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This book, comprising chapters by leading experts, delves into the complicated nature of Turkeys Kurdish issue. Contributors discusses the evolution of Kurdish nationalism, the contemporary Kurdish movement and its violent legacy, civil society efforts in Turkeys Kurdish region, and the international dimensions of the Kurdish question.

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Using four warship-centered examples, this book shows how naval battles are won or lost-and how technological advantage is rarely as decisive in defeat or victory as is often claimed.

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This book explores attempts to reform the SNAP program and argues that many recent reform efforts are based on conceptions of the undeserving poor rather than data about SNAP recipients. It warns that if states are allowed greater flexibility SNAP could be reformed in a way that significantly reduces enrollment and leaves many without a safety net.

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Wallach provides a pioneering study of coalition warfare. and the transition from war to peace.

In the process, Wallach shows that coalition warfare is among the most difficult forms to develop and maintain successfully. Unfortunately, as recent post-Cold War experiences illustrate, coalition warfare is an ongoing military issue.

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Explores the impact of the highly controversial means test in south Wales and north-east England -- .

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As Germany has become the economic giant of Europe, particularly after the reunification of West and East Germany, the relationship has changed, and Friend explores how this unequal but unavoidable partnership has adapted.

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As Germany has become the economic giant of Europe, particularly after the reunification of West and East Germany, the relationship has changed, and Friend explores how this unequal but unavoidable partnership has adapted.

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This is the first scholarly edited collection devoted to the work of the Anglo-Irish writer and cartographer Tim Robinson -- .

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This is the first scholarly edited collection devoted to the work of the Anglo-Irish writer and cartographer Tim Robinson -- .

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A study that casts light on what it was like to take part in close-quarters battle during the Civil War, as increased infantry firepower and an increasing reliance on prepared defensive positions spelled the end of close-order tactics in the conflict that shaped America.

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While the Confederates relied on field fortifications and small gunboats in the fight for control of the Mississippi, the Union built a series of revolutionary river ironclads. This volume explains how these vessels worked, how they were constructed, how they were manned and how they were fought.

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This fully illustrated study assesses the fighting techniques, armament, and combat record of the Union and Confederate sharpshooters who clashed in battles and sieges throughout the American Civil War.

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There are many studies of the Cold War, but none has sought to understand the period in the broader context of human history as this one does. Michael Wayne Santos examines the interplay of the long-standing limits on human decision-making, our propensity for story-telling, and need for certitude in a period of chaos and confusion.

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Though he can cite a few modest triumphs during the period, Rhodes (history, U. of Wisconsin-Whitewater) finds them far outweighed by US failures to joint either the League of Nations or the World Court; to maintain amicable relations with the British, the French, or the Soviets; and to find workabl

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This interdisciplinary study examines the relationships between the provision of military assistance and success in achieving donor aims in history and theory, based upon an initial proposition that the relationship between donor and recipient is a critical determinant of success or failure.

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This study argues that U.S. shipping policy should be examined in the light of U.S. foreign economic policy. It concentrates on assistance of ship construction, operation subsidies, coargo preferences, cabotage restrictions, and control of competition.

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The most up-to-date and insightful overview available on the environmental history of the West Coast of the United States, a region of extraordinary physical beauty distinguished by its inhabitants' efforts to both sustain and exploit their natural resources.

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From student radicalism to global expansion, this is the story of Australia's largest and most international university.

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When people speak of the special relationship between the two English-speaking peoples on either side of the Atlantic, they are talking of a phenomenon not much older than Britain's 1904 entente cordial with France. This work describes and analyses the often turbulent relationship between Britain and the United States in the 19th century.