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An exploration of the development of English sport during the eight centuries preceding the industrial era. Focusing on outdoor activities that involved intergroup competition among adults, Henricks argues that sport was a sophisticated and "rational" experience, connected to society in many ways.

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An adventurer and charlatan A clever rogue Or perspicacious politician, founder of the modern British Conservative party These different characteristics have all had their supporters: Disraeli rarely experienced indifference from his contemporaries.

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This book reviews Benjamin Disraeli's political career in the context of Victorian politics. It also explores Disraeli 'the man' and his motivations and ambitions.

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Against the backdrop of one of the great transformations of the century, the sudden and unexpected fall of communism as a ruling system, this work recounts the history and demise of East Germany. It explains the causes for the disintegration of German communism as it constructs the complex history of the GDR.

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Having had his interest in the construction of the railway from Germany to Turkey piqued by an old photograph, US historian McMurray followed the footnotes back to primary documents in Germany. Then he sought out private papers of people involved. Challenging the convention view of the Baghdad Railw

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Documents for the first time a representative sample of Irish immigrant families and uses the techniques of family and digital history to explore their long-term fate. -- .

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An examination of the effects of the changes in Europe, this collection of essays considers the problems and prospects of development from a historical perspective by examining the major Balkan states - Yugoslavia, Romania, Greece and Bulgaria.

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This race for colonies went hand in hand with a host of thrilling exploits and dramatic conflicts, of which Stanley's exploration of the Congo and Gordon's death in Khartoum are just two examples.

The partition of Africa was one of the most spectacular episodes in modern history.

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This race for colonies went hand in hand with a host of thrilling exploits and dramatic conflicts, of which Stanley's exploration of the Congo and Gordon's death in Khartoum are just two examples.

The partition of Africa was one of the most spectacular episodes in modern history.

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A study of how class and race have intersected in American society - above all, in the 'making' and remaking of the American working class in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book examines how European immigrants became American and 'white' in the crucible of the industrial workplace and the ethnic and working-class neighbourhood.

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America's most brilliant young Civil War historian offers a radical new way of understanding the South's defeat: that the Confederacy was defeated by self-inflicted wounds.

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This volume explores the ideas, institutions, and experiences that shaped Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist charity in early modern Europe.

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Explores the filmed performances of Palestinians and Mizrahim who relate their lived experiences of oppression and pain in Israel/Palestine in documentaries from the first decade of the 2000s.

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These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical questionthat has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent,and by what means, does a society's technology determine itspolitical, social, economic, and cultural forms

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In the tradition of Band of Brothers, the heroic and never-before-told story of a U.S. Ranger company, from D-Day to VE Day.

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This book reveals the varied and often eccentric lives of the Victorians who helped define dogs as we know them today.

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