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A unique compilation of diverse sources, many in English translation for the first time, this book documents the Mexican Revolution, explains its popular and agrarian nature, and helps to clarify its often perplexing conflicts, alliances, and issues.

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Key decisions and events of the Pacific War are explored in this work by juxtaposing Allied and Japanese accounts, giving voice to both sides in this epic confrontation.

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This new collection of documents helps students understand the complex texture of Russian public rhetoric and popular debate during World War I and the 1917 Revolution.

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Highlights the different perspectives and views of those in the military arena, as well as describing the impact of the war on daily life. This book begins in 1939 (with the invasion of Poland) and ends in 1945 (with Germany's surrender).

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Completeing a Stewardship describes the process of British disengagement from Malaya and Singapore during the era of Asian nationalism.

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A portrait of the Spanish Civil War from a historian of Spain.

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Examines the history behind the nation's first laws regulating the carrying of concealed deadly weapons, demonstrating the connection between these laws and efforts to suppress duelling in the southern back country.

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Tracing the rise of esotericism and its function in medieval Jewish thought, this book builds conceptual-philosophical force to culminate in a phenomenological taxonomy of esotericism and its paradoxes. It discusses about esoteric imagination.

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Conceptions of Dreaming from Homer to 1800 is an intellectual history of European theories of dreaming from Homer until the end of the eighteenth century, the period during which the dream as divine revelation was at the centre of dream theory.

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Water management is one of the most vital topics in the modern world. But appreciating how water is used now is significantly enhanced, as Georgia Irby shows, by a proper understanding of how water was employed by people in antiquity.

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A staggering number of post-World War II White House and agency records pertaining to national security are stored in repositories nationwide, but researchers often find it impossible to locate and access these records.

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Wakelyn (history, Kent State U.), the author of several books on the US Civil War, argues that leaders in the slave states disloyal to the cause of the Confederacy were not a monolithic group. The author analyzes the motivations and policies of three groups of dissenting prominent Southern politicia

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Colonel Rogers made often surprising use of eyewitness accounts by European observers of Civil War organization, unit capabilities and actions, in what is still a fresh and perceptive analysis.

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In this eloquent and shrewdly observed travelogue, a Pulitzer Prize winner ushers readers through a South where the Civil War is still being fought--where this "Lost Cause" still resonates in the memory and rituals of its denizens. Maps.

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Retired navy officer Adolfo Scilingo was the first man ever to break the Argentine military's code of silence, stunning his compatriots and the world by openly confessing his participation in the hideous practice of pushing live political dissidents out of airplanes during Argentina's dirty war.

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Challenging the subjects current interpretation, this microhistorical study traces the social and civic dynamics of the French Revolutions religious politics within five small towns.

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A study of the mass sequestration of Armenian property by the Young Turk regime during the 1915 Armenian genocide. It details the emergence of Turkish economic nationalism, offers insight into the economic ramifications of the genocidal process, and describes how the plunder was organized on the ground.

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Steven L. Burg views Yugoslav politics since 1966 in terms of the communist leadership's efforts to preserve political cohesion in the face of powerfully divisive domestic conflicts. He examines the bases of those conflicts, their suppression with the establishment of communist power, and their reemergence and escalation into crisis during the late

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