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In the Netherlands, 8.5 million citizens suffered losses estimated at 3.6 billion guilders. This book offers a history of the Dutch experience and demonstrates how reputable institutions acted as collaborators. It shows how the Germans systematically robbed Dutch Jewry through a variety of means that gave the outward appearance of honest trading.

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In the Netherlands, 8.5 million citizens suffered losses estimated at 3.6 billion guilders. This book offers a history of the Dutch experience and demonstrates how reputable institutions acted as collaborators. It shows how the Germans systematically robbed Dutch Jewry through a variety of means that gave the outward appearance of honest trading.

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During World War II, Germany - and, later, the Allies - plundered Europe's historic treasures, looting gold, silver, currency, paintings and other works of art, coins, religious artefacts and millions of books and other documents. This is the story of these celebrated works of art and treasures.

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"In this book, Mark Walker - a historical scholar of Nazi science - brings to light the overwhelming impact of Hitler's regime on science and, ultimately, on the pursuit of the German atomic bomb. Walk"

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While occupying the center of the continental United States, the state of Nebraska remains outside the comprehension of most Americans.

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Needlework serves functional purposes, such as providing warmth, but has also communicated individual and social identity, spiritual beliefs, and aesthetic ideals throughout time and geography. Often-overlooked by historians, practicing needlework and creating needlework objects provides insights to the history of everyday life.

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The study of the ancient Jewish Diaspora is developing in exciting new directions on the basis of fresh archaeological material and

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This book examines the American Quaker educational enterprise in Palestine since its establishment in the late nineteenth century during the Ottoman rule and into the British Mandate period. Quaker education intersected with national and social forces and allowed for Palestinian girls' negotiation of discourses about nationalism.

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This book examines the American Quaker educational enterprise in Palestine since its establishment in the late nineteenth century during the Ottoman rule and into the British Mandate period. Quaker education intersected with national and social forces and allowed for Palestinian girls negotiation of discourses about nationalism.

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This book investigates both short- and long-term responses to disaster in the British Caribbean. It is the first to examine the informal negotiations that took place on the ground between the colonial authorities and the African-Caribbean population, and the formal negotiations undertaken by colonies as they sought financial aid from Parliament.

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This book explores rural societies in western Europe from 700-1050. It focuses on the bottom of the social hierarchy, rejectingviews that see rural society exclusively through the structures of lordship and challenging the teleological idea of the residential group as the prototype of the late-medieval structured community. -- .

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This book explores rural societies in western Europe from 700-1050. It focuses on the bottom of the social hierarchy, rejectingviews that see rural society exclusively through the structures of lordship and challenging the teleological idea of the residential group as the prototype of the late-medieval structured community. -- .

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Neither use nor ornament is a book about personal productivity, told from the perspective of its obstacles: clutter and procrastination. It offers a challenge to the self-help promise of a clutter-free life and unravels the moral narratives that hold individuals to account for their inefficiencies and muddles.

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Tells the story of those boys who fought aboard His Majesty's mighty ships-of-the-line to defend their kingdom against the French.

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Based on years of field research, this study examines the construction of urban and suburban space in the Philippines since a recent housing boom caused by an influx of wealth from returning Filipino migrants. It analyzes various developments, such as the rise of gated suburban communities and their effects on marginalized populations.