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The French Revolution remains one of the crucial events of modern European and world history.

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Demystifying the conflict and educating both students and general readers, this historical overview ranges from the events that preceded the war to its end in 1975.

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This collection of essays examines the dynamic cultural world of Russia's lower classes during the last decades of the prerevolutionary order.

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"This volume grew out of seminars and colloquia organized by the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University under its program from 2008 to 2010 titled 'Cultures and Institutions in Motion'"--Acknowledgments.

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Draws on a wide range of cultural materials in order to challenge Eurocentric readings of decolonisation. -- .

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Draws on a wide range of cultural materials in order to challenge Eurocentric readings of decolonisation.

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This reader collects together articles by key historians, literary critics and anthropologists on the cultures of colonialism in the British Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is divided into three sections: theoretical, emphasizing approaches; the colonisers "at home"; and "away".

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By contrasting mobs of rope-wielding white Southerners to the gun-toting policemen and administrators who formally defended white supremacy in South Africa, this book employs racial killing as an optic for examining the distinctive logic of the racial state in the two contexts.

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In August 1745 Charles Edward Stuart, the 'Young Pretender', landed in Scotland and sparked the Second Jacobite Rising. Depicting the distinctive uniforms of Cumberland's men, this study offers details of regimental strengths and casualties and includes a chronology that places individual units in specific places throughout the campaign.

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An improved version of the Allison V-1710 engine gave rise to the Curtiss H-87, which began life in 1941 as the P-40D and featured a completely redesigned fuselage. The shorter and deeper nose of the new fighter gave it a decidedly snub-nosed appearance compared to the earlier P-40 models. This title deals with this engine.

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Maria Dowling's history of Czechoslovakia engages with themes of perennial interest--nationalism, democracy, and authoritarian rule--and as well as guiding the reader through the particularly rich and varied experiences of Czechoslovakia, illuminates the nature of government, power, and culture in twentieth-century Europe.

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Describes the collapse of a repressive Communist regime, the subsequent unprecedented explosion of popular freedom, the surprise Soviet occupation, and the spirited passive resistance of the population until the gradual strangulation of the "Prague Spring."

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Throughout, the Cranes rely on both their extensive research into primary sources and their intimate knowledge of the Masaryk family to offer the reader an unusually revealing account of the critical events in Czechoslovakia's turbulent history.

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This work by Janusz Bugajski should be considered mandatory reading for any student of Eastern Europe. It is an important study by a well-informed and self disciplined researcher and expert on Eastern Europe.

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This work by Janusz Bugajski should be considered mandatory reading for any student of Eastern Europe. It is an important study by a well-informed and self disciplined researcher and expert on Eastern Europe.

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The fighting at Omaha Beach is one of the most famous events in military history, and represented a crucial moment in the course of World War II. This book reveals the events of that single day in June 1944.

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The D-Day landings of 6 June 1944 were the largest amphibious military operation ever mounted. A huge armada was assembled to transport US and British armies across the Channel to open the second front against the Third Reich. This text reveals the events of this day on Utah Beach.