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A survey of indigenous Judaism in colonial Algeria from a Halachic perspective, looking at the transition from Muslim-Ottoman to French-liberal-colonial politics.

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This book addresses indigenous peoples claims to autonomy and self-determination with a focus on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua. It demonstrates the tensions between nation states and indigenous peoples seeking to realize these rights and offers important lessons for similar projects across Latin America.

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This book aims to increase our knowledge and deepen the understanding of Jewish resistance to the Holocaust by examining personal circumstances and characteristics of Jewish resistance members and the formation of small Jewish resistance groups.

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Looks at how America during World War II gained strengths from early defeats such as Bataan or Corregidor. This title resurrects the legacy of the first half-year of American combat during the war - a legacy of pain, but not of woe. It recounts the story of the war's early defeats: Bataan, Corregidor, Wake Island, and Java Sea.

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This volume in the Perspectives in American Social History series reveals the long reach of the Industrial Revolution into the work lives and self-perceptions of average Americans.

Industrial Revolution: People and Perspectives offers a well-informed look at the impact of new labor practices in the 1800s.

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This lively, fascinating account of the surprisingly raucous journalism of the Revolutionary era--and how it helped to build a nation that has endured--offers new perspective on today's media wars

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This book explores the social and cultural responses to infanticide and baby-farming in Victorian England, focusing particularly on the Torquay Murder of 1865 and the two women accused of committing the crime; Mary Jane Harris and Charlotte Winsor.

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Focuses on a sample of occupational groups representative of the Mittelstand in the city of Hamburg - white-collar workers, artisans, retailers, civil servants and house owners. This study examines the strains imposed by the inflationary conditions on each group, questioning the interpretation of the Inflation's effects and chronology.

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This study examines the ways in which intellectuals of the Renaissance period sought to win the patronage of the powerful while maintaining independence. It analyzes the ethical dilemmas involved and how these were reflected in the lives and writings of Niccol Machiavelli, Desiderius Erasmus, Thomas More, and Michel de Montaigne.

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In recent decades the Ninth Amendment, a provision designed to clarify that the federal government was to be one of enumerated and limited powers, has been turned into an unenumerated rights clause that effectively grants unlimited power to the judiciary.

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Finally, it analyzes the impact that India's possession of this infrastructure had on three developments of major importance to postwar geopolitics: India's leadership of newly independent former colonies, the decline of the British empire east of Suez, and the origins of the Cold War in Asia.

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Based on over 3000 institutional records, Coleborne's study will have wider relevance outside of the history of medicine and psychiatry. It has a global perspective but focuses on specific destinations, and in so doing, contributes in an innovative way to global history and the history of human migration. -- .

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"Combining ... first-person anecdotes of the presidents and their families with years of storied history and interviews with commanders past and present, [this book] reveals the intimate connection felt by the First Family with this historic retreat"--Dust jacket flap.

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A long-time U.S. policy insiders scholarly and encyclopedic history with unprecedented analysis of the official documents of the Cold War explores Reagans integrated new strategies in defense, arms control, diplomacy, information and intelligence, and support for the faiths and forces of freedom that collapsed the Soviet ideology and empire.