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This book offers a fresh analysis of the Russian Revolution from a global perspective. It stresses the historical role of Soviet Communism in the modernization of the country, the defeat of Nazism, and the rise of American power and world leadership.

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The Russo-Japanese War was the first major conflict of the 20th century, as vast armies clashed in Manchuria incurring enormous casualties.

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A study of the Russo-Japanese War. It explains the background and outbreak of the war, then follows the course of the fighting at Yalu River, Sha-ho, and finally Mukden, the largest battle anywhere before World War I. It also demonstrates how Japan emerged from this conflict as a Great Power.

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From epigraphical, archaeological, and literary evidence Jon D. Mikalson has here assembled all relevant data concerning the dates of Athenian festivals, religious ceremonies, and legislative assemblies. This information has been used to revise and update our knowledge of the calendar as it reflects Athenian life. The facts and conclusions that eme

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For those fascinated by the Salem witch trials, this is compelling reading and the sourcebook.

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Includes: five essays exploring the event, including historical background, interpretations, and aftermath; biographical sketches of every player involved in the trials, from ministers to afflicted girls; 50 document excerpts, including petitions, letters, and revealing trial testimony; a chronology of events; and an annotated bibliography.

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A brilliant but little-known operation, the Shimazu clan raid on the independent kingdom of Rykyu (modern Okinawa) in 1609 is one of the most extraordinary episodes in samurai history and the culmination of centuries of rivalry between the two powers. This title gives a blow-by-blow account of the operation.

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This book provides a detailed historical account of how people and institutions of San Francisco and the Bay Area during World War II shaped the world we live in today. It discusses the invention of the atomic bomb, the migration of Black Americans to the San Francisco area, and the internment of Japanese Americans.

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This book examines the current ethnic and religious landscape in the western Balkans. The author argues that the molding of nations and religious groups was a very slow and incremental process that was shaped by Ottoman policies, conflict, and geopolitical meddling in this culturally diverse part of Europe.

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'This book is...concerned with the study of the all-important social force within the revolutionary process in France between 1793 and 1794, during the period of the Jacobin dictatorship of Public Safety, that is to say, with the Paris of the sans-culottes, organized in forty-eight sections.'

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This story is an account of the Santiago, Cuba, land campaign of the Spanish-American War, as conducted by General William R. Furthermore, the attack on the outer defenses of Santiago was totally mismanaged by William Shafter, the American General in command, and his incompetent staff.

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For a thousand years the Sarmatian tribes had contacts with the major military powers of the ancient world. These armoured horsemen of the southern Russian steppes migrated into the Roman world. This text describes the history, armour, weapons and tactics of this people.

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Remarkable stories from the dangerous early voyages to Australia - long before Captain Cook claimed it for the English - reveal a very different history than the triumphal British version we learnt at school.

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Wielding their swords in the name of their faith, the crusaders set out to reclaim Jerusalem and its surrounding territory in the Middle East. As with the majority of crusades, the prospective acquisition of land was the one of the key driving forces behind these bloody military expeditions. This book reveals the history of these Crusades.

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Presents a study of the 4th-century sophist Libanius, a major intellectual figure who ran one of the most prestigious schools of rhetoric in the later Roman Empire. This book examines Libanius' training and personality, and traces how he cultivated a wide network of friends and former pupils and courted powerful officials to recruit top students.

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