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Available in 3 formats to suit business travellers and tourists alike. Detailed and comprehensive road maps, route planning maps, town plans, journey times and distance information. Languaged for pan-European use - ideal for tourists.

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A comprehensive examination of welfare institutions and commitments in and across Europe from 1500 to 1700.

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A comprehensive examination of welfare institutions and commitments in and across Europe from 1700 to 2000.

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A biography of Evelyn Sharp, a writer and a incorrigible rebel. It draws on Evelyn Sharp's publications, as well as letter and diaries describing experiences such as famine relief in Soviet Russia and daily life in wartime Kensington for an elderly woman. It is suitable for those interested in children's and women's literature.

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This one-stop resource for information and examination of the ten most important topics and events in Ancient Greek history is an ideal student companion to a study of Greek civilization.

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This unique resource describes and evaluates ten of the most important events in British history between the Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Glorious Revolution of 1689 and its aftermath.

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Suitable for students, this resource describes and evaluates ten of the most important events in British history between 1689 and 2002. Each event has an introduction that presents factual information in chronolgical order, followed by an interpretive essay examining the ramifications.

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Presents and evaluates ten of the most critical events in modern Russian history from the pivotal years of 1855-1991, including the Russian Industrial Revolution, the fall of the monarchy, and more. This work also includes a glossary of terms, a timeline of Russian history from 1853-2004, a list of Russian/Soviet rulers and a population chart.

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Analyses the development of the concept of everyday heroism in Victorian Britain, exploring several case studies featuring acts of bravery by civilians.

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This work captures the day-to-day experience of people in the Middle Ages; the houses and settlements in which they lived, the food they ate, their getting and spending, and their social relationships. The picture that emerges is one of great variety, of constant change and of enterprise.

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Examines various ways in which the Empire was displayed in Britain between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, looking at music, satirical prints, exploration, battles and even nascent nationalism. -- .

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When Hitler marched into Austria in March 1938, the country's Jewish population numbered nearly 200,000.

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Explores the cultural and political significance of ostracism in democratic Athens. This book argues that ostracism was primarily a symbolic institution whose meaning for the Athenians was determined both by past experiences of exile and by its role as a context for the ongoing negotiation of democratic values.

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Presents the comprehensive history of the total experience of the Russian Civil War. Focusing on the key Volga city of Saratov and the surrounding region, this book shows how the experience of civil war embedded itself into both the people's and the state's outlook and behavior.

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Explores the growing complexity of the Ottoman Empire as it absorbed cultural influences and imperial legacies from a diversity of sources, thus changing the notions of kingship and definitions of the role and function of the ruler.

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Concentrates on the fascinating life and work of Giles Fletcher, the elder (1546-1611) and his analysis of government and commonwealth, through the image of Russia. His account of Russia remains the most comprehensive early modern western European account of the 'barbaric' land on Christendom's borders. -- .

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A study of cross-cultural engagements between the indigenous peoples of the Pacific and Spanish explorers during the early modern period. It analyses eight main voyages, their aims and outcomes, looking at the different patterns of contact and the use of gift-giving and bartering as social cement.