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Offers an account of the origins, events and outcome of the Battle of Plassey in 1757, a victory which not only established the reputation of Clive of India, but also ensured British pre-eminence in India. The battle has gone down in history as a success against almost ridiculous odds.

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"Plataea 479 BC: Greece's Greatest Victory".

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"Locates, explains, and analyses the origins of the British gaming industry, examining the production and consumption of games in an historical, social, and economic context"--

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Explores the trend for reconstructed historic sites to broaden their interpretation of early America by adding Native American interpreters to staffs that formerly presented from a primarily European perspective. This work examines the reasons behind this shift and the effects it has on visitors and performers.

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The data for this volume includes speeches, remarks, addresses, statements, memorandums, and other forms of public speech during the Reagan years.

The design of the book is both chronological and thematic, given the theme of the development of Reagan's rhetoric over time and the eventual exposition of its weakness.

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Examining wars from the allied victory in World War II to the conflict in Viet Nam, and finally to the operations in the Gulf and Kosovo, this book presents a comprehensive look at the evolution of strategic air attack theory and doctrine over the years.

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Beginning with a detailed historical analysis of class and class policy in the East, this work traces the processes of social change in the communist world. The author addresses the period of perestroika, suggesting that Gorbachev's real challenge will be to dislodge the current social structure.

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This book explains how the processes of total territorial rule at the core of the modern international system became normalised in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). It develops a decolonial framework informed by a pluriverse of multiple ontologies of sovereignty to argue that the state itself is an outcome of imperial globalisation.

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This book explains how the processes of 'total territorial rule' at the core of the modern international system became normalised in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). It develops a decolonial framework informed by a 'pluriverse' of multiple ontologies of sovereignty to argue that the state itself is an outcome of imperial globalisation.

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'How much does it cost' We think of this question as one that preoccupies the nation's shoppers, not its statesmen. This book shows, the twentieth-century American polity in fact developed in response to that very consumer concern. It offers an interpretation of state power by integrating popular politics and policymaking.

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The book explores, in interview format, issues raised but not fully explored by Scotts poem Coming to Jakarta on the 1965 Indonesian massacre. In addition, Scott reflects on ways that poetry can serve as a non-violent higher politics, contributing to the evolution of human culture and thus our second nature.

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What is the point of poetry for historians The answer lies in this new 'history of history', which looks at the question through the prism of W. H. Auden's Cold War history poems and of poetry and history education from the eighteenth century to the present day. -- .

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What is the point of poetry for historians The answer lies in this new 'history of history', which looks at the question through the prism of W. H. Auden's Cold War history poems and of poetry and history education from the eighteenth century to the present day. -- .

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The only major conflict of Lord Dunmore's War, the battle of Point Pleasant was fought between Virginian militia and American Indians from the Shawnee and Mingo tribes. This title brings to life one of the most significant pre-Revolutionary which conflicts between American settlers and the native tribes.

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Conservatism was born as an anguished attack on democracy. This work aims to take the reader into the politically lurid world of Regency England. Weaving social and intellectual history, it brings to life the social practices of the Enlightenment. It challenges our own commitments to and anxieties about democracy.