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Starting with the late Roman families the first five chapters explore the roles of family members defined by tradition and law, what constituted a legal marriage and a family, to whom the children belonged, and who was included in the extended family.

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On a Liverpool railway platform a mother hands over her eight-year-old illegitimate son for adoption... A vicar brings to his bank vault a diary - sewed up in calico, wrapped in parchment - that chronicles his longing for other men... This book explores the extraordinary choices British families made in the past to protect their good name.

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The first book to explore mythical beasts in history and how these fantastical creatures are transformed in modern legends and folklore.

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Described as a masterpiece by critics, this remarkable book tells the story of war through the lives and deaths of a single family. Absolutely unforgettable new writing.

If you loved The English Patient or Rohinton Mistrys Fine Balance or Katherine Boos Behind the Beautiful Forevers, you will love this book.

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This is a definitive overview of fashion in the 1970s, featuring platform heels, hotpants, punks, and New Romantics.

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From the etiquette of courtly dress to the evolution of the Elizabethan ruff, this title explores the sartorial world of the late-16th century, why people wore the clothes they did, and how the dizzyingly eclectic range of fashions (including ruffs, rebatos and French farthingales) transformed over time.

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Fashioning Italian youth examines representations of Italian young peoples style trends and bodily practices in teen magazines, Musicarelli films and TV programmes. It explores changes in the media construction of young peoples generational, national and gender identity, and contextualises them in the history of 19601970s Italian society.

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The estimated annual health care cost of obesity-related illness in the United States is $190 billion, with countless more costs in lost mobility, vigor, and life-years. Here, Jonathan Engel reviews the sources of the problem as they have developed over the past 70 years and offers a realistic plan for helping address obesity.

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De Gaulle called it a 'fatal avenue' - that broad sweep of low-lying country stretching north-east of Paris. Over the centuries, invading armies have swept back and forth over this bloody terrain, and the names of battles fought here read like a dictionary of military history - from Agincourt, Calais and Crcy to Verdun, Vimy and Ypres.

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In 1610, the English mariner Henry Hudson set off on a journey to find the Northwest Passage, the water route that Europeans hoped would speed the time of travel to East Asia. But Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage did not go well. This book tells the full story of Hudson and the other 23 men who set sail from London in April 1610.

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Faust's Metropolis follows the history of Berlin: from the revolutionary fervours of its slums, the pomp of imperial Berlin, and the modernism of Weimar to the brutality of the Nazis and the defeat of communism as the Wall came down.

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The death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on April 12, 1945 sent shock waves throughout the US and the entire world. This title focuses on the breakdown of Roosevelt's health at the end of his life, revealing evidence that the president was more seriously ill for a longer time before his death that has been previously acknowledged.

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In the spring of 1916 the deployment of the RFC's FE 2, helped wrest aerial dominance from Imperial Germany's Fokker Eindecker monoplanes, and then contributed to retaining it throughout the Somme battles of that fateful summer. This book deals with this topic.

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Poland suffered an exceedingly brutal Nazi occupation during the Second World War - close to five million Poles were killed. This book attempts to answer the question: How was anti-Semitism possible in Poland after the war It argues that postwar Polish anti-Semitism cannot be understood simply as a continuation of prewar attitudes.

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By examining the popular and vernacular discourse of stress, the book traces the ways in which stress became a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the twentieth century in Britain. -- .

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A new edition of Jill Liddingtons classic work on Anne Lister's extraordinary diaries, which inspired Gentleman Jack

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Through a study of the British Empire's largest women's patriotic organization, formed in 1900, this book examines the relationship between female imperialism and national identity. It sheds light on women's involvement in imperialism, and on the history of 'conservative' women's organizations. -- .

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This book is about the most sweeping reform in the history of the French monarchy: the creation of assemblies at all levels of administration. The resistance of lords and office holders exposed their hereditary power over commoners, who sought to throw off their subordination when the crisis of the monarchy offered the opportunity in 1789.

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The CR 32 Falco was a handsome and highly manoeuvrable biplane fighter. By the war's end, the five leading aces of the conflict were all Spanish CR 32 pilots. This title examines their exploits, and those of the other leading CR 32 aces.