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Following the Indian Mutiny, the 1860s and 1870s marked a period of change and imperial consolidation for the British. This text examines the imperial policy of Robert Cecil, the marquis of Salisbury, who served as secretary of state for India for two administrations during this key era.

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Presents research in Classical Reception Studies. This title focuses on the reception of antiquity in the performing and visual arts from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century. It explores the tensions and relations of gender, sexuality, eroticism and power in reception.

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Presses an understanding of the roles of women in public life and offers a history of urban America. This book also offers evidence that women established a broad and durable solidarity that spanned differences of race, class, and political experience.

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Why does the United Nations invoke its responsibility to protect through interventions in some instances but not others This book challenges the dominant narrative of the UN as an institution of equality and progress by analyzing the colonial origins of the organization and revealing the unequal power relations it has perpetuated.

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In their struggle for self-determination the newly independent countries of the Third World are reestablishing links with their precolonial pasts and determining their present identities and future possibilities. To demonstrate this, David Gordon brings together, interprets, and synthesizes the thought of contemporary Arab historiographers. Origin

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Demonstrates how the regime of the founders was replaced by a much more statist regime during the Civil War. This book offers salient interpretations of the writings of the key presidents of founding and civil war periods, and interpretations centered on the key word, 'self-government.'

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One of two volumes on the relationship between popular religion and the self-help tradition in American culture, this book focuses on early America, from the Protestant Ethic and Puritan New England through Revivialism and American Romanticism.

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The second of two volumes on the relationship between popular religion and the self-help tradition in American culture, this book continues chronologically where the first left off.

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Shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2008.

Part historical narrative, part travelogue through the wilds of the West and part environmental polemic, Selling Your Fathers Bones is a thrilling journey through the history and wilderness of the stunning area of landscape that is Continental USA.

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Semitic words and names appear in unprecedented numbers in texts of the New Kingdom, the period when the Egyptian empire extended into Syria-Palestine. In his book, James Hoch provides a comprehensive account of these words--their likely origins, their contexts, and their implications for the study of Egyptian and Semitic linguistics and Late-Bronz

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By the beginning of the Civil War, Massachusetts Senator Henry Wilson had established himself as one of the leaders of the Republican party. Together with Abraham Lincoln and Henry B. Stanton, Wilson ranks as one of the three most important civilian figures that contributed to...

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Since the regime of Slobodan Milosevic was spectacularly overthrown on 5 October 2000, little has been written about subsequent political developments in Serbia. This title offers insights into and an understanding of this troubled country.

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"Servants of Diplomacy offers a bottom-up history of the 19th-century Foreign Office and in doing so, provides a ground-breaking study of modern British diplomacy. Whilst current literature focuses on the higher echelons of the Office, Keith Hamilton sheds a new light on the administrative and social history of Whitehall which have, until now, been largely ignored"--

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The first book to examine the proposition that Irish public servants in India were moved by their 'Irishness' to subvert or eccentrically implement policies of the Raj. Essential reading for those wishing to understand the three-way interaction between the Irish, the empire and the peoples of India. -- .

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Explores the role of both mules and mule drivers to the British war effort and in particular the social and economic aspects of the Cypriot contribution to the Great War. It also questions why Cypriots forgot this extraordinary contribution. -- .

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This study examines how slaves in antebellum Virginia, through physical confrontations with whites, fought to reassert some measure of control over their day-today lives. The author analyzes how while this violence came at a high cost, it also ensured the preservation of their humanity and set limits on their enslavement.