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Macedonia has had a troubled and remarkable history.From Ancient Macedonia,the country of Alexander the Great,through Roman dependency,Bulgarian rule and Ottoman principality,the modern nation state is a complex mixture that is absolutely central to the stability of the Balkan region.

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Examines the Macedonian army' initial training, their rise to an elite unit under Alexander the Great, and their eventual defeat at the battle of Pydna, in 168 BC. This book also details the daily life, weaponry, experience, and motivations of these men, using primary sources and anecdotal material.

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In 1810 Lachlan Macquarie became governor of New South Wales. He ruled the colony for 12 years. The story of Macquarie's governorship is in many ways the story of early Australian history. His term encompassed the key events of Australia's crucial third decade of existence, and accelerated its progress from a jail to a colony of settlement.

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A general theory of grand social change is the objective of this collection of essays focusing on historians, from Ibn Khaldun to Oswald Spengler and from Piritim Sorokin to Arnold Toynbee, who have helped shape our way of conceiving of ourselves.

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Presenting a portrait of Louis XV's famous mistress, this book depicts her as a self-made woman who rose from anonymity in early eighteenth-century Paris to a person of influence in Versailles, describing her training, numerous transformations, marriage, and romance with the king.

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Miss Koch probes the essential meaning of Madison's political philosophy to locate his distinctive angle of vision. She considers three controlling themes in his political thought--liberty, justice, and union--and presents a profile of his mind and heart. The material in the book was originally presented as the Whig-Clio Bicentennial Lectures at Pr

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Based on over 250 psychiatric case files, this book traces the lives of Kenyas white insane to focus not on the great white hunters and heroic pioneer farmers but on those Europeans who did not manage to emulate the colonial ideal. In doing so, the book raises important new questions around deviance, transgression and social control.

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Magic is usually defined as a non-modern phenomenon, contrasted with modern rationalism and science. However, the idea of magic has remained persistent in scholarly discourse throughout history from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment and beyond. This title explores how the notion of magic is articulated and theorised in the writing of history.

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Constructed throughout the 1930s, the Maginot Line was supposed to form the ultimate defence against a German invasion of France. This book uses maps and period photographs to tell the story of the five German operations launched against the Maginot Line.

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Magna Carta Magna Carta is the name later given to a document signed by king John of England under pressure from the barons and other notables of England in the summer of 1215 at a meadow called Runnymede, which is on the river Thames between London and Windsor.

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This work chronicles Mohandas Gandhi's work as a free-lance journalist, editor, and sponsor. The purpose of this book, in the author's own words, is to bring his contributions in this sphere to the limelight so that those working in the line could be benefitted.

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Selectively drawing on the vast literature on Gandhi since the 1920s, this bibliography covers his life, political campaigns, philosophy of nonviolence, and strategy of nonviolence, or satyagraha.

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This work dramatizes, with memoirs, diaries and documents, eight major crises of American foreign policy - from the origins of the Cold War to the Gulf War with Iraq. Each account begins with an introduction and chronology of events, proceeds with documents, and concludes with suggested reading.

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Setting Farran's remarkable story in the context of the first modern campaign of international terrorism, it draws on recently declassified files of the Security Services to reveal the full extent and ambition of Jewish terrorist attacks on Britain in the late 1940s.

A history of how the sexual revolution changed life in America forever. A portrait of private lives and public discourse, it traces changes from the deceptively repressive 50s, to the first tremors of rebellion in the early 60s, the sexual rights movement, its heyday and even counter-revolution.