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Ancestral Leaves : A Family Jo...Ancestral Leaves follows one family through six hundred years of Chinese histo... Ancestral Leaves follows one family through six hundred years of Chinese history and brings to life the epic narrative of the nation from the fourteenth century through the Cultural Revolution. The lives of the Ye family-- Ye means leaf in... more
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Routledge Studies in Security ...This book examines the application of the UN Security Council s mandatory sanc... This book examines the application of the UN Security Council s mandatory sanctions since 1946 and in particular the regimes adopted for specific types of conflict. Beginning in the Cold War period with South Africa and Southern Rhodesia and continuing... more
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New Press People s History: Qu...Placing GLBT people at the center of the history of the twentieth century Vick... Placing GLBT people at the center of the history of the twentieth century Vicki L. Eaklor s Queer America: A People s GLBT History of the United States is a major new effort to popularize a long-overlooked chapter in the American experience. Written in... more
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Palgrave Historical Studies in...The late Victorian period witnessed the remarkable revival of magical practice... The late Victorian period witnessed the remarkable revival of magical practice and belief. Butler examines the individuals institutions and literature associated with this revival and demonstrates how Victorian occultism provided an alternative to the... more
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Hitler vs. Stalin : The Easter...Originally published as Deathride this is the true story of the Eastern Front ... Originally published as Deathride this is the true story of the Eastern Front in World War II emphasizing how close Germany came to winning and the USSR to losing; the severity of the Soviet losses which have been minimized due to Soviet propaganda;... more
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Ordinary Egyptians : Creating ...Examines how popular media and culture provided ordinary Egyptians with a fram... Examines how popular media and culture provided ordinary Egyptians with a framework to construct and negotiate a modern national identity. more
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Nationalism and the Reshaping ...This book brings together a distinguished group of historians to explore the p... This book brings together a distinguished group of historians to explore the previously neglected relationship between nationalism and urban history. It reveals the contrasting experiences of nationalism in different societies and milieus. It will help... more
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Cambridge Studies on the Ameri...On the eve of the Revolution the Carolina lowcountry was the wealthiest and un... On the eve of the Revolution the Carolina lowcountry was the wealthiest and unhealthiest region in British North America. Slavery Disease and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry argues that the two were intimately connected: both resulted largely from... more
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The Chaplains of the East Indi...The East India Company s merchants were called Adventurers because they ventur... The East India Company s merchants were called Adventurers because they ventured their money in the risky markets of the Spice Islands and the fabulously wealthy Mughal Empire. In another sense also the Company s entire 250 years were an adventure... more
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Freedom of Speech : The Histor...The essays in this volume portray the public debates concerning freedom of spe... The essays in this volume portray the public debates concerning freedom of speech in the 18th century in France and Britain as well as Austria Denmark Russia and Spain and its American territories. The economic integration of Europe and its offshoots... more
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The Freemasons : A History of ...What did Mozart and Bach Oscar Wilde and Anthony Trollope George Washington an... What did Mozart and Bach Oscar Wilde and Anthony Trollope George Washington and Frederick the Great Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt have in common? They were all Freemasons a secret society that has been the subject of endless fascination.... more
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The Illustrated History of Wor...A highly readable history of the military and political events of the war with... A highly readable history of the military and political events of the war with expert commentary on the political and economical factors leading to the conflict and the key turning points A highly readable history of the events of World War Two... more
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Harvard East Asian Monographs:...Often depicted as one of the world s most strictly isolationist and relentless... Often depicted as one of the world s most strictly isolationist and relentlessly authoritarian regimes North Korea has remained terra incognita to foreign researchers as a site for anthropological fieldwork. Given the difficulty of gaining access to... more
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Civil War: Andersonville Civil...Andersonville (Camp Sumter) Civil War prison was only in operation for little ... Andersonville (Camp Sumter) Civil War prison was only in operation for little more than one year from 1864 into 1865. In just a few of those months however it became the largest city in Georgia and the fifth largest city in the Confederate States of... more
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Fighting for America: The Stru...Fighting for America: The Struggle for Mastery in North America 1519-1871 Fighting for America: The Struggle for Mastery in North America 1519-1871 more
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Civic Ceremony and Religion in...Public religious practice lay at the heart of civic society in late medieval E... Public religious practice lay at the heart of civic society in late medieval Europe. In this illuminating study Andrew Brown draws on the rich and previously little-researched archives of Bruges one of medieval Europe s wealthiest and most important... more
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Civil War: Charleston Under Si...Join historian Doug Bostick as he tells the story of the siege of Charleston t... Join historian Doug Bostick as he tells the story of the siege of Charleston the longest siege of the Civil War. Charleston was the prize that the Union army and navy desperately sought to capture. Union General Halleck in writing to General W.T.... more
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Battle of Kursk 1943 : Rare Ph...The greatest tank battle in world history opened during the early hours of 5 J... The greatest tank battle in world history opened during the early hours of 5 July 1943 and its outcome was to decide the eventual outcome of the war on the Eastern Front. Battle of Kursk 1943 is an illustrated account of this battle of the war on the... more
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Film Memory and the Legacy of ...Film Memory and the Legacy of the Spanish Civil War reconstructs the legacy of... Film Memory and the Legacy of the Spanish Civil War reconstructs the legacy of the Spanish Civil War through an investigation of the anti-Franco guerrilla of the 1940s and 1950s. The book explores the memory of Spanish resistance fighters and their... more
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Kentucky Rising: Democracy Sla...t is sometimes said that Kentucky joined the South after the Civil War and man... t is sometimes said that Kentucky joined the South after the Civil War and many books have been devoted to studying the influence of the war and its aftermath on the Commonwealth. But less is known about the decades before the Civil War. In Generations... more
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