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Leader: Pride is a necessary evil
With swingeing funding cuts on the horizon, the sector must not be afraid to boast about its burgeoning economic value
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From where I sit: Reformation, but at what cost?
The start of the Dutch academic year is an intriguing spectacle. Even the University of Twente, set up in 1961, takes the opportunity for its professors to parade through Enschede's town centre in...
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Chris Lamb, 1950-2009
Obituary
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Eighteenth Century Britain 1688-1783
Author: Jeremy BlackEdition: SecondPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPages: 328Price: £55.00 and £19.99ISBN: 9780230537491 and 7507Few periods of British history have been subject to so many...
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Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery: 1612-1865
Author: Nini RodgersEdition: FirstPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPages: 412Price: £66.00, £19.99 and £54.00 (e-book)ISBN: 9780333770993, 9780230574779 and 0625228For a long time, there was a tendency...
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Historians on History
Author: John ToshEdition: Second revisedPublisher: LongmanPages: 392Price: £19.99ISBN: 9781405801683This reader became established as a core text at many universities in the late 1990s and the second...
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Weimar Germany
Editor: Anthony McElligottEdition: FirstPublisher: Oxford University PressPages: 344Price: £55.00 and £16.99ISBN: 9780199280063 and 0070The Short Oxford History of Germany, of which this book forms a...
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Germany 1989: In the Aftermath of the Cold War
Author: Lothar KettenackerEdition: FirstPublisher: Pearson LongmanPages: 284Price: £18.99ISBN: 9780582418974This volume in the publisher's excellent Turning Points series gives an illuminating and...
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Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe
Author: Peter BurkeEdition: ThirdPublisher: AshgatePages: 472Price: £25.00ISBN: 9780754665076When it was first published in 1978, this book had a major impact on the way we write history. This third...
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A Time to Dance, A Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518
Author: John WallerEdition: FirstPublisher: Icon BooksPages: 2Price: £8.99ISBN: 9781848310537In July 1518, a bizarre "dancing plague" struck the city of Strasbourg. People cavorted wildly in the...
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Tudors and Stuarts on Film: Historical Perspectives
Editors: Susan Doran and Thomas S. FreemanEdition: FirstPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPages: 320Price: £49.50 and £16.99ISBN: 9781403940704 and 0711Films are entertainment. Yet when "historical" films...
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Student Review: An Introduction to the Ancient World
Authors: L. de Blois and R. J. van der SpekEdition: SecondPublisher: RoutledgePages: 352Price: £70.00, £22.99 and £22.99 (e-book)ISBN: 9780415458269, 86 and 0203893128The second edition of this...
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Global Ethics: Anarchy, Freedom and International Relations
Author: Mervyn FrostEdition: FirstPublisher: RoutledgePages: 192Price: £75.00 and £18.99ISBN: 9780415466097 and 6103It is widely assumed by realists and others that ethics is at best a relatively...
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Political Thinkers: From Socrates to the Present
Editors: David Boucher and Paul KellyEdition: Second revisedPublisher: Oxford University PressPages: 664Price: £25.99ISBN: 9780199215522In Boucher and Kelly's excellent textbook on political thought...