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This study of barbers-surgeons and other artisans involved in the care and appearance of the body - jewellers, tailors, wigmakers, upholsterers - sheds light on the strong sociocultural affinities that existed in the Early Modern period between these apparently unrelated trades, challenging the divide between medical and non-medical occupations.

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This study of barbers-surgeons and other artisans involved in the care and appearance of the body - jewellers, tailors, wigmakers, upholsterers - sheds light on the strong sociocultural affinities that existed in the Early Modern period between these apparently unrelated trades, challenging the divide between medical and non-medical occupations.

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To what extent can colonial influence and power be understood through architecture

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Originally published in hardcover: [New York]: Random House, an imprint and division of Random House LLC, 2014.

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By the end of the twentieth century, China was on its way to becoming one of the greatest powers in the world. This book offers an account of what happened throughout the whole region.

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Key moments in Asian American history come alive in this concise and accessible chronology.

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Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, this book documents and analyses in detail the evolution of Egyptian attitudes to Asiatics, and particularly West Semites, living inside and outside Egypt in the Middle Kingdom, as reflected in Ancient Egyptian language, literature, art and material culture.

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Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, this book documents and analyses in detail the evolution of Egyptian attitudes to Asiatics, and particularly West Semites, living inside and outside Egypt in the Middle Kingdom, as reflected in Ancient Egyptian language, literature, art and material culture.

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This volume brings together 12 essays by Nicholas Tyacke about English Protestantism, which range from the Reformation itself, and the new market-place of ideas opened up, to the establishment of freedom of worship for Protestant nonconformists in 1689.

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This is an examination of the consequences of Japan's rapid industrialization upon interpersonal relations. Based upon current theories of Western experiences with modernization, these studies show that the Eastern changes do not conform to Western patterns. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-deman

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An account of the origins, events and outcome of the Battle of Wagram in 1809, one of the hardest fought of all Napoleon's victories. It took place against an Austrian army, eager for revenge, that left the battlefield without a rout despite having to admit defeat.

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This book explores the assassination of Antonios Triantafyllides, a leading Cypriot lawyer and politician, in British colonial Cyprus in January 1934. It places the event into its broadest possible context and sifts through all the evidence in order to reach a plausible answer to this mysterious cold case.

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Wellington said that of all, the battle of Assaye from the Second Mahratta War (1803-05) in central India, was the bloodiest for the numbers that I ever saw. This book examines the bitter 3-hour battle, which was won by Wellesley's coolness and leadership.

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The author demonstrates that medieval assemblies have a significant history well before the great age of parliaments and Estates. He deals with assemblies, council, and consent, and shows how the older procedures were transformed by the increasingly bureaucratic Capetian governments after the royal conquest of Languedoc in the 13th century. Origin

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Assembling cultures charts the development of workplace activism in the British motor industry between 1945 and 1982.

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Assembling cultures charts the development of workplace activism in the British motor industry between 1945 and 1982.

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The province of Roussillon was acquired by France in 1659, just as Louis XIV reached his majority. First they wanted to compel the Roussillonnais to accept French political supremacy as legitimate, and second they desired to eradicate the Catalan cultural identity in the province.