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Argentina once seemed to have the requirements for greatness, including an established middle class of professionals. Its failure raises the spectre that other middle-class societies could also fail. This book presents a portrait of Argentina that emphasizes the role of a destructive nationalism and corruption that turned citizens into clients.

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Contrary to opinion expressed at the time, Argentine troops deployed to the Falklands, and which engaged the British troops sent to recapture the islands, were not 16-year-old conscripts but well-trained troops. This book looks at the arms, equipment and organization of the Argentine troops.

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A study of the daily life, concerns, and dynamics of aristocratic families in the France of the Third Republic. -- .

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A study of the daily life, concerns, and dynamics of aristocratic families in the France of the Third Republic. -- .

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Robert O. Crummey uses the methods of collective biography to provide the first modern study of the elite group that dominated Russian government and society in the seventeenth century--the members of the Boyar Duma or royal council between 1613 and 1689. This book examines their careers in governmental service, their position in networks of family

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* An extraordinary narrative of the richest and most powerful men and women in our history

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This series explores the culture and achievement of the civilizations of Greece and Rome. It is designed specifically for students and teachers of classical civilization and ancient history, and provides a collection of guides on literature, history, art, values and social institutions.

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Examines the comedies of Aristophanes from the perspective of the playwright as a political correspondent rather than a political respondent.

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Hitler, furious at the loss of the German fleet's flagship, demanded that the Ark Royal be destroyed at whatever cost.

HMS Ark Royal is one of the Royal Navy's most iconic ships.

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The only full bibliography on Arkansas, it provides an essential guide for historians and librarians wishing to bring Arkansas into the mainstream of America history.

The volume provides a guide to the growing literature on Arkansas rich prehistory and to the pre-American colonial period, which lasted some 250 years.

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During World War I a self-contained war was fought in the European colonies of East Africa, between the British, Belgians and Portuguese, against the garrison from German East Africa. In this title the weapons, tactics and logistics of this campaign are examined, along with the uniforms.

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An account of the 1915-18 campaigns in the Balkans, which involved the British, French, Russian, Italian, Serbian, Montenegrin, Greek, Rumanian, German, Austrian and Bulgarian troops. It describes and illustrates all these forces, with photographs, orders-of-battle and insignia charts.

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Most studies of medieval warfare in the late 14th and 15th centuries focus on the Hundred Years' War between England and France and the Wars of the Roses. This book depicts fighting men whose skill and tactical flexibility made Spain into a world power at the close of the Middle Ages, carving out empires from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean.

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"Armies of the Adowa Campaign 1896: The Italian Disaster in Ethiopia".

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In 1912, the Balkan states formed an alliance in an effort to break free from the crumbling Ottoman Empire. Forming an army of some 645,000 troops from Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenego, they took on a force of 400,000 Turkish soldiers. This book looks at the diverse and sometimes colourful uniforms worn by both sides.

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Contrary to popular belief, the capture of India was not accomplished by the British Army, but by the private armies of the East India Company, which grew in size to become larger than that of any European sovereign state. This book offers a history of this army, examining the many conflicts they fought, and their equipment and training.

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The dramatic and colorful story of the soldiers who fought in the First Carlist War, a Spanish civil war that took place in the 1830s.

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In the 1520s, a war broke out in Germany when insurgent groups rose to overthrow the power structure. The movement took as its emblem a peasant's shoe and the title "Bundschuh", and this became known as the Peasants' War. This work details the weapons, tactics and events of this savage war.

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The engaging story of a little-reported David and Goliath campaign between Greece and Italy that sucked in German and British troops and held up Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union.