Turning Points – serie
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22 produkter
End of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1923
Häftad, 1998
832 kr
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The collapse of the Ottoman Empire is a key event in the shaping of our own times. From its ruins rose a whole map of new countries including Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the perennially troubled area of Palestine as well as the Balkan lands - states which were to remain …
Fall of France 1940
Häftad, 2000
652 kr
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Offering a fresh critical perspective on this momentous event, Andrew Shennan examines both the continuities and discontinuities that resulted from the events of 1940. The main focus is on the French experience of the war, but this experience is framed within the larger context of France's - and …
Bomb
Nuclear Weapons in their Historical, Strategic and Ethical Context
Häftad, 1999
706 kr
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This tightly argued and profoundly thought provoking book tackles a huge subject: the coming of the nuclear age with bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, and the ways in which it has changed our lives since. Dr Heuser sets these events in their historical context and tackles key issues …
Oil Crisis
Av Fiona Venn
Häftad, 2002
832 kr
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In October 1973 two crises – one economic, one political – intersected, with dramatic and long term consequences for international relations. On 6 October, Egypt and Syria launched an attack on Israel, and within a few days the major Arab oil producers announced their support by use of the ‘oil …
Paris Commune 1871
Av Robert Tombs
Häftad, 1999
847 kr
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The Paris Commune was the biggest and last popular revolution in western Europe - ending the cycle of revolutions that started in 1789. The Parisians, reeling from defeat in the Franco-Prussian War set up their own revolutionary administration. Government troops eventually retook the city and took …
Great Treks
The Transformation of Southern Africa 1815-1854
Häftad, 2001
892 kr
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The mass migration of the Boer farmers from Cape Colony to escape British domination in 1835-36 - the Great Trek - has always been a potent icon of Africaaner nationalism and identity. For African nationalists, the Mfecane - the vast movement of the Black populations in the interior following the …
Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans
Context and Consequences
Häftad, 2012
712 kr
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The fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453 marked the end of a thousand years of the Christian Roman Empire. Thereafter, world civilisation began a process of radical change. The West came to identify itself as Europe; the Russians were set on the path of autocracy; the Ottomans were …
Germany 1989
In the Aftermath of the Cold War
Häftad, 2009
652 kr
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In autumn 1989 the world watched transfixed as East German citizens, demonstrating under the banner ‘We are the people!’, staged the only successful, totally peaceful revolution in German history. By October 1990, the process of reunification was formally concluded, bringing together a nation that …
Ending Apartheid
Häftad, 2010
847 kr
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The release of Nelson Mandela from twenty-seven years imprisonment in 1990 and the free elections which followed four years later were among the most dramatic events of the twentieth century.David Welsh and J. E. Spence here examine the complex forces which lay behind that drama. They chart the …
Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans
Context and Consequences
Inbunden, 2016
2586 kr
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The fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453 marked the end of a thousand years of the Christian Roman Empire. Thereafter, world civilisation began a process of radical change. The West came to identify itself as Europe; the Russians were set on the path of autocracy; the Ottomans were …
End of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1923
Inbunden, 2016
2586 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The collapse of the Ottoman Empire is a key event in the shaping of our own times. From its ruins rose a whole map of new countries including Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the perennially troubled area of Palestine as well as the Balkan lands - states which were to remain …
Bomb
Nuclear Weapons in their Historical, Strategic and Ethical Context
Inbunden, 2016
2512 kr
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This tightly argued and profoundly thought provoking book tackles a huge subject: the coming of the nuclear age with bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, and the ways in which it has changed our lives since. Dr Heuser sets these events in their historical context and tackles key issues …
Great Treks
The Transformation of Southern Africa 1815-1854
Inbunden, 2016
2586 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The mass migration of the Boer farmers from Cape Colony to escape British domination in 1835-36 - the Great Trek - has always been a potent icon of Africaaner nationalism and identity. For African nationalists, the Mfecane - the vast movement of the Black populations in the interior following the …
Fall of France 1940
Inbunden, 2017
2586 kr
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Offering a fresh critical perspective on this momentous event, Andrew Shennan examines both the continuities and discontinuities that resulted from the events of 1940. The main focus is on the French experience of the war, but this experience is framed within the larger context of France's - and …
Ending Apartheid
Inbunden, 2017
2586 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The release of Nelson Mandela from twenty-seven years imprisonment in 1990 and the free elections which followed four years later were among the most dramatic events of the twentieth century.David Welsh and J. E. Spence here examine the complex forces which lay behind that drama. They chart the …
Oil Crisis
Av Fiona Venn
Inbunden, 2017
2586 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In October 1973 two crises – one economic, one political – intersected, with dramatic and long term consequences for international relations. On 6 October, Egypt and Syria launched an attack on Israel, and within a few days the major Arab oil producers announced their support by use of the ‘oil …
Germany 1989
In the Aftermath of the Cold War
Inbunden, 2017
2586 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In autumn 1989 the world watched transfixed as East German citizens, demonstrating under the banner ‘We are the people!’, staged the only successful, totally peaceful revolution in German history. By October 1990, the process of reunification was formally concluded, bringing together a nation that …
Paris Commune 1871
Av Robert Tombs
Inbunden, 2016
2586 kr
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The Paris Commune was the biggest and last popular revolution in western Europe - ending the cycle of revolutions that started in 1789. The Parisians, reeling from defeat in the Franco-Prussian War set up their own revolutionary administration. Government troops eventually retook the city and took …
Little Rock Nine
Av Marshall Poe
Häftad, 2008
92 kr
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Two teen friends, one black and one white, weather the fallout of school integration together in their hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas.Sixteen-year-old William McNally and fifteen-year-old Thomas Johnson both live in Little Rock, Arkansas, in the summer of 1957. They both love baseball and …
Sons of Liberty
Av Marshall Poe
Häftad, 2008
107 kr
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Nathaniel Smithfield is a ten-year-old boy living with his family in Boston, Massachusetts in 1768 when he first starts to witness the drama happening in the city around him. Tension heats up between those who are loyal to the British crown, like Nathaniel's father, and those who believe the people …
