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Industrialisation and industrial history
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  • Boy and Girl Tramps of America (Hardback) Boy and Girl Tramps of America (Hardback)
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    Boy and Girl Tramps of America (Hardback)

    In 1933 and 1934, Thomas Minehan, a young sociologist at the University of Minnesota, joined the ranks of a roving army of 250,000 boys and girls torn from their homes during the Great Depression. Disguised in old clothes, he hopped freight trains...
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  • The Black Irish of Eire The Black Irish of Eire
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    The Black Irish of Eire

    The Black Irish descended from Pirates: A Memoir of An American Family, The Mitchells is both a social history of Irish immigration and a genealogical study of particular families. Irish Protestants in the South, until the upheaval of World War II,...
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  • Arriving in America Arriving in America
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    Arriving in America

    ARRIVING IN AMERICA - DESTINATION THE SOUTH captures Taylor's twenty-five year journey in unearthing the buried history of her maternal and paternal family, trekking the paths of her ancestors, before Emancipation (1863). This journey took her back...
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  • "Cut From The Same Cloth" "Cut From The Same Cloth"
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    "Cut From The Same Cloth"

    Cynthia's parents migrated, during the 1940s, moving from Texas to California, shortly after World War II. She was born in 1948, growing up in Berkeley, California. She came from a close-knit, hardworking family. She grew up hearing stories of family...
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    On the Edge of Extinction

    It was nearly the turn of the century. Not only was the century changing but the ways of life were changing. Many new inventions were making life easier. Electricity was becoming more and more available. Travel was becoming more comfortable and...
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  • Slavery Continues Slavery Continues
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    Slavery Continues

    Since thousands of years, slavery in every form has been the root cause of misery and crime in every society it has crept in. Shackles and fetters are not the only means of enslavement of humankind-by-humankind. Enslavers employ many other means to...
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  • Pioneer Jews Pioneer Jews
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    Pioneer Jews

    The definitive chronicle of the lives, experiences, and contributions of the Jewish men and women who helped shape the American frontier.What reviewers have said about Pioneer Jews:“From their storehouse of information ... the Rochlins have...
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  • Caution ! Reading This Book Can Make You Think Caution ! Reading This Book Can Make You Think
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    Caution ! Reading This Book Can Make You Think

    In this Age of Misinformation, an increasing number of people seem to be unable or unwilling to tell facts from fiction, communicate effectively, learn from the past, think independently, or have fun with knowledge. CAUTION! Reading This Book Can Make...
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  • The Great Bahamas Hurricane of 1929 The Great Bahamas Hurricane of 1929
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    The Great Bahamas Hurricane of 1929

    The Great Bahamas Hurricane of 1929, also known as the Great Andros Island Hurricane of 1929, was the only major hurricane during the very inactive 1929 North Atlantic hurricane season. The Great Bahamas Hurricane of 1929 was perhaps one of the greatest...
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  • 1717-2017 Druide 1717-2017 Druide
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    1717-2017 Druide

    La tradition des druides historiques était strictement orale. Elle n'a donc pas pu se transmettre intégralement jusqu'à nos jours. Pourtant, en 1717, un nouveau courant de pensée, prétendant s'en inspirer, allait tout de même surgir, en Angleterre, à...
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  • The Lords of the Manor 2023 (3rd Edition) The Lords of the Manor 2023 (3rd Edition)
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    The Lords of the Manor 2023 (3rd Edition)

    The Manorial Society of England and Wales is a voluntary organisation, originally founded in 1998, who endeavour to maintain a register of those holding feudal titles.This book is the third edition of The Register published in 2023, holding all known...
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  • THE WORLD WOKE THE WORLD WOKE
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    THE WORLD WOKE

    In "The World Woke: Navigating Contemporary Culture," Brian Hudson takes readers on an enlightening journey through the intricacies of woke culture. From its historical roots to its widespread influence on various sectors of society, this book offers a...
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  • The Undergrounds of the Phantom of the Opera The Undergrounds of the Phantom of the Opera
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    The Undergrounds of the Phantom of the Opera

    This is the most comprehensive analytical study ever done of The Phantom of the Opera in its many different versions from the original Gaston Leroux novel to the present day. It proposes answers to the question, 'why do we keep needing this story told...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Oral History Theory Oral History Theory
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    Oral History Theory

    Oral history is increasingly acknowledged as a key tool for anyone studying the history of the recent past, and Oral History Theory provides a comprehensive, systematic and accessible overview of this important field. This second edition includes a new...
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  • Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums
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    Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums

    This book reflects on the complexity and difficulty of museums' experiences in presenting and interpreting the histories of slavery and abolition. It draws together contributions from academics, museum professionals, community activists and artists who...
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  • Holocaust and Genocide Denial Holocaust and Genocide Denial
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    Holocaust and Genocide Denial

    This book provides a detailed analysis of one of the most prominent and widespread international phenomena to which criminal justice systems has been applied: the expression of revisionist views relating to mass atrocities and the outright denial of...
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  • Rural Crime Prevention Rural Crime Prevention
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    Rural Crime Prevention

    Rural crime has long been overlooked in the field of crime prevention. Sustained academic interrogation is necessary, therefore, to reduce the extensive economic and social costs of rural crime as well as to challenge some of the myths regarding the...
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  • The History of Chinese Feudal Society The History of Chinese Feudal Society
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    The History of Chinese Feudal Society

    Feudalism is one of the most studied topics in the field of history, but without a consensus on its central characteristics, it remains a slippery concept. The History of Chinese Feudal Society provides a comprehensive analysis on the rise and fall of...
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  • Radicalism, Anti-Racism and Representation Radicalism, Anti-Racism and Representation
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    Radicalism, Anti-Racism and Representation

    First published in 1993, Radicalism, Anti-Racism and Representation is a study set within a wider political context for the discussion of 'racial' representation and anti-racism. The second half of the book is devoted to interview-based exploration of...
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    Food in World History

    Now in its third edition, Food in World History explores culinary cultures and food politics throughout the world, from ancient times to the present day, with expanded discussions of industrialization, indigeneity, colonialism, gender, environment, and...
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    Cresheim Farm

    This book is a work of political archaeology. It focuses on the people and events at a particular colonial farm in Germantown, Pennsylvania; their stories provide a micro and macro view of economic, social, demographic, and agro-ecological change...
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    Jewish Displaced Persons in Italy 1943-1951

    This book focuses on the experiences of thousands of Jewish displaced persons (DPs) who lived in refugee camps in Italy between the liberation of the southern regions in 1943 and the early 1950s, waiting for their resettlement outside of Europe. It...
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    Creating Europe from the Margins

    This edited volume explores the idea of Europe through a focus on its margins. In doing so, the volume stresses the need to consider Europe from critical interdisciplinary perspectives, highlighting historical and contemporary issues of racism and...
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    Antisemitism Before the Holocaust

    This book examines the history of antisemitism in the United States and Germany in a novel way by placing the two countries side by side for a sustained comparison of the anti-Jewish environments in both countries from the 1880s to the end of World War...
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    Social City

    This book examines urban experience from the vantage point of the global South. Drawing upon narratives coming from three key axes-communities, neighbourhoods, and market places-it lays bare the specificities of urban experience in contemporary Surat. It...
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    Black Humor and the White Terror

    This book examines political humor as a reaction to the lost war, the post-war chaos, and antisemitic violence in Hungary between 1918 and 1922. While there is an increased body of literature on Jewish humor as a form of resistance and a means of...
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    Violence and Public Memory

    Violence and Public Memory assesses the relationship between these two subjects by examining their interconnections in varied case studies across the United States, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.　Those responsible for the violence...
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    Transnational Modernity in Southern Europe

    This book explores women's editorial and salon activities in Southern Europe and provides a comparative view of their practices. It argues that women in Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece used their double role as editors and salonnières to engage with...
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    Cultural Heritage Management in Africa

    Cultural Heritage Management in Africa explores the diversity of Africa's cultural heritage by analysing how and why this heritage has been managed, and by considering the factors that continue to influence management strategies and systems throughout...
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    Object Performance in the Black Atlantic

    Given that slaveholders prohibited the creation of African-style performing objects, is there a traceable connection between traditional African puppets, masks, and performing objects and contemporary African American puppetry? This study approaches the...
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    Food History

    This pioneering book elevates the senses to a central role in the study of food history because the traditional focus upon food types, quantities, and nutritional values is incomplete without some recognition of smell, touch, sight, hearing, and taste...
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