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On history : introduction to world history (1831); opening address at the Fac…
Edited by Lionel Gossman, this volume contains three programmatic essays by Michelet. The first two are available here for the first time in English translation. The third, the Preface to the 1869 edition of the Histoire de France, originally published in its first English translation by Edward K. Kaplan in his Michelet’s Poetic Vision (1977), has been revised by the translator for this volum…
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- 9781909254725
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- vi, 168 p. ; ill. ; 23 cm.
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- Open Book Classics vol. 1
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- 907.2 MIC o
The red countess : select autobiographical and fictional writing of Hermynia …
Born into a distinguished aristocratic family of the old Habsburg Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen spent much of her childhood and early youth travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. Never comfortable with the traditional roles women were expected to play, she broke as a young adult both with her family and, after five years on his estate in the old Czarist Russia, with her …
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- 9781783745562
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- 440 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
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- 833.912 MUH r
Brownshirt princess: a study of the 'nazi conscience'
Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld was a rebellious young writer who became a fervent Nazi. Heinrich Vogeler was a well-regarded artist who was to join the German Communist Party. Ludwig Roselius was a successful businessman who had made a fortune from his invention of decaffeinated coffee. What was it about the revolutionary climate following World War I that induced three such diffe…
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- 9781906924089
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- 202 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 831.912 GOS b
Thomas Annan of Glasgow: pioneer of the documentary photograph
In the wake of Glasgow’s transformation in the nineteenth-century into an industrial powerhouse — the "Second City of the Empire" — a substantial part of the old town of Adam Smith degenerated into an overcrowded and disease-ridden slum. The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, Thomas Annan’s photographic record of this central section of the city prior to its demolition in accordance wit…
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- 9781783741298
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- x, 179 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 779.99141443 GOS t
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