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Das Öl Und Der Kampf Um Eine Neue Weltwirtschaftsordnung: Die Bedeutung Der Ölkrisen Der 1970er Jahre Für Die Nord-Süd-BeziehungenDie beiden "Ölschocks" von 1973/74 und 1979/80 waren nicht nur zentrale wirtschaftliche Ereignisse, sondern übten entscheidenden Einfluss auf die zeitgenössischen Debatten um eine grundlegende Reform, wenn nicht gar Revolution, der Weltwirtschaftsordnung aus. Das vorliegende Buch untersucht die Ölkrisen erstmals nicht allein mit Blick auf...
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Die Erzeugung von ArbeitWas Arbeit war, ist oder sein soll, versteht sich nicht von selbst. Arbeit war und ist Gegenstand und Produkt von Auseinandersetzungen. Die Beiträge des Bandes reflektieren am Beispiel Österreichs von ca. 1918-1938 verschiedene Facetten aktueller internationaler Forschungsdebatten zur Geschichte von Arbeit und folgen dabei...
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Pearson Bacc Hist: Auth 2e BundleFour new and revised titles providing comprehensive coverage of the most popular history topics for the 2015 Group 3 curriculum. Each title provides coverage of the appropriate topics, equipping students with the knowledge and skills needed to answer essay questions on Paper One and...
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A History of the American Musical Theatre: No Business Like ItFrom the diverse proto-theatres of the mid-1800s, though the revues of the '20s, the 'true musicals' of the '40s, the politicisation of the '60s and the 'mega-musicals' of the '80s, every era in American musical theatre reflected a unique set of socio-cultural factors. Nathan...
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The SixtiesThe Sixties is a stimulating account of a turbulent age in America. Terry Anderson examines why the nation experienced a full decade of tumult and change, and he explores why most Americans felt social, political and cultural changes were not only necessary but mandatory...
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Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi PoliticsFrom extensive research, including a remarkable interview with the unrepentant chief of Hitler's Women's Bureau, this book traces the roles played by women - as followers, victims and resisters - in the rise of Nazism. Originally publishing in 1987, it is an important contribution...
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Abstracts of the Records of Onslow County, North Carolina, 1734-1850. in Two Volumes. Volume IIIn 1752 a hurricane destroyed the courthouse containing the Onslow County records; nonetheless, all records that could be found were restored, and to them were added authorized copies of lost records. The records contained in these volumes, therefore, are abstracts of all existing records...
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Abstracts of the Records of Onslow County, North Carolina, 1734-1850. in Two Volumes. Volume IIn 1752 a hurricane destroyed the courthouse containing the Onslow County records; nonetheless, all records that could be found were restored, and to them were added authorized copies of lost records. The records contained in these volumes, therefore, are abstracts of all existing records...
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Athanasius Raczyński (1788-1874). Aristocrat, Diplomat, and Patron of the ArtsThis book depicts the long rich life and wide ranging work of Count Athanasius Raczyński (1788-1874). By exploring his complex personality, his processes of thought and his accomplishments, it reveals a man at once a wealthy aristocrat, a Pole in the Prussian diplomatic service,...
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Legislative History of American Immigration Policy, 1798-1965This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire...
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Old Style: Unoriginality and Its Uses in Nineteenth-Century U.S. LiteratureAn aesthetic of unoriginality shaped literary style and reader taste for decades of the nineteenth century. While critics in the twentieth century and beyond have upheld originality and innovation as essential characteristics of literary achievement, they were not features particularly prized by earlier American...
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Early Modern Histories of Time: The Periodizations of Sixteenth- And Seventeenth-Century EnglandEarly Modern Histories of Time examines how a range of chronological modes intrinsic to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries shaped the thought-worlds of those living during this time and explores how these temporally indigenous models can productively influence our own working concepts of historical...
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The Smallpox Report: Vaccination and the Romantic Illness NarrativeAfter the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination has become synonymous with an opaque biopower that legislates compulsory immunization at a distance. Contemporary illness narratives have become outlets for distrust, misinformation, reckless denialism, and selfish noncompliance. In The Smallpox Report, Fuson Wang rewinds this contemporary impasse between...
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American Military History, Volume 1: The United States Army and the Forging of a Nation, 1775-1917This latest edition of an official U.S. Government military history classic provides an authoritative historical survey of the organization and accomplishments of the United States Army. This scholarly yet readable book is designed to inculcate an awareness of our nation's military past and to...
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Quixotic Memories: Cervantes and Memory in Early Modern SpainThe work of Miguel de Cervantes - one of the most influential writers in early modern Europe - is a reflection of the rich culture of memory in which it was created. More than a theme, memory is a system of understanding in Cervantes'...
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Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian PrairiesIn Grasslands Grown Molly P. Rozum explores the two related concepts of regional identity and sense of place by examining a single North American ecological region: the U.S. Great Plains and the Canadian Prairie Provinces. All or parts of modern-day Alberta, Montana, Saskatchewan, North...
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Underground Streams: National-Conservatives After World War II in Communist Hungary and Eastern EuropeThe authors of this edited volume address the hidden attraction that existed between the extremes of left and right, and of internationalism and nationalism under the decades of communist dictatorship in Eastern Europe. One might suppose that under the suppressive regimes based on leftist...
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An Atlas of the Peninsular WarThis is the first comprehensive modern atlas of the Peninsular War, the series of campaigns in Spain and Portugal between Napoleonic France and British forces commanded by the Duke of Wellington. Here a distinguished military historian examines and explains the sequence of battles and...
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Media Critique in the Age of Gillray: Scratches, Scraps, and SpectresIn the late 1790s, British Prime Minister William Pitt created a crisis of representation when he pressured the British Parliament to relieve the Bank of England from its obligations to convert paper notes into coin. Paper quickly became associated with a form of limitless...
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America: A Narrative HistoryAmerica: A Narrative History puts narrative front and center with David Shi's rich storytelling style, colorful biographical sketches, and vivid first-person quotations. The new editions further reflect our society and our students today by continuing to incorporate diverse voices into the narrative with new...
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