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The Decline and Fall of the Supreme Court examines the contemporary work of the U.S. Supreme Court and the advice and consent role of the Senate with regard to nominees to the Court.

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In an attempt to discover some of the underlying origins of World War I, this title focuses on a small sector of offstage events to show how they affected the drama at large long before the war even began.

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This work presents a brief narrative of the title subject, interweaving deft evaluations of the critical points of historical thought.

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Military historians will find no sensational revelations here but, instead, previously unknown details that form a concise reconstruction of The Defeat of Che Guevara.

Recently retired from the Bolivian Army, Prado avoids partisan tones and provides an unusually balanced account of the 1967 guerrilla insurgency in Bolivia.

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Garrett Mattingly's thrilling narrative sets out the background of the sixteenth-century European intrigue and religious unrest that gave rise to one of the world's most famous maritime crusades and the naval battles that decided its fate.

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A discussion of the two-year campaign in Northern Italy (1813-14) within the larger context of the Napoleonic Wars. Outnumbered by three to one, the French commander, Eugene Beauharnais fought an outstanding campaign, covering all of Napoleon's southern front.

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This work is a richly detailed study of the nature and development of the 139 Attic demes, the local units that made up the city-state of Athens during the classical and early Hellenistic periods. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print b

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In 1989 communism crumbled in eastern Europe and with it one of the most conspicuous legacies of the Second World War. This book charts the demise of east European communism and analyses the failure of the communist experiment, the revolutionary events of 1989 and the post-communist aftermath as the legacy of both these processes.

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This book charts the demise of east European communism and analyses the failure of the communist experiment, the revolutionary events of 1989 and the post-communist aftermath as the legacy of both these processes.

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Explores various topics in American politics starting from the nation's founding. This book covers topics ranging from the role of personal character of political elites in the Early Republic, to the importance of courts in building a modern regulatory state, to the centrality of local political institutions in the late twentieth century.

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The fifth in a series which provides key documents for the constitutional history of the British Empire and Commonwealth dealing with the evolution of representative and responsible government in the four main settler colonies.

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This volume covers the first part of the 20th-century processes of decolonisation within the British Empire, concluding with the independence of Ceylon, the first of the non-European-settled colonies. An introductory section demonstrates changes in attitude to colonial rule.

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Focuses upon the activities of a group of Midland intellectuals that included the evolutionist and physician Erasmus Darwin, Rev Thomas Gisborne the evangelical philosopher and poet, Robert Bage the novelist, and Charles Sylvester the chemist and engineer.

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In 1997, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) coordinated the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production, and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction.

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This book examines the history of southern public libraries development from 18981963. It analyzes their role in institutionalizing segregation, their complex and protracted efforts to integrate these institutions, and their post-integration attempts to deal with the consequences of having practiced segregation.