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  • European Heroes

    Myth, Identity, Sport

    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    Historians of popular culture have recently been addressing the role of myth, and now it is time that social historians of sport also examined it. The contributors to this collection of essays explore the symbolic meanings that have been attached to sport in Europe by considering some of the mythic heroes who have dominated the sporting landscapes of their own countries. The ambition is to ... Leer más

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  • Relations internationales. 12e éd.

    Series series Mémentos
    Maîtrisez les relations internationalesLongtemps cantonnées à la diplomatie, à la prévention et au règlement des conflits, les relations internationales traitent aujourd'hui de l'exception culturelle, de l'économie mondiale ou encore d'écologie.Ce Mémento en présente une étude globale et synthétique à l'intention première des étudiants.Il aborde les aspects fondamentaux, historiques, ... ... Leer más

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  • The English

    A Portrait of a People

    de Jeremy Paxman ...
    The acclaimed author of On Royalty explores the mysteries of English identity in this "witty, argumentative book bursting with good things" ( The Daily Telegraph).A Sunday Times Top Ten BestsellerBeing English used to be easy. As the dominant culture in a country that dominated an empire that dominated the world, they had little need to examine themselves and ask who they were. But something has ... Leer más

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  • Interesting Times

    A Twentieth-Century Life

    de Eric Hobsbawm ...
    Eric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Robert Heilbroner, writing about Hobsbawm’s The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 said, “I know of no other account that sheds as much light on what is now behind us, and thereby casts so much illumination on our possible futures.” Skeptical, endlessly curious, and almost contemporary with the terrible “short century” which is the ... Leer más

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  • Keeping Up With the Germans

    A History of Anglo-German Encounters

    In 1996, in the middle of watching an ill-tempered football match between England and Germany, Philip Oltermann's parents tell him that they are going to leave their home city Hamburg behind and move to London.Inspired by his own experience of both countries, Philip Oltermann looks at eight historical encounters between English and German people from the last two hundred years: Helmut Kohl tries ... Leer más

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  • George Orwell: English Rebel

    English Rebel

    de Robert Colls ...
    An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of the left who found it easier to forgive writers of the right, a liberal who was against free markets, a Protestant who believed in religion but not in God, a fierce opponent of nationalism who defined Englishness for a generation. Aside from being one of the greatest political essayists in the ... Leer más

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  • Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning

    The Great War in European Cultural History

    de Jay Winter ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    Jay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavoured to find collective solace after 1918. Taking issue with the prevailing 'modernist' interpretation of the European ... Leer más

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  • Nikolaus Pevsner

    The Life

    de Susie Harries ...
    Born Nikolai Pewsner into a Russian-Jewish family in Leipzig in 1902, Nikolaus Pevsner was a dedicated scholar who pursued a promising career as an academic in Dresden and Göttingen. When, in 1933 Jews were no longer permitted to teach in German universities, he lost his job and looked for employment in England. Here, over a long and amazingly industrious career, he made himself an authority on ... Leer más

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  • Portraits and Miniatures

    de Roy Jenkins ...
    In Portraits and Miniatures, Roy Jenkins brings his penetrating intelligence and elegant prose to subjects ranging from literature and political history to wine and croquet. Long experience in both Houses of Parliament and as President of the European Commission has given him unparalleled insight into political figures such as R. A. Butler, Aneurin Bevan, Konrad Adenauer, and de Gaulle. A varied ... Leer más

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  • Oxford Revisited

    Oxford is a world-renowned stronghold of knowledge, a lush medieval city dotted with beautiful gardens. But it also has a symbolic meaning well beyond these things. It stands for something deep in our minds - excellence, a kind of privilege, a charmed life, deep-veined liberalism, a respect for tradition. It is an ivory tower: a quiet, thoughtful place, yet one whose scholars and ideas affect us ... Leer más

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  • Homintern

    How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World

    de Gregory Woods ...
    A landmark account of gay and lesbian creative networks and the seismic changes they brought to twentieth-century culture In a hugely ambitious study which crosses continents, languages, and almost a century, Gregory Woods identifies the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western culture. Extending from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era, this book examines a period in ... Leer más

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  • 19th Century Europe

    A Cultural History

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    Nineteenth-Century Europe offers a much-needed concise and fresh look at European culture between the Great Revolution in France and the First World War. It encompasses all major themes of the period, from the rising nationalism of the early nineteenth century to the pessimistic views of fin de siècle. It is a lucid, fluent presentation that appeals to both students of history and culture and the ... Leer más

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