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"Pirate: The Golden Age".

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This book portrays an accurate picture of the pirates who sailed in the waters of the Caribbean and off the American coastline during the 'golden age' of piracy between 1660 and 1730.

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The complete illustrated history of pirates written by internationally renowned experts of buccaneer...

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The complete illustrated history of pirates written by internationally renowned experts of buccaneer...

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"After the Civil War, pioneers in the women's rights movement, women's medical education, and in public-private charitable partnerships joined forces to reduce the incidence of abortion in America. Alumni of the abolitionist movement, the analyses they applied to abortion resembled their earlier critiques of slavery"--

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Offers an account of the origins, events and outcome of the Battle of Plassey in 1757, a victory which not only established the reputation of Clive of India, but also ensured British pre-eminence in India. The battle has gone down in history as a success against almost ridiculous odds.

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"Plataea 479 BC: Greece's Greatest Victory".

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Blending history and biography, the author evokes the characters of great leaders in history. He systematically pairs a Greek with a Roman, comparing characters and lives with similar careers so as to serve his particular goal of moral instruction. He defines for all ages the character of Greek and Roman moral identity.

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Blending history and biography, the author evokes the characters of great leaders in history. He systematically pairs a Greek with a Roman, comparing characters and lives with similar careers so as to serve his particular goal of moral instruction. He defines for all ages the character of Greek and Roman moral identity.

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The only major conflict of Lord Dunmore's War, the battle of Point Pleasant was fought between Virginian militia and American Indians from the Shawnee and Mingo tribes. This title brings to life one of the most significant pre-Revolutionary which conflicts between American settlers and the native tribes.

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"Portions of chapter 4 were previously published in slightly different form in "So bad she's good: the masochist's heroine in Japan, Abe Sada," in Bad girls of Japan, edited by Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 141-67"--T.p. verso.

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One of the key battles of the Hundred Years' War, the Battle of Poitiers had huge political consequences. Fought in the picturesque Loire Valley, it led to the capture of King John and a treaty that subsequently gave England half of France.

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An examination of the German invasion of Poland in 1939, which introduced the world to a new style of warfare - blitzkrieg. Having conducted graduate research in Poland, the author has amassed material that, he feels, dispels several persistent myths about the campaign.

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The author discusses the texts and performances in the context of the time. He relates the Spanish theatre to the various ideologies and war conditions. He also links the Spanish theatre tradition to the wider context of European political theatre.

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In fascist Italy between the wars, a woman was an exemplary wife and mother or else. The "or else" is the focus of this study. Reading works by women of the period, the author shows how they refuted stereotypes that were conferred on them by the fascist regime.

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Offers an account of the origins, events and outcome of the Battle of Poltava in 1709, at which Peter the Great's newly modernized Russian Army smashed the Swedish Army of Charles XII, thus ending more than 50 years of Swedish military supremacy in northern Europe.

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