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  • The Politics of Arms Control Treaty Ratification The Politics of Arms Control Treaty Ratification
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    The Politics of Arms Control Treaty Ratification

    In the treaty of Versailles and the SALT II Treaty, years of painstaking diplomatic effort were lost when the United States Senate refused to provide its consent to ratification. This book provides the first comparative assessment ever written of...
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  • The Second Crusade and the Cistercians The Second Crusade and the Cistercians
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    The Second Crusade and the Cistercians

    No subject in medieval history is changing as rapidly as crusade studies. Even so, the Second Crusade has been oddly neglected. The present volume is the first ever to have been devoted to it in English and one of the few which has appeared in any...
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  • The Gypsies of Early Modern Spain The Gypsies of Early Modern Spain
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    The Gypsies of Early Modern Spain

    Drawing extensively on the author's archival research, this is the first major study in English of the first three and a half centuries in Spain of a people, its 'gitanos', who, despite their elevation by Spaniards and non-Spaniards alike to culturally...
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  • This is only a Test This is only a Test
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    This is only a Test

    Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This book tells the history of nuclear age urban planning, civil defence and continuity of...
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  • Psychiatry and Empire Psychiatry and Empire
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    Psychiatry and Empire

    'Psychiatry and Empire' brings together scholars in the History of Medicine and Colonialism to explore questions of race, gender and power relations in former colonial states across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific. The volume advances our...
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  • Herbert Butterfield and the Interpretation of History Herbert Butterfield and the Interpretation of History
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    Herbert Butterfield and the Interpretation of History

    This book examines successive stages in the development of the thought of Sir Herbert Butterfield in relation to fundamental issues in the science of history. In a carefully nuanced way it lays bare the unspoken motivations and hidden tensions in...
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  • Unfortunate Objects Unfortunate Objects
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    Unfortunate Objects

    This book analyzes how poor eighteenth-century London women coped when they found themselves pregnant, their survival networks and the consequences of bearing an illegitimate child. It does so by exploring the encounters between poor women and the parish...
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  • The Jewish Legion during the First World War The Jewish Legion during the First World War
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    The Jewish Legion during the First World War

    In the autumn of 1917, the British government established three batallions of infantry, for the reception of non-nationalized Russian Jews. Known colloquially as the Jewish Legion, the batallions served in Egypt and Palestine, before their eventual...
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  • Politics and the Irish Working Class, 1830-1945 Politics and the Irish Working Class, 1830-1945
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    Politics and the Irish Working Class, 1830-1945

    This book is the first ever collection of scholarly essays on the history of the Irish working class. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the involvement of Irish workers in political life and movements between 1830 and 1945. Fourteen leading...
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  • Unionism in the United Kingdom, 1918-1974 Unionism in the United Kingdom, 1918-1974
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    Unionism in the United Kingdom, 1918-1974

    This book examines the range and complexity of unionist political identities, ideas and beliefs in the non-English parts of the United Kingdom in the mid-twentieth century. It discusses the careers of eight politicians from Scotland, Wales and Northern...
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  • Defending Albion Defending Albion
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    Defending Albion

    Defending Albion is the first published study of Britain's response to the threat of invasion from across the North Sea in the first two decades of the Twentieth Century. It examines the emergency schemes designed to confront an enemy landing and the...
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  • British Fascism, the Labour Movement and the State British Fascism, the Labour Movement and the State
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    British Fascism, the Labour Movement and the State

    Considerable attention has been paid to far-right parties and their leaders, Oswald Mosley, A. K. Chesterton, John Tyndall and Nick Griffin. But what about the forces that have been organised in opposition to fascism in Britain? British Fascism, the...
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  • Technology Gatekeepers for War and Peace Technology Gatekeepers for War and Peace
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    Technology Gatekeepers for War and Peace

    The technological revolution in shipbuilding in the early twentieth century had a great impact on the military, industrial, commercial worlds. Matsumoto focuses on the relationship between this revolution and the structure and function of 'technology...
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  • Vestiges of Colonial Empire in France Vestiges of Colonial Empire in France
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    Vestiges of Colonial Empire in France

    This book offers the first comprehensive study of 'sites of memory' in France connected to the history of French imperialism and colonialism, and the ways that the French have remembered or forgotten their colonial past. Through a study of monuments,...
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  • Musical Comedy on the West End Stage, 1890 - 1939 Musical Comedy on the West End Stage, 1890 - 1939
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    Musical Comedy on the West End Stage, 1890 - 1939

    This book offers the first full historical treatment of a music theatre that was once at the centre of London's West End. From the late Victorian period to the early 1920s, musical comedy was the single most popular form of 'legitimate' theatre...
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  • Political Thought From Machiavelli to Stalin Political Thought From Machiavelli to Stalin
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    Political Thought From Machiavelli to Stalin

    This is the first book in English to explore the relationship between Stalin's ideas and methods, and the practices advocated by Machiavelli and those associated with 'Machiavellian' politics. It advances the concept of 'revolutionary Machiavellism' as a...
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  • State, Power and Community in Early Modern Russia State, Power and Community in Early Modern Russia
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    State, Power and Community in Early Modern Russia

    State, Power and Community in Early Modern Russia is a vivid reconstruction of life in one of the garrison towns built on Muscovy's southern steppe frontier in the early Seventeenth-century to defend against Tatar raids. It focuses on how the...
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  • Charters and Charter Scholarship in Britain and Ireland Charters and Charter Scholarship in Britain and Ireland
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    Charters and Charter Scholarship in Britain and Ireland

    This book draws together a collection of essays looking at the ways in which charters and charter scholarship in different areas of Britain and Ireland, highlighting comparisons and contrasts in charter production and use. The book shows the crucial...
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  • Operations Without Pain Operations Without Pain
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    Operations Without Pain

    The introduction of anaesthesia to Victorian Britain marked a defining moment between modern medicine and earlier practices. This book uses new information from John Snow's casebooks and London hospital archives to revise many of the existing historical...
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  • Women in the Khrushchev Era Women in the Khrushchev Era
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    Women in the Khrushchev Era

    This collection of essays examines women in the Khrushchev era, using both newly-accessible archival material and a re-reading of published sources. Exploring diverse subjects including housing, space flight, women workers, cinema, religion and...
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  • Dangerous Motherhood Dangerous Motherhood
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    Dangerous Motherhood

    Dangerous Motherhood is the first study of the close and complex relationship between mental disorder and childbirth. Exploring the relationship between women, their families and their doctors reveals how explanations for the onset of puerperal insanity...
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  • Britain's Long War Britain's Long War
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    Britain's Long War

    Britain's Long War assesses the process of strategic change within the British Government's position on Northern Ireland, starting with Westminster's first intervention in 1969 and ending with the Belfast Agreement in 1998. Drawing on a vast range of...
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  • Major Turning Points in Jewish Intellectual History Major Turning Points in Jewish Intellectual History
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    Major Turning Points in Jewish Intellectual History

    This book analyzes major transformations in Jewish life and thought: from idolatry to exclusive monotheism in the biblical age, from state-based identity to cultural nationalism in the Roman empire; and, in the European Diaspora, from theology to...
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  • Libertine Enlightenment Libertine Enlightenment
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    Libertine Enlightenment

    Sex in the Eighteenth-century was not simply a pleasure; it had profound philosophical and political implications. This book explores those implications, and in particular the links between sexual freedom and liberty in a variety of European and British...
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  • Republican Legal Theory Republican Legal Theory
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    Republican Legal Theory

    Republican legal theory developed out of the jurisprudential and constitutional legacy of the Roman res publica as interpreted over two millennia in Europe and North America. In this book - the most comprehensive study of republican legal ideas to date -...
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  • St Petersburg, 1703-1825 St Petersburg, 1703-1825
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    St Petersburg, 1703-1825

    A collection of nine articles written by leading scholars in Britain, Ireland, Italy and the USA on various aspects of the city of St Petersburg during the important first century and a quarter of its existence, from its founding in 1703 to the end of...
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  • Tocqueville, Democracy and Social Reform Tocqueville, Democracy and Social Reform
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    Tocqueville, Democracy and Social Reform

    Alexis de Tocqueville is best known as the author of Democracy in America and The Ancien Régime and the Revolution . Yet among his contemporaries he was also esteemed for his brilliant investigations on social issues such as prison reform, pauperism and...
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  • Hans Frank Hans Frank
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    Hans Frank

    The conquest of Lebensraum - living space - in Eastern Europe was the whole point of the Third Reich. This study investigates a key participant in the criminal project - Hans Frank - and how he tried to establish his corner of Hitler's racial empire. It...
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  • Conflict and Compromise in East Germany, 1971-1989 Conflict and Compromise in East Germany, 1971-1989
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    Conflict and Compromise in East Germany, 1971-1989

    This extensively researched empirical analysis of the GDR in the years 1971-1989 challenges current historical interpretations of GDR history. It focuses on four social groups - youth, women, writers and Christians - to highlight the stability of this...
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  • Britain and UN Peacekeeping Britain and UN Peacekeeping
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    Britain and UN Peacekeeping

    Britain was arguably the single greatest catalyst and beneficiary of UN peacekeeping operations during the post-war period. This book analyses the reasons for this, including the post-colonial conflicts which Britain handed the UN and its determination...
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  • The Jacobite Movement in Scotland and in Exile, 1746-1759 The Jacobite Movement in Scotland and in Exile, 1746-1759
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    The Jacobite Movement in Scotland and in Exile, 1746-1759

    The argument presented in this book arose from an extension to the question whether the suppression of the Jacobite Rising of 1745-46, as represented by a long-standing historiographical consensus, spelled the end of Jacobite hopes, and British fears, of...
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  • Britain's Productivity Problem, 1948-1990 Britain's Productivity Problem, 1948-1990
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    Britain's Productivity Problem, 1948-1990

    This volume examines attempted changes to industrial relations in Britain during 1948-1990, designed to promote institutional reforms of management and trade unions. Specific focus is given to the Donovan Commission and other trade union reforms, and...
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  • Swiss Foreign Policy, 1945-2002 Swiss Foreign Policy, 1945-2002
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    Swiss Foreign Policy, 1945-2002

    Swiss Foreign Policy, 1945-2002 presents for the first time a comprehensive collection of eight essays, addressing the post-war foreign policy of Switzerland. The essays deal with a diverse range of issues: general foreign policy and neutrality; defense...
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  • The Macmillan-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1957-69 The Macmillan-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1957-69
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    The Macmillan-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1957-69

    The Macmillan-Eisenhower Correspondence provides, for the first time, an edition of the messages exchanged between Harold Macmillan and Dwight D. Eisenhower during their tenures as national leaders in the late 1950s. The collection consists of more than...
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  • The Writing of Rural England, 1500-1800 The Writing of Rural England, 1500-1800
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    The Writing of Rural England, 1500-1800

    The Writing of Rural England 1500-1800 documents and contextualizes the conflicting representations of rural life during a crucial period of social, economic and cultural change. It highlights the dialogues and tensions between agriculture and...
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  • Gender and Power in the Third Reich Gender and Power in the Third Reich
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    Gender and Power in the Third Reich

    This book examines the everyday operations of the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police. The Gestapo were able to detect the smallest signs of non-compliance with Nazi doctrines, especially 'crimes' pertaining to the private spheres of social, family, and...
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  • The Napoleonic Empire in Italy, 1796-1814 The Napoleonic Empire in Italy, 1796-1814
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    The Napoleonic Empire in Italy, 1796-1814

    Broers repositions the context in which the Napoleonic empire can be studied, and reconfigures the political and historical geography of Italy, in the century before its Unification in 1859. The Napoleonic Empire in Italy marks a fresh departure in the...
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  • Centre-Local Relations in the Stalinist State, 1928-1941 Centre-Local Relations in the Stalinist State, 1928-1941
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    Centre-Local Relations in the Stalinist State, 1928-1941

    This book analyzes the development of the Stalinist state of the 1930s from the perspective of the changing nature of centre-local relations. It examines the trend toward greater central state control over the formation and implementation of economic...
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  • Mystic or Sorcerer Mystic or Sorcerer
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    Mystic or Sorcerer

    An survey of the evolution of esotericism in South-East Asia from 1400 - 1500 in the peninsula of Malaya. The outcome was Sufism, Islam, and Sorcery in the minimal, but how did this all begin? This book can introduce you to the esoteric dimension of it...
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  • 万神说·下册（不可知论的"神学"）A Theory of Ten-Thousand Gods(part 2) 万神说·下册（不可知论的"神学"）A Theory of Ten-Thousand Gods(part 2)
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    万神说·下册（不可知论的"神学"）A Theory of Ten-Thousand Gods(part 2)

    谢选骏此书通过对于世界各种神话与宗教的梳理，说明这样一个观点:和其它的"有神学支持的神话不同"，贯穿《圣经》的，其实是一种"不可知论的神学"。圣经的神是没有名字的，圣经的神也没有可以把握的确切内涵。圣经的神不像其它神话里的神那样，具有系列的故事。圣经所讲述的，是神与人的关系，而不是神的自身──因为"不可知论的神学"否决了人类能够知道神自身的秘密，而最多只能透露一些"神与人相关的启示"。Synopsis: This book of Xie Xuanjun's attempts to, through...
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