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Designed to accompany the OU course "From Enlightenment to Romanticism", this anthology provides primary and secondary sources on the death of the Old Regime, the Napoleonic phenomenon, slavery, religion and reform. Introductory sections explain the context and importance of the sources.

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Designed to accompany the OU course "From Enlightenment to Romanticism", this anthology provides primary and secondary sources on changing landscapes, new forms of knowledge, conceptions of art and the artist and the exotic and Oriential. Introductory sections explain the context of the sources.

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Although Villavicencio, the capital of the Department of Meta, is located just 120 miles from Bogoto, the 19,000-foot-high eastern Andean Cordillera lies between the two cities.

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An exploration of reasons why the military has not intervened in the post-communist political arena since the advent of democracy in Russia. The author suggests that both Gorbachev and Yeltsin utilized a highly effective, yet potentially troublesome, form of civil-military control.

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Documents the transformation in how medieval Castilians thought about property and family at a time when economic innovations and an emerging mercantile sensibility were eroding the traditional relation between the two. This book identifies changes in how Castilians conceived of and acted on salvation.

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In this pioneering study, Conley examines the intersection between empire, navy, and manhood in British society from 1870 to 1918. Jack Tar to Union Jack is indispensable reading as it reminds us of the navy's long-standing influence upon British domestic and imperial culture. -- .

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Roger Lundin traces how pragmatism and its reliance on experience eclipsed nature and religion as the ultimate moral authority. He explores why Americans prize experience as highly as they do, what they build out of it in works of culture and their daily lives, how they manag...

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A collection of essays.

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Covering the very beginnings of Western civilization, this biographical dictionary introduces readers to the great cultural figures of the ancient world, including those who contributed significantly to architecture, astronomy, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, painting, sculpture, and theology.

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It is hard to write the history of the British Isles in these years as anything other than a success story.

In reality, nothing about these successes was preordained.

In the mid seventeenth century the British Isles were marginal to Europe.

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Scholars, specialists, government officials, and patriots faced vandalism, war, and the Terror to establish great national institutions accessible to the public - the Louvre and the Bibliotheque Nationale - living monuments of French patrimony. This book talks about these institutions.

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How do technological and cultural developments interact to affect consumption The "economic miracle" experienced by West Germany in the 1950s and 60s had profound effects on everyday life and gender relations. This text investigates this, acknowledging the need for research on leisure.

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Here is the first social history devoted to the common soldier in the Russian army during the first half of the 19th-century--an examination of soldiers as a social class and the army as a social institution. By providing a comprehensive view of one of the most important groups in Russian society on the eve of the great reforms of the mid-1800s, El

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