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The decades of Western adulation for the Japanese "economic miracle" failed to notice a key point - that in pursuit of this miracle, the Japanese had turned their country into a concrete shambles. This book describes the dazzling nature of Japanese culture and its ruination.

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A practical guide to digital history, which shows just how much can be done without writing any code. This book will give researchers in history or related fields the skills and confidence to approach existing digital resources and to create their own. Assuming no prior knowledge, the guide focuses on hands-on techniques for working with text.

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Using case studies and analytical overviews, this title explores the relationship between broadcasting and the intimate domestic sphere into which it is broadcast. It focuses on the period from the 1920s, when broadcasting was established in the UK, when both domesticity and broadcasting have become areas of anxiety and contestation.

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The rise and fall of the Old Dominion--the decline of Virginia and the splintering of the new republic

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This work takes a revisionist approach to US and British naval practice and war planning in the Far East during the pre-war period. Using archival evidence, it reveals information about the state of war planning in both navies which challenges the conclusions of Marder and Roskill.

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This work takes a revisionist approach to US and British naval practice and war planning in the Far East during the pre-war period. Using archival evidence, it reveals information about the state of war planning in both navies which challenges the conclusions of Marder and Roskill.

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An historical look at the Gettysburg Campaign from Fredericksburg to Gettysburg

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A study of the day-to-day law and culture of slavery. It investigates the local courtrooms of the Deep South where ordinary people settled their disputes over slaves. It also seeks to explain how communities dealt with an important dilemma raised by these trials: how could slaves who acted as moral agents be treated as commodities

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A fascinating exploration of how a simple system used to measure and record wealth spawned a cultural revolution. Prepare to have your idea of accounting changed forever.

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This collection of original historical essays sheds new light on the French colonial experience and the African reaction to it and breaks new ground by looking at both sides of the colonial equation.

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Argues that many Americans fought in World War II for a "double victory"--one against fascism abroad, the other against racism at home.

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Examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Queen Elizabeth's reign -- .

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Examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Queen Elizabeth's reign -- .

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London in the eighteenth century was the greatest city in the world, and a magnet that drew men and women from the rest of England in huge numbers. This work provides an insight into the lives of Londoners, for all of whom the demands of charity and begging were part of their everyday world.

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For the poor and destitute, London's streets offered only the barest livelihood. Yet men, women and children found a great variety of ways to eke out their existence, sweeping roads, selling matches, singing ballads and performing all sorts of menial labour.

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In 1982 Lieutenant Chris Parry sailed aboard destroyer HMS Antrim to liberate the Argentine-occupied Falkland Islands. Parry and his crew, in their Wessex helicopter, were soon launched into action rescuing an SAS party stuck on a glacier in gales that had already downed two others. This title tells his story.

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The first scientific exploration of those animals, from honeybees to gorillas, whose abilities should entitle them to legal rights as persons

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This study provides an over-all survey of colonial planning in the Third Reich. It deals with the diplomatic negotiations involving the German colonial claim and discusses the plans that existed for the creation and administration of a new German overseas empire.

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