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For much of the postwar era, French society had a contradictory view of passenger trains, scorning them as quaint anachronisms on the one hand, yet also fearing their economic and social impact.

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Asserting that Mussolini's expansionist, social-Darwinist mentality drove him to align Italy with Nazi Germany to challenge Britain and France for supremacy in the Mediterranean, this title challenges the prevailing notion that he sought to steer a middle course between Germany and Britain.

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The Cold War, which started in 1947, resulted from the United States' gradual discovery that the Soviets, allies during World War II, were enemies, hostile to non-Communist nations and determined to spread Communism wherever they could.

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The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600. Inspired by a lifetime of teaching and research, On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State is a classic work on what is known about the early history of the European state. This short, clear book book explores the Europ

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By lucidly revealing the common threads that connect the ancient confrontations between Athens and Sparta and between Rome and Carthage with the two calamitous world wars of the 20th century and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kagan reveals new insights into the nature of war--and peace--that are vitally important and often surprising.

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Looking at the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century people who wrote about the Andean region that became Peru, this work shows how the lens of Rome had a profound influence on Spanish understanding of the Incan empire. It focuses on issues such as the role of language in conquest, the interpretation of civil war, and the founding of cities.

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A journalist pulls a random day in history from a hat to see if he can make a worthwhile story from what happened, and the results are captured in this illuminating book.

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An explanation of how so-called Old World groups continue to dominate the world headlines and present the world with some of its most intractable conflicts. It covers nearly 150 groups, surveying these groups from the earliest period of their national histories to the dawn of the 21st century.

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After reading a book about the Wright Brothers, after learning that there were two other brothers and a sister in their immediate family, Jay Woodard decided there might be a lot of other famous people in history that had siblings. This began an eight-month research project, culminating in the completed book.

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A discussion of the feuding between Catholics, Protestants and Jews in the 17th-century French city of Metz. In a series of pointed chapters, the author shows how the French Crown benefited from the religious disagreement by using that discord to push through its centralizing political agenda.

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With Will's signature erudition and wry wit always on display, "One Man's America" chronicles a spectacular, eclectic procession of figures who have shaped the cultural landscape--from Hugh Hefner to William F. Buckley Jr.

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This is the story of the Civil War draft in the North brought about by the Enrolment Act of 1863 -- the story of bounty jumpers, bounty brokers, substitution, and commutation; of draft resistance and the kidnapping of innocent aliens; of riot, arson, and assault; and of loyal and dedicated service.

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An examination of the long-ignored vicious side to the legend of Brazilian President Getlio Dornelles Vargas, this is the tale uncovered by the first civilian to spend months in the secret police archives of Rio de Janeiro.

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A cultural and military history of the sniper since 1643, when the first shot was fired by a sniper during the battle for Litchfield in the English Civil War, to the present day.

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"For Dutton Caliber's American War Heroes series, a World War II narrative on the American liberation of Guam in 1944, focusing on the twenty days of intense combat as the Marine Corps took the island back from the Japanese"--

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Zimmerman asks. 'What difference does it make for Yugoslavia's political evolution that it exists in an international environment as well as a domestic one" Presenting a lucid analysis of the mutual influence of external and internal factors in Yugoslav politics, he pays special attention to the political significance of the one million Yugoslavs