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  • ALGERIA REVISITED
    AISSAOUI, RABAH / ELDRIDGE, CLAIRE (ED.)
    On 5 July 1962, Algeria became an independent nation, bringing to an end 132 years of French colonial rule. Algeria Revisited provides an opportunity to critically re-examine the colonial period, the iconic war of decolonisation that brought it to an end and the enduring legacies of these years. Given the apparent centrality of violence in this history, this volume asks how we ...
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    43,50 €

  • A HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS
    WIELENGA, FRISO
    Books offering an overview of Dutch history are few and far between in the English-speaking world. Friso Wielenga's A History of the Netherlands: From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day fills this gap. It offers a modern, integrated outline of Dutch history from the period in which the country took shape as a geographical, administrative and political entity and undermine...
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    33,00 €

  • ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION OF ANGKOR, THE
    HIGHAM, CHARLES F.W.
    The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor reflects the results of a research programme conducted by Charles Higham over the last twenty years, highlighting much entirely new, and occasionally surprising, information and providing a distinct perspective on cultural change over two millennia. The book covers the background of environmental change, the adoption of rice farming, ar...
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    22,40 €

  • STREET FIGHT IN NAPLES
    ROBB, PETER
    Naples is always a shock, flaunting beauty and squalor like nowhere else. It is the only city in Europe whose ancient past still lives in its irrepressible people. In 1503, Naples was the Mediterranean capital of Spain's world empire and the base for the Christian struggle with Islam. It was a European metropolis matched only by Paris and Istanbul, an extraordinary concentratio...
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    14,00 €