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A colourful and engaging account of the Devils influence on the English landscape.

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This book is about the spectacles and ceremonies of society in the Low Countries. It is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of the Burgundian court in The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print. -- .

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The remarkable success story of how a local community adapted to survive in the face of potential annihilation and a fascinating portrait of one of Scotland's most ambitious civil engineering projects.

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Drawing in an eclectic range of primary and secondary sources, Chaplin reveals how darts was transformed during the interwar years to become one of the most popular recreations in England, not just among the working classes but even (to some extent) among the middle and upper classes. -- .

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This unique textbook introduces undergraduate students to medieval historiography, providing an entry point for the dense scholarship on the period. Volume I covers the post-Roman world, from 450 to 1050. -- .

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Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. Focusing on the transformation of the 1950's at the level of discourse, ideology, language, and ritual, this book traces the emergence of multiple unanticipated meanings, communities, relations, and pursuits that this transformation enabled.

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In June 1940, Hitler ordered his generals to organize the invasion of Britain under a plan codenamed Operation Sealion, drawing up a complex set of documents, consisting of maps, aerial photographs, a physical description of the British Isles. This book reproduces a selection of these documents in a handy-sized format.

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For centuries, Jews lived in areas that are now part of Greece. But Greek Jews as a nationalized group existed in substantial number only for a few short decades - from the Balkan Wars (1912-13) until the Holocaust, in which more than 80 percent were killed. This book offers a comprehensive English-language history of Greek Jews.

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The definitive account of the Russian Revolution, by Leon Trotsky, its leader and key historian.

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Focuses on one of the most visible and important consequences of total defeat in postwar Germany: the return to East and West Germany of the two million German soldiers and POWs who spent an extended period in Soviet captivity.

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Few sources reveal the life of the ancient Romans as vividly as do the houses preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius. Wealthy Romans lavished resources on shaping their surroundings to impress their crowds of visitors. This book explores the rich potential of the houses of Pompeii and Herculaneum to offer insights into Roman social life.

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In tracing the emergence of the Macedonian kingdom from its origins as a Balkan backwater to a major European and Asian power, this title offers to specialists and lay readers alike an account of a relatively unexplored segment of ancient history.

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A collection of life stories of Russian women in the first half of the twentieth century. It brings together the testimony of Soviet citizens and emigres, intellectuals of aristocratic birth and Soviet milkmaids, housewives and engineers, Bolshevik activists and dedicated opponents of the Soviet regime.

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This interdisciplinary collection explores new ways of assessing the impact of the English Revolution, focusing on its public politics. Contributors examine the debates and practices that transformed relations between elite culture and everyday life, as well as the possibilities for participation that emerged for men and women across society.

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Discover the bloody battles and backstabbing royals that inspired George RR Martins best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire series and the HBO smash-hit Game of Thrones.

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The making of the GDR 1945-53 is a groundbreaking analysis of the Stalinisation of East Germany, focusing on the social roots of the emerging dictatorship and the aspirations of antifascists and Socialists manipulated and ultimately betrayed by Stalinism. -- .