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The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth CenturyFrançois Furet was acknowledged as the twentieth century's preeminent historian of the French Revolution. But years before his death, he turned his attention to the consequences and aftermath of another critical revolution--the Communist revolution. The result, Le passé d'une illusion, is a penetrating history...
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How Free Is Free?: The Long Death of Jim CrowIn 1985, a black veteran of the civil rights movement offered a bleak vision of a long and troubled struggle. For more than a century, black southerners learned to live with betrayed expectations, diminishing prospects, and devastated aspirations. Their odyssey includes some of the...
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Powerful and Brutal Weapons: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Easter OffensiveAs America confronts an unpredictable war in Iraq, Stephen Randolph returns to an earlier conflict that severely tested our civilian and military leaders. In 1972, America sought to withdraw from Vietnam with its credibility intact. As diplomatic negotiations were pursued in Paris, President Richard...
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After They Closed the Gates: Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921-1965In 1921 and 1924, the United States passed laws to sharply reduce the influx of immigrants into the country. By allocating only small quotas to the nations of southern and eastern Europe, and banning almost all immigration from Asia, the new laws were supposed...
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The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan: Gift Giving and DiplomacyMichael Laver examines how the giving of exotic gifts in early modern Japan facilitated Dutch trade by ascribing legitimacy to the shogunal government and by playing into the shogun's desire to create a worldview centered on a Japanese tributary state. The book reveals how...
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Gothic Remixed: Monster Mashups and Frankenfictions in 21st-Century CultureThe bestselling genre of Frankenfiction sees classic literature turned into commercial narratives invaded by zombies, vampires, werewolves, and other fantastical monsters. Too engaged with tradition for some and not traditional enough for others, these 'monster mashups' are often criticized as a sign of the...
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The Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Catherine II and the Ottoman EmpireThe Russo-Turkish War was one of the most decisive conflicts of the 18th century. In this book, Brian Davies offers a thorough survey of the war and explains why it was crucial to the political triumph of Catherine the Great, the southward expansion of...
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Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1688-1783Jeremy Black sets the politics of eighteenth century Britain into the fascinating context of social, economic, cultural, religious and scientific developments. The second edition of this successful text by a leading authority in the field has now been updated and expanded to incorporate the...
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The Origins of the Modern Japanese BureaucracyWhat is a bureaucracy, from where does it come, and how does it develop? Japanese have long described their nation as a "kingdom of bureaucrats, but until now, no historian has fully explained the historical origins of the mammoth Japanese executive state. In this...
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Catholics and Communists in Twentieth-Century Italy: Between Conflict and DialogueCatholics and Communists in Twentieth-Century Italy explores the critical moments in the relationship between the Catholic world and the Italian left, providing unmatched insight into one of the most significant dynamics in political and religious history in Italy in the last hundred years. The...
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Caesarism in the Post-Revolutionary Age: Crisis, Populace and LeadershipThis book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Debates about the legitimacy and 'essence' of political rule and the search for 'ideal' forms of government have been at the very heart of political thought ever since antiquity....
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Overcoming Empire in Post-Imperial East Asia: Repatriation, Redress and RebuildingWhen Emperor Hirohito announced defeat in a radio broadcast on 15th August 1945, Japan was not merely a nation; it was a colossal empire stretching from the tip of Alaska to the fringes of Australia grown out of a colonial ideology that continued to...
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Kurdish Nationalism on Stage: Performance, Politics and Resistance in IraqSince its emergence in the 1920s, Iraqi-Kurdish theatre was used as a tool of national identity building and modernisation. It promoted literacy, education and women's rights and became one of the most visible forms of Kurdish cultural nationalism by exploring folklore, myths, legends and...
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Special Operations in Norway: SOE and Resistance in World War IIBetween 1940 and 1945, Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) carried out sabotage and organised resistance across occupied Europe. Over 5 years, SOE sent over 500 agents into Norway to carry out a range of operations from sabotage and assassination to attempts to organise an...
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Guilty Aesthetic PleasuresIn the wake of radical social movements in the 1960s and 1970s, literary studies' embrace of politics entailed a widespread rejection of aesthetic considerations. For scholars invested in literature's role in supporting or challenging dominant ideologies, appreciating literature's formal beauty seemed frivolous and irresponsible,...
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Midnight Murders on Rock Cut Road: Racism, Terrorism, Forensics, ReconstructionA detailed history of the murders of Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman. FBI documents, participant confessions, newspaper articles, and FBI photos are used to construct the history. A complete forensic analysis is performed based on the original autopsy and the FBI Lab Report. A visual...
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Irish EnlightenmentDuring the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, Scotland and England produced such well-known figures as David Hume, Adam Smith, and John Locke. Ireland's contribution to this revolution in Western thought has received much less attention. Offering a corrective to the view that Ireland was intellectually stagnant during...
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The Animal in Ottoman EgyptSince humans first emerged as a distinct species, they have eaten, fought, prayed, and moved with other animals. In this stunningly original and conceptually rich book, historian Alan Mikhail puts the history of human-animal relations at the center of transformations in the Ottoman Empire...
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Home After Fascism: Italian and German Jews After the HolocaustHome after Fascism draws on a rich array of memoirs, interviews, correspondence, and archival research to tell the stories of Italian and German Jews who returned to their home countries after the Holocaust. The book reveals Jews' complex and often changing feelings toward their...
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Making the Void Fruitful: Yeats as Spiritual Seeker and Petrarchan LoverShedding fresh light on the life and work of William Butler Yeats-widely acclaimed as the major English-language poet of the twentieth century-this new study by leading scholar Patrick J. Keane questions established understandings of the Irish poet's long fascination with the occult: a fixation...
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