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The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine's Past and PresentThe Frontline presents a selection of essays drawn together for the first time to form a companion volume to Serhii Plokhy's The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. Here he expands upon his analysis in earlier works of key events in Ukrainian history, including Ukraine's...
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Holocaust Encyclopedia: uncensored and unconstrained (b&w edition)We all have learned it: The Holocaust lasted four years (1941-1945), took place in thousands of locations across an entire continent (Europe), and involved thousands of perpetrators and millions of victims. But when it comes to details, most of us flounder. Many websites can...
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Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography: The Formation of a Discipline at the Turn of the Nineteenth CenturyIn Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography, Stefan H. Uhlig offers a new account of the emergence of literary studies. Most histories of the early years of the field search for unifying origins of literature as a discipline and object of study. Uhlig turns to...
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The Book of Books: Biblical Interpretation, Literary Culture, and the Political Imagination from Erasmus to MiltonJust as the Reformation was a movement of intertwined theological and political aims, many individual authors of the time shifted back and forth between biblical interpretation and political writing. Two foundational figures in the history of the Renaissance Bible, Desiderius Erasmus and William Tyndale,...
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Palles: The Legal Legacy of the Last Lord Chief BaronMarking the 2020 centenary of his death, this book explores the judicial legacy of chief baron Christopher Palles, the last chief baron of the Court of Exchequer Ireland, in a judicial career spanning over 40 years from 1874 to 1916. It brings together legal...
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The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century AmericaWinner, 2010 Emily Toth Award for Best Book in Women's Studies, Popular Culture Association/American Culture AssociationThe Modern Period examines how and why Americans adopted radically new methods of managing and thinking about menstruation during the twentieth century. In the early twentieth century women typically...
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A History of Global Health: Interventions Into the Lives of Other PeoplesA sweeping history explores why people living in resource-poor areas lack access to basic health care after billions of dollars have been invested in international-health assistance.Over the past century, hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested in programs aimed at improving health on...
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Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological FrontlinesForeign correspondents played a crucial role in promoting the ideas and values of the Cold War. As they brought the foreign world to their Soviet and American readers, these journalists projected their own ideologies onto their reporting.In an age of mutual acrimony and closed...
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Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in LVIVBetween the Wires tells for the first time the history of the Janowska camp in Lviv, Ukraine. Located in a city with the third-largest ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe, Janowska remains one of the least-known sites of the Holocaust, despite being one of the deadliest....
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The Persian Gulf CrisisIdeal for student research, this book provides a reference guide to the war as well as seven essays analyzing a variety of aspects of the war and its consequences. The essays address questions such as: How did Saddam Hussein become such a major threat...
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Great Famine in China, 1958-1962: A Documentary HistoryBeginning soon after the implementation of the policies of the Great Leap Forward of 1958-1961, when the drive to collectivize and industrialize undermined the livelihoods of the vast majority of peasant workers, China's Great Famine was the worst famine in human history. In addition...
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Post-Westerns: Cinema, Region, WestDuring the post-World War II period, the Western, like America's other great film genres, appeared to collapse as a result of revisionism and the emergence of new forms. Perhaps, however, as theorists like Gilles Deleuze suggest, it remains, simply "maintaining its empty frame." Yet...
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Policing Sex in the Sunflower State: The Story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for WomenPolicing Sex in the Sunflower State: The Story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women is the history of how, over a span of two decades, the state of Kansas detained over 5,000 women for no other crime than having a venereal disease....
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Deza and Its Moriscos: Religion and Community in Early Modern SpainBainton Prize for History and Theology Honorable Mention Deza and Its Moriscos addresses an incongruity in early modern Spanish historiography: a growing awareness of the importance played by Moriscos in Spanish society and culture alongside a dearth of knowledge about individuals or local communities....
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Combating Corruption, Encouraging Ethics: A Practical Guide to Management Ethics, Second EditionIn their second edition of Combating Corruption, Encouraging Ethics, William L. Richter and Frances Burke update this essential staple to delve deeply into the unique ethical problems of twenty-first century public administration. Wide-ranging readings from Aristotle and Kant to John Kennedy and John T....
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The First Stewart Dynasty: Scotland, 1371-1488The volume begins with the shaky foundation of the Stewart dynasty during the reign of Robert II (1371-1390) and traces its development to the demise at the Battle of Sauchieburn of James III (1460-1488) together with his exalted vision of Stewart kingship. The author...
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For a Better World: The Winnipeg General Strike and the Workers' RevoltCanada's largest and most famous example of class conflict, the Winnipeg General Strike, redefined local, national, and international conversations around class, politics, region, ethnicity, and gender. The Strike's centenary occasioned a re-examination of this critical moment in working-class history, when 300 social justice activists,...
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More Than 1001 Days and Nights of Hong Kong Internment: A Personal NarrativeA diary of life at the Stanley Internment Camp in Hong Kong in the 1940s. More Than 1001 Days and Nights of Hong Kong Internment is the wartime journal of Sir Chaloner Grenville Alabaster, former attorney-general of Hong Kong and one of the three...
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The Battle of Spicheren August 6th 1870This account, penned by a noted British military historian of the late 19th century, remains one of the best narratives of a 19th century battle yet published. The Battle of Spicheren was fought in early August 1870, and like many of the battles in...
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'Horses Worn to Mere Shadows': The Victorio Campaign 1880This study, following on from the author's acclaimed book 'I Will Not Surrender a Hair of a Horse's Tail', commences with Victorio's return to New Mexico in January 1880. The US army's January to February campaign illustrates the operational decoy strategy employed by Victorio...
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