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Re-examines war by combining a short thematic history with a concentrated study of war throughout the ages as the cause, means and consequence of change.

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Traces the military history of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Mediterranean. This book discusses the major events and important individuals in their historical and chronological context. It explains the causes behind important events, the results of various military encounters, and their significance.

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This easy-to-use reference book covers the most important people, places, events, and technologies of Roman warfare during the republic (400-31 BCE), providing a wealth of reference material and invaluable primary source documents.

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This is an inquiry into the dynamics of local and regional government in China, as illustrated by the policies of the warlord Yen Hsi-shan. The schemes Hsi-shan tried to carry out in Shansi constitute one of the last systematic attempts in China to bring about reform along conservative lines. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Lib

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Genocide has been a major killer over the last century and more. Warning Signs of Genocide: An Anthropological Perspective reveals warning signs of genocide, finding that it normally occurs when a political regime takes power by exploiting group hatreds, and later feels itself threatened and insecure.

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Military history and geography explain each other in North America as nowhere else in the world. In this book, the author explores their relationship and examines the battles fought over three centuries between Frenchman and Indian, Royalist and colonist, Union and Confederacy, and more.

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While Karl Leyser was pre-eminent in the English-speaking world as the historian of medieval Germany, his work has increased our understanding of European society as a whole.

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This study of the Plains Indians who fought against Custer's 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Big Horn describes and illustrates some of the individual Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors who fought there.

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Now in paperback: The first and only military history of the nomads who wreaked havoc on Asia and Europe for more than two millennia.

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Traces the development of modern warfare in Europe during the years 1650-1715 and the extension of those military techniques worldwide. This book describes and defines important events, technologies, and individuals from this seminal period of global military history.

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A thorough study of significant wars throughout history and their influence on world affairsfrom the Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmore III's Campaigns during 479459 BCE through the Iraq War of 20032011.

For hundreds of years, wars have played a determining role in history and have decided the rise and fall of civilizations.

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Defeated and occupied in 1939, Poland had suffered under the Nazi heel for nearly five years. Undaunted, however, the Poles formed an underground army, the Armia Krajowa (Home Army), and waited for a moment of German weakness. That moment seemed to have arrived in July 1944 as the Soviet armies began to advance into eastern Poland.

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Designed to give students a concise exploration of World War IIs transformative role in American life, the new edition of Wartime America retains the framework of the original edition with new important focus on topics such as other home fronts, the lives of veterans, coverage of WWII as the Good War, and the concept of the Greatest Generation.

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Designed to give students a concise exploration of World War IIs transformative role in American life, the new edition of Wartime America retains the framework of the original edition with new important focus on topics such as other home fronts, the lives of veterans, coverage of WWII as the Good War, and the concept of the Greatest Generation.

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World War II affected every aspect of life on the British home front. From food rationing to air-raid shelters to war work, those left at home had to make huge changes in their day-to-day lives as Britain mobilised, economised, and saved in the name of Victory. This title looks at what these changes actually meant for families.

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