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This book explores the medical world of the poor and the Old Poor Law in the period 1750-1834. Encountering the sick poor in their own words and everyday situations, I offer a new and more positive view of English welfare. -- .

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Sieges played a central role in the many conflicts of the Ancient World and many famous generals, including Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Julius Caesar and Trajan, successfully used siegecraft to gain their objectives.

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The Siegfried Line campaign was one of the most frustrating and bloody series of battles fought by the US Army in Europe. This book covers the battle for Aachen and the fighting that ensued in the Hurtgen Forest. It talks about the Siegfried Line campaign that witnessed the US Army's most bitter fighting, leading the way into the heart of Germany.

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In response to expansion of the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Sikh community militarized which culminated in the foundation of the Sikh Empire on the Indian subcontinent. Here, Syan fundamentally challenges the coherent grand narratives of early Sikh history.

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In ancient Greece, the spoken word connoted power, whether in the free speech accorded to citizens or in the voice of the poet, whose song was thought to know no earthly bounds. This title provides an investigation into silence as a distinctive and meaningful phenomenon in archaic and classical Greece.

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Wallis's riveting expose of the French role in one of the darkest chapters of human history will provoke furious debate, denials, and outrage.

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Pulling together many subject areas into one, this study of the Anglo/ Indian silk trade shows the complexity of the Empire by linking usually disparate histories -- .

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Huckabee--former presidential candidate, governor, pastor, and bestselling author--returns with this inspirational collection in which he shares 12 true and heartwarming stories from his past that help recall the real meaning of Christmas.

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An original study of unmarried motherhood in Britain and Ireland from 1926-1973.

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Tells the story of the women who were left alone after World War I - a remarkable generation of women who were changed by war; and in their turn helped change society. This title is about those women, and about how they were forced, to stop depending on men for their income.

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Commander David Hall, chief engineer of the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror received a call giving him the order to 'store for war'. At first he didn't believe it. Argentine forces invaded the Falkland Isles. This title presents the battle of the South Atlantic and shows us the human drama behind the controversial, Sun headline 'Gotcha!'

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The story of the high-stakes air campaign to sink the battleship Tirpitz in her Norwegian lair, when a single bomb could end her threat to the Arctic Convoys and alter the war.

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This comprehensive examination of the role of Irish Republican women throughout the development of Sinn Fein spans a century of challenges and sustained commitment to the realization of an independent Ireland.

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In this major study - regarded as his most important work - the pioneering anthropologist, Berthold Laufer documents the cultural transfers that took place between China and Iran in ancient times.

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This study provides a comparative analysis of Chinese and Russian policies in their respective inner peripheries. The author also examines SinoRussian partnerships in the region.

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Featuring specially commissioned artwork and full-color maps, this absorbing study investigates the origins, fighting techniques, and battlefield performance of the combatants fighting on both sides during the Black Hills War of 1876-77.

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This is the third book in Professor Colin Baker's biographical studies of the last three Governors of Nyasaland. It deals with the life of Sir Glyn Smallwood Jones, 1908-1992.

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Looks at one of the most unpopular and criticised thinkers in the history of political thought, to provide an illuminating and innovative picture of Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) and patriarchalism. This thoroughly researched work will appeal to all those interested in early modern politics and ideas. -- .

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Looks at one of the most unpopular and criticised thinkers in the history of political thought, to provide an illuminating and innovative picture of Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) and patriarchalism. This thoroughly researched work will appeal to all those interested in early modern politics and ideas. -- .

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On 3 September 1939, the Prime Minister declared that Britain was at war with Nazi Germany.

Thousands of young women, many of them barely out of school, were sent headlong into gruelling training regimes that would see them become wartime nurses.

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Addresses imperial memory across various empires, different forms of commemoration and over two centuries

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Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America is part of the corpus of studies in historical memory, particularly those reflecting issues of historical memory in Hispanic societies. This collection covers a heterogeneous body of cultural products and social movements emerging in contemporary Spain and in Latin American to the present.

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Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America is part of the corpus of studies in historical memory, particularly those reflecting issues of historical memory in Hispanic societies. This collection covers a heterogeneous body of cultural products and social movements emerging in ...