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A delightful and fascinating social history of Victorians at leisure, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of nineteenth-century men and women, from the author of the bestselling The Victorian House.

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In this highly original contribution to knowledge about a little-known subject: the history of nursing work, Christine Hallett explores the nature and meaning of the practices developed by nurses and their volunteer-assistants during the First World War -- .

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"A thought-provoking and jargon-free introduction to British politics, society, culture and geography. Filled with topical case studies, the latest empirical data and analysis, this new edition shows readers how and why Britain has become the country that it is today"--

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It covers scholarly, professional, and other substantial writings, including books, monographs, the reports of government commissions, scholarly and professional articles, and magistral and doctoral dissertations.

The material is arranged geographically and includes full subject and author indexes.

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On issues ranging from the Holocaust to Srebrenica, contemporary historians are being asked to serve as 'expert witnesses' to painful events in the recent past - in the courtroom and in the media. Leading historians from across Europe reflect upon their experiences in this emerging public role. -- .

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Fully updated for the third edition, Contemporary Latin America provides an accessible concise introduction to the region. Historical context, the countries and their peoples provides a backdrop to broad-ranging coverage of politics, economy, society and culture and the continent's prospects today.

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The murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust is a crime that has had a lasting and massive impact on our time. Other topics include Holocaust education, Holocaust films, and the national memorial landscapes in Germany, Poland, Israel, and the United States.

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In this book, the Bush administration's war in Iraq is assessed using an interdisciplinary approach and historical analysis that will help readers better understand the results of the U.S. counterinsurgency doctrine from 2003 to the present.

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Offering a new contribution to debates about the British home front in WWII, this book addresses the way the Home Guard has been remembered in popular culture through examination of key films, as well as TV's Dad's Army. The authors also explore the personal memories of individuals who served in the Home Guard.

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America raised three distinct forces to win its revolution: short service militiamen, state troops and the Continentals. The Continentals were the backbone of the army, providing a disciplined and effective fighting force. This title takes a close look at the Continental infantryman.

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The author investigates the internal logic and evolution of Mao's theory in terms of various themes. Beginning with a consideration of conflict, which in Mao's view is a given and permanent component of society, Professor Starr then takes up the individual concepts of knowledge and action, authority, class and class conflict, organization, particip

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In the theory of convergence and summability whether for ordinary Fourier series or other expansions emphasis is placed on the phenomenon of localization whenever such occurs, and in the present paper a certain aspect of this phenomenon will be studied for the problem of best approximation as well.

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Historians of ancient Greece and Rome are sometimes hesitant to engage with the well-documented fact that Greek and Roman men regularly engaged in same-sex sexual relations with younger men.

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