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The stadium century investigates why and how French spectators attended major sporting events in such vast numbers through the twentieth century, demonstrating the associated connections between urbanism, politics and sport. -- .

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This study examines the Stalin cult in East Germany as both a representative and a unique case study of Sovietization in Eastern Europe. The author investigates the emergence and functioning of the postwar Soviet empire from the end of World War II to the building of the Berlin Wall.

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This is a penetrating and up-to-date account of one of the dramatic aspects of 20th-century history. Published fifty years after Stalin's death, and fully revised and expanded, this second edition looks at the entire period of his rule including ideology, politics, development, social change, the Second World War and the Great Terror. -- .

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A new gendered approach to the rise of the modern state in Sweden over the long eighteenth century. -- .

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The State of U.S. History offers an introduction to the debates surrounding the major trends in American historical debates and the crucial events and influences that have helped define the American experience.

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The State of U.S. History offers an introduction to the debates surrounding the major trends in American historical debates and the crucial events and influences that have helped define the American experience.

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Farazmand, a former bureaucrat in the Pahlavi state administration, argues that the latter functioned more to maintain the state and to control society than to provide its population with services and with help for development.

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Explores how radical Chinese and Japanese thinkers committed to social change in the first decades of the twentieth century addressed issues concerning national identity, social revolution, and the role of the national state in achieving socio-economic development.

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The Sten submachine gun - officially the Carbine, Machine, Sten - was developed to fulfill the pressing British need for large quantities of cheaply produced weapons after Dunkirk, when German invasion was a real possibility. This title presents story of the mass-produced submachine gun.

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Extensively researched from a wide range of sources so that theoretical concepts are illuminated with the men's own accounts of lived experience. -- .

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A fascinating history of working-class struggle in Ghana's gold mines.

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A fascinating history of working-class struggle in Ghana's gold mines.

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There is little general agreement about the battles which have most decisively changed the course of history. Those given the fullest description in this book have been chosen on two considerations: each has played a marked part in the making of history and each illustrates an important change in the making of war.

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This history of the Confederacy, from rebellion to surrender, gives a sympathetic and inclusive account of the confusing events of the rise and fall of the Confederate states during the American Civil War. The author's other books on this subject include "The Story of the Mexican War".

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