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This book examines the important themes of sexuality, gender, love, and marriage in stage, literary, and film treatments of Shakespeare's plays.

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This book depicts a family history unparalleled in the Carolinas and the Nation. It tracks the history of two African-American families that so impacted society that it affected the Nation in the fight for civil and equal rights.

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With an emphasis on force restructuring mandated by the Pentagon, the role of public-private military contractors (PMCs) and their impact on policy-making decisions is at an all time peak. This work analyzes that impact, focusing specifically on PMC's in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.

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Suribachi remains the war's most famous icon.

On February 23, 1945, an Associated Press photographer captured the image of six brave men raising the American flag at the windy peak of Mount Suribachi on the coveted island of Iwo Jima.

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Determined to retake the Philippines ever since his ignominious flight from the islands in 1942, General Douglas MacArthur had organized a first-rate intelligence-gathering unit. They were called the Alamo Scouts. Now, more than 60 years after the war, their story is finally told.

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In November 1596 a woman signed a document which would nearly destroy the career of William Shakespeare... Who was the woman who played such an instrumental, yet little known, role in Shakespeare's life

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The first biography of Nathan "Shanks" Evans, an important Confederate general, based upon a large cache of newly discovered and previously unpublished sources

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From the first ad in 1695 from a young gentleman who 'would willingly Match himself to some Good Young Gentlewoman, that has a Fortune of 3000 or thereabouts' to the GSOH, WLTM and online dating of more recent years, each ad is a snapshot of its age.

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Takes a biographical approach to history, following the premise that people make history in the circumstances in which they find themselves. This work examines the lives of the individual's involved in a debate through major and minor biographies.

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Debates over such issues as westward expansion, the Second Bank of the United States, Indian policies, and slavery are discussed from opposing viewpoints.

Americans of the Jacksonian era upheld traditions and values of their forefathers, while also embracing the unlimited opportunity of the future.

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Provides a fresh look at the rhetoric behind the westward movement of the American frontier.

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With the conclusion of the Mexican War in 1848, the United States seemed poised to fulfill the manifest destiny that was on the lips of journalists and politicians.

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In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson announced his vision of the Great Society, a plan to use the power of the national government to create a better society.

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For more than 40 years, U.S. defense policy and the design of military capabilities were driven by the threat to national security posed by the Soviet Union and its allies.

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Traces the founding of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and its role, in the 18th century, as a exemplary centre of teaching. The text then covers the college's decline and subsequent re-emergence as a centre for high medical standards of learning and practice.

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India faces a defining period. Its status as a global power is not only recognized but increasingly institutionalized, even as geopolitical shifts create both opportunities and challenges. Will India emerge as one of the shapers of the emerging international order This volume seeks to answer that question.

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Provides a new understanding of the Victorian engineering professions, and their rise within the British government and Royal Navy