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  • 1814: Crime and Capital Punishment:

    by XerXes Xu ...
    This year we remember the outbreak of the First World War, one hundred years ago. This ended a century of relative peace in Europe, a century of great technological progress in which the modern world was born and a century of huge social change in England. We easily recognise the world of 1914, with trains, planes and buses. 1814 is not so easily recognisable, but it was also a cusp year. Napoleon ... Read more

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  • The Rhine and European Security in the Long Nineteenth Century

    Making Lifelines from Frontlines

    by Joep Schenk ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
    Throughout history rivers have always been a source of life and of conflict. This book investigates the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine’s (CCNR) efforts to secure the principle of freedom of navigation on Europe’s prime river.The book explores how the most fundamental change in the history of international river governance arose from European security concerns. It examines how ... Read more

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  • Rethinking the History of Democracy in Spain

    Series series Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain
    Focusing on the processes of political socialisation and democratisation that took place in Spain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book brings together specialists who propose the need to rethink the contemporary history of democracy in Spain to build a new narrative.To do so, the authors go down to the local level, where they are able to trace a political culture that forged ... Read more

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  • Surfer Girl

    by Debora Lucken ...
    We are at the beginning of the 60's. The Beach Boys are going strong and love is in the air. The two main character of this flash story will quickly take you into their world and leave you thinking about the deepest of loves. This story was selected to be read in the live show for the Juke Box Story competition.   ... Read more

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  • Napoléon

    Aux sources de la passion

    by Serge Hayat ...
    Aujourd’hui encore, Napoléon déchaine les passions. Il y a plus de livres écrits sur lui que de jours qui se sont écoulés depuis sa mort. C’est le personnage le plus interprété au cinéma, devant le Christ Pourquoi Napoléon suscite-t-il donc autant de fascination? La question est légitime car, au fond, il n’est pas un modèle de démocratie. Il s’est souvent comporté de manière froide et immorale. ... Read more

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  • Giacomo Leopardi e Gubbio

    Series Book 1 - Quaderni di italianistica.online
    Primo numero della serie monografica "Quaderni di italianistica.online" (www.italianistica.online) ideata e curata da Luigi M. Reale. | Il ritrovamento nell'Archivio Diocesano di Gubbio della partecipazione di nascita di Giacomo Leopardi inviata il 5 luglio 1798 dal padre Monaldo a Gubbio ci fa risalire, tramite la nonna paterna di Giacomo, Virginia Mosca, ad una altrimenti dimenticata ascendenza ... Read more

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  • Identitaetsbildung und Partizipation im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert

    Luxemburg im europaeischen Kontext

    Series Book 12 - Études luxembourgeoises / Luxemburg-Studien
    Gesellschaften mit starker Einwanderung kennzeichnen vielfältige Formen von Identitätsbildung und das Ringen um politische und zivilgesellschaftliche Partizipation. Dies gilt in besonderer Weise für Luxemburg im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Hier entstand in einem Kleinstaat eine der jüngeren Nationen Europas und zugleich eine besonders offene, plurikulturelle Einwanderungsgesellschaft. Ziel dieses ... Read more

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  • Kamchatka: Pacific Adventures

    by Kerbunov ...
    Kamchatka is an adventurous place, and it was such for centuries. This story has another, inside one, so to say, “story in a story.” The primary story is mainly about fascinating but sometimes arduous seagoing expeditions, the routine life on the small ship, sleepless watches, conflicts, funny and tragic events at sea, beautiful Kamchatka nature, and a vulnerable Pacific environment. The second, ... Read more

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  • The English Cricketers’ Trip to Canada and the United States

    In 1859, Fred Lillywhite accompanied the twelve top cricketers of the day to Canada and the USA. It was a turning point in the history of the sport – the first overseas cricket tour by an English side.Lillywhite’s account of the trip means that this crucial moment is recorded in detail, from the progress of the matches on the cricket field to the players’ activities off it.This is the original ... Read more

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  • In and Out of the Limelight: Ann Matilda Distin Her Life and Times

    The theatre started to sparkle during Ann Matilda’s career. Limelight had arrived. This is the life story of Ann Matilda Distin. It is the chronicle of a minor 19th century celebrity who peeps out of history during the reigns of four British monarchs, from George III to Victoria, 1790 – 1848. A member of the musical Loder family she started her career on the Bath stage in the early years of the ... Read more

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  • Center Stage

    Operatic Culture and Nation Building in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe

    by Philipp Ther ...
    Series series Central European Studies
    Grand palaces of culture, opera theaters marked the center of European cities like the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. As opera cast its spell, almost every European city and society aspired to have its own opera house, and dozens of new theaters were constructed in the course of the "long" nineteenth century. At the time of the French Revolution in 1789, only a few, mostly royal, opera theaters, ... Read more

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  • Harry Houdin: "The Great Polynational Mimic"

    by Tom Interval ...
    Introducing Harry Houdin—one of the most versatile performers you've never heard of. Born decades before the great Harry Houdini, he claimed to be the nephew of Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, the famous French conjurer of the 19th century.Houdin, who billed himself as "The Great Polynational Mimic," toured Australia and New Zealand between 1860 and 1863 with a one-man act featuring drawing-room magic ... Read more

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  • Voyages Through Life: The Story of John Dunlop Allison

    by John Allison ...
    John Dunlop Allison was a mariner from the final era of sail into the early days of steam.The hand-written account of his adventures was discovered in an attic in England a hundred years after he wrote it. His story describes extraordinary events, of wars and wives, of gold fever and greed, of death and disease, of storms and shipwrecks all over the world.This is the authentic voice of a spirited ... Read more

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  • Dictators and Autocrats

    Securing Power across Global Politics

    Edited by Klaus Larres ...
    In order to truly understand the emergence, endurance, and legacy of autocracy, this volume of engaging essays explores how autocratic power is acquired, exercised, and transferred or abruptly ended through the careers and politics of influential figures in more than 20 countries and six regions.The book looks at both traditional "hard" dictators, such as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, and more modern ... Read more

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  • (Re)writing History in Byzantium

    A Critical Study of Collections of Historical Excerpts

    Series series Routledge Research in Byzantine Studies
    Scholars have recently begun to study collections of Byzantine historical excerpts as autonomous pieces of literature. This book focuses on a series of minor collections that have received little or no scholarly attention, including the Epitome of the Seventh Century, the Excerpta Anonymi (tenth century), the Excerpta Salmasiana (eighth to eleventh centuries), and the Excerpta Planudea (thirteenth ... Read more

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  • Political Friendship

    Liberal Notables, Networks, and the Pursuit of the German Nation State, 1848-1866

    Series Book 29 - Studies in German History
    Between periods of revolution, state repression, and war across Central and Western Europe from the 1840s through the 1860s, German liberals practiced politics beyond the more well-defined realms of voluntary associations, state legislatures, and burgeoning political parties. Political Friendship approaches 19th century German history’s trajectory to unification through the lens of academics, ... Read more

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  • Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia

    Powhatan People and the Color Line

    Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924 recodified the state’s long-standing racial hierarchy as a more rigid Black-white binary. Then, Virginia officials asserted that no Virginia Indians could be other than legally Black, given centuries of love and marriage across color lines. How indigenous peoples of Virginia resisted erasure and built their identities as Native Americans is the powerful ... Read more

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  • The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress, 1800 to the Present

    Series series Routledge Histories
    The time span covered by The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress starts in the nineteenth century, with the aftermath of the consumers’ revolution, and reaches all the way to the present. The fashion and garment industries have been international from the beginning and, as such, this volume looks at the history of fashion and dress through the lenses of both international and global history. ... Read more

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  • Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar, Second Edition

    Martinique and the World-Economy, 1830-1848

    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    A classic text long out of print, Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar traces the historical development of slave labor and plantation agriculture in Martinique during the period immediately preceding slave emancipation in 1848. Interpreting these events against the broader background of the world-economy, Dale W. Tomich analyzes the importance of topics such as British hegemony in the nineteenth ... Read more

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  • Corporate Policing, Yellow Unionism, and Strikebreaking, 1890-1930

    In Defence of Freedom

    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    This book provides a comparative and transnational examination of the complex and multifaceted experiences of anti-labour mobilisation, from the bitter social conflicts of the pre-war period, through the epochal tremors of war and revolution, and the violent spasms of the 1920s and 1930s.It retraces the formation of an extensive market for corporate policing, privately contracted security and ... Read more

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  • Diversity and Empires

    Negotiating Plurality in European Imperial Projects from Early Modernity

    Examining diversity as a fundamental reality of empire, this book explores European colonial empires, both terrestrial and maritime, to show how they addressed the questions of how to manage diversity.These questions range from the local to the supra-regional, and from the management of people to that of political and judicial systems. Taking an intersectional approach incorporating categories ... Read more

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  • Apple of Discord

    The "Hungarian Factor" in Austro-Serbian Relations, 1867-1881

    by Ian D. Armour ...
    Series series Central European Studies
    When seeking the origins of World War I, the chain of events in the late nineteenth century that led to the breakdown of relations between Austria-Hungary and Serbia and facilitated the rise of an aggressive Serbian nationalism needs to be understood. This book focuses on the hitherto unexplored Hungarian influence on the Habsburg Monarchy's policy toward Serbia after the 1867 Ausgleich, and it ... Read more

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  • La statistique personnelle du préfet Descorches

    200 notables drômois sous le Premier Empire

    Biographies de 192 hommes susceptibles d'influence et de 8 riches hérituères dressées par le préfet de la Drôme en 1810. ... Read more

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  • New Frontiers of Slavery

    Edited by Dale W. Tomich ...
    Series series SUNY series, Fernand Braudel Center Studies in Historical Social Science
    The essays presented in New Frontiers of Slavery represent new analytical and interpretive approaches to the crisis of Atlantic slavery during the nineteenth century. By treating slavery within the framework of the modern world economy, they call attention to new zones of slave production that were formed as part of processes of global economic and political restructuring. Chapters by a group of ... Read more

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