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provides the first comparative overview of the role of anthropology in colonial Africa. With essays exploring metropolitan research institutes, Africans as ethnographers and the transnational features of knowledge production, this volume both consolidates and extends a range of new research questions focusing on the politics of imperial knowledge.

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Exploring the critical influences shaping the decisions made by Jews in Nazi-occupied eastern Europe, Finkel sheds new light on the dynamics of collective violence and genocide.

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An introduction to the contrasts and continuities of American women's experiences through nearly four centuries. This book includes women's rights, suffrage, education, health, 'women's liberation,' relations between the sexes, and marriage.

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A study of World War II as a period of crisis that brought about significant changes in the relationship between business and the state.

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Offering an analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict, this book discusses its most significant issues and events since its onset. It provides discussions of the contradictory nationalist movements of Zionism and Palestinian nationalism, the Israelis, the Palestinians, the US' role and position on the conflict, and what to expect in the future.

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Part of a series addressing the development of legislative sovereignty and the legislative state, this volume focuses on ancient, medieval and early modern Europe, charting the historiographical debates in modern discussion on the origins of legislation, public law, sovereignty and the state.

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The underlying causes of the clash between Hindus and Muslims which continues to polarize India is the main concern of this work. Ahmad gives an account of Indian history from the 19th century, analyzing how the relationship between Hindus and Muslims has been shaped and formed.

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By 1429, French fortunes in the Hundred Years War were at their lowest ebb. At the darkest hour, a deeply religious peasant girl from Champagne came to the Dauphin. Her name was Joan of Arc. This volume tells the story of a legendary episode in France's history.

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Focusing on three generations of a Manchu family (from 1750 to the 1930s), this book is an attempt to understand the social and cultural life of the bannermen within the context of the decay of the Qing regime. It reveals that the Manchus were growing in consciousness of their ethnicity in response to changes in their own position.

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For decades, the United States ran covert operations into Tibet in an attempt to help Tibetan exiles take back their country from the Chinese. These operations have never been disclosed-until now.

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From data on disparities between Brazilian whites and non-whites in areas of health, education, and welfare, it is clear that vast racial inequalities do exist in Brazil, contrary to earlier assertions in race relations scholarship that the country is a "racial democracy." This title explores the implications of this evident racial inequality.

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This study examines Cypriot society from the crusader conquest of the island in 1191 to the Ottoman conquest of 1571. The author analyzes the ethnic, cultural, and religious landscape of Cyprus and argues that Cypriots adopted a nonviolent, covert form of anti-Latin resistance.

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In 1614, Osaka Castle was Japan's greatest fortification, belonging to Toyotomi Hideyori, however the ruling shogun of the age, Tokugawa Ieyasu, was determined to destroy this one last threat to his position as Japan's ultimate ruler. This book explores the background of this bitter struggle, and the battle experiences of the opposing forces.

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The essays collected here represent prevailing scholarly attitudes and they focus on current areas of academic concern abroad, offering examples of the status of the study of America in other countries.

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Fought at Redesdale in August 1388, the battle originated from the ongoing war between the Scots and the English but rapidly descended into a personal feud between the Scottish clan, Douglas, and the aristocratic English family, Percy. This book details the events that led up to this clash on the borders, using all the contemporary sources.