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By: James Crossland

ISBN: 9781526178190
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The rise of devils chronicles the emergence of terrorism in the late nineteenth century. This era simmered with political rage and social inequalities, which drove nationalists, nihilists, anarchists and republicans to extreme measures, while an outrage-hungry press peddled hysteria, conspiracy theories and, sometimes, fake news in response.


(Hardback)

By: Yudru Tsomu

ISBN: 9780739177921
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book presents a case study of the ascendancy of Gnpo Namgyel, a minor Tibetan chieftain in Kham who had a great impact on Sino-Tibetan relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.


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By: Abd Al-Aziz Duri

ISBN: 9780691612973
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This is the first translation of a classic work (Bahth fi nnsh' at 'ilm al ta' rikh 'inda l-'Arab) by the eminent Arab historian A. A. Duri. Published in Beirut in 1960, Duri's book was the first comprehensive effort to trace the origins and early development of Arab historical writing, and to resolve some extremely complex and still debated questi


(Hardback)

By: Abd Al-Aziz Duri

ISBN: 9780691640877
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Valerie Irene Jane Flint

ISBN: 9780691001104
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 1994
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Focuses on magic in early medieval Europe. This title shows how many of the more discerning leaders of the early medieval Church decided to promote non-Christian practices originally condemned as magical - rather than repressing them or leaving them to waste away or 'growl'.


(Paperback)

By: Plutarch

ISBN: 9780140449754
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 30th May 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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As well as providing an illuminating picture of the first century AD, the author depicts complex and nuanced heroes who display the essential virtues of Greek civilization - courage, patriotism, justice, intelligence and reason - that contributed to the rise of Rome.


(Paperback, Revised edition)

By: John B. Dunlop

ISBN: 9780691001739
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 1995
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This is the first work to set one of the great bloodless revolutions of the twentieth century in its proper historical context. John Dunlop pays particular attention to Yeltsin's role in opposing the covert resurgence of Communist interests in post-coup Russia, and faces the possibility that new institutions may not survive long enough to sink roots in a traditionally undemocratic culture.


(Hardback)

By: Bret Hinsch

ISBN: 9781442251786
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This distinctive and enlightening book explores development of tea drinking in China, using tea culture to explore the profound question of how Chinese have traditionally expressed individuality. By linking tea to individualism, Bret Hinsch's deeply researched book makes an original and influential contribution to the history of Chinese culture.


(Paperback)

By: Bret Hinsch

ISBN: 9781538117811
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This distinctive and enlightening book explores the development of tea drinking in China, using tea culture to explore the profound question of how Chinese have traditionally expressed individuality. By linking tea to individualism, Hinschs deeply researched book makes an original and influential contribution to the history of Chinese culture.


(Hardback)

By: Peter Zavodnyik

ISBN: 9780313392931
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This challenging book explores the debates over the scope of the enumerated powers of Congress and the Fourteenth Amendment that accompanied the expansion of federal authority during the period between the beginning of the Civil War and the inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.


(Hardback)

By: Jana K. Schulman

ISBN: 9780313308178
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Beginning in 500 with the fusion of classical, Christian, and Germanic cultures and ending in 1300 with a Europe united by a desire for growth, knowledge, and change, this volume provides basic information on the significant cultural figures of the Middle Ages.


(Paperback, 2nd edition)

By: Conan Fischer

ISBN: 9780719060670
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2002
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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In this study of the growth of the Nazi Party, Fischer examines both long standing assumptions and newly released works in order to provide a new take on the subject.


(Hardback, 2nd edition)

By: Professor Jonathan Daly

ISBN: 9781350066120
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback, 2nd edition)

By: Professor Jonathan Daly

ISBN: 9781350066137
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Terje Tvedt

ISBN: 9781784536275
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: George G. Kundahl

ISBN: 9781350181816
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A thorough history of WWII in southeastern France, featuring previously unseen sources and photographs.


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By: Frank McLynn

ISBN: 9781844135240
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The contrast with Britains European neighbours, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Russia, is dramatic all have been convulsed by external warfare, revolution and civil war and experienced fundamental change to their ruling elites or social and economic structures.


(Hardback)

By: Walter Sablinsky

ISBN: 9780691638768
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)

By: Walter Sablinsky

ISBN: 9780691610689
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)

Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1976
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Pablo de Orellana

ISBN: 9780755637126
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Pablo de Orellana

ISBN: 9781784538972
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Vietnam War lasted twenty years and resulted in the deaths of over 58,000 American soldiers, with many more Vietnamese victims.


(Hardback)

By: David W. Gutzke

ISBN: 9781474294508
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: David W. Gutzke

ISBN: 9781350090040
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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