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A collection of essays which brings out the virtues rather than the failings' of medieval writers of history, highlighting their attitudes and habits of thought, and stressing the importance of tradition.

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A collection of sixteen essays by Simon Adams on Elizabethan history, centring around Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. -- .

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An account of the campaign leading to the "Battle of the Nations", the titanic clash which drove the French out of Germany in 1813. The book is illustrated with bird's-eye views.

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A collection of articles addressing research trends in the history of British leisure while also presenting a wide range of articles on cultural conflict and leisure in the twentieth century. It includes innovative research on a number of topics, including television, cinema, the circus, womens leisure, dance, football and drug culture.

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A collection of articles addressing research trends in the history of British leisure while also presenting a wide range of articles on cultural conflict and leisure in the twentieth century. It includes innovative research on a number of topics, including television, cinema, the circus, womens leisure, dance, football and drug culture.

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Combines research on a wide variety of leisure activities in the early modern and modern periods, providing an unprecedented transnational perspective to the study of European leisure history.

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This book investigates the social, architectural, and environmental history of sporting plantations in the South Carolina lowcountry and the Red Hills region of southeast Georgia and northern Florida. It explores questions about environmental change, recreation, race relations, and historical memory of slavery.

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Hitler's protracted siege of Leningrad resulted in one of the most brutal campaigns on the Eastern Front during World War II. The German Army Group North was able to isolate the city and its garrison for a period of 900 days. This book examines the strength of the garrison's defenses, which ultimately prevented the Germans from capturing the city.

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This pivotal history of the kings of Sparta not only describes their critical leadership in war, but also documents the waxing and waning of their social, political, and religious powers in the Spartan state.

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For much of the 16th century the Mediterranean was a battleground between Christians and Muslims. This work details a five hour melee in which the Christians inflicted a decisive defeat on the Turks in a battle which proved to be the last great galley fight of all time.

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Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in Suriname within the context of Dutch colonial power and racial conflict, from the plantation economy and the age of slavery to its legacy in the modern colonial state. -- .

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Explores the lessons that can be gleaned through a look from the East Central European experience of dissent for dissent and resistance as general modern phenomena

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Lest We Forget brings together first-hand recollections from the Great War to the Second World War, to vividly illustrate the impact of war.

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This eye-opening book highlights the role of elites in constructing systems of persecution and extermination during the Holocaust.

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This eye-opening book highlights the role of elites in constructing systems of persecution and extermination during the Holocaust.

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This in-depth narrative history of the interactions between English settlers and American Indians during the Virginia colony's first century explains why a harmonious coexistence proved impossible.

Britain's first successful settlements in America occurred over 400 years ago.

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This collection seeks to locate the sex in the well-known trilogy of 'sex & drugs & rock 'n' roll'. By looking at how sex and sexuality were expressed, presented and received, the collection shows youth culture to be crucial to the changes and challenges that informed British society into the late twentieth century.

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On Platform One of Paddington Station in London, there is a statue of an unknown soldier; hes reading a letter. On the hundredth anniversary of the declaration of war everyone in the country was invited to take a moment and write that letter. A selection of those letters are published here, in a new kind of war memorial one made only of words.