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The essays in this collection examine the issue of liberalism and its place in modern German history, reassessing much of the traditional scholarship in light of recent work by David Blackbourn and Geoff Eley on the "peculiarities of German history".

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In the 1960s, Mississippi was the heart of white southern resistance to the civil-rights movement. This work shows how Mississippi leaders strategically accommodated themselves to the demands of civil-rights activists and the federal government seeking to end Jim Crow, and in so doing contributed to a vibrant conservative countermovement.

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He was the gun-toting man of God who enthralled and appalled the nation for more than a decade. This is the story of the notorious bushranger, Captain Moonlite.

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Hans Baron's Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance is widely considered one of the most important works in Italian Renaissance studies. Princeton University Press published this seminal book in 1955. Now the Press makes available a two-volume collection of eighteen of Professor Baron's essays, most of them thoroughly revised, unpublished, or pres

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Analyses in detail the internal politics of the West Bank Palestinians and their international implications. In Search of Leadership offers a comprehensive look at the social and political bases of the factions and groups in the West Bank and suggests how they will affect Palestinian politics in the years ahead.

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Presents the American history of the 'city on a hill' metaphor from its Puritan beginnings to its role in Reagan's American civil religion and beyond. This title challenges the widespread assumption that Americans have always used this potent metaphor to define their national identity.

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Five thousand years ago there began the most momentous revolution in human history. In this fascinating historical search, Michael Wood explores these ancient cultures, looking for their essential character and their continuing legacy.

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The middle ages, the age of Charlemagne, Chaucer and Dante, had an indelible effect on European culture. This title offers a survey of the influence of the middle ages, and of medieval attitudes and values, on later periods and on the modern world.

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When Heinrich Schliemann carried out his famous excavations at Troy and Mycenae he seemed also to be giving mythical Homeric heroes like Agamemnon historical flesh, blood and bone.

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Documents Russian efforts to appropriate Western solutions to the problem of economic backwardness since the time of Catherine the Great. This book describes Russian Westernization - which emphasized German as well as Anglo-US economics. It raises questions about core values of Western culture and how cultural values and priorities are determined.

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An archaeological examination of Anglo-American culture.

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This book examines how, quite by accident and under very unfortunate circumstances, Britain's colony of South Carolina afforded women an unprecedented opportunity for economic autonomy.

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A comprehensive examination of social clubs across South Asia -- .

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An admired historian offers a unique account of the events at Salem, Massachusetts, helping readers to understand the witch hunt as it was understood by those who lived through the frenzy.

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Only a generation or two ago, illegitimacy was one of the most shameful things that could happen in a family. This book reveals the secrets kept for entire lifetimes: long-silent voices from the workhouse, the Magdalene Laundry or the distant mother-and-baby home.

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This book focuses on the writers who lived through the processes of de-Stalinization and re-Stalinization during the 1960s and 1970s in Soviet Ukraine. The author argues that the KGB unintentionally facilitated the transnational and intercultural links among the Kharkiv multiethnic community of writers.