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Explores the major changes in our use of and attitude to time over three centuries. Asks why the 1960s and 1970s expectation that leisure time would increase has failed to come about

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Drawing on the Marconi Archives in the Bodleian Library, the most extensive record of wireless communications, this book recounts the fateful events of April 1912 using complete transcripts of the messages to re-tell this legendary story as it was first heard.

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The real-life story of a political insurgent who was disappeared by the Mexican Army and miraculously escaped to tell the tale.

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Through firsthand accounts, interviews with survivors, and powerful photos, an award-winning author brings to life the experiences of 14-year-old Florence Kelly and 11-year-old Russell Park, who survived a German U-boat attack on the passenger ship Athenia, the first casualty of the Battle of the Atlantic. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2.

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Between 1942 and 1945, Torres Strait Islander women experienced the fears and uncertainties of living virtually on Australia's front line during the Pacific War. Some were forcibly evacuated with their children to the mainland, where they found themselves still restricted as to where and how they could live.

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This book compares how two underdog peoples shaped their modern national identities. Welsh Nonconformists, fighting for religious equality and social justice, established the Welsh radical tradition. Slovenes modernised their language and challenged the dominance of German in Slovene-speaking areas of the Habsburg Empire, which collapsed in 1918.

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The ubiquitous railway as a symbol of the tensions of Indian modernity.

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Trading Territories tells the compelling story of maps and geographical knowledge in the early modern world from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century.

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A thought-provoking analysis of how internal migration in Gilded Age America undermined collective organizing and workers' political power.

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Rich in history, and overflowing with hospitality, Turkey appeals to the full spectrum of travelers, from low-budget to adventurous. "Travelers' Tales Turkey" focuses readers' attention on a country which is culturally Islamic but also an avowedly secular state.

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An important document of the former Prime Minister and her foreign policy by one of her closest advisers at the time.

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Offers an account of British people who took up foreign causes. Not mercenaries, then, but ideologues. Almost all were what today we would call radicals or activists, who thought they knew better than whichever bunch of backward or oppressed people it was that they had come to save.

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Helps understand the history of the African Diaspora, slavery in colonial Latin America, and the role of Christianity in the formation of Cartagena de Indies. This book includes a general introduction and headnotes to each selection which provide cultural, historical, and religious context.

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Helps understand the history of the African Diaspora, slavery in colonial Latin America, and the role of Christianity in the formation of Cartagena de Indies. This book includes a general introduction and headnotes to each selection which provide cultural, historical, and religious context.

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Tribute and Trade: China and Global Modernity explores encounters between China and the West during this period and beyond, into the early 20th century, through examples drawn from art, literature, science, politics, music, cooking, clothing and more.