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A paradigm-shifting history that charts the largely unknown territory of the unique freedoms enjoyed by colonial American subjects of the British king.

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An essential new contribution to the debate about how Marxists should understand the French Revolution

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Over the years, thousands of tales both true and fantastic have been told about the dastardly thievery of pirates, and their rum-drunk exploits and high-seas violence never fail to delight. This title includes a collection of more than 100 of the pirate yarns.

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The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience. This book provides the grassroots social, economic, and cultural history of the shtetl.

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Provides an overview of the government of the early empires of China. This work discusses topics such as: the seat of supreme authority; the structure of central government; provincial and local government; the armed forces; officials; government communications; laws of the empire; control of the people and the land; and, problems and weaknesses.

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Details the CIA's inner workings during the fifties and sixties, painting a picture of the CIA in Cuba after the Castro revolution: what it wanted and the lengths it was willing to go to paralyze the opposition to Fidel Castro.

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The Great Hunger in nineteenth-century Ireland was a major human tragedy of modern times. Acute famine also gripped the Scottish Highlands at the same time, causing misery, hardship and distress. The story of that lesser known human disaster is told in this prize-winning and internationally acclaimed book.

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Russia today has challenged Saudi Arabia for the lead in oil production and exportation. This book explains how Stalin at the end of World War II demanded his petro-geologists "dig deeper" when petro-scientists in the United States had determined that the Soviet Union, like Germany, lacked national oil reserves.

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Russia today has challenged Saudi Arabia for the lead in oil production and exportation. This book explains how Stalin at the end of World War II demanded his petro-geologists "dig deeper" when petro-scientists in the United States had determined that the Soviet Union, like Germany, lacked national oil reserves.

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In 1910 Roald Amundsen set off from Oslo toward the North Pole but soon received word that two Americans--Frederick Cook and Robert Peary--each claimed to have reached the Pole ahead of him. Devastated, Amundsen famously went south. For years Cook and Peary tried to convince the world of their claims.

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A lavish, large format hardback featuring the artwork of The Great Tapestry of Scotland, an outstanding celebration of thousands of years of Scottish history.

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Translations from multiple languages into English.

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Translations from multiple languages into English.

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This is part of a five volume set on the history of Gwent from prehistory to the end of the 20th century. This first volume spans the time from the Palaeolithic to the coming of the Normans.

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Draws on a variety of eyewitness accounts, letters, and governmental documents to examine the causes of the Haitian Revolution and the impact it had on the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.

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A "gifted writer" (Chicago Tribune) uses a long forgotten factory fire in small-town North Carolina to show how cut-rate food and labor have become the new American norm

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How control of Canadas iconic publisher, McClelland and Stewart, was transferred over to a foreign-owned corporation.

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