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Presents a history of the origins of the Cold War, a conflict that marked the course of global politics for more than forty years. This book explains the series of tragic events that led to Europe's division after World War II. It also presents an analysis of the United States' strategic response, the birth of the Marshall Plan, and more.

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For Honour. For Courage. For Remembrance.The Battle of Fromelles in France during the First World War was Australia's worst 24 hours. Thousands of men were shot down amid the horror of that blundered attack.

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This volume introduces two very early, unique and hitherto largely unknown contributions to the making of modern economic knowledge, commonly known as the 'Mandeville Paradox' and 'mercantilism / industrial policy / mission oriented policy' for the first time in English.

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"The professionalism, quiet dignity, and dedication to our country that Commander Lippold and his sailors exhibited is an inspiration to us all and a reminder of the very best America has to offer." - Ali Soufan, author of The Black Banners

Australia's best known historian of Aboriginal Australia tells the story of white Australia's encounter with the Aborigines on Australia's moving frontier.

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Looks at the efforts of Iranians to defend, if not expand, their borders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This title explores how their conceptions of national geography influenced cultural and political change. It explores and documents a range of aspects of modern citizenship in Iran.

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Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet looks at the effort of Iranians to defend, if not expand, their borders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and explores how their conceptions of national geography influenced cultural and political change.

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The great military effectiveness of semi trained local militia is one of the enduring myths of American military history. In this book, the author reveals the truth behind this myth, shedding light on who these frontier men actually were and their role in the war of 1812.

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This book uses a wide range of sources, factual and fictive, in many languages to examine how slaves and renegades developed a frontier consciousness that took into account how the others thought and acted, and how Muslims, Christians and Jews developed mutual understanding despite the hostile conditions of the early modern Mediterranean.

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This book uses a wide range of sources, factual and fictive, in many languages to examine how slaves and renegades developed a frontier consciousness that took into account how the others thought and acted, and how Muslims, Christians and Jews developed mutual understanding despite the hostile conditions of the early modern Mediterranean.

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By 1760, with the alleviation of the French threat to the western frontier, colonial fur traders headed west to reap the bounty of trade with the local tribes.

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This book examines past legacies, socio-ecological tensions, and political disputes associated with the advance of frontiers in the Amazon region. It includes contributions from scholars in Europe, Latin America, and the United States.

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This book examines past legacies, socio-ecological tensions, and political disputes associated with the advance of frontiers in the Amazon region. It includes contributions from scholars in Europe, Latin America, and the United States.

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Frontiers of Ottoman Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the surge in research into Ottoman history and culture over the past two decades. This first volume reflects the growing interest in the provinces, communities and cultures outside the imperial capital of Istanbul.

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Based on little-examined printed and archival sources, this book explores the fundamental ideas behind early French thinking about Atlantic slavery, c. 1620-1750. It analyses the three central questions of what made one a slave, of what was unique about Caribbean labour, and the implications of strategic approaches in interacting with slaves.

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As Pakistan teeters on the brink of the abyss, the author draws on his sources amongst the intelligence services, the jiahdi networks, and those surrounding President Musharraf to find out what's going on behind the scenes in this turbulent country, on whose fate the security of the whole world hangs.

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Turkey is on the front line of the war which is consuming Syria and the Middle East.

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In Frozen Tears, Albert Pleysier has taken the contents of diaries, letters, essays, and interviews written or given by persons who lived in Leningrad during the siege and placed them in their historical setting. The result is a very personal history of the siege of Leningrad.

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Faced by superior French forces, Wellington yet again out-thought and out-manoeuvred his opponents at Fuentes de Onoro. This book features the full story of the construction of the lines of Torres Vedras, the most massive undertakings of military engineering in the whole of the Napoleonic wars.

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Fugitive Slave Advertisements in The City Gazette: Charleston, South Carolina, 1787-1797 is a collection of more than one thousand transcribed advertisements from Charlestons daily newspaper. Each advertisement portrays, in miniature, a human drama of courage and resistance to unjust authority.

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This collection examines the role of the Fulda Gaplocated at the border between East and West Germanyin Cold War politics and military strategy. The contributors analyze the strategic deliberations of NATO and the Warsaw Pact, the balance of forces, and the role of the local peace movement, among other topics.