can be likened to a world ...

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The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England

Dan Jones

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The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England

Dan Jones

The early Plantagenet kings inherited a blood-drenched kingdom from their Norman ancestors and turned it into an empire that stretched from Scotland to Palestine. In this epic chronicle of courage...

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The Habsburgs: To Rule the World

Martyn Rady

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The Habsburgs: To Rule the World

Martyn Rady

The story of a powerful dynasty that dominated Europe for almost a thousand years, as well as its original universe, which she herself created, then to lose at the dawn of the 20th century. Starti...

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Chinese Thought: From Confucius to Cook Ding

Roel Sterckx

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Chinese Thought: From Confucius to Cook Ding

Roel Sterckx

The Chinese influence on the material and spiritual life of the modern world is becoming more and more noticeable, but the inhabitants of other countries still know almost nothing about China and ...

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A Demon-Hunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany

Jordan Morrow

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A Demon-Hunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany

Jordan Morrow

This book is unique. American professor Monica Black not only refers to the post-war period in Germany, but examines the tragic pages of the past through the prism of the flourishing of witchcraft...

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The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery

Seb Falk

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The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery

Seb Falk

The Middle Ages were not only a time of endless wars and epidemics, but also an era of scientific discoveries and a disinterested pursuit of knowledge. Medieval thinkers and practitioners explored...

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The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors

Dan Jones

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The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors

Dan Jones

The best-selling author of The Templars and The Plantagenets recounts one of the most gripping and tragic chapters in British history. In the 15th century, the country experienced a series of long...

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NORTHMEN. The Viking Saga

John Haywood

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NORTHMEN. The Viking Saga

John Haywood

Viking civilization is a unique phenomenon in history. There were no Europeans before them who would have pushed the boundaries of their world so widely. Their campaigns of conquest, the search fo...

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K severu ot 38-y paralleli: Kak zhivut v KNDR

Andrey Lan'kov

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K severu ot 38-y paralleli: Kak zhivut v KNDR

Andrey Lan'kov

North Korea, still incredibly secretive, is no longer a black box for the world. The radical social experiment that began there in the 1940s seems to be coming to an end. And behind it are the fat...

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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham

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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham

On the night of April 26, 1986, reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, triggering one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. Based on more than a decade of work, recordin...

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Japan: History and Culture from Classical to Cool

Nancy K.

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Japan: History and Culture from Classical to Cool

Nancy K.

Japanese culture has penetrated our modernity deeply enough that we no longer perceive the delivery of sushi for dinner as something exotic. But did you know that the Japanese didn't originall...

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The Lost World of Byzantium

Jonathan Harris

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The Lost World of Byzantium

Jonathan Harris

Emerging from the ruins of the great Roman Empire, Byzantium has been the scene of constant invasions, sieges and wars throughout its more than a thousand-year history. The border of the West and ...

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The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920

Eugene Rogan

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The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920

Eugene Rogan

In 1914, the European powers were inexorably sliding towards war, dragging the entire Middle East into the funnel of this destructive conflict. In his book, Eugene Rogan presents the history of th...

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¿Las ideas fuera de lugar?

Elías José Palti

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¿Las ideas fuera de lugar?

Elías José Palti

La historiografía de ideas latinoamericanas gira toda, desde su origen, en torno de un interrogante particular. En la medida en que, según normalmente se acepta, los autores locales no han reali...

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Un actor ignorado

Alejandro Simonoff

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Un actor ignorado

Alejandro Simonoff

El devenir de la construcción del proceso democrático reciente, ha desplegado diversas instancias de reflexiones críticas al modo de abordar la Cuestión Malvinas y de los procesos posteriores ...

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Crónica sentimental de la Argentina peronista

Omar Acha

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Crónica sentimental de la Argentina peronista

Omar Acha

El peronismo no compone una realidad palmaria que está allí, una sustancia histórica en el pasado ante la cual el pensamiento laborioso en los archivos se reconoce en su capacidad reflexiva. No...

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Los hijos del poder

Laura Cristina del Valle

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Los hijos del poder

Laura Cristina del Valle

¿Cómo pudo mantener el Cabildo de Buenos Aires una participación activa en los acontecimientos que jalonaron el período tardocolonial, en un contexto de reformismo borbónico tendiente a contr...

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