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Provides a documentary history of the relationships between labour and abolitionists from the early 1830s to the US Civil War. This text shows labour's response to episodes like the 1831 Nat Turner Revolt, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, John Brown's execution and the election of Abraham Lincoln.

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Through a detailed examination of the party's post-war development, this book outlines how nostalgia has shaped the party's trajectory. It argues that Labour's nostalgically-informed identity has determined the extent to which the party has been able to respond effectively to the changing nature of Britain. -- .

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At dawn on March 2, 2002, the first major battle of the 21st Century began. Over 200 soldiers of the 101st Airborne and 10th Mountain Divisions flew into Afghanistan's Shahikot valley - and into the mouth of a buzz-saw. This book is suitable for fans of Black Hawk Down, Zero Dark Thirty, Chris Ryan, and Andy McNab.

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This unique guide will enable students, librarians, teachers, and general readers to easily identify the best biographies and autobiographies of 500 of the most notable women in American history.

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Includes essays that intend to restore the social context of ancient Greek drama. This title considers how individual plays and groups of dramas pertained to the concerns of the body politic and how these issues were presented in the convention of the stage and as centerpieces of civic ceremonies.

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Carroll presents a funny, raucous, and delightfully dirty 900-year history of the royal marriages of Europe's most famous--and infamous--monarchs.

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Engages with nineteenth-century visual culture in an unusually broad way, juxtaposing photography, fashion, broadside ballads, popular prints and caricature in order to re-examine Victorian society between Chartism and the Great Exhibition. -- .

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"General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name "The Manhattan Project." As the ranking military"

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Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s is a political and cultural History of Britain in the long 1980s in ten objects or moments. Neither a top down history, nor nostalgic celebration, it reframes the decade around local, national, and global politics of gender, race, age and sexuality.

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Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s is a political and cultural History of Britain in the long 1980s in ten objects or moments. Neither a top down history, nor nostalgic celebration, it reframes the decade around local, national, and global politics of gender, race, age and sexuality.

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What happened to Generation X Millenials dominate our Facebook feeds and people bang on about the baby boomers but what about us The lost generation, the middle youth, the middle child of today. Are we still cool

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This is a study of the World View of the Zapotec Indians of Mitla, Oaxaca, a state in Mexico.

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This book tells the story of German nurses who, directly or indirectly, participated in the Nazis' "euthanasia" measures against patients with mental and physical disabilities, measures that claimed well over 100,000 victims from 1939 to 1945.

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In this text, Eleonora Montuschi offers a structured analysis of the philosophy of social science across each of its main disciplines: anthropology, sociology, history, economics and geography.

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A bestselling author unearths the fascinating story of the banning of "The Grapes of Wrath" in the 1930s--and captures the essence of a tumultuous era.

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A collection of pieces by Australian historian Ken Inglis, covering the years 1959-1999. It reflects the breadth of Inglis's interests: the making and remaking of national identity, war, memory and ritual; the lives of colleagues such as Manning Clark; and religion and multiculturalism.