A comprehensive encyclopedia tracing the history of the women's rights movement in the United States from the American Revolution to the present day.

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Through analysis of garden design at Pavlovsk Park, this book articulates the previously overlooked impact Empress Maria Fedorovna had on 19th-century Russian politics.

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Offers an illustrated journey through the history and contributions of Africa's lost civilizations, from the ancient pyramids of Nubia to the ruins of Ethiopia's Christian kingdom to the great library and university of Timbuktu.

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A guide to World War I. From disaster to victory, it captivates readers and gives an insight into life in the muddy trenches, and what it was like to be a soldier, along with a broader picture of the world-changing events that led to the start of the conflict.

Designed with the more visual needs of today's student in mind, this encyclopedia covers the entire scope of World War II, from its earliest roots to its continuing impact on global politics and human society. With over 1,000 illustrations, maps, and primary source materials.

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Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc explores the impact of Western popular culture on young people in Russia and Eastern Europe during the Cold War.

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This book describes and examines the first phase of the 'bush war' during which the Rhodesian forces honed their individual and joint skills, emerging as a formidable albeit lean fighting force.

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In 1835 a renegade group of Tasmanians wishing to expand their landholdings disembarked in what was to become Melbourne. This colonising expedition was funded by a group of investors including the Jewish convict Joseph Solomon. Thus, in Melbourne, as in the settlement of the continent itself, Jews were at the foundation of colonisation.

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Explores the colourful debates and anxieties that were prevalent from the 1890s to the 1930s and the responses of the key women's organisations whose leadership and campaigns acknowledged that - outside of parliament and party politics - women's connection to political matters could be both innovative and socially influential.

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How has a student debating society at Cambridge University thrived for nearly two centuries, and commanded such attention from the outside world

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A new edition of the account of the race to build humankind's most destructive weapon. This book draws on declassified material, such as MI6's FarmHall transcripts, coded Soviet messages cracked by American cryptographers in the Venona project, and interpretations by Russian scholars of documents from the Soviet archives.

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Before becoming the prime ministers who led Australia in moments of extraordinary crisis and transformation, John Curtin and James Scullin were two young working-class men who dreamt of changing their country for the better. Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin tells the tale of their intertwined early lives.

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Richard Milton exposes the secrets of a relationship steeped in mutual admiration, blood and propaganda.

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In this vital and illuminating book, Peter Cochrane examines how the racial preoccupations that shaped Australia's preparation for and commitment to the war have been lost to popular memory.

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Recovers the conflicted politics around Aboriginal affairs in the first decades of the twentieth century - asking why there was such investment in Aboriginal affairs in the first half of the twentieth century, what form it took, what was at stake, and what the outcomes were.

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The Monuments Men meets The Great Escape in this cinematic, rip-roaring WWII breakout history thriller featuring larger-than-life characters.

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A memoir of ancestry and upbringing in the Georgia low country with historical essays, images and maps

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A brilliant new history of the city, told through the lens of its popes.

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Travel writer Julia Cooke's exhilarating portrait of Pan Am stewardesses in the Mad Men era.

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Travel writer Julia Cooke's exhilarating portrait of Pan Am stewardesses in the Mad Men era.

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The extraordinary story of a slave-girl who rose from concubine to become the Ottoman Empire's only queen.