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This study examines William Franklin Sands, the high-ranking US advisor in the Korean government during the final years of the Choson dynasty. The author argues that his efforts to institute reform and achieve Korean neutrality were scuttled by Korean, Japanese, Russian, and US officials.

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The country of the ancient Mexicans or Aztecs, as they were known, formed but a very small part of the extensive territories which make up modern Mexico. This book contains an extract from William H Prescott's major work "A History of the Conquest of Mexico".

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This book presents for the first time the collected editorials Taft produced under contract for the Philadelphia Public Ledger from November 1, 1917 through July 5, 1921. This book will be a valuable addition to any research library, and it should appeal to scholars engaged in research in Taft, and in American political history.

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This edited volume demonstrates that a virtue-centered approach to the ethical life is a consistent feature of William James's moral reasoning from the 1880s until his death in 1910. Little else, however, seems constant within James's writings on moral philosophy and the ethical life, and this lack of constancy is what keeps James's work of interest more than a century later.

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A founder of the New York Anti-Slavery Society, William Jay was one of the prolific and influential abolitionists of his day, yet Americans know little about him. Like many of his contemporaries, Jay looked at a rapidly changing America and it frightened him. This book examines his life and work in over 100 years.

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During the more than four decades that he spent in China at the end of the Qing dynasty, William Nelson Lovatt participated in four wars, served in its maritime customs service, and experienced treaty port society. This book provides a rare new insider look at China at the end of the nineteenth century.

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A revealing account of the family life and achievements of the Third Earl of Rosse, a hereditary peer and resident landlord at Birr Castle, County Offaly, in nineteenth-century Ireland, before, during and after the devastating famine of the 1840s -- .

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A revealing account of the family life and achievements of the Third Earl of Rosse, a hereditary peer and resident landlord at Birr Castle, County Offaly, in nineteenth-century Ireland, before, during and after the devastating famine of the 1840s -- .

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Chapters include a survey of manuscript sources, coverage of relevant newspaper articles, historiographical materials, and an extensive compendium of historical and biographical works on Pitt, his achievements, and his place in history.

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At the beginning of the 1650s, England was in ruins wrecked, impoverished, grief-stricken by plague and civil war. What started out as a heaven was soon to become one of the cruellest places on earth.

The history of Willoughbyland is a microcosm of empire, its heady attractions and fatal dangers.

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This first volume of a biography that covers the years 1902-1912, which include Wilson's presidency of Princeton, his governorship of New Jersey, and his election to the Presidency. It seeks to get at the reasons behind his actions in this critical period. Originally published in 1947. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand

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No matter how far separated by time or distance we are from our earliest ancestors, we are curious to understand the mystery of our own origins and the time when people created stories against the cold during the last Ice Age.

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Provides important clues to the need to protect and maintain windmills, the continued survival of which allows an insight into the historic use of renewable energy, the development of engineering, and the processing of grain, for flour and bread, as well as other essential products.

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After Italy's surrender to the Allies in September 1943, German naval forces took control of the entire Aegean, and the resulting guerrilla war in the narrow seas and littoral waters would continue to rage until the general peace.

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From Vietnam to the Gulf War - the astonishing true stories of America's elite fighter pilots.

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European security expert Ivo H. Daalder and military specialist Michael O'Hanlon explore the causes, conduct, and consequences of the Kosovo conflict.