Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History, Second Edition, Paperback - Brian C. Black

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Peter N. (George Mason University) StearnsNumber of pages: 220Collection: Themes in World HistoryPublicat...

Publisher: World Scientific Europe LtdAuthor(s): Mark H A (Imperial College London, Uk) DavisNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2018Dimensions: ...

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An insightful look at the use of black propaganda during the Second World War

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In this highly original work Jeremy Black, one of world's leading military and cartographic historians, shows how fundamental maps were to the conf...

"Art" has always been contested terrain, whether the object in question is a medieval tapestry or Duchamp's Fountain. But questions about the categ...

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Based on the Second World War, this narrative poem, with its evocative drawings, captures the devastation of this global war and the dramatic event...

Praise for the first edition: "To give a sense of immediacy and vividness to the long period in such a short space is a major achievement." --Histo...

This is a compact but comprehensive and absorbing history of the Second World War. It examines the causes of the war, how it was won and lost, and ...

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First-hand accounts of what D-Day was really like for those who took part in Operation OverlordPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Carol Har...

Reducere. Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosi...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Paul (Professor of History, Professor of History, Clark University) RoppIllustration(s): 20 black ...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Peter Godfrey-SmithIllustration(s): 7 halftonesNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2021Dimen...

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A second view holds that globalisation has a long history that can be traced back to the nineteenth century, if not earlier. First, it offers a cat...