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Thoroughly updated and revised throughout with a brand new conclusion, featuring essay and classroom questions for classroom use, The Body: Key Concepts, Second Edition, presents a concise and up to date introduction to, and analysis of, the complex and influential debates around the body in contemporary culture.

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

Thoroughly updated and revised throughout with a brand new conclusion, featuring essay and classroom questions for classroom use, The Body: Key Concepts, Second Edition, presents a concise and up to date introduction to, and analysis of, the complex and influential debates around the body in contemporary culture.

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This volume examines the key battles of both Boer Wars, and the principal sieges of the second Boer War: Kimberley; Ladysmith; and Mafeking. It provides a summary of the guerilla war that the British fought, explaining how the need for camouflage became realised.

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One hundred years after the Boer War, the British continue to debate what went wrong, while the war has significant nationalist overtones in today's South Africa. This book examines changes in interpretations of the war and provides a bibliography of major sources on the Boer War, now sometimes called the South African War.

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An account of the Boer Wars. Triggered by Cecil Rhodes' failed Jameson raid, the Anglo-Boer war started in 1898. It marked the end of the old wars of empire and the beginning of a recognizably 20th-century style of warfare including the use of concentration camps and "scorched earth" policies.

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At the end of the Anglo-Boer War in May 1902, the defeated Boers emigrated en masse out of South Africa. In East Africa, the denominations of the Dutch Reformed Church established congregations and sent ministers. This book tells how they became central to the preservation of Afrikaner ethnicity.

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A play from Kay Adshead, exploring prejudice and racism in a new country. England.

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Alexander is among the most experienced observers of Latin American politics and has been an active correspondent with major figures of the region for decades.

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The Bolshevik Revolution remains one of the most important events of modern history.

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Ten short plays by contemporary dramatists, woven together with fragments of newsreel and verbatim testimony, that offer a probing account of the propagation of nuclear weapons - and the possibility of humanity destroying itself. A vivid, serious and highly theatrical examination of one of the most important political issues of our time.

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In one of the ironies of history, the French Revolution led to the execution of Louis XVI and the abolition of the monarchy but also to the empire of Napoleon Bonaparte. This title shows the lasting influence exercised by France's Fourth Dynasty.

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This novel is at one and the same time a tale of university life and a fascinating journey into the philosophical world of law.

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This book examines the social and cultural history of the Bonin Islands and its inhabitants from the first settlements in the early nineteenth century to today. It provides a critical approach to understanding how communities create local narratives while located between powerful nations and national discourses.

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A volume of the work known as the "Zohar" ("Splendour") which is the key text of the Kabbalah. The Zohar is a commentary on the Torah. According to "The Book of Concealed Mystery", the light of God must be concealed in order to be revealed to creation.

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This monograph treats the biblical figure of Esther and her reception in nineteenth-century American literature. After providing an understanding of the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible and its contested acceptance over centuries in various scriptural canons, the work focuses on the reception of the Esther text in America.

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