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Most people in the middle ages shared communal living space and lived most of their lives publicly in the midst of other people. This work traces what this meant for men and women growing sense of individuality.

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Through an array of theoretical approaches and empirical material, this comprehensive and accessible volume surveys private armed forces and directly challenges conventional stereotypes of security contractors.

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Discover the real Downton Abbey as Michael Paterson explores the myths and realities of the golden age of the English country house

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Much of the literature on ancient Egypt centers on pharaohs or on elite conceptions of the afterlife. Drawing on the archaeological, iconographic, and textual evidence from the earlier years of the New Kingdom, this book examines how ordinary ancient Egyptians lived their lives, from birth to death.

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Private Lives, Public Histories explores conceptions of public and private spaces, activities, discourse, and social interactions. Contributors to this edited collection draw on ethnohistorical and material sources to depict history as a lived experience.

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Private Lives, Public Histories explores conceptions of public and private spaces, activities, discourse, and social interactions. Contributors to this edited collection draw on ethnohistorical and material sources to depict history as a lived experience.

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Explores how our personal pasts intersect with broader historical questions and debates. Drawing on interviews with Australians from five communities around the country, Anna Clark uncovers how we think about the past in the context of our local and intimate stories, and the role history plays in our lives.

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The histories of six generations of the Strozzi, Gondi, Guicciardini, and Capponi families are traced from the fifteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries by focusing on the family household as defined by the economic bonds reflected in account books. These four families were among the best known of the city's patriciate and were influential in affair

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Details the privateer captains of the golden age of "state-sponsored piracy" - men such as John Paul Jones, Jean Lafitte, and Benito de Soto. It includes episodes such as Bonhomme Richard's epic battle with HMS Serapis.

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While the true position of the citizen-soldier in relation to a standing army had not been clearly defined by 1860, the nation had made giant strides towards full acceptance of the idea that the U.S. Army, a standing force commanded by military professionals, was a national necessity.

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This compelling reader collects a rich array of documents that show how Mexicans viewed their history and culture since independence. Offering a wide variety of materialstexts, visuals, videos, and sounds that can be tailored to the needs of individual instructors, these sources will stimulate critical thinking and give students new insights.

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This compelling reader collects a rich array of documents that show how Mexicans viewed their history and culture since independence. Offering a wide variety of materialstexts, visuals, videos, and sounds that can be tailored to the needs of individual instructors, these sources will stimulate critical thinking and give students new insights.

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Processual archaeologists seek to explain variability in the static archaeological record we observe in the present as a necessary first step toward learning how to learn about the operation of cultural dynamics in the past.

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Phiri (social science, Regis U., Colorado) works for the non- profit Cook Communications, which promotes indigenous publishing around the world. He explores the role of the churches in the African transitions to plural politics in the 1990s, and how they were drawn into a role that invariably brough

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This book explores the ethnic and religious dimensions of the northern Nigeria ethno-religious conflict and develops a Genocide Proclivity Model for identifying the conflicts genocidal inclinations. It argues that proclivity to genocide, though currently latent, underlies most cases of the wanton killings in northern Nigeria.

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This book explores the ethnic and religious dimensions of the northern Nigeria ethno-religious conflict and develops a Genocide Proclivity Model for identifying the conflicts genocidal inclinations. It argues that proclivity to genocide, though currently latent, underlies most cases of the wanton killings in northern Nigeria.