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2012.
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中文(繁體)
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A tour of fifteen European cities in two years is the author's "get to know Europe" immersion style. From Oslo and Stockholm in the north to Crete on the Grecian coast in the south, from London in the west to Prague in the east, and every glistening cities in between, the author met all kinds of people, experienced all kinds of culture and art and things that are new and things from the past. A good book to start about traveling to Europe
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent. Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a long history of Europeans of African descent. From the third century, when the Egyptian Saint Maurice became the leader of a Roman legion, all the way up to the present, Otele explores...
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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This work recounts the disorder in Europe after World War II, describing the brutal acts against Germans and collaborators, the anti-Semitic beliefs that reemerged, and the Allied-tolerated expulsions of citizens from their ancestral homelands. The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another ten years.. The end of the Second World War in Europe is one of the twentieth century's most iconic moments....
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Little blue envelopes volume 1
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English
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When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"In this eye-opening book, Johannes Krause, director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and journalist Thomas Trappe offer a new way of understanding our past, present, and future. Krause is a pioneer in the revolutionary new science of archaeogenetics, archaeology augmented by revolutionary DNA sequencing technology, which has allowed scientists to uncover a new version of human history reaching back more than 100,000 years....
54) Barbarians!
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English
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"Kroll introduces four notable groups referred to by their enemies as barbarians: the Goths, the Huns, the Vikings, and the Mongols. In each case, he looks at the lives of common people within the group, their religious beliefs, their leaders, their history, and the results of their attacks on other civilizations"--Amazon.com.
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Di guo san bu qu volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
This book will introduce the definition of empire and explain why modern empires should be studied instead of ancient empires. The first chapter states the basic problems and assumptions faced by this book—what kind of challenges the empires faced in modern times, and what political systems and policies did the empires adjust to meet these challenges. Chapters 2 to 5 use the British Empire, the French Empire, the Austrian-Habsburg Empire, and the...
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English
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Peter Baldwin explains why the copyright wars have always been driven by a fundamental tension. Should copyright assure authors and rights holders lasting claims, much like conventional property rights, as in Continental Europe? Or should copyright be primarily concerned with giving consumers cheap and easy access to a shared culture, as in Britain and America? --Publisher's description.
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Penguin history of Europe volume 9
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The final chapter in the Penguin History of Europe series from the acclaimed scholar and author of To Hell and Back. After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the twentieth century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as being 'to Hell and back,' the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed the continent. The catastrophic era of the world wars receded...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Up-timer Morris Roth and his Grand Army of the Sunrise stand at a crossroads. Military success against the Polish-Lithuanian magnates has all but guaranteed a continued push east into Ruthenian lands. There, Roth hopes to further his Anaconda Project so that tens of thousands of Jews are not slaughtered in what's to become known as the Chmielnicki Pogrom of 1648. An envoy from Transylvania arrives with a promising offer from its prince, who wishes...
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