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Assesses the interaction of 19th-century Russian missionaries with three indigenous groups, the Chukchi and Altaians in Siberia and the Dena'ina Indians in Alaska. The text examines the relationships as a dialogue about spiritual, political and ideological power.

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Tea in China is a history of China's national drink, where it came from, how it was drunk, and the place it has occupied in Chinese society from prehistory to the present.

Prehistoric use of tea by Peking Man and Laotian Man are discussed, as are the changing teas favored by the various dynasties.

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The second part of the work develops some themes from the first and takes the official histories of the Second World War as case studies.

Drawing on programs in Australia, Britain, and the United States, these essays examine the relationship between the histories, the historians, and their sponsoring institutions.

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This work analyses Italian diplomacy from the outbreak of World War I to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, and the part played by Sidney Sonnino. The book is based on Italy's perception of having won the war, but lost the peace, as they felt themselves ostracised by the Allies.

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This study examines the question of where to locate the ideological break between "classical liberalism" and the underlying principles of the modern Welfare State. While most historians of 19th-century Britain argue that such a shift occurred prior to 1900, the author challenges this contention.

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A collection of 15 first-person accounts of growing up during the Nazi era. The selections cover a broad range of personalities and circumstance. Included are the testimonies from the daughter of an anti-Nazi German family and the son of a mixed marriage in Germany.

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The love story between King Carol II of Romania and his long-time mistress, Magda Lupescu, was a subject of great interest in the first half of the 20th century. Even today, 40 years after his death, many remember Carol chiefly as the international playboy of sensational Western newspaper stories.

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The Netherlands has a high level of personal freedom, but the open ideas that originated in the 1960s have spilled into the public sphere, resulting in anxious conformity. This text asks why political correctness has become so strongly ingrained and why the results have not always been positive.

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The book also addresses how such diplomatic issues as the fishery dispute, financial claims, the territorial dispute, and the legal status of Korean residents in Japan emerged as political weapons in Korea to be manipulated by various political groups to their own advantage.

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Until recently, historians and political analysts have tended to dismiss French revolutionary syndicalism as a movement whose influence was either negative or ineffectual.

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This text provides an analysis of American intervention in China from World War II, to the rapprochement Richard Nixon began in 1972. It traces the origins of the American interest in China, based on Roosevelt's hope to use China as a partner to preserve peace in East Asia.

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Although previous advocates of European Unity proposed the replacement of the balance of power model of international relations, Jean Monnet was the first to try to do so along Franco-German rather than Franco-British lines.

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This study sheds new light on the development of towns in early England from late Roman to late Anglo-Saxon times.

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An English language study of Russian-Kazakh relations.

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The massive population displacements and generation of civilian war casualties that occurred between 1954 and 1975 disastrously weakened the fabric of South Vietnamese society, produced widespread demoralization, and contributed to the country's defeat by North Viet-Nam.