Modern History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 8

Frans-Paul van der Putten
China Resurrected

A history of China's geopolitical evolution from 1840 to the present, tracing its rise from the Opium Wars to an emerging world power.

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Harvey Claflin Mansfield
The Rise and Fall of Rational Control

Harvey C. Mansfield traces the birth of modern political philosophy to Machiavelli's brief on behalf of rational control of human affairs, which became the basis of liberalism. But Rousseau, Kant, Marx, a…

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Sophia Rosenfeld
The Age of Choice

Finalist for the Cundill History PrizeA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA sweeping history of the rise of personal choice in the modern world and how it became equated with freedomChoice touches…

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Laura King
Living with the Dead

Through an innovative methodology of collaborative critical family history, this book examines the relationship between the living and the dead within family life, charting the way families create afterli…

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Tamara Chaplin
Becoming Lesbian

A landmark analysis of how a marginalized subculture used modern media to transform public attitudes toward sexual desire.In Becoming Lesbian , historian Tamara Chaplin argues that the history of female s…

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Glen van Brummelen
The Doctrine of Triangles

An interdisciplinary history of trigonometry from the mid-sixteenth century to the early twentiethThe Doctrine of Triangles offers an interdisciplinary history of trigonometry that spans four centuries, s…

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Egbert Klautke
Modern Vienna

This book provides a concise history of the capital city of Vienna in modern times. It includes a comprehensive outlook on the development of the city in social, economic and cultural terms.Modern Vienna …

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Julia Ioffe
Motherland

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDAcclaimed journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy.In 1990, seven-year-old Julia…

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Bernhard Struck, James Koranyi, Jan Koura
Modern Europe

Europe is a small continent, and yet it became the dominant global power from the late 18th century. While the continent appeared to become a global centre, it also experienced various fractures along con…

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Bernhard Struck, James Koranyi, Jan Koura
Modern Europe

Europe is a small continent, and yet it became the dominant global power from the late 18th century. While the continent appeared to become a global centre, it also experienced various fractures along con…

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Alberto P. Guimarães
A Longstanding Attraction

This book describes how the phenomenon of magnetic attraction has been a topic of interest for more than a thousand years, and how our modern understanding of magnetism and its connection with electrical …

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Cody Johnson
Magic Medicine

"Cody Johnson beautifully balances historical knowledge with cutting-edge science to produce a thoroughly enjoyable and enlightening read which paints a holistic picture of the risks and benefits of …

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Julia Ioffe
Russia Girl

'A fresh, unexpected, and revealing portrait of Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM**,** Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag andRed Famine'A century of Russian history told through the women who lived it, shaped it…

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Francis Pike
Empires at War

From the author of Hirohito's War comes the second edition of his magisterial modern history of Asia, Empires at War. With 13 new and 2 updated chapters, Francis Pike brings the reader up to 2020, coverin…

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Adi Imsirovic, Colin Bryce
The Rivers of Money

Modern oil trading, as we know it today, has its roots in the 1970s, especially after the collapse of the vertically integrated structure of the oil industry, controlled by oil majors. Oil trading flouris…

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Sylvie Laurent
Capital and Race

1492: a year that captivated the world. Columbus's "discovery" of a new continent is remembered for revealing both the wonders of the earth and the unprecedented capacity of mankind to free itse…

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Eleanor Doughty
Heirs and Graces

THE FASCINATING NEW HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ARISTOCRACY SINCE THE SECOND WORLD WAR 'A superb survey of the aristocracy today and how we got here... A marvellous book' - The Times 'An enthralling chronicle …

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Rachel Elder
Secrecy and Safety

A history of epilepsy and the work required to manage it.In the middle of the twentieth century, medical advancements like anticonvulsant drugs and electroencephalograms promised new possibilities for man…

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Allen C Guelzo, James Hankins
The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition, Volume II

With the end of the Renaissance in Europe, the Western world experienced a long series of cataclysmic events that still reverberate in modern society. The Golden Thread Volume Two: The Modern and Contempo…

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Eleanor Doughty
Heirs and Graces

There are fewer than 5000 people who can genuinely claim to be members of the British aristocracy, and yet they loom large in the popular consciousness. We're fascinated by their houses and estates, their…

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