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A major contribution to the scholarship on British decolonisation, the cultural history of imperialism and British engagement with China. This highly original study places the emergence of contemporary Hong Kong in the wider, post-imperial setting. -- .

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A major contribution to the scholarship on British decolonisation, the cultural history of imperialism and British engagement with China. This highly original study places the emergence of contemporary Hong Kong in the wider, post-imperial setting. -- .

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The 'honorable men' who ruled the Old South had a language that comprised apparently outlandish features, yet revealed much about the lives of masters and the nature of slavery. This book demonstrates the language of honor that embraced a system of phrases, gestures, and behaviors centered on values, asserting authority and maintaining respect.

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A leading historian describes Abraham Lincoln's frequent bouts with depression and suicidal fantasies; his ineptitude with women; his overpowering ambition; and his troubled relationship with Mary Todd. 2 maps.

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An account of the machinations intended to bamboozle the Germans over true Allied invasion plans in 1944. On D-Day, 6 June 1944, the Allies gained total surprise, but only two months later did the deception scheme pass into history, by which time Allied victory in Europe was assured.

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This detailed study of the criminal justice system in Victorian Britain highlights the dilemmas facing those responsible for administering justice and protecting society from "the criminal."

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Hope and Fear in Margaret Chase Smith's America: A Continuous Tangle provides a fresh interpretation of the life, career, and legacy of former United States Senator Margaret Chase Smith, the first woman elected to both houses of the U.S. Congress.

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Hope Is Not a Plan takes the reader inside the war in Iraq courtesy of participant-observers brought there to diagnose the insurgency and develop a get-well plan.

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The most famous admiral in history, Horatio Nelson's string of naval victories helped secure Britain's place as the world's dominant maritime power, a position she held for more than a century after Nelson's death. Today Nelson is revered as an almost mythical figure - a naval genius and a national hero. This book reveals the real Nelson.

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Shows how, in pre-industrial England, horses were bred and trained, what they ate, how much they were worth, how long they lived, and what their owners thought of them. While they were named individually, and sometimes became favourites, many were worked hard and poorly treated, leading to their early deaths.

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This is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive examination of the hospital movement that arose and prospered in northern Italy between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. -- .

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The regions of Asia and Oceania, with their many diverse peoples, massive size, and vast cultural history, have been the location of some of the most critical conflicts of the modern era. This book explores the most explosive conflicts in the regions surrounding Asia and Oceania.

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Contains chapters exploring drug wars, immigration issues, terrorism, youth gangs, government corruption, controversy over oil and political instability. This book analyses over 30 security-based hot spots within the geographical regions including: the Zapatista Rebellion; the Darien Gap controversy; Evo Morales; Shining Path; and, the Falklands.

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This book provides an extensive examination of the major conflicts in the extremely volatile region of sub-Saharan Africa and their ramifications throughout the continent and beyond.

Conflict has been a critical factor in the making of contemporary Africa, and its study is key to understanding the continent's tortuous history.

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Harold Godwineson was king of England from January 1066 until his death at Hastings on 14 October of that year. Although he was not the only candidate for the succession to the childless King Edward the Confessor, Harold had a far stronger claim than William of Normandy to the throne.

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Household Interests is one of the first books to explore in-depth the nature of the Greek household (oikos) in classical Athens. Whereas the oikos traditionally has been defined as the household of the nuclear family in Greece, Cheryl Anne Cox reveals it as a much more fluid structure, taking care to distinguish between the concepts of "household"

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Using a wide variety of sources this lively socio-cultural history examines household service, one of the largest, most multi-layered, most mobile and most indispensable sectors of employment in early modern England -- .