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A collection of anecdotes and stories which chart the lesser-known history of the hunt for oil in the Middle East. It tells the stories of the explorers, spies and entrepreneurs who led the hunt for oil in the Middle East from the 1880s to the outbreak of the Second World War.

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(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Talks about notions of what it is - or perhaps was - to be "English". Such notions are highly relevant as Britain's involvement in the so-called war against terrorism promotes questions about what it means to be "British" in a multi-cultural, multi-faith society.

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This book provides a unique look at the early years of European discovery and colonization, analyzing the impact of this period on the historical development of both the New and Old Worlds.

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Dennis Gilbert provides a systematic comparative history of the rise and ultimate demise of the oligarchies that dominated Latin America for nearly a century. Focusing on five key countries, he tells the compelling story of the sugar planters, coffee growers, cattle barons, miners, and bankers who grew rich in a rapidly expanding global economy.

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Dennis Gilbert provides a systematic comparative history of the rise and ultimate demise of the oligarchies that dominated Latin America for nearly a century. Focusing on five key countries, he tells the compelling story of the sugar planters, coffee growers, cattle barons, miners, and bankers who grew rich in a rapidly expanding global economy.

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This study examines the Soviet bureaucracy responsible for overseeing Olympic sport during the Cold War. It analyzes how sport administrators used political savvy and professional pragmatism alongside ideological drive to expand participation, maximize chances of success, and achieve Soviet political and diplomatic aims.

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This study examines the Soviet bureaucracy responsible for overseeing Olympic sport during the Cold War. It analyzes how sport administrators used political savvy and professional pragmatism alongside ideological drive to expand participation, maximize chances of success, and achieve Soviet political and diplomatic aims.

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This unique encyclopedia enables students to understand the myriad ways that the Columbian Exchange shaped the modern world, covering every major living organism from pathogens and plants to insects and mammals.

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(Hardback)

The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) found Japan guilty of deliberately promoting drug abuse as a weapon to further its imperialistic aims in Asia.

(Paperback, Fourth Edition)

The Oral History Manual, 4th edition, is a comprehensive and user-friendly book designed to take novice or experienced oral historians through the entire life cycle of an oral history project, from idea through planning, interviewing, caring for, and making oral history interviews accessible.

(Hardback, Fourth Edition)

The Oral History Manual, 4th edition, is a comprehensive and user-friendly book designed to take novice or experienced oral historians through the entire life cycle of an oral history project, from idea through planning, interviewing, caring for, and making oral history interviews accessible.

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During the twelve years from 1933 until 1945, the concentration camp operated as a terror society. In this book, the German sociologist Wolfgang Sofsky looks at the concentration camp from the inside as a laboratory of cruelty and a system of absolute power built on extreme violence, "terror labor" and the extermination of human beings.

(Hardback, 2nd Revised edition)

This is a complete update and revision of Stoetzer's classic reference work on the Organization of American States (OAS), first published by Praeger in 1965.

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This volume of papers delivered to The Royal Society in February of 1992 explores the debate over the "single center" hypothesis of human origins versus "multi-regional evolution." Over the last five years there has been growing support for a recent "Out of Africa" origin of modern humans--based on fresh interpretations of the palaeoanthropological

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"First published in Great Britain 2016"--Title page verso.

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Based on over 120 hours of uncovered video and audio tape, this title tells the story of the birth of the SAS in the words of its founding members. It covers the regiment's formation in 1941 to its supposed disbanding in 1945. It is also a very human story of a gang of misfits coming together to create a unit like no other.

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