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Census of the Pima, Tohono O'odham (Papago), and Maricopa Indians of the Gila River, Ak Chin & Gila Bend Reservations 1932: with Birth and Death RollsThis is a new publication that covers the 1932 Census of the Tohono O'odham (Papago), Pima and Maricopa Indians of the Gila River, State of Arizona, Pima Agency. Along with individual birth and death records for each year from 1924 through 1932, there are...
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Edinburgh German Yearbook 15: Tracing German Visions of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth CenturyReconsidering the German tendency to define itself vis-à-vis an eastern "Other" in light of fresh debate regarding the Second World War, this volume and the cultural products it considers expose and question Germany's relationship with its imagined East. Germany has long defined itself in...
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Testimonies for the Church Volume 9This last volume of the series Testimonies to the Church (by Ellen G. White) covers the time span between 1904 and 1909. As the Seventh-day Adventist church and its institutions continued to grow and evolve, continued counsel was needed on a number of issues....
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Waffen-SS Soldier Vs Soviet Rifleman: Rostov-On-Don and Kharkov 1942-43Fully illustrated, this study assesses the Soviet and Waffen-SS troops who contested the cities of Kharkov and Rostov-on-Don on the Eastern Front during 1942-43. As the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union unfolded, two places that suffered exceptionally severely were Kharkov (now Kharkiv) in...
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F-4 Phantom II Wild Weasel Units in CombatWith first-hand insight into the into the key role of the US Air Force's fighter-bomber from the Vietnam War through to Operation Desert Storm during the First Gulf War, this book is an unmissable account of some of the most dangerous and demanding missions...
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The Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law: Civil Liberties Debates from the Internment to McCarthyism and the Radical 1960sThe Emergency Detention Act, Title II of the Internal Security Act of 1950, is the only law in American history to legalize preventive detention. It restricted the freedom of a certain individual or a group of individuals based on actions that may be taken...
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Reforming Philadelphia, 1682-2022Reforming Philadelphia examines the cyclical efforts of insurgents to change the city's government over nearly 350 years. Political scientist Richardson Dilworth tracks reformers as they create a new purpose for the city or reshape the government to reflect emerging ideas. Some wish to thwart...
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Interpreting the Death of Edward VI: The Life and Mysterious Demise of the Last Tudor KingKing Edward VI tends to be glossed over in the historical narrative of the Tudor dynasty. His achievements during his brief time on the throne are eclipsed by the tumultuous and fascinating reigns of his grandfather, father and two half-sisters.This does a great disservice...
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Naval Battles of the Second World War: Pacific and Far EastThe Second World War was a truly global conflict and maritime power played a major role in every theater of operations. Land campaigns depended on supplies transported by sea, and victory or defeat depended on the outcome of naval battles. So Leo Marriott's highly...
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With Napoleon's Guard in Russia: The Memoirs of Major Vionnet, 1812Major Louis Joseph Vionnet's memoirs of Napoleon's disastrous 1812 campaign in Russia are readable, detailed, and full of personal anecdotes and vivid glimpses into the life of the nineteenth-century soldier. His account concentrates in particular on the retreat from Moscow, but he was present...
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After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and WarFrom Helen Rappaport, the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes After the Romanovs, the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom and refuge in the City of Light. Paris has always been a city of cultural...
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National Identity and Nineteenth-Century Franco-Belgian SculptureThis book elaborates on the social and cultural phenomenon of national schools during the nineteenth century, via the less studied field of sculpture and using Belgium as a case study. The role, importance of, and emphasis on certain aspects of national identity evolved throughout...
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The Gaṇitatilaka and Its Commentary: Two Medieval Sanskrit Mathematical TextsThe Ga itatilaka and its Commentary: Two Medieval Sanskrit Mathematical Texts presents the first English annotated translation and analysis of the Ga itatilaka by Sripati and its Sanskrit commentary by the Jaina monk Si hatilakasuri (13th century CE). Si hatilakasuri's commentary upon the Ga...
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Popularisation and Populism in the Visual Arts: Attraction ImagesThis book investigates the pictorial figurations, aesthetic styles and visual tactics through which visual art and popular culture attempt to appeal to "all of us". One key figure these practices bring into play--the "everybody" (which stands for "all of us" and is sometimes a...
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The Representation of Slavery in the Greek Novel: Resistance and AppropriationThis volume offers the first comprehensive treatment of how the five canonical Greek novels represent slaves and slavery. In each novel, one or both elite protagonists are enslaved, and Owens explores the significance of the genre's regular social degradation of these members of the...
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The Making of Identities in Athenian OratoryFocusing on extant speeches from the Athenian Assembly, law, and Council in the fifth-fourth centuries BCE, these essays explore how speakers constructed or deconstructed identities for themselves and their opponents as part of a rhetorical strategy designed to persuade or manipulate the audience.According to...
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Chinese-Islamic Works of Art, 1644-1912: A Study of Some Qing Dynasty ExamplesChinese-Islamic studies have concentrated thus far on the arts of earlier periods with less attention paid to works from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). This book focuses on works of Chinese-Islamic art from the late seventeenth century to the present day and bring to the...
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Gods and Goddesses in Ancient ItalyThis collection explores the multifaceted nature of the gods and goddesses worshipped in ancient Italy. It examines Italic, Etruscan, and Latin deities in context and in the material remains, and also in the Greco-Roman written record and later scholarship which drew on these texts.Many...
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Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary IrelandThis is the first book to bring a philosophical lens to issues of socio-political and cultural importance in twenty-first century Ireland. While the social, political, and economic landscape of contemporary Ireland has inspired extensive scholarly debate both within and well beyond the field of...
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Administration and Organization of War in Thirteenth-Century EnglandThe essays brought together in this volume examine the conduct of war by the Angevin kings of England during the long thirteenth century (1189-1307). Drawing upon a wide range of unpublished administrative records that have been largely ignored by previous scholarship, David S. Bachrach...
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