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Spanning 500 years of British history, "Behind the Palace Doors" offers a revealing look at the secret lives of some great (and not-so-great) Britons, courtesy of one of the world's most engaging royal historians.

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In January 1986, two working journalists were flying aboard the official jet of Israel's Prime Minister Shimon Peres, as he toured Europe and reactivated his secret diplomacy with Jordan's King Hussein.

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Offers a fresh and original approach to the masculinities, subjectivities and emotions of working-class young men, and makes a distinctive contribution to the history of leisure and interwar youth. -- .

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Explores the larger political and social implications of what being modern meant in the non-West in the first half of the twentieth century. This book makes a critical contribution not just to Middle East history, but also to the global study of class, mass violence, ideas, and revolution.

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Hayek charts the rise to cultural prominence of the city of Beirut as a significant player in shaping perceptions of Lebanese culture and identity - not only following the destruction of the city-centre during the country's fifteen-year civil war, as is mostly assumed in recent scholarship - but over a century.

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Presents the story of West Belfast's involvement fighting on the Western Front in the WW II. This book tells the story of the volunteers of the 36th and 16th divisions who fought on the Somme and side-by-side at Messines. It brings in Belfast men from throughout the armed forces, from the retreat at Mons to the defeat of Germany and life post-war.

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This book is an oral history of punk in Belfast from the mid-70s to the mid-80s. It reads a small number of interviews in close detail to place them in the context of the Troubles and to draw out the imaginative ways that interviewees evoke the experience of growing up in Northern Ireland and punks intervention in that complex conjuncture.

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This book is an oral history of punk in Belfast from the mid-70s to the mid-80s. It reads a small number of interviews in close detail to place them in the context of the Troubles and to draw out the imaginative ways that interviewees evoke the experience of growing up in Northern Ireland and punks intervention in that complex conjuncture.

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Exactly what role did religion play in Europe in the Middle Ages; Was medieval society really as devout as we think; John Arnold looks beneath the surface and finds a much more complex and interesting picture than conventional wisdom suggests.

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This collection of essays addresses the belly and the bowels as key elements in our understanding of eighteenth-century mentalities, emotions, and perceptions of the self. -- .

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"An interconnected history of the regions surrounding the Bay of Bengal in the 19th and 20th centuries, weaving together themes of migration, diaspora, ethnicity, religion, culture and the emergence of nationalist politics and state policies"--

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This intriguing biography recounts the life of the legendary Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, revealing his true role in the development of Las Vegas and debunking some of the common myths about his notoriety.

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After an introduction on relevant theory and methodology and the background for American historical writing, nine chronological chapters trace Lossing's career from an impoverished youth in rural New York through a thirty-year sojourn in New York City and later periods of voluminous writing.

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Sokol places Bentham in his historical context, locating his thought within the late eighteenth-century debates on legal, political, philosophical and literary considerations of marriage. >

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Jeremy Bentham's law of marriage is firmly based on the principle of utility, which claims that all human actions are governed by a wish to gain pleasure and avoid pain, and on the proposition that men and women are equal. This title considers Bentham's attitude to the reform of marriage law and plans for the social reform of marriage.

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Expatriates posing as detached yet patriotic American commentators, and using the news-of-the-day voice of the stereotypical radio announcer, sought to turn U.S. opinion against the British and achieve the political objectives of their media-savvy employer--master propagandist Paul Josef Goebbels.

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What is the real purpose of Soviet pressure on Berlin Why has it been the scene of crisis after crisis ever since the Declaration of 1945 Mander reviews the events in Berlin over the past 17 years to illuminate the many faces of this intractable situation.

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An examination of the relationship between the Western powers and the Soviet Union with regard to Berlin, from WW II to the 1971 Four Power Agreement, ending with an assessment of its implications for the future.