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  • The American Family in the Colonial Period The American Family in the Colonial Period
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    The American Family in the Colonial Period

    First published in the early 20th century, this book contributed significantly to an understanding of the forces at work in the evolution of family institutions in the United States. The first of a three-volume series, the text describes the American...
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  • Origins of the Black Atlantic Origins of the Black Atlantic
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    Origins of the Black Atlantic

    Until relatively recently, comparatively little attention was paid to the perspectives, daily experiences, hopes, and especially the political ideas of the enslaved who played such a central role in the making of the Atlantic world. Over the past...
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  • Roman Urban Street Networks Roman Urban Street Networks
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    Roman Urban Street Networks

    The streets of Roman cities have received surprisingly little attention until recently. Traditionally the main interest archaeologists and classicists had in streets was in tracing the origins and development of the orthogonal layout used in Roman...
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  • Cartographies of Exile Cartographies of Exile
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    Cartographies of Exile

    This book proposes a fundamental relationship between exile and mapping. It seeks to understand the cartographic imperative inherent in the exilic condition, the exilic impulses fundamental to mapping, and the varied forms of description proper to both...
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  • Trans-Colonial Urban Space in Palestine Trans-Colonial Urban Space in Palestine
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    Trans-Colonial Urban Space in Palestine

    Taking a multidisciplinary approach to examine the dynamics of ethno-national contestation and colonialism in Israel/Palestine, this book investigates the approaches for dealing with the colonial and post-colonial urban space, resituating them within the...
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  • Critical Approaches to Heritage for Development Critical Approaches to Heritage for Development
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    Critical Approaches to Heritage for Development

    This book investigates the relationship between heritage and development from the global visions articulated by UNESCO and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to local activism, livelihood innovations and political strategies employed in diverse...
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  • The History and Bioethics of Medical Education The History and Bioethics of Medical Education
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    The History and Bioethics of Medical Education

    The History and Bioethics of Medical Education: "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught" continues the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics series by exploring approaches to the teaching of bioethics from disparate disciplines, geographies, and...
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  • Labour Rights and the Catholic Church Labour Rights and the Catholic Church
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    Labour Rights and the Catholic Church

    This book explores the extent of parallelism and cross-influence between Catholic Social Teaching and the work of the world's oldest human rights institution, the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Sometimes there is a mutual attraction between...
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  • Hearing Enslaved Voices Hearing Enslaved Voices
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    Hearing Enslaved Voices

    This book focuses on alternative types of slave narratives, especially courtroom testimony, and interrogates how such narratives were produced, the societies (both those that were majority slave societies and those in which slaves were a distinct...
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Abroad Theodore Roosevelt Abroad
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    Theodore Roosevelt Abroad

    The Old Lion Departs The Great Adventure Begins A Lion Roars in East Africa White Rhino and Giant Eland Down the Nile; Khartoum to Cairo European Whirl Peace Emissary Last Rites: England The Old Lion is Dead: Epilogue and Dramatis Personae
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  • One Is a Lonely Number and the Power of One One Is a Lonely Number and the Power of One
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    One Is a Lonely Number and the Power of One

    The purpose of this book is to offer a solution to the current situation in the Middle East. This land is fraught with tension and is longing for peace, for which numerous attempts in the past have failed. The religious connection to this region...
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  • Countercurrents Countercurrents
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    Countercurrents

    In the decades following the Second World War, women from all walks of life became increasingly frustrated by the world around them. Drawing on long-standing political traditions, these women bound together to revolutionize social norms and contest...
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  • Florence Nightingale and the Medical Men Florence Nightingale and the Medical Men
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    Florence Nightingale and the Medical Men

    Florence Nightingale is known as a hospital reformer, a social reformer, and the founder of professional nursing; few realize that she worked closely with doctors on these issues. As Nightingale's first supporters and colleagues, doctors contributed to...
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  • Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad
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    Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad

    By the late nineteenth century, Canadian women had begun forging careers as professional actresses, appearing not just in Canada, but in the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. They played an integral role in theatrical networks and...
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  • Indentured Servitude Indentured Servitude
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    Indentured Servitude

    Hundreds of thousands of British and Irish men, women, and children crossed the Atlantic during the seventeenth century as indentured servants. Many had agreed to serve for four years, but large numbers had been trafficked or "spirited away" or were sent...
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  • Cigarette Nation Cigarette Nation
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    Cigarette Nation

    In the 1950s, the causal link between smoking and lung cancer surfaced in medical journals and mainstream media. Yet the best years for the Canadian cigarette industry were still to come, as per capita cigarette consumption rose steadily in the 1960s and...
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  • The Homestead Strike The Homestead Strike
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    The Homestead Strike

    On July 6, 1892, three hundred armed Pinkerton agents arrived in Homestead, Pennsylvania to retake the Carnegie Steelworks from the company's striking workers. As the agents tried to leave their boats, shots rang out and a violent skirmish began. The...
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  • Church and Censorship in Eighteenth-Century Italy Church and Censorship in Eighteenth-Century Italy
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    Church and Censorship in Eighteenth-Century Italy

    Dealing with the issue of ecclesiastical censorship and control over reading and readers, this study challenges the traditional view that during the eighteenth century the Catholic Church in Italy underwent an inexorable decline. It reconstructs the...
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  • The British Anti-Psychiatrists The British Anti-Psychiatrists
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    The British Anti-Psychiatrists

    The British anti-psychiatric group, which formed around R.D. Laing, David Cooper, and Aaron Esterson in the 1960s, burned bright, but briefly, and has left a long legacy. This book follows their practical, social, and theoretical trajectory away from the...
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  • Troublesome Women Troublesome Women
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    Troublesome Women

    Examines the lived experiences of women criminals in Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1860, mainly as they navigated the nineteenth-century legal and prison systems.
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  • Washington's Headquarters at Valley Forge Washington's Headquarters at Valley Forge
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    Washington's Headquarters at Valley Forge

    The House used by General Washington at Valley Forge still stands today. This history honors its simple beauty and sketches some features of the time which gave it form.Beyond that, it follows the vicissitudes of the building's post revolutionary...
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  • Weaving Identity Weaving Identity
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    Weaving Identity

    Creating an identity is crucial for survival, whether of individuals, countries or commercial products. Carefully selected elements combine positive pieces from the past to project a desired image into the present. Weaving Identity illustrates...
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  • Nursing and Women's Labour in the Nineteenth Century Nursing and Women's Labour in the Nineteenth Century
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    Nursing and Women's Labour in the Nineteenth Century

    This book presents a new examination of Victorian nurses which challenges commonly-held assumptions about their character and motivation. Nineteenth century nursing history has, until now, concentrated almost exclusively on nurse leaders, on the...
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  • Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War
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    Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War

    This book focuses on the numerous examples of creativity produced by POWs and civilian internees during their captivity, including: paintings, cartoons, craftwork, needlework, acting, musical compositions, magazine and newspaper articles, wood carving,...
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  • Indians of Arizona Indians of Arizona
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    Indians of Arizona

    There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...
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  • Food, Drink, and the Written Word in Britain, 1820-1945 Food, Drink, and the Written Word in Britain, 1820-1945
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    Food, Drink, and the Written Word in Britain, 1820-1945

    This volume explores the intersection between culinary history and literature across a period of profound social and cultural change. Split into four parts, essays focus on the relationships between eating and childhood reading in the Victorian era, the...
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  • Indigenous Legal Judgments Indigenous Legal Judgments
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    Indigenous Legal Judgments

    This book is a collection of key legal decisions affecting Indigenous Australians, which have been re-imagined so as to be inclusive of Indigenous people's stories, historical experience, perspectives and worldviews.In this groundbreaking work,...
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  • The German Spa in the Long Eighteenth Century The German Spa in the Long Eighteenth Century
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    The German Spa in the Long Eighteenth Century

    Shifting the focus from the medical use of spas to their cultural and social functions, this study shows that eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German spas served a vital role as spaces where new ways of perceiving the natural environment and...
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  • Orwell Reconsidered Orwell Reconsidered
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    Orwell Reconsidered

    George Orwell has had a profound influence on modern politics and culture. He is regularly invoked as an authority by journalists, commentators and politicians, and his works speak with increasing relevance to our polarised and media-saturated society...
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  • Routledge Handbook of Sport History Routledge Handbook of Sport History
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    Routledge Handbook of Sport History

    The Routledge Handbook of Sport History is a new and innovative survey of the discipline of sport history. Global in scope, it examines the key contemporary issues in sports historiography, sheds light on previously ignored topics, and sets an...
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  • A New History of Social Work A New History of Social Work
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    A New History of Social Work

    This book provides an overview of the main developments in social work over its 200-year history. From its beginnings in the early 19th century through to the present day, it recounts the efforts to create a fairer, socially just society through its work...
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  • Maritime Animals Maritime Animals
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    Maritime Animals

    This volume explores nonhuman animals' involvement with human maritime activities in the age of sail-as well as the myriad multispecies connections formed across different geographical locations knitted together by the long history of global ship...
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  • The Cheese Chronicles The Cheese Chronicles
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    The Cheese Chronicles

    The Cheese Chronicles is an insider's look at the burgeoning world of American cheese from one lucky person who has seen more wedges and wheels, visited more cheesemakers, and tasted more delicious (and occasionally stinky) American cheese than anyone...
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  • The Queen's Slave Trader The Queen's Slave Trader
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    The Queen's Slave Trader

    Throughout history, blame for the introduction of slavery in America has been squarely placed upon the slave traders who ravaged African villages, the merchants who auctioned off human lives as if they were cattle, and the slave owners who ruthlessly...
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  • Labels for Locals Labels for Locals
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    Labels for Locals

    In our globally interconnected age, misnaming where someone is from or the cultural group to which they belong often constitutes more than a harmless social gaffe. Labels for Locals provides guidance on the preferred, and sometimes disdained, names for...
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History: specific events and topics