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Original publication and copyright date: 2009.

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This interdisciplinary study of the modern formation of concepts of public decency in France proceeds through a focus on the word pudeur (modesty), following its incidence across a wide range of cultural domains. -- .

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"First edition published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., copyright 1972."

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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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Explores the build up to the conflict as 'The Prophet' Tenskatawa and his brother Tecumseh rallied the tribes to drive back the American settlers once and for all. This book provides a clear view of the intense fighting that followed at Tippecanoe and the true impact that it would come to have on the War of 1812.

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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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In March 1941, with Wavell's British troops having routed the Italians from Cyrenaica, Rommel's Afrikakorps arrived. What followed was the epic siege of Tobruk; a famous episode in desert war, where Wavell instructed General Morshead and his garrison to hold at all costs.

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Towards the end of the 16th century three outstanding commanders brought Japan's century of civil wars to an end, but it was Tokugawa Leyasu who was to ensure a lasting peace. In terms of his strategic and political achievements Leyasu ranks as Japan's greatest samurai commander. This book tells his story.

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"Tomahawk and Musket: French and Indian Raids in the Ohio Valley 1758".

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Wyatt Earp, leader of the so-called good guys, was charged with stealing horses in the Indian Territory in 1870 and jumped bail. Becoming a buffalo hunter and gambler, he got into several scrapes and earned a reputation as a gunfighter. He got fired from a police job in Wichita for beating up a political rival.

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"Tora! Tora! Tora!: Pearl Harbor 1941".

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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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Arguably the greatest military commander in the history of the samurai, Toyotomi Hideyoshi rose from the ranks of the peasantry to rule over all Japan. This book looks at the story of Hideyoshi's military accomplishments, from his days as a tactical leader to his domination of the Japanese nation.

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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.