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Magic is usually defined as a non-modern phenomenon, contrasted with modern rationalism and science. However, the idea of magic has remained persistent in scholarly discourse throughout history from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment and beyond. This title explores how the notion of magic is articulated and theorised in the writing of history.

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Magna Carta Magna Carta is the name later given to a document signed by king John of England under pressure from the barons and other notables of England in the summer of 1215 at a meadow called Runnymede, which is on the river Thames between London and Windsor.

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This work chronicles Mohandas Gandhi's work as a free-lance journalist, editor, and sponsor. The purpose of this book, in the author's own words, is to bring his contributions in this sphere to the limelight so that those working in the line could be benefitted.

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Selectively drawing on the vast literature on Gandhi since the 1920s, this bibliography covers his life, political campaigns, philosophy of nonviolence, and strategy of nonviolence, or satyagraha.

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This work dramatizes, with memoirs, diaries and documents, eight major crises of American foreign policy - from the origins of the Cold War to the Gulf War with Iraq. Each account begins with an introduction and chronology of events, proceeds with documents, and concludes with suggested reading.

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Setting Farran's remarkable story in the context of the first modern campaign of international terrorism, it draws on recently declassified files of the Security Services to reveal the full extent and ambition of Jewish terrorist attacks on Britain in the late 1940s.

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The road that led to the inauguration of the Australian nation in Centennial Park, Sydney, on 1 January 1901 was by no means smooth travelling. Alfred Deakin noted that Federation must always appear to have been secured by miracles. This work covers the individuals who made these miracles happen.

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This work considers many of the ways in which national identity was imagined, implemented and contested within Italian culture before, during and after the period of Italian unification in the mid-19th century.

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This work considers many of the ways in which national identity was imagined, implemented and contested within Italian culture before, during and after the period of Italian unification in the mid-19th century.

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Using a wealth of new evidence - from landscape, archaeology and hundreds of overlooked or neglected documents - Nick Bunker gives a vivid and strikingly original account of the Mayflower project and the first decade of the Plymouth Colony.

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A narrative of the famous Massachusetts disputes of the late 1630s misleadingly labeled the "antinomian controversy" by later historians. It recasts these interlocked religious and political struggles as a complex interaction of personalities and personal agendas and as a succession of short-term events with cumulative results.

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Making Heretics is a major new narrative of the famous Massachusetts disputes of the late 1630s misleadingly labeled the "antinomian controversy" by later historians. Drawing on an unprecedented range of sources, Michael Winship fundamentally recasts these interlocked religious and political struggles as a complex ongoing interaction of personaliti

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Everyone has a personal connection to the past, independent of historical inquiry. So, what is the role of the historian Exploring the relationship between history and society, Kalela argues for a more participatory research culture and provides practical guidance on planning research projects with greater public impact.

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What they decided defined the Italian variant of liberalism by transforming it from a doctrine to concrete practices and political behaviors.

Particularly after 1890, liberals increasingly made empiricism the primary justification for policy and dismissed abstract principles as beneath notice.

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Offers insights into the ways ancient Romans constructed masculinity during a time marked by anxiety over manly deportment. This book analyzes the deportment and writings of the two Sophists - Favorinus, a eunuch, and Polemo, a man who met conventional gender expectations - to suggest the ways character and gender were perceived.

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This third edition takes the analysis of social policy into the time of the Blair government, offering new perspectives on the search for solutions to the problems of poverty, sickness, crime, squalor and poor educaitonal standards.

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A richly researched, evocative account of the individuals and institutions involved in the settling of the non-Indian West-and of the impact of the development of the West on the nation as a whole.