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The first full-length account of Scotland's major change from burial to cremation

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Cricket and Community in England: 1800 to the Present Day is a path-breaking enquiry into the social history of the summer game. -- .

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Using South Wales as a case study, this text on crime in the 20th century places the discussion in its historical context, and contributes to debates on crime, policing and punishment. South Wales has the geography of a county police, and some of the problems of a metropolitan police area.

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"Cronica Walliae" is the earliest and largest extant work of antiquary and map-maker, Humphrey Llwyd. Completed in 1559, it is a translation into English of an account of the lives and acts of the kings and princes of Wales from Cadwaladr to Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last native Welsh prince.

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Christianity and European-style monarchy - the cross and the scepter - were introduced to Scandinavia in the tenth century, a development that was to have profound implications for all of Europe. This book offers a history of the Scandinavian kingdoms from the age of the Vikings to the Reformation.

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A cutting-edge analysis of the AfPak war involving Russia, India, China, and Iran, emphasizing US strategy and the people implementing it.

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From the mid-fifteenth century to the close of the nineteenth, it is estimated that more than 12 million people from Africa were forced onto slave ships and transported to the Americas; at least 11 million survived the journey. Even after Britain banned the importation of African slaves in its colonies in 1807, and the U.S. followed suit in 1808, m

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An account of the events leading up to the split of the Australian Labour Party in the mid-1950s. It explores the controversial role and activities of anti-communist Catholic organizations. Bruce Duncan interviewed many of the key players and has had access to the archives.

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The recent retirement of Fidel Castro turned the world's attention towards the island nation of Cuba and the question of what its future holds. Amid the talk and hypothesizing, it is worth taking a moment to consider how Cuba reached this point. The author provides this with his incisive history of Cuba since 1959.

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Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture. Joseph Shatzmiller focuses on communities in northern Europe, Iberia, and other Mediterranean societ

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"Originally published by South End Press in 2003"--Title page verso.

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"Originally published by South End Press in 2003"--Title page verso.

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Offers conceptual vocabularies for understanding how cultures have trespassed across geography and social space. This title challenges the premise of fixed, stable cultural systems by showing that cultural practices have always been moving, crossing borders and locations with often surprising effect.

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Presents the history of the first political association, which campaigned for Welsh self-rule. After detailing the growth of Liberalism and the nationalist revival in Wales from 1832 onwards, the author moves on to discuss the development of several nationalist societies among Welsh-speakers in English cities during the 1880s.

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Covers topics related to daily life and the social and cultural history of the Mongols. This book introduces students to the importance of primary sources and stresses how these early texts provide the evidence and foundations for the words, ideas, and thoughts which make up traditional history books.