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This study examines the global history of the Cold War in the 1970s through the perspective of Yugoslavia's activism in the Global South and its relations with the United States and the Soviet Union.

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This book proposes the concept of unsettling nostalgia to understand memories of revolutionary movements in Spain and Chile. Using literature and film, the author frames unsettling nostalgia as an emotional response to loss and a mobilizing tool in the aftermath of violence under Francisco Franco (19391975) and Augusto Pinochet (19731990).

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In 1983, the freighter Marine Electric ran into a violent storm off the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. Despite Force 10 conditions and fifty feet waves the crew were unconcerned: the ship had survived worse.

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Untold Histories looks in detail at the experiences of the average black person in England and Wales during the period of the British slave trade, revealing information about sex ratios, ages, from where in the world they came and how they were treated by the criminal justice system. -- .

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In a no-holds-barred indictment of the Republican Right, Michael Lind, once a protege of William F. Buckley, boldly chronicles how right-wing orthodoxy has been corrupted from within. Lind exposes the egregious turning points in the Republican agenda and warns of those in the party who are setting America on a course toward irreconcilable class divisions and hostility.

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With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. This work examines the long-term psychological and cultural consequences of forced migration in 20th-century Europe through the experiences of Wroclaw's Polish inhabitants.

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"Uses Liverpool and Manchester as case studies to uncover the programmes of urban regeneration that transformed cityscapes and revitalised local economies and cultures between the wars"--

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This book examines the intersection and interplay between Progressive-Era rhetoric regarding commercialized vice and the realities of prostitution in early-twentieth-century Philadelphia. Adams asserts that reformers constructed a cultural view of prostitution that was based more upon their perceptions of the trade than on reality itself.

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Tells the story of the process of politicization: magistrates, lawyers, merchants, and other townspeople who petitioned the National Assembly not only boasted of their own communities and denigrated rival towns, but also adopted revolutionary slogans and disseminated political ideas and practices throughout the countryside.

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Under the premise that local history can illuminate aspects of the past in ways that few works of broad historical synthesis can ever hope to equal, Christopher Friedrichs draws a comprehensive portrait of the small German city of Nordlingen during a turbulent century and a half of early modern history. In doing so he explores the transition from a

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A study of the land, people, and politics of Uruguay.

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The 10th was the only US mountain division to be raised in World War II, and still has a high profile, being involved in operations from Iraq to Somalia and from Haiti to Afghanistan. Featuring artwork and rare photographs, this title tells the story of the US Army's only mountain division in action during the closing months of World War II.

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The delivery of entire divisions to battlefields behind enemy lines by parachute and glider was a unique feature of World War II. This book covers the mature phase of these operations from the tactical failures of night-time drops at D-Day, through the daylight jumps at Arnhem and the Rhine, to the end of the war.