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Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical PerspectiveThis newly updated edition of Walter LaFeber's widely praised study of the evolution of U.S.-Panama relations contains two new chapters on the events that have occurred since the Panama Canal Treaty in 1978. This new edition offers particularly detailed examinations of the 1988 attempt...
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OrnamentalismWith the return of Hong Kong to the Chinese government in 1997, the empire that had lasted three hundred years and "upon which the sun never set" finally lost its hold on the world and slipped into history. But the question of how we...
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The Key to Lisbon: The Third French Invasion of Portugal, 1810-11This study details the preparation, planning and execution of the invasion of Portugal in 1810 by the French Arm e de Portugal under Marshal Massena, and the defensive measures taken by the British and their Portuguese and Spanish allies. It also covers the practice...
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Rebellious Scots to Crush: The Military Response to the Jacobite '45When Charles Edward Stuart launched the last, and perhaps most famous, of the Jacobite Risings in the late summer of 1745, the British Army found itself ill-placed to respond. Its most effective troops were on the continent; regular units at home were weak, inexperienced...
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Command of the Sea: William Pakenham and the Russo-Japanese Naval War 1904-1905This book is a study of the Russo Japanese War of 1904-1905, as seen through the eyes of the British Naval Attach , Captain William Pakenham. The complicated set of international relations at the turn of the century is reviewed, as well as the...
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A Tough Nut to Crack - Andersonstown: Voices from 9 Battery Royal Artillery in Northern Ireland, November 1971-March 1972On the outskirts of west Belfast in Northern Ireland, and in the shadow of the Black Mountain, is situated the predominantly Catholic community of Andersonstown. Between November 1971 and March 1972 this small area of land, which is just two miles long by one...
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Religion in the Public Square: Sheen, King, FalwellIn Religion in the Public Square, James M. Patterson considers religious leaders who popularized theology through media campaigns designed to persuade the public. Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Rev. Jerry Falwell differed profoundly on issues of theology and politics,...
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Waking the Bear: A Guide to Wargaming the Great Northern and Turkish Wars 1700-1721The Great Northern War (GNW) has seen a resurgence in recent years within the wargames community, however, there has not been a general (non-rules specific) guide to the conflict until now.This book gives the reader a general understanding of the historical background to the...
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The Battle of Killiecrankie: The First Jacobite Campaign, 1689-1691There has not been an account of the first attempt made in Scotland to restore the exiled Stuarts at the end of the seventeenth century for three decades; most accounts stop with the death of the movement's first leader, 'Bonnie Dundee'. This book is...
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Wars, Pestilence and the Surgeon's Blade: The Evolution of British Military Medicine and Surgery During the Nineteenth CenturyWars in the 19th Century were accompanied by a very heavy loss of life from infectious diseases. Typhus fever, dysentery, malaria, typhoid fever and yellow fever caused many more deaths than wounds inflicted by enemy actions. During the Peninsular War, for example, for every...
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Hey for Old Robin!: The Campaigns and Armies of the Earl of Essex During the First Civil War, 1642-44'Hey For Old Robin ' was the cry of the Earl of Essex's army during the First Civil War as, contrary to modern popular belief, Robert Devereux was well-liked by the men he led. This book fills a gap in the literature of the...
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The Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: A Reader's EditionThis new "Reader's Edition" of Harry Truman's memoirs removes the overload of detail and reproduced historical documents, reduces the bloated cast of characters, clarifies the often confusing balance between chronological and thematic presentation, and corrects some important problems of presentation that made the two...
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American WestFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark's exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time. In 1803...
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Wars and Soldiers in the Early Reign of Louis XIV: Volume 5: The Portuguese Army 1659-1690In December 1640, the native dynasty of Braganza ascended to the Portuguese Throne. This event heralded the end Spanish domination in Portugal that had started in 1580. Following the Restoration, an ill-prepared Portuguese David found itself having to face a tormented but not exhausted...
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Better Begging Than Fighting: The Royalist Army in Exile in the War Against Cromwell 1656-1660Cromwell's alliance with France in 1657 opened for the English Republic and Charles II's army in exile a new theater of war in Flanders - in addition to England's ongoing war with Spain. It resulted in the old opponents of the Civil Wars in...
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By Fire and Bayonet: Grey's West Indies Campaign of 1794There have been few books about Grey's glorious (but ultimately ill-fated) West Indies campaign in the early years of the long and terrible wars of 1793-1815, yet five of the subalterns in Grey's expeditionary force went on to command divisions in Wellington's Peninsula army;...
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Last Throw of the Dice: Bourbaki and Werder in Eastern France 1870-71This book recounts the last attempt by the Government of National Defence to reverse the outcome of the Franco-Prussian War, as Leon Gambetta launched the Army of the East under General Charles Bourbaki, the former commander of the Imperial Guard, in a desperate attack...
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From Rights to Lives: The Evolution of the Black Freedom StruggleBroadly speaking, the traditionally conceptualized mid-twentieth-century Civil Rights Movement and the newer #BlackLivesMatter Movement possess some similar qualities. They both represent dynamic, complex moments of possibility and progress. They also share mass-based movement activities, policy/legislative advocacy, grassroots organizing, and targeted media campaigns. Innovation, growth,...
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Notes on FootnotesThis collection presents fourteen essays on annotating eighteenth-century literature. Authored by editors and annotators of current standard editions-such as California's Works of John Dryden, the Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne, and the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson-this book...
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Fear and Nature: Ecohorror Studies in the AnthropoceneEcohorror represents human fears about the natural world--killer plants and animals, catastrophic weather events, and disquieting encounters with the nonhuman. Its portrayals of animals, the environment, and even scientists build on popular conceptions of zoology, ecology, and the scientific process. As such, ecohorror is...
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