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An extensive and fascinating collection of stories featuring both famous and everyday women, giving a well rounded view of the lives of women in the ancient world.

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This work is a revealing combination of biographies and topical essays that describe the outstanding and often-overlooked contributions of women to the science, politics, and culture of the Renaissance.

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In this comprehensive narrative of the political and economic evolution of Africa, Robert I. Rotberg explains the critical events, players and policies in the continents tumultuous shift toward democracy.

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An anarchist by temperament, the beautiful and talented Ding Ling attempted to find her way in the world alone.

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This collection of Native American histories written by anthropologists, native peoples, ethnobotanists, and art historians covers the time period from the late prehistoric to the present.

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Charts the growth of the German community in Britain, and details the story of its destruction under the intolerance which gripped the country during World War I.

Muller takes us behind the scenes of the Wehrmacht High Command, providing a fascinating insight into an unknown story of World War II.

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What lies behind the mysticism of the world's greatest religion Prepare yourself for an incredible historic journey. One that will either empower you, or leave you terrified.

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What and where and who is Europe This collection contends that Europe cannot be defined as simply a particular geographic location or a group of citizens who inhabit the same place and share a culture. Instead, Europe is a question to be answered by the teachers and students who study it.

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Engendering Whiteness examines the complex diversity of slaveholding and non-slaveholding white women's material realities within the slave societies of Barbados and North Carolina between the 17th-19th centuries. -- .

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Based on close reading of historical documents - poetry as much as statistics - and focused on the conceptualization of technology, this book is an unconventional evocation of late colonial Netherlands East Indies (today Indonesia). It invents a way to talk about freedom, colonialism, nationalism, literature, revolution, and human nature.

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This wide-ranging and extensively researched work reviews the way in which the British army exploited the potential of railways from the 'dawn of the railway age' to the outbreak of the First World War. -- .

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A collection of essays, in honour of Pierre Chaplais, which examine England's policies towards her neighbours between 1066 and 1453.

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This new text offers one of the first overviews of the 'three hundred years' war' between England and Scotland, from the Scottish succession crisis in 1286, to the Union of the Crowns in 1603. It is an ideal introduction for students approaching Anglo-Scottish relations within this period for the first time.

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Reverses received wisdom, showing that the aeroplane is a central and revealing aspect of an unfamiliar English nation: a warfare state dedicated to technology, industry, empire and military power. This title tells the story of aeronautical England, from its politics to its industry and culture.

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'England in Conflict 1603-1660' analyses the early modern polity and tells the story of its disintegration. By questioning the meanings of the body politic - a metaphor too often taken for granted - it is able to bridge not only the high and the low but also divergent approaches to the period.

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Presented chronologically, this title offers a portrait of England and the English - and the unique place of both in world history. Through the words of those who saw it and made it, it covers: the Norman Conquest, Magna Carta, the Peasants' Revolt, Henry VIII's break with Rome, the Great Fire of London, Nelson at Trafalgar, and the world wars.

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'An erudite, extremely entertaining work' Jan Morris, Independent
In the style of Longitude and Fermats Last Theorem, acclaimed novelist Maureen Duffy has written a page-turning narrative history of the making of the myth of the English.