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This remarkable work was the first to examine the White Australia policy, and was the first book published by Melbourne University Press, in 1923. It has long been the authoritative reference on the subject, and is essential for every library. Though more than ninety years have passed since publication, the book remains invaluable.

How has water been perceived in different societies and across different eras of world history How have these changing conceptions informed and influenced our ideas about society and ourselves This title challenges conventional interpretations and understanding of water in nature.

The international contributors shed new light on the ways in which the key relationship between humans and water has given rise to new forms of social organisation, new technologies and economic activities.

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A unique and overdue insight and study into how the landscape, institutions and collective memory has influenced the representation of the past on British television from 1946 to the present day, promoting a very singular view of what it means to be British. -- .

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A unique and overdue insight and study into how the landscape, institutions and collective memory has influenced the representation of the past on British television from 1946 to the present day, promoting a very singular view of what it means to be British. -- .

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This book seeks to recover E. A. Freeman's reputation as a leading Victorian historian and public moralist. Often dismissed as a panegyrist to English progress and a virulent racist, this study reveals the nuances of Freeman's understanding of world history, and draws out the connections on history, Islam, and empire.

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Explores the politics of history-making and interest in preserving the material remnants of the past in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century colonial society, looking at both indigenous pasts and those of European origin. -- .

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Leading historians and policy advisors explore the implications of incorporating historical sensibilities into key development policy issues. -- .

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Leading historians and policy advisors explore the implications of incorporating historical sensibilities into key development policy issues. -- .

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The Holocaust continues to be a defining event for understanding not only the course of history during the 20th century but the course of human events in general.

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Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886), generally recognized as the founder of the school of modern critical historical scholarship, and Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897), the great Swiss proponent of cultural interpretation, are fathers of modern history--giants of their time who continue to exert an immense influence in our own. They are usually seen as contra

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After the appalling experiences of the First World War, no one in Britain wished to be in another war. Stigmatised as 'Appeasement', this has often been held to be a bankrupt policy, epitomised by Chamberlain's Munich Agreement in 1938, handing over the Sudetenland. This title shows that many of the government's policies were reasonable.

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The invasion of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany in March 1939 helped to precipitate Europe's descent into World War II six months later. The move, supposedly to protect the Sudeten Germans, shocked many in Europe, who saw it as a clear statement of intent by Hitler.

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A vivid, page-turning account, HITLER AND HIS SECRET PARTNERS may also be one of our era's most important works of history. Pool discloses the shocking and often bizarre financial strategies and relationships that enabled Hitler to consolidate his power and perpetuate his reign of terror.

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The rudimentary facts of the Beer Hall Putsch are well known. The myth and conjecture they have generated are now replaced by detailed evidence in Harold Gordon's history, a thorough analysis of the events leading up to the Putsch, the ideologies and people struggling for power in Bavaria in 1923, the Putsch itself, and its aftermath. Originally p