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By 1756 the wilderness war for control of North America that erupted two years earlier between France and England had expanded into a global struggle among all of Europe's Great Powers.

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The war plans and military campaigns on both Eastern and Western fronts are examined and key battles are narrated and analysed. On the home front, the mobilization of the civilian populations behind the war effort had profound social consequences.

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Florence in the fifteenth century was the undisputed centre of the Italian Renaissance.

In this brilliant and absorbing book Vincent Cronin brings vividly to life the people and myriad achievements of this astonishingly fruitful epoch in human history.

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Following the collapse of Medici rule in fifteenth-century Florence, the centre of Renaissance activity moved first to Rome and finally to Venice.

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The essential guide to understanding the history of the ethnic diversity of the former Soviet Union and the current ethnic issues of the region.

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This authoritative exploration of the ethnic history of the former Yugoslavia traces the roots of the conflicts that convulsed the region in the 1990s.

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The first single-volume history of the mutual relations between the constituent parts of the UK (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland).

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This translation of the fourth book of the Chronicle of Fredegar with its Continuations, has Latin and English on opposite pages.

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Presents a story of a German-Jewish family named Frank which, like Anne Frank's family and 25,000 other Dutch and other 'stateless' Jews, 'dived under' in Nazi-occupied Holland in 1942 - but miraculously survived. This book is based on personal testaments, records and family interviews.

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A history of the French film musical from 1929 to the present.

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Alan Spitzer approaches the history of the French Restoration by examining the experience of a particular age group born between 1792 and 1803: the generation of 1820. A predominantly male, middle-class, educated minority of this group was perceived as representing all that was most promising and specifically youthful in the period. Their response

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Goes beyond the sphere of party politics to explore the industrial aspects of French wartime history.

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Explores the industrial aspects of French wartime history.

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This volume tells the story of the French overseas empire, assembled as much by chance as by systematic design, an imperial presence that brought commerce, technology, and culture to indigenous peoples, while at the same time promoting the slave trade and suppressing independence movements.

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This volume tells the story of the French overseas empire, assembled as much by chance as by sytematic design. It was an imperial presence that brought commerce, technolgy and culture to indigenous peoples, while at the same time promoting the slave trade and suppressing independence movements.

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General Louis Eugene Cavaignac has been a symbol of reactionary violence ever since he crushed the insurgent workers of Paris in the "bloody June Days" of 1848. Professor de Luna presents a fresh interpretation of the General, as well as a detailed examination of the turbulent year of European revolution, until Cavaignac was defeated by Louis Bonap

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In addition to a historical overview, other essays explore the deterioration of the ancien rgime and the birth of the revolution, the Terror, the culture of the Revolution, Revolution-era diplomacy, and the ambiguous legacy of the Revolution.