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"[A]n illuminating narrative that shows, among much else, what happened when Yankee ingenuity met the Industrial Revolution.... Post-Civil War industrialization had an important and largely overlooked predecessor in the first decades of the 19th century. It is a story worth telling, and Mr. Morris tells it well." -The Wall Street Journal

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Lester L. Grabbe provides a comprehensive history of the main ancient Near Eastern peoples and empires, drawing on insights from archaeology, iconography and the social sciences.

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"A must read for every opponent of totalitarianism and partisan of a chastened or mature liberalism."-- The New Criterion

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Anyone interested in modern European history, the Nazi Government, the persecution of the European Jews, as well as students of the Holocaust and its many ramifications, will find The Day the Holocaust Began invaluable reading.

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It is a landmark day, along with Armistice Day in 1918, the stock market crash in 1929, and the day President John F.

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Featuring numerous photographs and the voices of key players, as well as contributions from well-known figures who were directly affected by the build up to war, Outbreak is a gripping record of an extraordinary year in British history.

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The Great Irish Famine claimed the lives of one million people, mainly from the lower classes. In recent decades, its history has become the focus of considerable scholarly and popular attention, but much remains to be retrieved and reconstructed, particularly at the level of the rural poor. This book fills that gap.

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More than 10 years after one of the most polarizing political scandals in American history, Gormley offers an insightful, balanced, and revealing analysis of the events leading up to the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton.

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A king's death was a highly dramatic moment, often with major political consequences. This is an account of what is known about the deaths of medieval kings, whether natural, violent or accidental. It shows how contemporaries and later writers, including Shakespeare, drew morals from such deaths and about the characters of individual kings.

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Investigates the regicide's pivotal role in French intellectual history and political mythology. This book examines how thinkers on the right and left repudiated regicide and terror, while articulating a compassionate, humanitarian vision, which became the moral basis for the modern French nation. It focuses on the fluidity of political myths.

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This volume in the Issues in Historiography series examines the changing scholarly debate on individuals and events in African American history from the 1890s to the present. It highlights how over time the work of scholars has reflected both advances in academic understanding and wider developments in race relations in American society.

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This book examines the development of the historiography on the African American freedom struggle from the 1890s to the present day.

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This book examines the development of the historiography on the African American freedom struggle from the 1890s to the present day.

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Who will write the History of the American Revolution asked a worried John Adams, and who will ever write it This book is an attempt to answer these questions. Examining the many histories of the American Revolution and Constitution, it looks at how the transition from amateur to professional transformed the interpretation of the Revolution.

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Who will write the History of the American Revolution asked a worried John Adams, and who will ever write it This book is an attempt to answer these questions. Examining the many histories of the American Revolution and Constitution, it looks at how the transition from amateur to professional transformed the interpretation of the Revolution.

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This is the first book-length study to chart how the dramatic events of 30 generations ago have been understood, shaped and manipulated by writers in successive periods since and to show how modern images of the crusades are as much a product of our own and intervening times as of the bloody wars of the cross themselves. -- .

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This is the first book-length study to chart how the dramatic events of 30 generations ago have been understood, shaped and manipulated by writers in successive periods since and to show how modern images of the crusades are as much a product of our own and intervening times as of the bloody wars of the cross themselves. -- .

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Looks at when, why and how Spain declined in status from its pre-eminent position as a leading world power in the seventeenth century, examining the methodologies and schools of inquiry that have shaped the discourse and how historians' perceptions have been influenced by time and circumstance. -- .

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New edition, combines a discussion of successive historical approaches to the English Reformation with a critical review of recent debates in the area -- .

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This book surveys a cross-section of historians of the Revolution from the early nineteenth century right up to the present day. From liberals to conservatives and from Marxists to revisionists, this books focuses on major figures across the numerous schools of historical thought concerned with the French Revolution. -- .

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The debate on the Norman Conquest is still ongoing. This is a guide to the interpretations of its aftermath.