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This book offers a unique account of life in nineteenth-century Dublin, told through human-animal relationships. It argues that the exploitation of animals formed a key component of urban change, from municipal reform to class formation to the expansion of public health and policing. -- .

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This book offers a unique account of life in nineteenth-century Dublin, told through human-animal relationships. It argues that the exploitation of animals formed a key component of urban change, from municipal reform to class formation to the expansion of public health and policing. -- .

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Explores the experiences of middle-class men on the English home front during the First World War -- .

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Explores the experiences of middle-class men on the English home front during the First World War -- .

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Presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the significant thinkers of modern Europe. This book combines social and military history and psychological interpretation with a study of Clausewitz's military theories and of his unduly neglected historical and political writing. It is useful for anyone interested in Clausewitz and his theories.

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In this innovative study of the forces that shape the decisions of foreign policy leaders, Michael Blackwell examines the attitudes of British policy makers immediately after World War II and considers their impact on foreign and economic policy.

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History is not merely about events that have happened but things that might have happened but for some reason or another failed to do so. The six essays in this book deal with situations that--with different outcomes--might find us living today in a somewhat different world.

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An exploration of Britain's relationship with coal from the explosion of the coal industry in the 1830s to the 'coal-minded' society of the 1940s.

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Britain in the 1950s had a distinctive political and intellectual climate. Jim Smyth shows that, despite being allergic to McCarthy-style vulgarity, British intellectuals in the 1950s operated within powerful Cold War paradigms all the same.

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The book explores the peaceful exploration of space, which became a launching pad for new visions of human community and peaceful collaboration during the Cold War.

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This study in brinksmanship and deception is an essential background for anyone trying to understand Russia's uneasy relations with the West.

America's relationship with Russia has become increasingly important as Washington has engaged Moscow as a critical, but often prickly, ally in the war on terror.

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Insights into the three wars which constituted the rise, stagger and fall of the British Empire.

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This introductory text details the process of colonization that followed the Norman Conquest, an event which defined much of the history of England over the next 150 years, structurally altering the distribution of land and power in society.

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These essays explore aspects of the English colony in medieval Ireland and its relations with the Gaelic host society. They deal both with the foundation and expansion of the English lordship in the 12th and early 13th centuries, and with the adjustments that accompanied its contraction.

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This study examines shared culture in medieval and contemporary Poland. The author argues that shared culture produced by ethnically, religiously, and linguistically diverse societiesrather than elitist values or institutional, ethnic, and religious differenceswas foundational to societal survival in medieval Polish cities.

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How were cultural, political and social identities formed in the early modern period This book looks at community and networks, the importance of place and the value of rhetoric in generating "community".

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Talks about the French route to the conception of commercial society in the 17th and 18th centuries. This book finds that the development of market liberalism, far from being an abstract ideological episode, was part of a broad-gauged attempt to address a number of perceived problems generic to Europe and particular to France during this period.