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The essays are grouped around three major research areas: history and the social sciences, history and biography, and the new labor history.

This is a unique collection of essays by some of the world's leading historians of the South, together with work by younger scholars.

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Presents a social and economic study of the origins, apogee, and decline of coffee in the Parahyba Valley of South Central Brazil. This book shows how abolition, erosion, and bankruptcy transformed virgin forest into a wasteland of eroded hillsides and abandoned towns, of disillusioned planters and poverty-stricken black freedmen.

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Due to the spate of anniversaries of such events as the Holocaust, the topic of memory has shot to prominence in the 1990s. This text uses the concept of "vectors" of memory to designate the conduits of that memorial activity, and examines a range of vectors that have focused public attention.

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Due to the spate of anniversaries of such events as the Holocaust, the topic of memory has shot to prominence in the 1990s. This text uses the concept of "vectors" of memory to designate the conduits of that memorial activity, and examines a range of vectors that have focused public attention.

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In comprehensive detail Margaret King analyzes the activities of the patricians who were predominant in the ranks of the humanists and who made humanist thought a powerful tool in the service of their class and of the city itself. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make a

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This comprehensive overview of Venezuelan history, culture, and politics is designed to ground the high school student's knowledge of the crucial role of the nation on the international scene.

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Presents a radically new view of the role of science and scientific methodology in the colonies. It explores the role of snakes, snakebite and snake venom in the emerging science of nineteenth-century Australia and India, the neglected significance of inter-colony exchanges and conflicts and the importance of vivisection to science. -- .

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Fighting insurgents has always been one of the greatest challenges for regular armed forces during the 20th century. The war between the Germans and the French resistance, also called FFI, during World War II has remained a near-forgotten chapter in the history of these 'Small Wars'. This title includes a discussion about this battle.

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An account of the 1916 Battle of Verdun, the bloodiest battle between the French and German forces during World War I. It explores the origins of the battle, the German and the French armies, their plans, and the battle and its aftermath, and takes a look at the battlefield today.

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Tells the story of the brave men of the Tokyo Club and their efforts to defeat the aerial forces defending Japan.

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Based largely on Civil War veterans' own words, this book documents how many of these men survived the extraordinary horrors and hardships of war with surprising resilience and went on to become productive members of their communities in their post-war lives.

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Bringing together key international scholars, this book offers insight into the critical period of modern France. It shifts the focus away from political history to reflect the interest in socio-cultural aspects of the Second World War and breaks down traditional chronological barriers.

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Details one of the most decisive campaigns of the American Civil War, Grant's capture of Vicksburg, the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi.

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This book examines the Vicksburg campaign-a critical turning point during the American Civil War-from the perspective of Texans and the rest of the Trans-Mississippi Confederacy.