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It is hard to write the history of the British Isles in these years as anything other than a success story.

In reality, nothing about these successes was preordained.

In the mid seventeenth century the British Isles were marginal to Europe.

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How do technological and cultural developments interact to affect consumption The "economic miracle" experienced by West Germany in the 1950s and 60s had profound effects on everyday life and gender relations. This text investigates this, acknowledging the need for research on leisure.

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Here is the first social history devoted to the common soldier in the Russian army during the first half of the 19th-century--an examination of soldiers as a social class and the army as a social institution. By providing a comprehensive view of one of the most important groups in Russian society on the eve of the great reforms of the mid-1800s, El

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Although he concentrates on the wars and military systems of western Europe, Baumgartner devotes considerable attention to those societies that had a significant impact on European warfare. Baumgartner is more concerned with illuminating the close relationship between social and economic change and military change throughout history.

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From Subject to Citizen offers an original account of the Second Empire (1852-1870) as a turning point in modern French political culture: a period in which thinkers of all political persuasions combined forces to create the participatory democracy alive in France today. Here Sudhir Hazareesingh probes beyond well-known features of the Second Empir

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George Rawick's From Sundown to Sunup is by far the most successful recent book about slave culture. . . . As impressive as Rawick's analysis of slave life is his interpretation of American racism. Eric Foner, University Review

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These essays by nine distinguished historians deal with prominent personalities in German history over the last two centuries;

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This text aims to provide a comprehensive history of women in the Virgin Islands and to analyze how the colonial relationship has shaped and continues to influence women's public and private lives. Women's lives are examined from the earliest days of the colony's settlement.

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This work provides a detailed history of the Western armies in the liberation of Europe. From the D-Day landings to the German surrender, it aims to explain why events panned out the way they did.

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From the Outside In examines the profound impact of World War II on American government. The book argues that the wartime and immediate postwar experiences of the 1940s transformed and redirected the policies and government institutions of the New Deal. In a work that makes significant contributions to the study of U.S. politics and history, Bartho

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"A sweeping and lively history of one of the most dramatic stories never told--of the greatest railroad war of all time, fought by the daring leaders of the Santa Fe and the Rio Grande to seize, control, and create the American West"--

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In the last half century, ways of thinking about the Holocaust have changed somewhat dramatically. In their personal stories they confront the questions that the Holocaust has raised for them and explore how these questions have been evolving.

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In the last half century, ways of thinking about the Holocaust have changed somewhat dramatically. In their personal stories they confront the questions that the Holocaust has raised for them and explore how these questions have been evolving.

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From 1984 to 1991, Israel conducted a series of dramatic rescues, bringing thousands of Ethiopian Jews to the state of Israel.