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The authors trace the history of this intriguing and all-encompassing philosophy - which has much in common with contemporary holistic thought - charting its origin in the Egyptian mysteries, and demonstrating how it continued to exercise enormous influence through the magicians and magi of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

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And when only the machinations of ruthless intriguers like William Cecil and Francis Walsingham prevented Elizabeth's kingdom from descending into anarchy and political chaos.

The Elizabethans is a panoramic, exhilarating depiction of an intensely colourful period by master-historian, A N Wilson.

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An exploration of the emergence and development of bicycling and automobility in modern Britain, with a focus on SF Edge and his network of entrepreneurs.

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In its transition from 18th century capital of the Ottoman Empire to economic powerhouse of the Turkish Republic, the city of Istanbul has been transformed beyond recognition. Using archive sources, the author charts the urban transformation of Istanbul during the late Ottoman, early Republican and the Democrat Party periods of Turkish history.

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Designed as an accessible introduction to Justinian's reign and his time, 'The Emperor Justinian and the Byzantine Empire' offers readers and researchers an appealing mix of descriptive chapters, biographical sketches, and annotated primary documents.

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A leading expert examines one of Napoleon's most decisive but least analysed victories

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This title explores the process of decolonization of France's largest colony, French West Africa. The author challenges the traditional dichotomy between "imperial" and "colonial" history, and asks was successful decolonization achieved largely by accident.

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This title explores the process of decolonization of France's largest colony, French West Africa. The author challenges the traditional dichotomy between "imperial" and "colonial" history, and asks was successful decolonization achieved largely by accident.

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On the eve of America's entry into World War II, a fierce debate raged among religious leaders over the United States's participation in the war. In The End of Illusions, Joseph Loconte brings together pieces from the most significant religious thinkers of the day about the re...

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Analyses the attempted reform of the Poor Law system in Ireland between 1910 and 1932. This period represented one of the most formative and crucial eras in Irish politics and society with the ideas of culture, nation, state and identity widely contested. -- .

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Franco Venturi, premier European interpreter of the Enlightenment, is still completing his acclaimed multivolume work Settecento Riformatore, a grand synthesis of Western history before the French Revolution as seen through the perceptive eyes of Italian observers. Princeton University Press has already published R. Burr Litchfield's English transl

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Franco Venturi, premier European interpreter of the Enlightenment, is still completing his acclaimed multi-volume work, a grand synthesis of Western history before the French Revolution as seen through the perceptive eyes of Italian observers. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to

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Allan Wildman presents the first detailed study of the Army's collapse under the strains of war and of the front soldiers' efforts to participate in the Revolution. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished back

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In 1683, two empires - the Ottoman, based in Constantinople, and the Habsburg dynasty in Vienna - came face to face in the culmination of a 250-year power struggle: the Great Siege of Vienna.

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