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This book reviews English economic history from the eve of the discovery of America through the time when the Industrial Revolution was well underway.

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This enlightening narrative takes a look at the wedding nightits origins, history, customs, cultural expressions, and fictional representations through the ages.

Though just outside of public view, the wedding night is loaded with expectation and consequence.

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This book offers a new approach to the historical study of The Welfare State, with a close focuse on class and gender.

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The West Indian Americans introduces students and other interested readers to the diversity and cultural individuality of a growing segment of the American immigrant community.

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Examines the disconnect between local expectations of what independence would deliver and what was actually achieved by the incumbent Cumann na nGaedheal government

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Examines the disconnect between local expectations of what independence would deliver and what was actually achieved by the incumbent Cumann na nGaedheal government

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This book is structured in three chronological blocks, starting with the development of unity within the Western Church up to the eleventh century, followed by the period of centralisation between the eleventh and the thirteenth centuries, and concluding with the break up of this centralisation in the later Middle Ages.

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For most British people, the First World War was the Western Front, the trench line stretching from the Swiss Frontier to the North Sea.

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Contains insights into the origins of the 'German Question' by military historians from West Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Italy, France and Britain.

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The Whigs were one of the two great English political parties in the 150 years after 1700. This title paints a portrait, of which politics forms only a small part, of an extraordinary group of men and women whose power, taste and intellect dominated the centre of what had become the greatest power in the world.

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Americans have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid claim to the Revolution - so did the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders said they were the true sons of liberty - so did Southern segregationists. This book tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over the meaning of the nation's founding.

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In 1943, small teams of elite British soldiers began parachuting into the mountains of Axis-occupied Albania. They were members of Britain's Special Operations Executive, and their task was to find and arm bands of local guerillas and harass the Axis as best they could. This title draws on interviews with survivors, long-hidden diaries and more.

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Rene Descartes is an important seventeenth-century thinker and the father of modern philosophy. This book presents an account of Descartes' philosophy, his major works and ideas. It offers a review of his thought, together with examination of the texts encountered by students, including the Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy.

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William III's defeat of James II's Catholic army at the Battle of the Boyne on 1 July 1690 ended the Stuart dynasty's last hope of survival. It has also been central, together with the siege of Londonderry, to the foundation myth of Northern Ireland. This title provides an account of the wars between Britain and Ireland in the 17th century.

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During the past eight decades French vineyards, wineries, and wine marketing efforts have undergone such profound changes--from technological, scientific, economic, and commercial standpoints--that the transformation is revolutionary for an industry dating back thousands of years. Here Leo Loubre examines how the modernization of Western society ha

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A thematic history of wine and the wine trade in Europe in the middle ages from c.1000 to c.1500

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Wine was one of the earliest commodities to be traded across the whole of western Europe. Wine has held its place for centuries at the heart of social and cultural life in western Europe. This book will explain how and why this came about, providing a thematic history of wine and the wine trade in Europe in the middle ages from c 1000 to c 1500.