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Eastern European Railways in Transition: Nineteenth to Twenty-first Centuries - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=xkGiAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT91
During the nineteenth century, railway lines spread rapidly across Europe, linking the continent in ways unimaginable to previous generations. By the beginning of the twentieth century the great cities of the continent were linked by a complex and…
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The Military Orders: History and heritage - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=dSM_w4Q1sUwC&pg=PA175
In the last twenty years there has been an explosion of scholarly interest in the Military Orders. With a history stretching from the early twelfth century to the present day, they were among the richest and most powerful orders of the church in medieval…
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Presidential Policies and the Road to the Second Iraq War: From Forty One to ... - Google Books
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By virtually any means of measurement, postwar Iraq has become a more bloodied and embattled settlement than ever envisaged. But were the seeds of these problems sown long before military force had been committed?This lucid and detailed examination of US…
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The Making of Modern Greece: Nationalism, Romanticism, & the Uses of the ... - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=ImsWVbWVrgIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+making+of+modern+Greece&hl=de&ei=P_MgTfr9G4jAswb7lLXcDA&
This book brings together the work of scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore the contribution of characteristically 19th-century European modes of thought to the 'making' of Greece as a modern nation. Closely linked to nationalism is…
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Great Writers on Organizations - Derek Salman Pugh, David John Hickson - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=QHC95CJAnAMC&pg=PA20&lpg=PA20&dq=Joan+Woodward+Sociology&source=bl&ots=8JISZH2hBn&sig=PuSCdMRBKJ
Great Writers on Organizations presents succinctly each of the contributions made by 80 of the most prominent management thinkers to the understanding of organizational behaviour and managerial thinking. New writers included in the Third Omnibus Edition…
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The Mediterranean Fleet, 1919-1929 - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=UKAHL3NpgEsC&pg=PA3&dq=constantinople+13+october+1918+battleships&hl=de&sa=X&ei=2oPbUN70OMnzsgau
Post-First World War, the Mediterranean Fleet found itself in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Sea of Marmora, the Black Sea and the Adriatic. The collapse of the Ottoman, Russian and Habsburg empires created a vacuum of power in which different factions…
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Devotional Music in the Iberian World, 1450-1800: The Villancico and Related ... - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=1PgPVnBH3FEC&pg=PA15#v=onepage
The dissemination of the genre, an important part of the Iberian cathedral tradition for over 4 centuries, its nature and function, its reception and stylistic evolution are all considered here, as well as the spaces for its performance and relationship to…
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The Military Orders: History and heritage - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=dSM_w4Q1sUwC&pg=PA175#v=onepage
In the last twenty years there has been an explosion of scholarly interest in the Military Orders. With a history stretching from the early twelfth century to the present day, they were among the richest and most powerful orders of the church in medieval…
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Persephone Rises, 1860-1927: Mythography, Gender, and the Creation of a New ... - Margot Kathleen Louis - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=zjd4OJP_RJgC&pg=PA119#v=onepage
A survey of the Persephone myth in the literature of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It explores the transformation of the goddess to provide not only a basis for understanding how the study of ancient history informed the creation of a new…
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Between Constantinople and Rome: An Illuminated Byzantine Gospel Book (Paris ... - Professor Kathleen Maxwell - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=DACMMbsMpnIC&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=Psalter+Vat.+lat.+81&source=bl&ots=SYKRVAoszW&sig=3WDV4xdjUDDK
This is a study of the artistic and political context that led to the production of Bibliothèque Nationale de France, codex grec 54, one of the most ambitious and complex manuscripts of the Byzantine era. Kathleen Maxwell’s multi-disciplinary approach…