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A social history of Pennsylvania in the months before Independence, based on contemporary diaries and newspapers.

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Furstenberg offers a revelatory study of how Americans were bound together as a young nation by the words, the image, and the myth of George Washington, and how slavery shaped American nationalism.

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Robert Darnton, Roger Chartier, and others have written much on the history of reading in the Old Regime, but this is the first broad study of reading to focus on the period after 1800. How and why did people understand texts as they did in modern France In answering this question, James Allen moves easily from one interpretive framework to anothe

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A superb, authoritatively written insiders account of Iran, one of the most mysterious but significant and powerful nations in the world.

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This book contributes to race and ethnicity studies through a focus on the small scale, racialised dynamics of locality during a sharpening climate of crisis in British society. -- .

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From 1926 onward, Sinn Fein, which had been instrumental in the revolutionary period of 1919-23, faded into oblivion as a result of its intransigent and doctrinaire stance. This book unravels a chapter of history that has not been dealt with in detail until now. -- .

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Sir Charles Cotton's eventful career spanned from the American Revolution to the Napoleonic period. His leadership significantly shaped the outcome of the Peninsular War.

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On June 11, 1485, in the town of Guadalupe, the Holy Office of the Inquisition executed Alonso de Paredes - a converted Jew who posed an economic and political threat to the town's powerful friars - as a heretic. This book considers the relationship between religious identity and political authority in late-Medieval and early-modern Spain.

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The Civil War devastated the South, and the end of slavery turned Southern society upside down. Southern states took an active hand in shaping postwar changes, and Southern courts often defended civil rights and national reunification against hostile Southern legislators.

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Offers a comprehensive insight into a relatively neglected period of Irish history. This work is suitable for undergraduate and post-graduate students and lecturers of Irish history, and those in the general public with an interest in Irish history.

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Focuses on the period of Irish history between the defeat of the '98 rising and 1803. This work intends to engage with the aftermath of the rebellion led by Robert Emmet, which remains to be contextualized. It is suitable for undergraduate and post-graduate students and lecturers of Irish history.

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Examines the politics and social situation of the eight million Frenchmen who served in the Great War.

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Translated from the French, this study examines the politics and social situation of the eight million Frenchmen who served in the Great War.

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"A story about a woman scientist's journey to discover a submarine"--

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This is the first English-language translation of P. F. Iakubovich's popular roman a clef about his exile and experiences as a Siberian penal laborer during the late nineteenth century.

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This is the first English-language translation of P. F. Iakubovich's popular roman a clef about his exile and experiences as a Siberian penal laborer during the late nineteenth century.

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This collection examines the history of the experience of female inmates in American prisons from the early nineteenth century to the twenty-first century. The contributors analyze womens efforts to exert agency and control over their bodies and experiences, issues of race and class, and how womens experiences differed from those of male inmates.

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This collection examines the history of the experience of female inmates in American prisons from the early nineteenth century to the twenty-first century. The contributors analyze womens efforts to exert agency and control over their bodies and experiences, issues of race and class, and how womens experiences differed from those of male inmates.