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Making Chinese Australia demonstrates how the interpretations and narratives of journalists and editors of Chinese-Australian newspapers played a powerful role in shaping the social identities and historical awareness of Chinese Australians. Mei-fen Kuo is an Australian author.

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The making of the GDR 1945-53 is a groundbreaking analysis of the Stalinisation of East Germany, focusing on the social roots of the emerging dictatorship and the aspirations of antifascists and Socialists manipulated and ultimately betrayed by Stalinism. -- .

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"Originally published as Maria Theresia: Die Kaiserin in ihrer Zeit. Copyright C.H. Beck oHG Munchen 2017"--Title page verso.

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An English translation of "Investigations into Magic" that deals not only with magic in all its forms, from the manipulation of angelic and demonic powers to straightforward conjuring and illusion, but also with witchcraft, alchemy, astrology, divination, prophecy, and possession by evil spirits.

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In Mary Magdalene, Dr. Karen Ralls, a noted medieval historian and religious studies scholar, takes the reader through the gospels of the New Testament, the Gnostic Gospels, Nag Hammadi texts, and the High Middle Ages when the adoration of Mary Magdalene was at its height.

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In this new telling of Mexico's Second Empire and Louis Napoleon's installation of Maximilian von Habsburg and his wife, Carlota of Belgium, as the emperor and empress of Mexico, Maximilian and Carlota brings the dramatic, interesting, and tragic time of this six-year-siege to life.

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Nearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever written. This book argues that it was not the invasion of the Germanic tribes that destroyed the civilization of antiquity, but rather the closing of Mediterranean trade by Arab conquest in the seventh century.

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Medieval Monsters shows how strange creatures sparked artists' imaginations to remarkable heights. Half-human hybrids of land and sea mingle with bewitching demons, blemmyae, cyclops and multi-headed beasts of nightmare and comic grotesques. Over 100 wondrous and terrifying images offer a fascinating insight into the medieval mind.

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The brank may be described simply as an iron framework; which was placed on the head, closing it in a kind of cage; it had in front a plate of iron, which, either sharpened or covered with spikes, was so situated as to be placed in the mouth of victim, and if she attempted to move her tongue in any way whatever, it was to be shockingly injured.

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Within its busy urban presence, Melbourne has a rich and complex Aboriginal heritage. Amongst the city landscape lie layers of a turbulent history and an ongoing vibrant culture. But you need to know where to look. Melbourne Dreaming allows you to take guided tours, or to plan your own self-guided walk, from 30 minutes to a whole day.

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Men of Bronze takes up one of the most important and fiercely debated subjects in ancient history and classics: how did archaic Greek hoplites fight, and what role, if any, did hoplite warfare play in shaping the Greek polis In the nineteenth century, George Grote argued that the phalanx battle formation of the hoplite farmer citizen-soldier was t

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Originally published: New York: Bloomsbury, 2005.

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There are few memorials to colonial businesswomen, but if you know where to look, you can find many traces of their presence as you wander the streets of Sydney. This book brings the stories of these entrepreneurial women to life, with fascinating details of their successes and failures, their determination and wilfulness, their achievements, their tragedies and the occasional scandal.

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A ground-breaking, beautifully illustrated book exploring the early Ming period in the years 14001450, a time when China was the largest (and one of the most prosperous) states in the world, ruled by a single family through a network of imperial and regional courts.

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Museums and Empire is the first book to examine the origins and development of museums in six major regions if the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. -- .

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Music, Dance and the Archive reimagines records of performance cultures from the archive through collaborative and creative research. The contributors explore modes of re-embodying archival records, renewing song practices, countering colonial narratives and re-presenting performance traditions.

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In 1789, the HMS Bounty was sailing through the western Pacific Ocean when disgruntled crewmen seized control and set their captain, along with 18 men, adrift in one of the ship's boats. Alan Frost investigates the mayhem, mutiny and mythology of the Bounty to shed new light on what truly happened during the infamous expedition.

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