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Based on official unit war diaries, as well as personal papers and memoirs of numerous officers, this title sheds new light on the retreat from Mons in August 1914; the advance to the River Aisne in September; and the climactic First Battle of Ypres in October and November.

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Duellists, drunks and remorseful murderers populate Trials of the self, which highlights the criminal court as a space for publicising and negotiating models of the self. Using criminal trial records, the book argues that inner depth became increasingly important around 1800, not only for elites, but also for common people.

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The federated Iroquois tribes were essential to the British during their various colonial campaigns in eastern North America. This work looks at the material culture, social organization and religion of these people and tells the story of the many frontier campaigns they fought.

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Provides a study of the origins, development and history of the Sioux culture and peoples, covering all seven of their divisions, in peacetime and at war.

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For 1,400 years, France has been in contact with Islam and Muslim populations. Other Western countries can learn a great deal from France's long and varied experiences.

Watson addresses the origins of Franco-Muslim contact and details early cases of French expansion into the Islamic world.

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This volume aims to show how the U.S. government assumed a leadership position in world affairs and introduced innovative policies to ensure the maintenance of world peace between 1921 and 1933. It also details why these innovations failed to halt the world's drift into another global war.

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Selected as one of the six best nonfiction books of 1990 by the editors f the New York Times Book Review , this is a compelling and entertaining account of the author's two-and-a-half year adventure in Equatorial Guinea, and his efforts to get this small bankrupt African nation on the path of structural development.

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In the sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Been in the Storm So Long, the author traces the often excruciating lives of newly freed slaves in the South after the Civil War, when lynch mobs roamed the land. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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Once a backwater, the Timor Sea is now the most militarised and fiercely guarded of any region in Australian territory. A social, political and cultural history with a particularly strong chapter on people smuggling and the Tampa. Joint winner of the 2003 Australian Vogel Literary Award.

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Was there ever really a black-Jewish alliance in twentieth-century America And if there was, what happened to it This book answers these questions, drawing a portrait of what was less an alliance than a tumultuous political engagement - but one that energized the civil rights revolution, and affected the course of American politics as a whole.

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In all the stories told by mankind, the tale of the siege of Troy is perhaps the greatest secular story ever told. This book reveals the literary, historical and archaeological records which make up the background to the tale of Troy and describes in detail its fortifications.

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Up to 500,000 Union soldiers, or one fourth of the Union army, had been born in Europe.

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A general history of the critical first year of the Korean War, this study deals primarily with relations between General Douglas MacArthur and President Harry S.

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The author analyzes the role of the mass media, public opinion and the Zionists in the evolution of America's Palestine policy during the Truman administration. He takes issue with recent revisionist historians who argue that Truman had little difficulty manipulating public opinion.

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