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This volume on Norman Italy (southern Italy and Sicily, c. 10001200) honours the pioneering scholarship of Graham A. Loud. An international group of scholars reassesses the paradigm by which Norman Italy has been understood, addressing subjects across four key themes: historiographies, identities and communities, religion and Church, and conquest.

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This collection provides a multidisciplinary study of postwar and contemporary Okinawa. The contributors analyze the unique social and cultural transformations that have occurred outside the context of American military control or USJapan relations.

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Focuses on the long history of contact between indigenous peoples and the white colonial communities who settled in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. Looks at how histories of colonial settlement have been mythologised, narrated and embodied in these countries in the twentieth century.

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This book sets out to challenge current interpretations of Carolingian culture, and especially its perceived correctio (correction), reform or renaissance. When we consider authors who operated outside the direct sphere of influence of the court, a much more dynamic image of Carolingian culture comes into view.

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This book sets out to challenge current interpretations of Carolingian culture, and especially its perceived correctio (correction), reform or renaissance. When we consider authors who operated outside the direct sphere of influence of the court, a much more dynamic image of Carolingian culture comes into view.

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Rethinking the Enlightenment connects new work in intellectual history with fresh understandings of Continental philosophy and political theory. The collection bridges the disciplinary divides between the Enlightenment as understood in history, philosophy, and politics and moves towards a critical self-understanding of the present.

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The Korean War grew out of the Cold War, it exacerbated the Cold War, and its impact transcended the Cold War. This work presents an analysis of the Korean War's major diplomatic and strategic issues. Beginning with the decision to divide Korea in 1945, it provides an interpretive synthesis for scholars and general readers alike.

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Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other--Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners--frequently through hostile stereotypes, distortions, and caricature. In this provocative book, Erich Gruen demonstrates

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For its admirers, the Russian Revolution is a milestone in human progress; for its critics, it is a catastrophe of monstrous proportions. Edward Acton's stimulating study combines an introduction to the momentous events of 1917 with an analysis of this controversy.

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Anthony McElligott's new study challenges conventional approaches to the history of the Weimar Republic. Taking as its premise that neither 1918 nor 1933 constituted distinctive breaks in early twentieth-century German history, 'Rethinking the Weimar Republic' stretches the chronological-political parameters of the republic from 1916 to 1936.

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Anthony McElligott's new study challenges conventional approaches to the history of the Weimar Republic. Taking as its premise that neither 1918 nor 1933 constituted distinctive breaks in early twentieth-century German history, 'Rethinking the Weimar Republic' stretches the chronological-political parameters of the republic from 1916 to 1936.

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Provides a reassessment of the growth and the various directions in US labor history. This title focuses on: the relationship of class and culture; the link between worker's experience and the changing political economy; the role that gender and race have played in America's labor history; and, the transnational turn.

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Combines a history of the jute-mill workers of Calcutta with a fresh look at labor history in Marxist scholarship. This book examines the milieu of the jute-mill workers and the way it influenced their capacity for class solidarity and "revolutionary" ' action from 1890 to 1940.

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In this book Melanie Manion analyzes the largest bloodless circulation of elites in history--the massive retirement of officials in the People's Republic of China. Beginning in 1978 and continuing through the 1980s, Chinese leaders in Beijing replaced millions of old cadres, including veterans of the communist revolution, with younger generations o

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This study examines the development of Darwins theory of natural selection. The author analyzes how the theory was rejected by the scientific community and argues that his radical thought anticipated Nietzsches Godless philosophy, Marxs class-based economics, and Freuds psychological theories of the unconscious.

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Only a quarter of Dutch Jews survived the Holocaust and when the survivors returned home they found the welcome far from effusive. This text charts the difficulties of reintegrating into a society that viewed the survivors with suspicion and unease.

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Both Hungary's 1956 uprising and the Prague Spring took place when regimes tentatively revised recent history. This process of remembering and forgetting shook the legitimacy, and shaped the actions, of communist party-states because their control of the past was central to their grasp of the present.