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This study examines the ways in which intellectuals of the Renaissance period sought to win the patronage of the powerful while maintaining independence. It analyzes the ethical dilemmas involved and how these were reflected in the lives and writings of Niccol Machiavelli, Desiderius Erasmus, Thomas More, and Michel de Montaigne.

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In recent decades the Ninth Amendment, a provision designed to clarify that the federal government was to be one of enumerated and limited powers, has been turned into an unenumerated rights clause that effectively grants unlimited power to the judiciary.

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Finally, it analyzes the impact that India's possession of this infrastructure had on three developments of major importance to postwar geopolitics: India's leadership of newly independent former colonies, the decline of the British empire east of Suez, and the origins of the Cold War in Asia.

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By examining the definition of 'heresy', Turner presents a vivid account of the heresy trials in this period, as well as incisive analysis concerning the relationship between secular power and religious authority. This book is of particular interest to researchers and scholars of Islamic history, comparative religion and the medieval world.

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Based on over 3000 institutional records, Coleborne's study will have wider relevance outside of the history of medicine and psychiatry. It has a global perspective but focuses on specific destinations, and in so doing, contributes in an innovative way to global history and the history of human migration. -- .

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"Combining ... first-person anecdotes of the presidents and their families with years of storied history and interviews with commanders past and present, [this book] reveals the intimate connection felt by the First Family with this historic retreat"--Dust jacket flap.

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A long-time U.S. policy insiders scholarly and encyclopedic history with unprecedented analysis of the official documents of the Cold War explores Reagans integrated new strategies in defense, arms control, diplomacy, information and intelligence, and support for the faiths and forces of freedom that collapsed the Soviet ideology and empire.

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A long-time U.S. policy insiders scholarly and encyclopedic history with unprecedented analysis of the official documents of the Cold War explores Reagans integrated new strategies in defense, arms control, diplomacy, information and intelligence, and support for the faiths and forces of freedom that collapsed the Soviet ideology and empire.

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This book is a translation of an oral history of the concentration camp experience recorded immediately after World War II as told by men and women who endured it and lived to tell about it.

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Provides the reader with an account of the history of Russia between the turn of the century and the beginning of the Second World War. This text details the important channel of information about developments of critical significance to the modern world.

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This book argues that African film audiences in colonial Kenya were not passive recipients of British cultural programs created to teach and civilize them. Rather, they rejected mediocre films and actively participated in the cinema discourse that brought about changes in cinema production.

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This highly detailed and well-illustrated single-volume work documents the evolution of warfare across history through weaponry and technological change.

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This book traces a number of common themes relating to the representation of Irish Travellers in Irish popular tradition and how these themes have impacted on Ireland's collective imagination. -- .

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In his case study of the 1979 Islamic revolution, Salehi discusses the role of culture and religion in a modern society. Choice

The Iranian middle class played a historical role in steering Iran into the revolution of 1978.

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With the same sense of historical responsibility and veracity he has exemplified in his studies on Voltaire, Ira O. Wade turns now to Voltaire's milieu and begins an account of the French Enlightenment which will explain its genesis, its nature and coherence, and its diffusion in the modern world. To understand the movement of ideas that produced t