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Language Dynamics in the Early Modern PeriodIn the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the linguistic situation in Europe was one of remarkable fluidity. Latin, the great scholarly lingua franca of the medieval period, was beginning to crack as the tectonic plates shifted beneath it, but the vernaculars had not yet crystallized...
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Medicine, Power, and the Authoritarian Regime in Hispanic LiteratureThis book offers a substantial examination of how contemporary authors deal with the complex legacies of authoritarian regimes in various Spanish-speaking countries. It does so by focusing on works that explore an under-studied aspect: the reliance of authoritarian power on medical notions for political...
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Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the Nineteenth Century: A Global HistoryInsurgency and Counterinsurgency in the Nineteenth Century examines insurgency and counterinsurgency across the globe in the nineteenth century.The volume includes chapters from distinguished and rising historians from Europe, North and South America and covers irregular wars in Spain, Ireland, France, Latin America, China, USA,...
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The Discovery of Tahiti, a Journal of the Second Voyage of H.M.S. Dolphin Round the World, Under the Command of Captain Wallis, R.N.: In the Years 176This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1948.Author: Hugh CarringtonPublisher: Hakluyt SocietyPublished: 07/28/2010Pages: 310Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9781409414643This title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order
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Sir Francis Drake His Voyage, 1595, by Thomas Maynarde: Together with the Spanish Account of Drake's Attack on Puerto RicoThis is edited from the original manuscripts, along with a translation of the Spanish document 'Relacion de lo sucedido en San Juan de Puerto Rico de las Yudias, con la armada ynglesa del cargo de Francis Draque y Juan Aquines, a los 23rd ]...
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The Global Infrastructure of the Special Operations ExecutiveDuring the Second World War, the British government established the Special Operations Executive (SOE) for the purpose of coordinating 'all action, by way of subversion and sabotage, against the enemy overseas'. Although the overseas operations of this branch of the British Secret Services are...
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Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown: The American Register and Other Writings, 1807-1810, Volume 6Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) was a key writer of the revolutionary era and early U.S. republic, known for his landmark novels and other writings in a variety of genres. The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown presents all of Brown's non-novelistic writings-letters, political pamphlets,...
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The Architecture of Empire in Modern Europe: Space, Place, and the Construction of an Imperial Environment, 1860-1960Empires stretched around the world, but also made their presence felt in architecture and urban landscapes. The Architecture of Empire in Modern Europe traces the entanglement of the European built environment with overseas imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As part of imperial...
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Oxford Handbook of Jack LondonLondon's first-hand engagement with the world--the process of becoming and maintaining himself as a citizen of the world--helps define the kind of writing he produced. It is insufficient now to call him a naturalist writer if his principal concern was to reflect and represent,...
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Longfellow's Imaginative Engagement: The Works of His Late CareerLongfellow's Imaginative Engagement is a first-of-its-kind study of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's late-career poems and biography from 1861 until 1882, covering the poet's posthumous publications and the handling of his literary estate. Using never-before-discussed archival materials from Harvard's Houghton Library and the Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters...
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The Twentieth-Century World and Beyond: An International History Since 1900The Twentieth-Century World and Beyond: An International History since 1900 explores the history of modern relations between the U.S., Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. The book's unique analytical framework--which focuses on the relationships between and among countries rather than on...
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Das Kabinett Ehard III: 18. Dezember 1950 Bis 14. Dezember 1954. Band 4: 1954Das letzte Regierungsjahr der gro en Koalition vor der erst- und einmaligen Wahl eines sozialdemokratischen Ministerpräsidenten in Bayern im Dezember 1954 war für die Staatsregierung ein schwieriges. Durchgehendes Thema in den 51 Protokollen des Jahres 1954 ist die prekäre Haushaltslage, die zu erheblichen Dissonanzen...
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The Cambridge World History of Genocide: Volume 3, Genocide in the Contemporary Era, 1914-2020Author: Ben KiernanPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 05/04/2023Pages: 820Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 3.15lbsSize: 9.13h x 6.30w x 1.89dISBN: 9781108487078
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Women in Rock, Women in RomanticismWomen in Rock, Women in Romanticism is the first book-length work to explore the interrelationships between contemporary female musicians and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, music, and literature by women and men. The music and videos of contemporary musicians including Erykah Badu, Beyoncé, The Carters,...
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Disease and the Environment in the Medieval and Early Modern WorldsThis volume brings together environmental and human perspectives, engages with both historians and scientists, and, being mindful that environments and disease recognize no boundaries, includes studies that touch on Europe, the wider Mediterranean world, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Disease and the Environment in...
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Pathways in the Nineteenth-Century British Textile Industry: The Commercial Textile WarehouseThis collection brings together primary sources on the British textile industry across the long nineteenth-century, a subject that is both global and multidisciplinary. This set provides an extensive range of resources on the calico printing industry, textile warehousing and shipping, and textile waste and...
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Flirtation and Courtship in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Marriage and Conduct UnbecomingThis is volume three of a three-volume set that brings together a rich collection of primary source materials on flirtation and courtship in the nineteenth-century. Introductory essays and extensive editorial apparatus offer historical and cultural contexts of the materials included Throughout the long nineteenth-century,...
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The Fraternal Atlantic, 1770-1930: Race, Revolution, and Transnationalism in the Worlds of FreemasonryThis book examines Freemasonry in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Atlantic world. Drawing on fresh empirical evidence, the chapters position fraternalism as a critical component of Atlantic history.Fraternalism was a key strategy for people swept up in the dislocations of imperialism, large-scale migrations, and the...
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The People's War: Histories of Violence in the German Lands, 1820-1888How did ministers, journalists, academics, artists, and subjects in the German lands imagine war during the nineteenth century? The Napoleonic Wars had been the bloodiest in Europe's history, directly affecting millions of Germans, yet their long-term consequences on individuals and on 'politics' are still...
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The Oxford Handbook of the Weimar RepublicThe Oxford Handbook of the Weimar Republic is a multi-author survey of German history from 1918 to 1933. Covering a broad range of topics in social, political, economic, and cultural history, it presents an overview of current scholarship, and will help students and teachers...
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