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Australian history is full of disasters and colossal debacles. Some are natural but many more are man-made, results of individual or collective stupidity, poor choices, short-sightedness or outright greed. This title nominates the disasters that have been instrumental in creating the Australia.

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In Discourses on American Musical Theater between So Paulo and New York: Theatrical Flows at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century, Bernardo Fonseca Machado examines cultural exchange between musical theater production in the US and Brazil.

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This book investigates the way in which British widows of servicemen who died in the First World War were represented in society and explores the intertwining discourses of social welfare, national identity, and morality that can be identified in these texts.

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This book investigates the way in which British widows of servicemen who died in the First World War were represented in society and explores the intertwining discourses of social welfare, national identity, and morality that can be identified in these texts.

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Presents a study of the history of Poland and its political development during the eighteenth century. The author considers how the republican ideals and the political culture of its ruling class and nobility remain part of the historical legacy not only of what is today Poland, but also of the successor states: Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus.

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First detailed study of the history of Poland and its political development during the eighteenth century.

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Explores the ways in which Palestinians negotiate physical and symbolic erasures by producing their own archives and historical narratives

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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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The book tells a regional and international history of the Australian suffrage campaigns between 1880-1914, uncovering the networks of suffragists built to win the vote and sell its merits abroad. Situated at the nexus of feminist and imperial history, it examines the limits of cross border connection in turn-of-the-century social reform movements.

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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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An examination of a great sea fight, Battle of Jutland. This work is a retelling of the battle that reveals its long-term consequences set in motion by the decisions both the Germans and the British made as a result of each fleet's experience at Jutland.

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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. -- .