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This insightful analysis looks at the power struggles of 1920-1926, a time during which the Ottoman Empire was replaced by a secular and modernist Turkish nationalist regime.

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A comprehensive account of American society in 1939, a year that saw both the suffering that characterized the end of the Great Depression as well as the welcome escapism of the era's music, art, and film.

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This book explores the memory of the war of independence in France as viewed by the former European settlers (pieds-noirs) and the harkis, those Algerians who worked for the French security forces. It examines how the memorial dynamics of the two groups are related both to each other and to other memories of the war. -- .

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This book explores the memory of the war of independence in France as viewed by the former European settlers (pieds-noirs) and the harkis, those Algerians who worked for the French security forces. It examines how the memorial dynamics of the two groups are related both to each other and to other memories of the war. -- .

Offers an alternative perspective on Britain's late imperial period by looking at the lives and the writings of the men who chose to defy the conventional social and political attitudes of the British ruling classes towards the Near East.

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Focusing on the business press - one of the most articulate elements of the American media - this work examines how the US and the Japanese worked out the parameters of their post-war relationship.

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Designed to accompany the OU course "From Enlightenment to Romanticism", this anthology provides primary and secondary sources on the death of the Old Regime, the Napoleonic phenomenon, slavery, religion and reform. Introductory sections explain the context and importance of the sources.

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Designed to accompany the OU course "From Enlightenment to Romanticism", this anthology provides primary and secondary sources on changing landscapes, new forms of knowledge, conceptions of art and the artist and the exotic and Oriential. Introductory sections explain the context of the sources.

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Although Villavicencio, the capital of the Department of Meta, is located just 120 miles from Bogoto, the 19,000-foot-high eastern Andean Cordillera lies between the two cities.

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An exploration of reasons why the military has not intervened in the post-communist political arena since the advent of democracy in Russia. The author suggests that both Gorbachev and Yeltsin utilized a highly effective, yet potentially troublesome, form of civil-military control.

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Documents the transformation in how medieval Castilians thought about property and family at a time when economic innovations and an emerging mercantile sensibility were eroding the traditional relation between the two. This book identifies changes in how Castilians conceived of and acted on salvation.

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From Huhugam to Hohokam: Heritage and Archaeology in the American Southwest is an historical comparison of archaeologists views of the ancient Hohokam with Native Oodham concepts about themselves and their relationships with their neighbors and ancestors.

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From Huhugam to Hohokam: Heritage and Archaeology in the American Southwest is an historical comparison of archaeologists views of the ancient Hohokam with Native Oodham concepts about themselves and their relationships with their neighbors and ancestors.

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In this pioneering study, Conley examines the intersection between empire, navy, and manhood in British society from 1870 to 1918. Jack Tar to Union Jack is indispensable reading as it reminds us of the navy's long-standing influence upon British domestic and imperial culture. -- .

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Roger Lundin traces how pragmatism and its reliance on experience eclipsed nature and religion as the ultimate moral authority. He explores why Americans prize experience as highly as they do, what they build out of it in works of culture and their daily lives, how they manag...

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A collection of essays.

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Covering the very beginnings of Western civilization, this biographical dictionary introduces readers to the great cultural figures of the ancient world, including those who contributed significantly to architecture, astronomy, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, painting, sculpture, and theology.

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