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Features over 400 assassinations, attempts, and plots against political figures. This title contains narrative entries that detail history's turbulent moments, including the date, location, and description of each incident, as well as biographical information about the victim and assassin and the circumstances surrounding each historical event.

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On the eve of World War II, a small group of Africans and West Indians in London dared to imagine the unimaginable: the end of British rule in Africa. In books, pamphlets, and periodicals, they launched an anti-colonial campaign that used publishing as a pathway to liberation. This book traces the development of this publishing community.

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Ends of Empire examines Asian American cultural production and its challenge to the dominant understanding of American imperialism, Cold War dynamics, and race and gender formation.

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New paperback edition of critically acclaimed, lively and gripping account of the British invasion and occupation of Iraq and of the Arab revolt against it, the most serious armed uprising against British rule in the twentieth century. Vividly brings to life key players such as Winston Churchill, T.E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell, Sir Mark Sykes.

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In the nineteenth century, Alfred the Great was a figure who rivalled King Arthur in the popular imagination. This book asks why Alfred was so important in Victorian Britain, examines the ways in which he was rewritten by authors and artists of the time, and investigates how Alfred is no longer a national icon. -- .

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The first comprehensive approach to enthusiasm, with each chapter looking at its religious, social, cultural, political and medical implications -- .

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A unique guide to the built heritage of Edinburgh from the time of the Scottish Enlightenment

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Translation of: Teaching rebellion: stories from the grassroots mobilization in Oaxaca.

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A modern edition and an English translation of one of the earliest and most important works in the history of geography, the third-century "Geographika of Eratosthenes". It describes the geography of the entire inhabited world as it was then known, Eratosthenes of Kyrene (ca 285-205 BC) invented the discipline of geography as we understand it.

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In the midst of vast cultural and political shifts in the early twentieth century, politicians and cultural observers variously hailed and decried the rise of the "New Negro." This phenomenon was most clearly manifest in the United States through the outpouring of Black arts and letters and social commentary known as the Harlem Renaissance.

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The histories of mysticism and the unseen merge with discussions of the technology and science of electromagnetism. This book explores how the ideas of Anton Mesmer and Isaac Newton have manifested themselves as the inspiration for occult theories and artistic practices from Edgar Allan Poe's works.

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A wide-ranging and compelling account of the interplay between social theory and social change in the Ethiopian student movement, and its enduring impact.

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Focuses on the shared roots of Islamic and Western cultures and on the richness of their inextricably intertwined histories, refuting once and for all the misguided notion of a clash of civilizations between the Muslim world and Europe. This title describes this shared history and reveals encounters between Europe and Islam.

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Europe on the move is the first book to address the dramatic and poignant refugee crisis that erupted during the First World War and that enveloped the entire continent. Written by specialists in the field it will appeal to all those who are interested in the era of the First World War and in Europe's first major refugee crisis. -- .

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This book describes how liberalization, deregulation, and privatization had catastrophic effects on former Soviet Bloc countries from the period of 1989 to the present.

(Hardback, New Edition, Replaces ISBN: 9780312450236)

Originally published: Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2008.

(Paperback, New Edition, Replaces ISBN: 9780312450236)

Originally published: Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2008.