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    The Writings of Oliver Olney

    Oliver H. Olney, an early convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, fled to Nauvoo, Illinois, following persecution in Missouri. In Nauvoo, Olney became disgruntled with church leadership and viewed Joseph Smith as a fallen prophet. His...
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    The War of Confederate Captain Henry T. Owen

    Henry Thweatt Owen fought the War of 1861-1865 on many fronts. As a commander of Company C, 18th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia, Confederate States of America, he fought against the Union Army. He also fought on a second front in...
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  • Babylonia, the Gulf Region, and the Indus
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    Babylonia, the Gulf Region, and the Indus

    During the third millennium BC, the huge geographical area stretching between the Mediterranean in the west and the Indus Valley in the east witnessed the rise of a commercial network of unmatched proportions and intensity, within which the Persian Gulf...
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  • Kent State Murder Day - May 4, 1970 Kent State Murder Day - May 4, 1970
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    Kent State Murder Day - May 4, 1970

    On May 4, 1970 the Ohio National Guard fired bullets into college students in a non-violent demonstration at Kent State University.  They were protesting the Vietnam War and Cambodia Campaign of illegal bombing by the United States Government and...
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  • Towards Emancipation Towards Emancipation
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    Towards Emancipation

    No doubt, the feminist movement has come a long way, even though many of its aims have not been realized or, in fact, are still debated by its supporters and critics. It is sobering andinstructive to look back and examine the aspirations, achievements...
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  • Women and Russian Culture Women and Russian Culture
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    Women and Russian Culture

    The image of women in Russian culture has undergone profound changes: from the origins of modern Russian literature in the eighteenth century until the Revolution of 1917, when women were a source of fascination for Russian writers, to the socialist...
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  • Between Utopia and Disillusionment Between Utopia and Disillusionment
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    Between Utopia and Disillusionment

    Scholarly interpretations of the collapse of communism and developments thereafter have tended to be primarily concerned with people's need to rid themselves of the communist system, of their past. The expectations, dreams, and hopes that ordinary...
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  • The War for the German Mind The War for the German Mind
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    The War for the German Mind

    There are several important studies on Allied efforts to re-educate German civilians after the fall of Nazism. The simultaneous major program of the U. S., Britain and Soviet Union to influence the future of German politics and society through the...
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  • Women in Contemporary Russia Women in Contemporary Russia
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    Women in Contemporary Russia

    The position of Russia has always been difficult. In spite of the Revolution in 1917, the legal, economic, social and political inequalities between men and women have remained severe. For more than seventy years the official propaganda of the Soviet...
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  • Politics and Government in Germany, 1944-1994 Politics and Government in Germany, 1944-1994
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    Politics and Government in Germany, 1944-1994

    This revised and enlarged edition brings the successful original volume of 1984 right up to date, taking into account the most recent developments. Each section begins with an introduction that provides the context for the following documents. There is...
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  • An Earth-colored Sea An Earth-colored Sea
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    An Earth-colored Sea

    Although the post-colonial situation has attracted considerable interest over recent years, one important colonial power - Portugal - has not been given any attention. This book is the first to explore notions of ethnicity, "race", culture, and nation in...
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  • Symbiosis and Ambivalence Symbiosis and Ambivalence
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    Symbiosis and Ambivalence

    In Poland and elsewhere there has been a noticeable increase of interest in various aspects of the Polish-Jewish past which can be explained, the author argues, in terms of a broader intellectual need to explore the "blank spots" of Poland's national...
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  • Toward a Global Community of Historians Toward a Global Community of Historians
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    Toward a Global Community of Historians

    Globalization presents major challenges to scholars of history. Different variants of global history and world history compete with, and transform, more traditional approaches of national, regional, and local scope, accompanied by new forms of...
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  • Shedding Light on the Darkness Shedding Light on the Darkness
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    Shedding Light on the Darkness

    Increasingly, German Studies programs include courses on the Holocaust, but suitable course materials are often difficult to find. Teachers in higher education will therefore very much welcome this volume that examines and reflects both the practical and...
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  • Power Shift in Germany Power Shift in Germany
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    Power Shift in Germany

    Germany's landmark 1998 election saw for the first time in the Republic's fifty-year historyan incumbent Chancellor and his entire government replaced. In this collection fourteen distinguished scholars, from both sides of the Atlantic, have come...
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  • Women and Modernity in Weimar Germany Women and Modernity in Weimar Germany
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    Women and Modernity in Weimar Germany

    This book focuses on the popular fiction of Weimar Germany and explores the relationship between women, the texts they read, and the society in which they lived. A complex picture emerges that shows women talking center stage, not only in the fiction but...
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  • Different Restorations Different Restorations
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    Different Restorations

    This book responds to the frequently heard call for more comparative history .It does so by focusing on the problem of reconstruction in the national experience of the United States and Germany during three crucial periods: 1865-1945-1989. Accordingly, a...
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  • History and Modernity in Latin America History and Modernity in Latin America
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    History and Modernity in Latin America

    Why is it that Japan, with few natural resources, has become one of the world's leading economies but not Latin America, which is so rich in natural resources? This anthropological essay questions the Euro-centric notion of modernity and modernization...
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  • Martin & Malcolm & America Martin & Malcolm & America
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    Martin & Malcolm & America

    This groundbreaking and highly acclaimed work examines the two most influential African-American leaders of this century. While Martin Luther King, Jr., saw America as essentially a dream . . . as yet unfulfilled, Malcolm X viewed America as a realized...
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  • The Saint, Francis of Assisi The Saint, Francis of Assisi
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    The Saint, Francis of Assisi

    Noted Franciscan scholars Regis J. Armstrong, J. A. Wayne Hellmann, and William Short spearheaded a collabrative effort of translators, scholars and technicians to publish this series. Many of these texts had been published in critical, scholarly...
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  • Outlaws in the Big Thicket Outlaws in the Big Thicket
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    Outlaws in the Big Thicket

    For the lawless, the Big Thicket offered the best natural hiding place in Texas. Wanda Landrey tells the tales of various outlaws and their deeds from extensive research and first hand accounts. The Sapp murders, the Kaiser Burnout and the escapades of...
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  • High Plains Yesterdays High Plains Yesterdays
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    High Plains Yesterdays

    The northernmost portion of the Texas Panhandle, the Dalhart High Plains area, is perhaps best known for its legendary cold weather. There is "only a barbed wire fence between it and the North Pole," as the saying goes.To many it is famed for the...
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  • The Shi'ites The Shi'ites
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    The Shi'ites

    Combining history, comparative religion, and political interpretations, Heinz Halm elucidates Shi'ism and political developments in the Middle East for the uninformed reader. The author highlights three main aspects of Shi'a Islam: its historical...
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  • The Shii'tes The Shii'tes
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    The Shii'tes

    Combining history, comparative religion, and political interpretations, Heinz Halm elucidates Shi'ism and political developments in the Middle East for the uninformed reader. The author highlights three main aspects of Shi'a Islam: its historical...
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  • Cuban Legends Cuban Legends
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    Cuban Legends

    This collection of Cuban legends, compiled by the renowned essayist and literary critic Salvador Bueno, brings readers the best of a time-honored tradition of storytelling in Cuba. These tales, passed on from generation to generation throughout the...
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  • Slavery in the Islamic Middle East Slavery in the Islamic Middle East
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    Slavery in the Islamic Middle East

    Slavery, recognized and regulated by Islamic law, was an integral part of Muslim societies in the Middle East well into modern times. Recruited from the “Abode of War” by means of trade or warfare, slaves began their lives in the Islamic world as...
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  • America in the Eyes of the Germans America in the Eyes of the Germans
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    America in the Eyes of the Germans

    The author presents a short history of a rather complex idea that began around the year 1800. Though the United States was often viewed by the people of Germany as a land of opportunity, a portion of the intelligentsia, with which this book is...
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  • Calendar of Delaware Wills, New Castle County, 1682-1800 Calendar of Delaware Wills, New Castle County, 1682-1800
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    Calendar of Delaware Wills, New Castle County, 1682-1800

    This volume contains abstracts of all the extant wills found in the original (loose) probate papers and the recorded volumes as of 1911. Many of the earliest wills were not recorded in the probate volumes, and some original papers had disappeared by that...
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  • 1798 Direct Tax New Hampshire District #13, Consisting of the Towns of Alton, Brookfield, Effingham, Middleton, New Durham, Ossipee, Tuftonboro, Wakefield, and Wolfeboro 1798 Direct Tax New Hampshire District #13, Consisting of the Towns of Alton, Brookfield, Effingham, Middleton, New Durham, Ossipee, Tuftonboro, Wakefield, and Wolfeboro
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    1798 Direct Tax New Hampshire District #13, Consisting of the Towns of Alton, Brookfield, Effingham, Middleton, New Durham, Ossipee, Tuftonboro, Wakefield, and Wolfeboro

    This transcription of a portion of the 1798 Direct Tax lists is of special importance because it covers the towns in southeastern New Hampshire for which the 1800 federal census schedules are missing. Thus it provides an essential adjunct to the...
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  • Violence in the Middle East Violence in the Middle East
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    Violence in the Middle East

    Violence has been a central political issue in many Middle Eastern countries during the past two decades, either episodically (Syria, Iran) or continually (Turkey, Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Israel/Palestine). This groundbreaking new study...
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  • Catching the Torch Catching the Torch
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    Catching the Torch

    Catching the Torch examines contemporary novels and plays written about Canada's participation in World War I. Exploring such works as Jane Urquhart's The Underpainter and The Stone Carvers, Jack Hodgins's Broken Ground, Kevin Kerr's Unity (1918),...
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  • Major Events of the Cold War | Conflict with Vietnam, Cuban Missile Crisis and the Sputnik Launch | Military History | History Book 7th Grade | Children's Military Books Major Events of the Cold War | Conflict with Vietnam, Cuban Missile Crisis and the Sputnik Launch | Military History | History Book 7th Grade | Children's Military Books
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    Major Events of the Cold War | Conflict with Vietnam, Cuban Missile Crisis and the Sputnik Launch | Military History | History Book 7th Grade | Children's Military Books

    Let's take a look at the major events that transpired during the cold war. More specifically, read about the conflict with Vietnam, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Sputnik Launch. But what will your child get from reading these harrowing facts? The...
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  • Who Moved West? Who Moved West?
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    Who Moved West?

    There has been extensive damage after the Civil War so the challenge for the next government was on reconstruction. In this book, you will read about the plans for reconstruction and where the westward expansion came into play. Examine the details of the...
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  • Stand on Principle! Stand on Principle!
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    Stand on Principle!

    To create a free nation, the rights to choose and decide should be upheld. In America, two important documents guarantee these rights - the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. In this book, you will read about the colorful history of the...
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  • Growing Pains! Growing Pains!
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    Growing Pains!

    As America acquired more land, it attracted more people. The promise of land and a new start resulted in immigration and the eventual growth of American cities. Learn where immigrants to the US came from and the reasons for their move. Study how these...
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  • I am Woman! I am Woman!
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    I am Woman!

    It may be hard to believe now but at some point in history, women were treated much differently. They did not enjoy the same rights and freedoms as modern women do. For example, they were not allowed to vote or go to university. However, brave women...
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