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Examines in detail the debates around ratifying the Constitution in Pennsylvania

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Using a wealth of material culled from primary sources, Dunn paints a vivid picture of a world caught up in the winds of change, a world poised on the edge of revolution.

In the 15 years preceding the American Revolution, the existence of the frontier exerted a dominant influence on the colonial economy.

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This book shows Professor Jonathan Steinberg's - a celebrated historian of modern Europe, especially Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland - contributions to historical practice.

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A timely and original collection of essays on identity, place and culture of association, that captures the cultural meanings of British political and civic life from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. -- .

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In this book, Carl I. Hammer uses social, cultural, and political analysis to explore a broad range of significant colonial issues that affected western Massachusetts from the late seventeenth century to the American Revolution.

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Offers an illustrated history of the British wheeled baby carrier, from the eighteenth century to the end of the classic pram era. This book details the technological changes that affected pram design, and the rise in popularity of the pram.

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Tells the story of women in the 1950s: a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal and two-piece swimsuits caused mass alarm. This book reconstructs the real 1950s, through the eyes of those who lived it. It takes you back in time to when our grandmothers scrubbed their doorsteps, cared for their families, laughed, loved and struggled.

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A panoramic collection of rich and densely textured essays that demonstrate how we can only understand our present through our consciousness of the past and how in thinking about the past we mirror the time and place of our own living.

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This book engages with how the South African Indians in South Africa and Siddis in Gujarat perform creolized musical, spiritual, and culinary practices in their respective geopolitical spaces in the contemporary era.

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An exploration of modernism's influence on the bohemian and counter-cultural movements in theatre, popular culture and design in the post-independent Irish Free State (1922-1937).

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In the second and third quarters of the fifth century BC, when Athens became both politically and culturally dominant in the Greek world, Pericles became the leading figure in the city's public life. This introduction guides students through the key aspects of this most-studied period of ancient Greek history.

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"Kagan, faithful to his lifelong fascination with Pericles . . . gives us an accessible and invaluable account of his life and deeds".--Allan Bloom, author of "The Closing of the American Mind".

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The story of Perkin Warbeck is one of the most compelling mysteries of English history. Officially, however, he was proclaimed to be Perkin Warbeck, the son of a Flemish boatman. In doing so she delves into the secret corners of European history and produces a portrait of the late fifteenth century that is breathtaking in its detail.

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This collection examines state neutrality in the contemporary international system. The contributors analyze permanent neutrality as a policy not only for small states, but as an option for the management of the security architectures of Europe and Asiaone which, this volume argues, has the potential to decrease global security dilemmas.

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This collection examines state neutrality in the contemporary international system. The contributors analyze permanent neutrality as a policy not only for small states, but as an option for the management of the security architectures of Europe and Asiaone which, this volume argues, has the potential to decrease global security dilemmas.

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Waite details the history of the community of Oberlin, Ohio, which demonstrated a commitment to the education of blacks during the antebellum period that was rare at the time.

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When the United States entered the Great War in April of 1917, there were few officers with any staff training, and none had actually served on large, complex staffs in combat.