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Histoire universelle

Les empires d’asie - Le drame méditerranéen - Les celtes, Les germains et Les slaves - La formation et le développement des démocraties modernes ( Edition intégrale ) 4 Tomes - annoté

by Pierre de Coubertin ...

Series series Oeuvres de Pierre de Coubertin
La préhistoire est cette portion indéterminée des annales humaines sur laquelle la science moderne, malgré ses efforts, n’est encore parvenue à recueillir que des renseignements épars et insuffisants. La période préhistorique n’a cessé de croître en durée en même temps qu’elle reculait dans le passé. En effet les fouilles opérées dans le sol ont mis au jour les ruines de nombreux monuments ... Read more

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La préhistoire est cette portion indéterminée des annales humaines sur laquelle la science moderne, malgré ses efforts, n’est encore parvenue à recueillir que des renseignements épars et insuffisants. La période préhistorique n’a cessé de croître en durée en même temps qu’elle reculait dans le passé. En effet les fouilles opérées dans le sol ont mis au jour les ruines de nombreux monuments
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1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Think

Edited by Robert Arp ...

An elegant addition to the successful “1001” series—a comprehensive, chronological guide to the most important thoughts from the finest minds of the past 3,000 years.1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Think is a comprehensive guide to the most interesting and imaginative thoughts from the finest minds in history. Ranging from the ancient wisdom of Confucius and Plato to today’s cutting-edge ... Read more

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An elegant addition to the successful “1001” series—a comprehensive, chronological guide to the most important thoughts from the finest minds of the past 3,000 years.1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Think is a comprehensive guide to the most interesting and imaginative thoughts from the finest minds in history. Ranging from the ancient wisdom of Confucius and Plato to today’s cutting-edge
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The Oral History Reader

Edited by Robert Perks, Alistair Thomson ...

Series series Routledge Readers in History
The Oral History Reader, now in its third edition, is a comprehensive, international anthology combining major, ‘classic’ articles with cutting-edge pieces on the theory, method and use of oral history. Twenty-seven new chapters introduce the most significant developments in oral history in the last decade to bring this invaluable text up to date, with new pieces on emotions and the senses, on ... Read more

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The Oral History Reader, now in its third edition, is a comprehensive, international anthology combining major, ‘classic’ articles with cutting-edge pieces on the theory, method and use of oral history. Twenty-seven new chapters introduce the most significant developments in oral history in the last decade to bring this invaluable text up to date, with new pieces on emotions and the senses, on
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Patterns of the Past

Interpreting Ontario's History

Edited by Roger Hall, William Westfall, Laurel Sefton MacDowell ...

Patterns of the Past has been published to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Ontario Historical Society. Organized on 4 Sept 1888 as the Pioneer Association of Ontario, the Society adopted its current name in 1898. Its objectives, for a century, have been to promote and develop the study of Ontario’s past. The purpose of this book is both to commemorate and to carry ... Read more

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Patterns of the Past has been published to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Ontario Historical Society. Organized on 4 Sept 1888 as the Pioneer Association of Ontario, the Society adopted its current name in 1898. Its objectives, for a century, have been to promote and develop the study of Ontario’s past. The purpose of this book is both to commemorate and to carry
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Twilight of History

by Shlomo Sand ...

Translated by David Fernbach ...

The acclaimed and controversial historian turns his critical gaze on the writing of history todayOn its publication in 2009, Shlomo Sand’s book The Invention of the Jewish People met with a storm of controversy. His demystifying approach to nationalist and Zionist historiography provoked much criticism from other professional historians, as well as praise. The furore gave him a privileged position ... Read more

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The acclaimed and controversial historian turns his critical gaze on the writing of history todayOn its publication in 2009, Shlomo Sand’s book The Invention of the Jewish People met with a storm of controversy. His demystifying approach to nationalist and Zionist historiography provoked much criticism from other professional historians, as well as praise. The furore gave him a privileged position
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L'Iliade et L'Odyssée

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by HOMERE ...

Œuvres majeures de la littérature mondiale, l’Iliade et l’Odyssée sont attribuées à Homère, réputé avoir été un aède (poète) de la fin du VIIIe siècle av. J.-C. Considérés comme les poèmes fondateurs de la civilisation européenne, ce sont des épopées de la Grèce antique.Récit de l’Iliade :Troie (Ilion en Grec) était une cité d’Asie Mineure (Turquie aujourd’hui) gouvernée par le roi Priam. Celui-ci ... Read more

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Œuvres majeures de la littérature mondiale, l’Iliade et l’Odyssée sont attribuées à Homère, réputé avoir été un aède (poète) de la fin du VIIIe siècle av. J.-C. Considérés comme les poèmes fondateurs de la civilisation européenne, ce sont des épopées de la Grèce antique.Récit de l’Iliade :Troie (Ilion en Grec) était une cité d’Asie Mineure (Turquie aujourd’hui) gouvernée par le roi Priam. Celui-ci
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Great Big World of Computers - History and Evolution : 5th Grade Science Series

Fifth Grade Book History Of Computers for Kids

by Baby Professor ...

Series series Children's Computer Hardware Books
There's no denying the fact that we are moving towards a "computer world." You want your child to keep up with the pace of learning and you can help make that possible through the introduction of the right resources. This is one of those resources. This book is a mix of colors, pictures and select text to easily drive home a point but without boring a child too much. ... Read more

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There's no denying the fact that we are moving towards a "computer world." You want your child to keep up with the pace of learning and you can help make that possible through the introduction of the right resources. This is one of those resources. This book is a mix of colors, pictures and select text to easily drive home a point but without boring a child too much.
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A Concise History of History

Global Historiography from Antiquity to the Present

by Daniel Woolf ...

This short history of history is an ideal introduction for those studying or teaching the subject as part of courses on the historian's craft, historical theory and method, and historiography. Spanning the earliest known forms of historical writing in the ancient Near East right through to the present and covering developments in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, it also touches on the latest ... Read more

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This short history of history is an ideal introduction for those studying or teaching the subject as part of courses on the historian's craft, historical theory and method, and historiography. Spanning the earliest known forms of historical writing in the ancient Near East right through to the present and covering developments in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, it also touches on the latest
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Voices of a People's History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition

by Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove ...

Voices of a People’s History of the United States compiles selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites.Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn.New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, speaking after ... Read more

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Voices of a People’s History of the United States compiles selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites.Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn.New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, speaking after
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Regarding Lucknow

by SYED RIZWAN ...

This is a compilation of six essays which have a common thread- all are about the city of Lucknow, which is the Capital of the most populous state in India. The main markets from a historical point of view and the unique dialect of the common people have been incorporated in these essays.It should be of interest for those who are acquainted with the place, as well as, for those who intend to visit ... Read more

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This is a compilation of six essays which have a common thread- all are about the city of Lucknow, which is the Capital of the most populous state in India. The main markets from a historical point of view and the unique dialect of the common people have been incorporated in these essays.It should be of interest for those who are acquainted with the place, as well as, for those who intend to visit
... Read more
The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures

Concepts, Problems, and the Aesthetics of Postcatastrophic Narration

Edited by Anna Artwinska, Anja Tippner ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures is a collection of essays by literary scholars from Germany, the US, and Central Eastern Europe offering insight into the specific ways of representing the Shoah and its aftereffects as well as its entanglement with other catastrophic events in the region.Introducing the conceptual frame of postcatastrophe, the collected essays ... Read more

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The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures is a collection of essays by literary scholars from Germany, the US, and Central Eastern Europe offering insight into the specific ways of representing the Shoah and its aftereffects as well as its entanglement with other catastrophic events in the region.Introducing the conceptual frame of postcatastrophe, the collected essays
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Campus Life

by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz ...

Every generation of college students, no matter how different from its predecessor, has been an enigma to faculty and administration, to parents, and to society in general. Watching today’s students “holding themselves in because they had to get A’s not only on tests but on deans’ reports and recommendations,” Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, author of the highly praised Alma Mater, began to ask, “What ... Read more

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Every generation of college students, no matter how different from its predecessor, has been an enigma to faculty and administration, to parents, and to society in general. Watching today’s students “holding themselves in because they had to get A’s not only on tests but on deans’ reports and recommendations,” Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, author of the highly praised Alma Mater, began to ask, “What
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Art, History, and Anachronic Interventions Since 1990

by Eva Kernbauer ...

This book examines contemporary artistic practices since 1990 that engage with, depict, and conceptualize history.Examining artworks by Kader Attia, Yael Bartana, Zarina Bhimji, Michael Blum, Matthew Buckingham, Tacita Dean, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica, Omer Fast, Andrea Geyer, Liam Gillick and Philippe Parreno, Hiwa K, Amar Kanwar, Bouchra Khalili, Deimantas Narkevičius, Wendelien van ... Read more

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This book examines contemporary artistic practices since 1990 that engage with, depict, and conceptualize history.Examining artworks by Kader Attia, Yael Bartana, Zarina Bhimji, Michael Blum, Matthew Buckingham, Tacita Dean, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica, Omer Fast, Andrea Geyer, Liam Gillick and Philippe Parreno, Hiwa K, Amar Kanwar, Bouchra Khalili, Deimantas Narkevičius, Wendelien van
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La Russie en 1839

( Edition intégrale ) 4 Tomes - annoté

by Astolphe de Custine ...

Series series Oeuvres de Astolphe de Custine
” Le livre le plus intelligent écrit .sur la Russie par un étranger “, s’écriait Herzen en 1843. Par un paradoxe qui va très loin la postérité a fini par ratifier le jugement du grand ancêtre en exil de tous les contestataires russes de nos jours. Best-seller tombé dans l’oubli et redécouvert en U.R.S.S. par l’édition clandestine et en Occident au moment de la guerre froide, la Russie en 1839 a, ... Read more

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” Le livre le plus intelligent écrit .sur la Russie par un étranger “, s’écriait Herzen en 1843. Par un paradoxe qui va très loin la postérité a fini par ratifier le jugement du grand ancêtre en exil de tous les contestataires russes de nos jours. Best-seller tombé dans l’oubli et redécouvert en U.R.S.S. par l’édition clandestine et en Occident au moment de la guerre froide, la Russie en 1839 a,
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The Nurture of Nature

Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55

by Sharon Wall ...

Series series Nature | History | Society Series
Thousands of children attended summer camps in twentieth-century Ontario. Did parents simply want a break, or were broader developments at play? The Nurture of Nature explores how competing cultural tendencies – antimodern nostalgia and modern sensibilities about the landscape, child rearing, and identity – shaped the development of summer camps and, consequently, modern social life in North ... Read more

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Thousands of children attended summer camps in twentieth-century Ontario. Did parents simply want a break, or were broader developments at play? The Nurture of Nature explores how competing cultural tendencies – antimodern nostalgia and modern sensibilities about the landscape, child rearing, and identity – shaped the development of summer camps and, consequently, modern social life in North
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Minoans: The Bronze Age Civilization of Ancient Greece

by History Titans ...

The Minoans were the first advanced civilization in Europe. They appeared on Crete around 4,000 years ago and thrived for 1,500 years before mysteriously vanishing. It has never been fully explained what happened to them or who they were. Evidence shows they worshipped female powers but did so very differently to other civilizations. This book examines what this society might have been like.This ... Read more

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The Minoans were the first advanced civilization in Europe. They appeared on Crete around 4,000 years ago and thrived for 1,500 years before mysteriously vanishing. It has never been fully explained what happened to them or who they were. Evidence shows they worshipped female powers but did so very differently to other civilizations. This book examines what this society might have been like.This
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Worrying

A Literary and Cultural History

by Professor Francis O'Gorman ...

Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History suggests a unique approach to the inner lifeand its ordinary pains. Francis O'Gormancharts the emergence of our contemporaryidea of worry in the Victorian era and itsestablishment, after the First World War,as a feature of modernity. For some writersbetween the Wars, worry was the “diseaseof the age.”Worrying examines the everyday kind ofworry-the fearful, ... Read more

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Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History suggests a unique approach to the inner lifeand its ordinary pains. Francis O'Gormancharts the emergence of our contemporaryidea of worry in the Victorian era and itsestablishment, after the First World War,as a feature of modernity. For some writersbetween the Wars, worry was the “diseaseof the age.”Worrying examines the everyday kind ofworry-the fearful,
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Unequal Friendship

The Patron-Client Relationship in Historical Perspective

by Jarosław Fazan, Antoni Mączak ...

Series Book 20 - Polish Studies – Transdisciplinary Perspectives
This book analyzes the patron-client relationship over both space and time. It covers such areas of the globe as Europe, Africa and Latin America, and such periods in time as ancient Rome, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Poland, as well as twentieth-century America. It also analyzes clientelism in U.S. policy toward the Vietnam War and in Richard J. Daley’s mayoral rule over Chicago. In his ... Read more

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This book analyzes the patron-client relationship over both space and time. It covers such areas of the globe as Europe, Africa and Latin America, and such periods in time as ancient Rome, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Poland, as well as twentieth-century America. It also analyzes clientelism in U.S. policy toward the Vietnam War and in Richard J. Daley’s mayoral rule over Chicago. In his
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Byzance, grandeur et décadence

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by Charles Diehl ...

Series series Oeuvres de Charles Diehl
Extrait: L’ÉVOLUTION DE L’HISTOIRE DE BYZANCE...L’histoire de l’empire byzantin, malgré les travaux qui, en ces cinquante dernières années, l’ont presque renouvelée, demeure toujours cependant l’objet de tenaces préjugés. A beaucoup de nos contemporains elle apparaît toujours, telle qu’elle apparaissait à Montesquieu et à Gibbon, comme la continuation et la décadence de l’empire romain. En vérité ... Read more

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Extrait: L’ÉVOLUTION DE L’HISTOIRE DE BYZANCE...L’histoire de l’empire byzantin, malgré les travaux qui, en ces cinquante dernières années, l’ont presque renouvelée, demeure toujours cependant l’objet de tenaces préjugés. A beaucoup de nos contemporains elle apparaît toujours, telle qu’elle apparaissait à Montesquieu et à Gibbon, comme la continuation et la décadence de l’empire romain. En vérité
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Exploration

A Very Short Introduction

by Stewart A. Weaver ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
We live in an age of globalization on every conceivable level, but globalization has a deeper history than politicians and pundits often allow, and nothing is more significant to its history than exploration. Wherever trade or faith or empire followed, explorers usually led. Their motives were as many-sided and various as their actions; their legacies are contested and mixed. But none can doubt ... Read more

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We live in an age of globalization on every conceivable level, but globalization has a deeper history than politicians and pundits often allow, and nothing is more significant to its history than exploration. Wherever trade or faith or empire followed, explorers usually led. Their motives were as many-sided and various as their actions; their legacies are contested and mixed. But none can doubt
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Le grand roman de notre histoire

2000 ans de guerres et de passions

by José Enrique Ruiz-Domènec ...

Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur l'Histoire de l'EuropeLa nuit de la Saint-Sylvestre de l’an 406, le Rhin gela. Des milliers d’hommes, de femmes et d’enfants se lancèrent au-dessus du fleuve et la glace supporta le poids des chariots. Ce fait marqua le début des invasions barbares en Occident. L’Empire romain s’effondre, l’Europe est née.Le "Vieux Continent" au travers de ses ... Read more

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Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur l'Histoire de l'EuropeLa nuit de la Saint-Sylvestre de l’an 406, le Rhin gela. Des milliers d’hommes, de femmes et d’enfants se lancèrent au-dessus du fleuve et la glace supporta le poids des chariots. Ce fait marqua le début des invasions barbares en Occident. L’Empire romain s’effondre, l’Europe est née.Le "Vieux Continent" au travers de ses
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China’s Good War

How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism

by Rana Mitter ...

A Foreign Affairs Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the Year“Insightful…a deft, textured work of intellectual history.”—Foreign Affairs“A timely insight into how memories and ideas about the second world war play a hugely important role in conceptualizations about the past and the present in contemporary China.”—Peter Frankopan, The SpectatorFor most of its history, China frowned on public d... ... Read more

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A Foreign Affairs Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the Year“Insightful…a deft, textured work of intellectual history.”—Foreign Affairs“A timely insight into how memories and ideas about the second world war play a hugely important role in conceptualizations about the past and the present in contemporary China.”—Peter Frankopan, The SpectatorFor most of its history, China frowned on public d...
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Becoming Historians

by James M. Banner, Jr., John R. Gillis ...

In this unique collection, the memoirs of eleven historians provide a fascinating portrait of a formative generation of scholars. Born around the time of World War II, these influential historians came of age just before the upheavals of the 1960s and ’70s and helped to transform both their discipline and the broader world of American higher education. The self-inventions they thoughtfully ... Read more

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In this unique collection, the memoirs of eleven historians provide a fascinating portrait of a formative generation of scholars. Born around the time of World War II, these influential historians came of age just before the upheavals of the 1960s and ’70s and helped to transform both their discipline and the broader world of American higher education. The self-inventions they thoughtfully
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Eastern Han Dynasty: A History from Beginning to End

History of China

by Hourly History ...

Series series History of China
If the history of the Eastern Han dynasty were limited to the accomplishments of its scholars, scientists, and inventors, it would be a glorious saga of the innovation and creativity of the human mind. Anesthesia was first used during surgical procedures in the years of the Eastern Han emperors, earthquake tremors were measured, and perhaps, most remarkable of all, a process for manufacturing ... Read more

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If the history of the Eastern Han dynasty were limited to the accomplishments of its scholars, scientists, and inventors, it would be a glorious saga of the innovation and creativity of the human mind. Anesthesia was first used during surgical procedures in the years of the Eastern Han emperors, earthquake tremors were measured, and perhaps, most remarkable of all, a process for manufacturing
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