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Ahead of the sixtieth anniversary of the dawn of the Space Age, this revisionist study examines the development of space policy during the Eisenhower administration. It challenges traditional scholarly assessments and argues that President Eisenhowers space policies were proactive and activist rather than passive and reactive to Soviet successes.

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Ahead of the sixtieth anniversary of the dawn of the Space Age, this revisionist study examines the development of space policy during the Eisenhower administration. It challenges traditional scholarly assessments and argues that President Eisenhowers space policies were proactive and activist rather than passive and reactive to Soviet successes.

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An analysis of Dwight D. Eisenhower's career before his rise to fame. It examines his intellectual ideas concerning politics, military strategy, and history in the decades between the wars, and details Eisenhower's quest to make himself the best officer in the US Army.

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This book examines the postwar memoir fight over the broad front versus the single thrust strategy, the Allied advance on the Rhine, and the British call for a ground-forces commander other than General Eisenhower.

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When Dwight Eisenhower ran for president he was so confident that he could organize the Executive Office more effectively than his predecessor that he made it an issue in the campaign of 1952. When he entered office he found that Congress had given him just two months to reorganize the Council of Economic Advisers or see it dissolved.

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The Somoza regime, unlike its contemporaries, chose to utilize American institutions and American preferences to subvert the latter's power rather than reinforce it.

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This is an annotated edition of El laberinto de la soledad, a classic text on Mexican culture and identity, first published in 1950 by Nobel prize winner Octavio Paz. It includes a wide-ranging introduction, hundreds of explanatory notes and four appendices. -- .

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Accounts of Eleanor of Aquitaine's life provides a rare glimpse into women's lives during the medieval period, and though an admittedly extraordinary figure, we are able to draw some general conclusions about marriage and motherhood.

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Using her own words, personal documents, past perspectives, and new biographical research, this book introduces young adult readers to this American influencer within her own historical context and connected to contemporary issues.

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Analyzes the election reforms introduced in Nigeria since 2011 as well as their impact on the outcome of elections.

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The most famous conspiracy of silence in the history of antiquity is examined here by one of the three archaeologists entrusted by the Archaeological Society of Athens with the final excavations of the Sanctuary. He traces the history of the cult in the archaeological remains, from the first traces of habitation at the site in the Middle Bronze Age

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Three of the most important chronicles of eleventh-century Germany were composed in the south-western duchy of Swabia. The Swabian chronicles are an indispensable resource to the student of the changing loyalties and conflicts of eleventh-century Germany. -- .

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Why do some elites survive while others do not How do certain institutions manage to preserve their importance in the face of crises, instability, and change How does a democratic society legitimize elitist institutions Combining the use of important social theories--particularly those of Mosca, Schumpeter, Tocqueville, and Pareto--with empirica

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Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918) was one of the most significant pioneers of the British women's emancipation movement. Wolstenholme Elmy referred to herself as an 'initiator' of movements, and she was at the heart of every campaign Victorian feminists conducted. This title presents a portrait of this 'Insurgent woman'.

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This book provides the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (18331918) someone referred to among contemporaries as the grey matter in the brain of the late-Victorian womens movement.

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Originally published in 1996 and now available in paperback, a historical account of Anglo-Irish history between 1560 and 1602.

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In this title, Patrick Collinson examines the religious beliefs both of Elizabeth and of Shakespeare, as well as redrawing the main features of the political and religious structure of the reign.

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Explores the significance of the slavery business and emancipation in the formation of modern imperial Britain -- .

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Catherine the Great's treatment of the Russian nobility has usually been regarded as dictated by court politics or her personal predilections. Citing new archival sources, Robert Jones shows that her redefinition and reorganization of the Russian nobility were in fact motivated by reasons of state. In 1762, Peter III had "emancipated" the nobility