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An account of the policy disputes between Britain and the United States over armed forces radio broadcasting during World War II. It illustrates how the tensions and compromises between the AFN and the BBC reflected the disagreements and concessions of the overall Anglo-American alliance.

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Celebratory, witty and incredibly insightful, Harry Bingham explores the eccentricities and customs of the British nation in a bid to answer a question which has everyone debating Who are we

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Presents answers to fifty-seven questions about the world we live in, stretching from "What is jihad" to "Is fair trade a good thing" and "Is there still a war in Chechnya" This edition includes a chapter explaining the problem of Afghanistan.

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Lynching marked the violent outer boundaries of race and class relations in the American South between Reconstruction and the civil rights era. Everyday interactions could easily escalate into mob violence. This book examines this aspect of American history by taking seven lynchings in North Carolina and South Carolina and studying them in detail.

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The president of Harvard University presents this innovative study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and consequences of death in the face of the unprecedented slaughter of the Civil War. 56 illustrations.

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This book investigates whether the popular conception of Becket through the ages is a result of valid assessments of the man and his cause, or a product of a carefully constructed myth, and how far can one correct for the bias and reach the truth'.

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This study provides a comprehensive biography of Thomas Dunckerley. The author examines his career in the Royal Navy, his freemasonry activities, and his claims of royal parentage.

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Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States, in many ways defines the meaning of the United States. This extensively researched work reveals that Jefferson was in fact generally favorable to the Haitian Revolution, before and during his presidency, and supportive of its independence.

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This handsomely illustrated picture book provides a remarkable glimpse of the Paris Jefferson knew--Paris on the eve of the French Revolution. The houses, gardens, bookshops, and landmarks of the time are brought to life through commentary and drawings, paintings, and maps. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the lates

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This study examines the origins and evolution of the partnership between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison following the American Revolution. It analyzes how the two figures responded to continued British influence and how their relationship affected early republican politics.

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"In 1864 the Philadelphia Press commissioned Thomas Morris Chester, son of an ex-slave to cover the activities of black troops on the Virginia front. The only black correspondent for a major daily duri"

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An enlightening and beautifully written introduction to the making, and message, of a book that was central to the foundation of the United States.

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An iconic event in modern Irish history is, for the first time, narrated in directly human terms. Who were the people who marched, who fired from the flats, the barricades, who died In brilliant narrative form a modern myth is unfolded and revealed fully, and so tells the story of the recent history of the armed struggle in Ireland.

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A re-creation of the American Revolution from the British point of view --and a dramatically different picture of the birth of our nation.

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Examines the explosion of terrorist activity that took place in the Russian empire from the years just prior to the turn of the century through 1917, a period when over 17,000 people were killed or wounded by revolutionary extremists.

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