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A rich blend of history, legend, poetry, adventure, and romance.

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A radical reappraisal of the impact of Constantine's adoption of Christianity, both on the later Roman world and on the subsequent development of Christianity and western civilization.

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Presents a comprehensive history of the Czech people that is a remarkably original history of modern Europe. This book describes how Bohemia's ambiguities and contradictions are those of Europe itself, and it considers the ironies of viewing Europe, the West, and modernity from the vantage point of a country that has been too often ignored.

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On the night of December 7, 1942, five canoes were launched off the mouth of the Gironde river, each containing a pair of British commandoes tasked with slipping into the port of Bordeaux and destroying as many of the merchant ships as possible. This title gives a blow-by-blow account of this most daring raids of World War II.

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A one-stop history, analysis, and resource on the Cold War designed to meet the needs of high school and college students. The text features narrative history, analysis, biographical profiles, key primary documents, and other reference tools on the Cold War.

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Rhetoric, the authors argue, is central to shaping both political consciousness and political culture. They examine how the rhetoric of the early Cold War years was used to create and develop a national and international reality.

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This book examines the planned disaggregation of the global structures of the Cold War. In the final years of a decades-long era of bipolarity, the United States and the Soviet Union comanaged a continental transformation that erased Europes Iron Curtain.

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The Superpowers and the Cold War in the 1950s describes the domestic and external conditions that shaped the interaction between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1950s.

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From 1949 to 1991 the world was overshadowed by the Cold War. indeed, much has remained hidden until now.In The Cold War, David Miller discloses not only the vast scope of the military resources involved, but also how nearly threat came to terrible reality.

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Using recently-opened Kremlin archives and his own experience as bureau chief for "The Guardian" in Moscow during perestroika and in Washington during the Bush years, Walker explains the Cold War as an economic and political dynamic that determined the structure of the modern global economy.

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A one-stop source of information, analysis, biographical profiles, and key primary documents on the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union.

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The book is a highly original and long overdue examination of the ways that European concepts of time were imposed on other cultures as a component of colonisation. It brings together two complex subjects - time and colonialism - in an engaging, non-theoretical and accessible style. -- .

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The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the twentieth century. As Ellen Wu shows, liberals a

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Created as a response by the U.S. Marines to what was known as the other war in Vietnam, the CAP Program was comprised of platoons each combining a fourteen man marine rifle squad, a navy corpsman, and a platoon of South Vietnamese militia.