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Presents a history of the origins of the Cold War, a conflict that marked the course of global politics for more than forty years. This book explains the series of tragic events that led to Europe's division after World War II. It also presents an analysis of the United States' strategic response, the birth of the Marshall Plan, and more.

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For Honour. For Courage. For Remembrance.The Battle of Fromelles in France during the First World War was Australia's worst 24 hours. Thousands of men were shot down amid the horror of that blundered attack.

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This volume introduces two very early, unique and hitherto largely unknown contributions to the making of modern economic knowledge, commonly known as the 'Mandeville Paradox' and 'mercantilism / industrial policy / mission oriented policy' for the first time in English.

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"The professionalism, quiet dignity, and dedication to our country that Commander Lippold and his sailors exhibited is an inspiration to us all and a reminder of the very best America has to offer." - Ali Soufan, author of The Black Banners

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The great military effectiveness of semi trained local militia is one of the enduring myths of American military history. In this book, the author reveals the truth behind this myth, shedding light on who these frontier men actually were and their role in the war of 1812.

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This book uses a wide range of sources, factual and fictive, in many languages to examine how slaves and renegades developed a frontier consciousness that took into account how the others thought and acted, and how Muslims, Christians and Jews developed mutual understanding despite the hostile conditions of the early modern Mediterranean.

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This book uses a wide range of sources, factual and fictive, in many languages to examine how slaves and renegades developed a frontier consciousness that took into account how the others thought and acted, and how Muslims, Christians and Jews developed mutual understanding despite the hostile conditions of the early modern Mediterranean.

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By 1760, with the alleviation of the French threat to the western frontier, colonial fur traders headed west to reap the bounty of trade with the local tribes.

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This book examines past legacies, socio-ecological tensions, and political disputes associated with the advance of frontiers in the Amazon region. It includes contributions from scholars in Europe, Latin America, and the United States.

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This book examines past legacies, socio-ecological tensions, and political disputes associated with the advance of frontiers in the Amazon region. It includes contributions from scholars in Europe, Latin America, and the United States.

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Based on little-examined printed and archival sources, this book explores the fundamental ideas behind early French thinking about Atlantic slavery, c. 1620-1750. It analyses the three central questions of what made one a slave, of what was unique about Caribbean labour, and the implications of strategic approaches in interacting with slaves.

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Faced by superior French forces, Wellington yet again out-thought and out-manoeuvred his opponents at Fuentes de Onoro. This book features the full story of the construction of the lines of Torres Vedras, the most massive undertakings of military engineering in the whole of the Napoleonic wars.

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Fugitive Slave Advertisements in The City Gazette: Charleston, South Carolina, 1787-1797 is a collection of more than one thousand transcribed advertisements from Charlestons daily newspaper. Each advertisement portrays, in miniature, a human drama of courage and resistance to unjust authority.

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This collection examines the role of the Fulda Gaplocated at the border between East and West Germanyin Cold War politics and military strategy. The contributors analyze the strategic deliberations of NATO and the Warsaw Pact, the balance of forces, and the role of the local peace movement, among other topics.

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This series of documents, covering the first hundred years after the Provisions of Oxford in 1258, is given in translation so that all who are interested in the history of parliament but have little Latin and less Old French may consult them.'

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This book is open access under a CC BY license. The narrative of 20th-century medicine is the conquering of acute infectious diseases and the rise in chronic, degenerative diseases. The history of fungal infections does not fit this picture. This book charts the path of fungal infections from the mid 19th century to the dawn of the 21st century.

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To obtain sacred relics, medieval monks plundered tombs, avaricious merchants raided churches, and relic-mongers scoured the Roman catacombs. In a revised edition of Furta Sacra, Patrick Geary considers the social and cultural context for these acts, asking how the relics were perceived and why the thefts met with the approval of medieval Christians.

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From mid-1942 until the end of the war, German fighter pilots were deployed in the defence of the homeland in an effort to halt the near-constant bombing raids by Britain and America. This book tells their story, from the moment when the Luftwaffe began to retreat to the dying days of the Reich.

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Part of the best-selling "Duel" series, this title presents the horrifying aerial clash between a fighter and a bomber. Using artwork and first-hand accounts, it recreates the deadly drama in the skies above Germany in the closing stages of the war.