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The book provides an overview of the history of the Philippines from the period of Spanish colonial domination to the present and analyzes the twenty-year Marcos record and the causes of the downfall of the Marcos regime. The essays will greatly aid the general reader in understanding the Philippine-American relationship. Originally published in 1

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Offers a historical synthesis of politics and humanism at that momentous juncture when Italy passed from medievalism to the thought of the Renaissance.

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In this unique historical record, Henry Kissinger reveals what goes on behind the scenes at the highest levels in a diplomatic crisis.

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The 'Companion' reflects the impact on the study of the Revolution made by the collapse of the USSR; access to the archives; current concern with the analysis of language, discourse and identity; and the new opportunities for collaboration between Russian and non-Russian specialists drawn from across the world.

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Fashioning a working political structure in Israel that will bring together all aspects of society, from Jews to Arabs, ultra-Orthodox to assertively secular, has never been easy.

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A critical black history is itself, Wright contends, a device to evaluate American history in a critical manner, to get into the subject more deeply, and to adduce deeper knowledge and truths about it.

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This book offers a teleological explanation for the under-development of health services in India by knitting together various actors and sub-actors within it, while providing rich insights for future research in global public health.

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Collection of essays examining some of the crucial sectional issues between the North and South in the pre-Civil War era as well as exploring the economic history of that period.

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"During World War II, Croatia became a fascist state under the control of the Croatian Fascist Party - allied with the Nazi Party in Germany. Here, Goran Miljan examines and analyzes for the first time the ideology, practices and international connections of the Ustasha Youth organization"--

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For most of World War II, British tank development remained faithful to the design philosophy inaugurated during World War I.

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Less than three years after Oliver Cromwell's magnificent funeral in 1658 his corpse was removed from Westminster Abbey and 'executed' at Tyburn. This gruesome ceremony launched Cromwell's head on three centuries of extraordinary adventures. This work tells the story of the head's remarkable journey.

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This is a study of the rule of Cromwell's major-generals over England and Wales during the 1655 and 1656, a period which had a dramatic impact upon contemporaries and has remained a powerful symbol of military rule down to the 21st century.

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Crossing Boundaries: Ethnicity, Race, and National Belonging in a Transnational World, edited by Brian D. Behnken and Simon Wendt, explores ethnic and racial nationalism within a transnational and transcultural framework in the long twentieth-century (late nineteenth to early twenty-first century).

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Through the lens of the decolonial school of thought developed by Latin American thinkers and scholars, this book focuses on the identification and analysis of the subalterns' praxis of living, thinking, knowing, and doing. By delinking from coloniality of power, the book expo...

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US involvement in Central America during the 1980s clearly demonstrated the costs, risks, and limits to intervention and the use of force in internal conflicts. This title provides a contribution to irregular warfare theory through an examination of the origins, strategic dynamics, and termination of the Sandinista insurrection in Nicaragua.

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This collection of essays offers a radical re-evaluation of the nature of crowds and popular protest in the early modern period -- .

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The history of Sydney's pioneering maternity hospital is also a history of medical care for women in Australia, from the days of untrained midwives to alternative birthing units.

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Explores the multiple connections between European monarchs and their overseas colonies

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The most mobile army in the world in 1940, the German Army was the least mobile by 1944, and Hitler's stand fast and fortified place policies imposed a paralysis that neither senior German generals nor the High Command of the Army were able to overcome.

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This wide-ranging study of medieval Europe's response to the challenge of Islam examines the relationship between ideas of crusade and mission, between European projects for military conquest and those for the conversion of Muslims to Christianity. Covering the years from the emergence of Islam to the fourteenth century, Benjamin Z. Kedar discusses