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This work unravels the myths surrounding the gold rushes in order to reveal the hidden histories of the Wiradjuri people, of the graziers and convicts who occupied the Wiradjuri lands, and of the multi- cultural gold boom community that endured for generations after the boom had passed.

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On 15 April 1989, the world witnessed one of the worst football disasters in history occur at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield.

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Using many unpublished and other primary sources as well as interviews with aides and associates of Hindenburg, the author shows in Hindenburg and the Weimar Republic how this proud and cautious man, naive in politics and preoccupied with his reputation among his fellow generals, failed to act in crucial situations, or hesitated until action was fu

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This volume highlights the historical complexities bound up in Hindu-Muslim relations in South Asia and challenges over-simplistic understandings of these relations by demonstrating that they are, and have always been, complex and contingent.

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Three Japanese authors - Hara Tamiki, Ota Yoko, and Toge Sankichi - survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. This work contains the English translation of Hara's "Summer Flowers", the English translation of Ota's "City of Corpses", and the translation of Toge's "Poems of the Atomic Bomb".

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Explores the decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima.

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Levin, the journalist who uncovered the affair, describes British policy toward the Jewish people during the Holocaust era, particularly the construction of obstacles that prevented thousands from being saved.

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"Libraries serving Hispanic American clienteles and/or supporting programs in Latin american studies and linguistics will want to acquire Richard D. Wood's Hispanic First Names." Reference Books Bulletin

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This work provides a revealing look at the history of Hispanic peoples in the American West (or, from the Mexican perspective, El Norte) from the period of Spanish colonization through the present day.

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Written in highly readable French, this book is designed to serve as a textbook for a course in the history of the French language.

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Beginning with the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1875 and ending with the death of General Francisco Franco in 1975, this book explores the intersection of education and nationalism in Spain. It is suitable for scholars with interests in modern European cultural politics, processes of state consolidation, and the history of education.

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The book contains the description and origin of a family of immigrants coming from Italy (Basilicata region), France (Normandy region) and Spain (Cadiz-Andalucia region) to Mexico.Giving origin to the Beverido Family in Cordoba, Veracruz, Mexico.

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Focusing on the United States and Germany, this book takes a comparative approach in examining environmental history. It also considers questions facing environmental historians - How can we historicise nature Is nature a historical actor How have human beings interacted with nature and what patterns have emerged

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As a group, American frontier historians have been uniquely influential within and beyond their profession. Fully annotated, it presents individual analyses of more than 50 historical scholars who helped to shape research, writing, and critical thought on the American frontier and American history in general.

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Seeks to capture the familiar figures and symbols of Philadelphia's 18th-century past and American history's greatest scenes, from the meetings of the Second Continental Congress to the drafting of the United States Constitution, to Philadelphia's final days as the nation's capital.

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This volume can be used both as a chronological history of the development of Britain and as a work of reference. It looks at the origins, evolution and progress of Britain's villages, towns, universities, pubs and parks, farms and industries, explaining everything from Iron Age forts to the iron bridges to the Industrial Revolution.

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This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Algeria covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.