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Providing a fresh look at a crucial aspect of the American Civil War, this new study explores the day-to-day life of people in the Confederate States of America as they struggled to cope with a crisis that spared no one, military or civilian.

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In 1938 Adolf Hitler directed two paramilitary labour organizations - the Reicharbeitsdienst, consisting of recruits, and the Organisation Todt, a mobilized force of private construction firms - to assist the military. This book looks at the history, equipment and uniforms of these organizations.

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This is the first comprehensive study of the turbulent relationship among state, society, and church in the making of the modern German welfare system during the Weimar Republic. Young-Sun Hong examines the competing conceptions of poverty, citizenship, family, and authority held by the state bureaucracy, socialists, bourgeois feminists, and the ma

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The gallant stand of the Gordon Highlanders at Maya in 1813 epitomises the dogged fighting of the British soldier, and this book shows how he actually fought. This detailed study sets out a clear technical account of how British armies actually functioned in the field during the Napoleonic period.

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A study of the part of the Dutch-Belgian troops in Quatre Bras and Waterloo. A Napoleonic researcher presents the evidence regarding the Belgian units and explains their complex origins. The text is illustrated with monochrome studies and colour plates of troop uniforms.

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The Dutch Army was a very important part of Wellington's army at Waterloo in 1815. This volume presents an exploration of Wellington's Dutch allies, and shows that despite criticism from the British, many units fought extremely well and defended some decisive points.

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The famously hard-fighting Irish regiments of the British Army distinguished themselves not only in many of the main Peninsular battles, but also in several dramatic, but lesser known actions. This work details the 88th Foot (Connaught Rangers) and the 27th Foot (Enniskillens).

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This work contains research into the uniforms and insignia, and the battle history, of the crack Light Infantry regiments, which distinguished themselves on a score of battlefields in the Peninsular War, 1808-14. It brings to life members of Wellington's Light Infantry regiment.

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This book follows Thomas Jones, the first Welsh missionary from rural Wales to Cherrapunji, now one of the most Christianised parts of India. It foregrounds broader political, scientific, racial and military ideologies that mobilised the Khasi Hills into an interconnected network of imperial control. -- .

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How well integrated were Jews in the Mediterranean society controlled by ancient Rome This title explores Jewish social integration in the Roman world, one that poses challenging questions about the nature of Mediterranean culture.

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In this book, Joseph G. Morgan examines the career of Wesley Fishel, a political scientist who vigorously supported American intervention in the Vietnam War, what he deemed a "a great, and tragic, American experiment."

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The streets and squares of the West End of London, some of the most famous in the world, have been home to poets and pop stars, world-renowned artists and revolutionary anarchists. They have been a playground of gangsters and gamblers, secret agents and religious visionaries. This volume recounts the exploits of these and many other characters.

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An exploration of how the dtente policy changed the character of the Cold War.

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A comprehensive bibliographic survey of the West Indian presence in the United States, this book covers over 500 articles, books, and other studies on the West Indian immigrant experience.

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