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A revealing look at headline-grabbing controversies revolving around charges of plagiarism and fraud in the profession of history.

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This collection expands the history of Chinese medicine by bridging the philosophical concerns of epistemology and the history and cultural politics of transregional medical formations. -- .

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"History and Legend" examines how republican Spain during the Spanish Civil War was created as a political and cultural construct, synonymous with Popular Front anti-fascism and positively aligned with artistic production.

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A fascinating reminder of how contemporary prejudices colour the way each generation looks at a nation's past.

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Offering a challenge to the biases we bring to our understanding of American history, this book gives a glimpse into classrooms across the globe, where opinions about the United States are first formed. It also includes sections from Russia, France, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Canada and others.

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Includes text in English and Spanish. This work is the translation of Titu Cusi Yupangui's "Instrucion" - an account of the Conquest by the last indigenous ruler of the Inca empire. It features student-oriented annotation, facing-page Spanish, and an Introduction that sets this source in its cultural, historical, and literary contexts.

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Includes text in English and Spanish. This work is the translation of Titu Cusi Yupangui's "Instrucion" - an account of the Conquest by the last indigenous ruler of the Inca empire. It features student-oriented annotation, facing-page Spanish, and an Introduction that sets this source in its cultural, historical, and literary contexts.

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The second in a series, this volume traces the history of the federal University of Wales from its foundation in 1893 to the eve of World War II and places it in the broad background of higher education in Britain.

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The first of a three-volume centenary history. This volume celebrates the centenary of the University by recalling the foundation and early days. It casts a critical eye on an institution which was reputed at its inception to represent "the soul of the nation".

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Details the life of William the Conqueror, the first Norman King of England.

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A fact-based book that highlights political assassins in history. The book includes the stories of the assassins rather than just their famous victims. The book dissects selected political assassinations and and why the assassins acted; details their political goals, addresses why they chose the methods they chose, and describes the ultimate outcome of the assassination.

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This volume consists of five papers selected from a corpus of material researched over the past quarter of a century. None has previously been published, and they represent the author's interest in church history, medical history and the visual arts.

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Features nearly 50 first-person accounts of the flight from Hitler's Germany, many published for the first time. From archives and obscure published sources, it recaptures the unknown voices of that perilous time by focusing on the ordinary people who underwent an extraordinary voyage.

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"The savage canary: the story of resistance in Denmark was first published by Cassell & Company ... London in 1957. This edition contains a revised plate section and a new foreword by Birger Riis-Jrgensen, ambassador at the Embassy of Denmark in London"--T.p. verso.

The oral history of a renowned Czech writer, whose optimism and faith in people survived grueling experiences under authoritarian regimes.

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