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This book is a thorough and appealing investigation into the health and welfare of abandoned babies and children in eighteenth-century England. It uses a variety of approaches to examine health, mortality and welfare practices, including family fostering, wet-nursing, disease and the impact of abandonment on survivorship. -- .

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The study brings together some of today's writers working on the history of childhood. Within a challenging chronological focus, stretching from the 1600s up until the 1960s, historical materials as diverse as state papers, legal records, diaries, letters and oral sources are used to probe a series of issues.

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This book explores the life courses of children born of war
in different twentieth-century conflicts, from the Second World War to the
Rwandan Genocide and the LRA conflict. It is based on extensive archival
research, as well as oral history and participatory research methods, to add
the voices of the children born of war to historical analysis.

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This book explores the life courses of children born of war
in different twentieth-century conflicts, from the Second World War to the
Rwandan Genocide and the LRA conflict. It is based on extensive archival
research, as well as oral history and participatory research methods, to add
the voices of the children born of war to historical analysis.

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By exploring how children and their families became unprecedented objects of governmental policy in the early decades of France's Third Republic, Sylvia Schafer offers a fresh perspective on the self-fashioning of a new governmental order. In the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War, social reformers claimed that children were increasingly the vict

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Explores the formative experiences of the Russians who graduated from institutes of higher learning in the Brezhnev era and who now hold key positions in all aspects of Russian society.

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There is a hidden legacy of war that is rarely talked about: the children of native civilians and enemy soldiers. What is their fate This book unearths the history of the thousands of forgotten children of World War II, including its prelude and aftermath during the Spanish Civil War and the Allied occupation of Germany.

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There is a hidden legacy of war that is rarely talked about: the children of native civilians and enemy soldiers. What is their fate This book unearths the history of the thousands of forgotten children of World War II, including its prelude and aftermath during the Spanish Civil War and the Allied occupation of Germany.

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This book examines the process through which China constructed itself as a modern state. It examines the complex relationship between nationalism and imperialism that made China as a nation so unique.

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One of America's leading authorities on China outlines and assesses the implications of the inevitable passing of Mao Tse-tung and the older generation of revolutionary leaders from their position of command in China. Describing the mid-1960's as "a transitional period of great historic significance," the author outlines the basic unsolved problems

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Argues that, in both Mao and Deng periods, China evolved in ways quite different from the Soviet model and from other developing countries. This title explores China from two comparative perspectives: developing countries (including the industrializing countries of East Asia) and historical state socialist regimes.

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Argues that, in both Mao and Deng periods, China evolved in ways quite different from the Soviet model and from other developing countries. This title explores China from two comparative perspectives: developing countries (including the industrializing countries of East Asia) and historical state socialist regimes.

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In this new edition Marc Blecher provides arguments and analyzes informed by social science theory and a comparative perspective, striving to inform and challenge newcomers as well as those with some working knowledge of China.