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Corporate Policing, Yellow Unionism, and Strikebreaking, 1890-1930: In Defence of FreedomThis book provides a comparative and transnational examination of the complex and multifaceted experiences of anti-labour mobilisation, from the bitter social conflicts of the pre-war period, through the epochal tremors of war and revolution, and the violent spasms of the 1920s and 1930s. It...
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Behind the Fog: How the U.S. Cold War Radiological Weapons Program Exposed Innocent AmericansBehind the Fog is the first in-depth, comprehensive examination of the United States' Cold War radiological weapons program. The book examines controversial military-sponsored studies and field trials using radioactive simulants that exposed American civilians to radiation and other hazardous substances without their knowledge or...
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The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy against Russia, 1853-56In contrast to every other book about the conflict Andrew Lambert's ground-breaking study The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy against Russia, 1853-1856 is neither an operational history of the armies in the Crimea, nor a study of the diplomacy of the conflict. The core...
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The Role of Circuit Courts in the Formation of United States Law in the Early Republic: Following Supreme Court Justices Washington, Livingston, StoryWhile scholars have rightly focused on the importance of the landmark opinions of the United States Supreme Court and its Chief Justice, John Marshall, in the rise in influence of the Court in the Early Republic, the crucial role of the circuit courts in...
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Tradition, Literature and Politics in East-Central EuropeMilan Kundera warned that in in the states of East-Central Europe, attitudes to the west and the idea of 'Europe' were complex and could even be hostile. But few could have imagined how the collapse of communism and membership of the EU would confront...
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The Third Reich: Politics and PropagandaPublished in the year 1994, The Third Reich is a valuable contribution to the field of History.Author: David WelchPublisher: RoutledgePublished: 04/25/2002Pages: 264Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.60dISBN: 9780415275088This title is not returnable
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Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century AmericasDuring the nineteenth century, gridding, graphing, and surveying proliferated as never before as nations and empires expanded into hitherto unknown territories. Though nominally geared toward justifying territorial claims and collecting scientific data, expeditions also produced vast troves of visual and artistic material. This book...
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The Macedonian Question and the Macedonians: A HistoryThis book is a comprehensive and dispassionate analysis of the intriguing Macedonian Question from 1878 until 1949 and of the Macedonians (and of their neighbours) from the 1890s until today, with the two themes intertwining. The Macedonian Question was an offshoot of the wider...
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Affluence and Authority: A Social History of Twentieth-Century BritainThe turn of the millennium generated a spate of reflections on the state of the nation and the ways in which life in Britain had changed during the course of the twentieth century. Affluence and Authority contributes to this debate by providing a wide-ranging,...
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Evangelicals and the Philosophy of Science: The Victoria Institute, 1865-1939This book investigates the debates around religion and science at the influential Victoria Institute. Founded in London in 1865, and largely drawn from the evangelical wing of the Church of England, it had as its prime objective the defence of 'the great truths revealed...
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Execution Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain: From Public Spectacle to Hidden RitualThis edited collection offers multi-disciplinary reflections and analysis on a variety of themes centred on nineteenth century executions in the UK, many specifically related to the fundamental change in capital punishment culture as the execution moved from the public arena to behind the prison...
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Antarctica in British Children's LiteratureFor over a century British authors have been writing about the Antarctic for child readers, yet this body of literature has never been explored in detail. Antarctica in British Children's Literature examines this field for the first time, identifying the dominant genres and recurrent...
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Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and German AestheticsThis volume re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany. It provides a new account that connects aesthetic experience with morality, science, and political society. In doing so, it challenges long-standing teleological narratives that emphasize disinterestedness and the...
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Charles Kingsley: Faith, Flesh, and FantasyNovelist, poet, Anglican priest, and controversialist, Charles Kingsley (1819-75) epitomizes the bustling Victorian man of faith and letters, a prolific polymath as ready to break a lance with John Henry Newman over Christian doctrine as he was to preach to schoolchildren on the virtues...
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The Italian Wars 1494-1559: War, State and Society in Early Modern EuropeThe Italian Wars 1494-1559 outlines the major impact that these wars had, not just on the history of Italy, but on the history of Europe as a whole. It provides the first detailed account of the entire course of the wars, covering all the...
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Genetic Inroads into the Art of James JoyceThis book is a treasure trove comprising core writings from Hans Walter Gabler's seminal work on James Joyce, spanning fifty years from the analysis of composition he undertook towards a critical text of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, through the...
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What Jane Austen's Characters Read (and Why)The first detailed account of Austen's characters' reading experience to date, this book explores both what her characters read and what their literary choices would have meant to Austen's own readership, both during her life and today.Jane Austen was a voracious and extensive reader,...
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SS Elite: The Senior Leaders of Hitler's Praetorian Guard: Volume 1 - A to JAny scholar of history will have recognized the similarities between Ancient Rome and the National Socialist movement of the 20th century. Aside from the obvious expansionist policies of empire governed by a single autocratic leader, the Nazis adopted the Roman style extended arm salute,...
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Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain: Youth and the Global Sixties in PolandThe Global Sixties are well known as a period of non-conformist lifestyles, experimentation with consumer products and technology, counterculture, and leftist politics. While the period has been well studied in the West and increasingly researched for the Global South, young people in theSecond World...
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Culture on the Margins: The Black Spiritual and the Rise of American Cultural InterpretationIn Culture on the Margins, Jon Cruz recounts the "discovery" of black music by white elites in the nineteenth century, boldly revealing how the episode shaped modern approaches to studying racial and ethnic cultures. Slave owners had long heard black song making as meaningless...
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