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This study examines sociocultural productions of power, knowledge, identity, and resistance through the lens of race in collegiate athletics. The author argues that neoliberal structures have reimagined and reconstructed athletes lived experiences and have perpetuated racial inequality through collegiate sport.

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Russia today is a world in a dark limbo. The body politic is diseased, the state in collapse. Yet for all the signs of encroaching doom, Russians do not fear the future. They fear the past. Russians have long known theirs is not a land that develops and progresses. It careens, heaves, and all too often sinks.

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Contends that historians and intellectuals failed to understand the difference between race and ethnicity, which has in turn impaired their ability to understand who Black people are in America. It argues that Black Americans are to be distinguished from other categories of black people in the USA.

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A lively and fascinating journey into Australian daily life in the period from the first gold rushes to the World War One. Blainey paints a fascinating picture of how our forebears lived - in the outback, in towns and cities, at sea and on land.

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The creators of the popular website Black Nerd Problems bring their witty and unflinching insight to this engaging collection of pop culture essays on everything from Mario Kart and The Wire to issues of representation and police brutality across medianow in trade paperback!

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This book is a sociocultural and historical analysis of nineteenth-century African American cowboys. The author examines their role in rodeo and the development of the Texas cattle industry.

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It was 'Black Tom' Fairfax, not Oliver Cromwell, who created and commanded Parliament's New Model Army during the English Civil War. This is his first biography by a modern academic. -- .

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This collection examines the lives of African American soldiers and the sociopolitical world they constructed upon returning to the United States. The experiences analyzed in this volume provide a useful backdrop for understanding the complex relationship between race, war, and politics in the United States throughout the twentieth century.

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In April 1713 the War of the Spanish Succession came to an end. During the conflict hundreds of privateers - licenced pirates - preyed on enemy shipping throughout the Caribbean. These privateers now found themselves out of a job, and many turned to piracy. One of theme was Edward Teach - more popularly known as Blackbeard.

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Examines the activities, adventures, publications, and influence of the most venomous critics of the Bourbon monarchy - French exile libellistes who flocked to London to publish scandalous or sexually salacious pamphlets hoping to extort lavish suppression fees.

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In 1701, the nations resisting Louis XIV's attempts to secure the throne of Spain had formed a Grand Alliance. Yet by late 1703, despite some successes, the overall outlook was unfavourable. Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy developed a plan to change this and knock Bavaria out of the war.

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Bletchley Park, known to those who worked there as Station X, was the scene of one of the greatest Allied triumphs of the Second World War. This book contains photographs showing them at work and play. It explains how their work influenced the battle against Nazi Germany and its Italian and Japanese allies.

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Traces the long history of American efforts to thwart terrorism, from World War II to the Munich Games hostage-taking to the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.

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Tells the tale of one of the most peculiar incidents of medieval history, and the background to the real Blondel and his fellow troubadours. This title also talks about the courts of love, the Holy Grail, emergence of gothic cathedrals like Notre Dame and Chartres, and the moment of tolerance in the West when Europe shared a language, and more.

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A far-reaching history of terrorism across the world, from its beginnings to the modern day, from the highly acclaimed author of Sacred Causes and Earthly Powers. The paperback edition will be updated to cover recent events including the recent terror attacks in Mumbai in November 2008 and the continued military clash in Gaza in early 2009.

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