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    President Lyndon Johnson and Soviet Communism
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    President Lyndon Johnson and Soviet Communism

    This major new study fills a significant gap in the academic literature on the Cold War by considering President Lyndon Johnson's policy towards the Soviet Union. The author examines the attitudes of Johnson and his leading advisers toward the Soviet...
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    The British working class in postwar film
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    The British working class in postwar film

    Discussing well-known films and forgotten ones which deserve reassessment, this text uses a sociological model to examine how working class people are portrayed in British feature films from the decade after World War II. It introduces media and film...
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    A history of the Ulster Unionist Party
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    A history of the Ulster Unionist Party

    This is the first substantial history to trace the political development of the Ulster Unionist Party through the years of protest and opposition to Irish Home Rule to the half-century as a governing party within Northern Ireland, and beyond to the...
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    An introduction to post-Communist Bulgaria
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    An introduction to post-Communist Bulgaria

    Assesses the post-communist period in Bulgaria and examines how the democratization process has developed so far - Contains valuable historical and comparative features providing the reader with a comprehensive and detailed account of the ongoing...
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    Celtic Identity and the British Image
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    Celtic Identity and the British Image

    This work explores the idea of the Celt and the definition of the so-called "Celtic Fringe" over the last 300 years. It is an in-depth study of the literary and cultural representation of Ireland, Scotland and Wales over this period, and is based on a...
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    Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France
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    Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France

    In this volume, leading Burke scholars offer new and challenging essays which allow us to reconsider the historical context in which Reflections on the Revolution in France was written. The essays consider its reception, its engagement in the discourses...
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    The towns of Italy in the later Middle Ages
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    The towns of Italy in the later Middle Ages

    A presentation of over one hundred documents, selected and coordinated from the urban civilization of Middle Ages Italy. By connecting documents in translation to recent scholarship and debates, this book serves to introduce topics, to illustrate themes...
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    The debate on the American Civil War era
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    The debate on the American Civil War era

    This study critically surveys the changing and highly controversial literature surrounding the American Civil War era, from contemporary interpretations up to the present. The racial question was one of the central causes of the war; there was...
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    Anglo-American relations since 1939
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    Anglo-American relations since 1939

    Taking the 'special relationship' as a central theme, the book explores the public and private diplomacy between Britain and the United states in periods of war and peace. Using recently released archives as well as contemporary sources, the areas both...
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    The Twelfth-century Renaissance
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    The Twelfth-century Renaissance

    This volume surveys the wide range of cultural and intellectual changes in western Europe in the period c.1050-c.1250. It first establishes the broader context for the changes and introduces the debate on the validity of the "renaissance" label for the...
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    From Beveridge to Blair
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    From Beveridge to Blair

    The creation of Britain's welfare state in 1948 was an event of major international importance. This study offers an introduction to the evolution of both the structure of the welfare state and attitudes towards it. It concentrates on five core services:...
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    Fascist Italy
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    Fascist Italy

    "Fascist Italy" is a concise introduction to the phenomenon of Italian fascism and its impact. The author balances an up-to-date re-evaluation of political, diplomatic and military developments with a full assessment of the more neglected domestic and...
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    Bali: Portraits of Life, Culture and Ritual
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    Bali: Portraits of Life, Culture and Ritual

    The Island of Bali, one of only a handful of places in the world where a rich and ancient culture survives intact into the 21st century, is now caught between two realities its role as a booming international tourism destination and the struggle of the...
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    Past and Process in Herodotus and Thucydides
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    Past and Process in Herodotus and Thucydides

    This is the first systematic attempt to compare Herodotus and Thucydides as contemporaries, that is, as pre- Socratic thinkers who employed rather similar concepts and intellectual tools and who worked within the same theoretical framework or space. The...
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    The Russian Revolution 1917
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    The Russian Revolution 1917

    Author of the only full-length eyewitness account of the 1917 Revolution, Sukhanov was a key figure in the first revolutionary Government. His seven-volume book, first published in 1922, was suppressed under Stalin. This reissue of the abridged version...
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    Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World
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    Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World

    Written to replace and extend Torr's Ancient Ships, this generously illustrated underwater Bible" traces the art and technology of Mediterranean ships and seamanship from their first crude stages (about 3000 B.C.) to the heyday of the Byzantine fleets...
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    The Stones of Athens
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    The Stones of Athens

    Interpreting the monuments of Athens in light of literature, R. E. Wycherley brings before us the city the ancients knew. Philosophers, statesmen, travelers, dramatists, poets, private citizens--the words of all these suggest how the city looked at...
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    Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Volume II
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    Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Volume II

    "The Period of Consolidation, 1871-1880, Volume II" opens at a time when Bismarck had become the dominant figure in German and European politics and the new German Reich the most formidable power on the continent. Questions arose. What new goals would...
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    German Nationalism and Religious Conflict
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    German Nationalism and Religious Conflict

    The German Empire of 1871, although unified politically, remained deeply divided along religious lines. In German Nationalism and Religious Conflict, Helmut Walser Smith offers the first social, cultural, and political history of this division. He argues...
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    The Forest
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    The Forest

    A vivid historical imagining of life in the early United States.Set amid the glimmering lakes and disappearing forests of the early United States, The Forest imagines how a wide variety of Americans experienced their lives. Part truth, part fiction, and...
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    Rain of Ash
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    Rain of Ash

    A major new history of the genocide of Roma and Jews during World War II and their entangled quest for historical justice.Jews and Roma died side by side in the Holocaust, yet the world did not recognize their destruction equally. In the years and...
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    White
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    White

    As a pigment, white is often thought to represent an absence colour, but it is without doubt an important colour in its own right, just like red, blue, green, or yellow - and, like them, white has its own intriguing history. In this richly illustrated...
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    Wahhabism
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    Wahhabism

    An essential history of Wahhbism from its founding to the Islamic StateIn the mid-eighteenth century, a controversial Islamic movement arose in the central Arabian region of Najd that forever changed the political landscape of the Arabian Peninsula and...
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    Afghanistan
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    Afghanistan

    A major history of Afghanistan and its changing political culture.Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the...
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    A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 19612021
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    A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 19612021

    From the New York Times bestselling author, the fascinating story of U.S. economic policy from Kennedy to Biden filled with lessons for today.In this book, Alan Blinder, one of the world's most influential economists and one of the field's best writers,...
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    The Land Beneath the Ice
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    The Land Beneath the Ice

    A wondrous story of scientific endeavor-probing the great ice sheets of Antarctica.From the moment explorers set foot on the ice of Antarctica in the early nineteenth century, they desired to learn what lay beneath. David J. Drewry provides an insider's...
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    Resurrecting the Jew
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    Resurrecting the Jew

    An in-depth look at why non-Jewish Poles are trying to bring Jewish culture back to life in Poland today.Since the early 2000s, Poland has experienced a remarkable Jewish revival, largely driven by non-Jewish Poles with a passionate new interest in all...
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    The Art of Discovery
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    The Art of Discovery

    A panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of art and knowledgeIn the early fifteenth century, a casket containing the remains of the Roman historian Livy was unearthed at a...
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    The Shamama Case
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    The Shamama Case

    How a nineteenth-century lawsuit over the estate of a wealthy Tunisian Jew shines new light on the history of belongingIn the winter of 1873, Nissim Shamama, a wealthy Jew from Tunisia, died suddenly in his palazzo in Livorno, Italy. His passing...
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    Working-Class Utopias
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    Working-Class Utopias

    One of the nation's foremost urban historians traces the history of cooperative housing in New York City from the 1920s through the 1970s.As World War II ended and Americans turned their attention to problems at home, union leaders and other prominent...
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    Africa's Struggle for Its Art
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    Africa's Struggle for Its Art

    For decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western museums. In Africa's Struggle for Its Art, Bndicte Savoy brings to light this largely unknown but deeply important...
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    Neighbors
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    Neighbors

    On July 10, 1941, in Nazi-occupied Poland, half of the town of Jedwabne brutally murdered the other half: 1,600 men, women, and children-all but seven of the town's Jews. In this shocking and compelling classic of Holocaust history, Jan Gross reveals how...
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    Christianity's American Fate
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    Christianity's American Fate

    Tracing the rise of evangelicalism and the decline of mainline Protestantism in American religious and cultural lifeHow did American Christianity become synonymous with conservative white evangelicalism? This sweeping work by a leading historian of...
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    Before Modernism
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    Before Modernism

    How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuriesBefore Modernism examines how Black poetics, in antagonism with White poetics in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, produced the conditions for the...
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    Painting Dissent
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    Painting Dissent

    A revelatory history of the first artist collective in the United States and its effort to reshape nineteenth-century art, culture, and politicsThe American Pre-Raphaelites founded a uniquely interdisciplinary movement composed of politically radical...
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    Pawned States
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    Pawned States

    How foreign lending weakens emerging nations.In the nineteenth century, many developing countries turned to the credit houses of Europe for sovereign loans to balance their books and weather major fiscal shocks such as war. This reliance on external...
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    Violent Victors
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    Violent Victors

    Why populations brutalized in war elect their tormentorsOne of the great puzzles of electoral politics is how parties that commit mass atrocities in war often win the support of victimized populations to establish the postwar political order. Violent...
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    Every Household Its Own Government
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    Every Household Its Own Government

    An up-close account of how Nigerians' self-reliance in the absence of reliable government services enables official dysfunction to strengthen state power.When Nigerians say that every household is its own local government, what they mean is that the...
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    The Presidency of Donald J. Trump
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    The Presidency of Donald J. Trump

    Leading historians provide perspective on Trump's four turbulent years in the White HouseThe Presidency of Donald J. Trump presents a first draft of history by offering needed perspective on one of the nation's most divisive presidencies. Acclaimed...
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    The Mexican Heartland
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    The Mexican Heartland

    A major new history of capitalism from the perspective of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, who sustained and resisted it for centuries The Mexican Heartland provides a new history of capitalism from the perspective of the landed communities surrounding...
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    Republics of the New World
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    Republics of the New World

    A sweeping history of Latin American republicanism in the nineteenth centuryBy the 1820s, after three centuries under imperial rule, the former Spanish territories of Latin America had shaken off their colonial bonds and founded independent republics. In...
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    The Return of Proserpina
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    The Return of Proserpina

    Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of classical and medieval EuropeIn the first century BC, Cicero praised Sicily as Rome's first overseas province and confirmed it as the mythic location for the abduction of Proserpina, known...
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    A Commonwealth of Hope
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    A Commonwealth of Hope

    A bold new interpretation of Augustine's virtue of hope and its place in political lifeWhen it comes to politics, Augustine of Hippo is renowned as one of history's great pessimists, with his sights set firmly on the heavenly city rather than the public...
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    The Roots of American Individualism
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    The Roots of American Individualism

    A panoramic history of American individualism from its nineteenth-century origins to today's bitterly divided politicsIndividualism is a defining feature of American public life. Its influence is pervasive today, with liberals and conservatives alike...
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    What the Thunder Said
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    What the Thunder Said

    On the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot's modernist masterpiece, a rich cultural history of The Waste Land's creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence.When T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put the thirty-four-year-old author on a...
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    After One Hundred Winters
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    After One Hundred Winters

    A necessary reckoning with America's troubled history of injustice to Indigenous people.After One Hundred Winters confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossession of Indigenous people and asks what reconciliation...
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    Three Roads Back
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    Three Roads Back

    From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience from devastating loss, changing the course of American thoughtIn Three Roads Back, Robert Richardson, the author of magisterial...
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