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Both colonial and postcolonial historical approaches often sideline New Zealand as a peripheral player. This book redresses the balance, and evaluates its role as an imperial power as both a powerful imperial envoy and a significant presence in the Pacific region.

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"The rise, fall, and untold truth about the president, Watergate, and the pardon"--Jacket.

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The broad range and brilliance of Chomsky's thought and analysis is on full display in this collection of interviews with his long-time collaborator/interlocuter David Barsamian.

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The goal of war is to defeat the enemy's will to fight. But how this can be accomplished is a thorny issue. Nothing Less than Victory provocatively shows that aggressive, strategic military offenses can win wars and establish lasting peace, while defensive maneuvers have often led to prolonged carnage, indecision, and stalemate. Taking an ambitious

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On 18 October 1945, a day that would haunt him for ever, Airey Neave personally served the official indictments on the twenty-one top Nazis currently awaiting trial in Nuremberg. With his visit to their gloomy prison cells, the tragedy of an entire generation reached its final act.

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Presented here in a new and complete translation is the Japanese classic Okagami, an historical talc that mirrors a man's life and the times in which he lived. Dating from the late eleventh or early twelfth century, it focuses on Fujiwara Michinaga, the leading political figure in the great family that dominated the court during most of the Helan p

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Anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner is perhaps most well known for coining the phrase 'great Australian silence', addressing the culture of denial regarding the history of Australia since European arrival.

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An intimate intellectual, political and personal portrait of Edward Said, one of the 20th centuries leading public intellectuals

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A renowned historian and writer dismantles foreign policy decisions of the Trump and Biden administration.

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The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600. Inspired by a lifetime of teaching and research, On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State is a classic work on what is known about the early history of the European state. This short, clear book book explores the Europ

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An account of the author's investigations into the background of Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of President Kennedy, and his prosecution of Clay Shaw in the trial that followed. It was the primary source material for Oliver Stone's hit film "JFK".

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In the planned colony of South Australia, Aboriginal people were to be British subjects, held accountable for their actions by English law, but fully entitled to its protection. However, the dreams rapidly soured as British law struggled to protect the settlers' interests and failed to protect Aboriginal lives and birthrights.

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In his own exciting account, Garbo recalls his career. A fantastic addition to the Dialogue Espionage Classics series.

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One of the most unsettling, revelatory books about the relationship between the CIA and JFK's alleged assassin ever published "reads like an intricate spy thriller" (Publishers...

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Translated in its entirety here for the first time, The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg has long been recognised as one of the most important sources for the history of the tenth and early eleventh centuries, especially for the history of the Ottonian Empire. -- .

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For more than three centuries Oxford has been the subject of fine illustrated books and engraved prints. The best of these historic prints are reproduced here to create a panorama of classical Oxford, offering an instructive and captivating view of Oxford through the ages.

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In 2004, Mulrunji Doomadgee's tragic death triggered civil unrest within the Indigenous community of Palm Island. Few Australians know the turbulent history of 'Australia's Alcatraz', a political prison set up to exile Queensland's 'troublesome blacks'. Joanne Watson gives the first substantial history of the island from pre-contact to the present.

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A wide-ranging collection of concise essays, Past Forward introduces core features of Korean history that illuminate current issues and pressing concerns, demonstrating how Koreas present circumstances both reflect and shape the understanding of its past.

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Some fourteen to ten thousand years ago, as ice-caps shrank and glaciers retreated, the first bands of hunter-gatherers began to colonize the continental extremity of South America--"the uttermost end of the earth." Their arrival marked the culmination of humankind's epic journey to people the globe. Now they are extinct. This book tells their stor

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The long-buried story of a Chicagoan's struggle for justice after four of his children perished in a tragic fire.