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This race for colonies went hand in hand with a host of thrilling exploits and dramatic conflicts, of which Stanley's exploration of the Congo and Gordon's death in Khartoum are just two examples.

The partition of Africa was one of the most spectacular episodes in modern history.

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This race for colonies went hand in hand with a host of thrilling exploits and dramatic conflicts, of which Stanley's exploration of the Congo and Gordon's death in Khartoum are just two examples.

The partition of Africa was one of the most spectacular episodes in modern history.

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Divided Subjects, Invisible Borders details, through empirical and theoretical exposition, how the national unity of Germany after the Fall of the Berlin Wall conceals persistent division in the lives of eastern and western Germans.

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Divided Subjects, Invisible Borders details, through empirical and theoretical exposition, how the national unity of Germany after the Fall of the Berlin Wall conceals persistent division in the lives of eastern and western Germans.

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A study of how class and race have intersected in American society - above all, in the 'making' and remaking of the American working class in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book examines how European immigrants became American and 'white' in the crucible of the industrial workplace and the ethnic and working-class neighbourhood.

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America's most brilliant young Civil War historian offers a radical new way of understanding the South's defeat: that the Confederacy was defeated by self-inflicted wounds.

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This volume explores the ideas, institutions, and experiences that shaped Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist charity in early modern Europe.

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Explores the filmed performances of Palestinians and Mizrahim who relate their lived experiences of oppression and pain in Israel/Palestine in documentaries from the first decade of the 2000s.

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Drawing on a wide range of writings from archivists, historians, librarians, and preservationists, Cox summarizes the past decade of discussion concerning practical methodologies of documenting localities.

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This text traces the efforts of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson and others to establish a credible international presence for America as a new nation. The primary source documents include dispatches, private letters and documents from archives, libraries and societies.

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Through its extensive use of primary source materials and provision of explanations, this book places readers into the context of late 17th-century Salem to shed light on one of the darkest events in American historythe Salem witch trials.

The Salem witch trials are one of the most fascinating events in American history.

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In December 1851, Louis-Napolon Bonaparte seized power in a coup d'tat, believing he was destined to rule France and restore her to her former glory. In 1870, the Empire created by a military coup ended with a catastrophic military defeat, dramatically changing the balance of power in Europe.

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Documents that Changed the Way We Live looks at fifty stories, each of which describes a document, its creation and motivation, influence, importance, historical and social context, its provenance and how it got to where it is now (if still extant), and connections to contemporary information objects, technologies, and trends.

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In the tradition of Band of Brothers, the heroic and never-before-told story of a U.S. Ranger company, from D-Day to VE Day.

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A wise, witty, alternative history of humanity exploring how our relationship with dogs has changed over the centuries - by the author of the bestselling JUST MY TYPE

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This book reveals the varied and often eccentric lives of the Victorians who helped define dogs as we know them today.

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