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As he examines administrative reform of Russian rural local government between the abolition of serfdom and World War I, Francis William Wcislo takes as his theme the repeated attempts of tsarist statesmen to restructure the most critical mediating link between the autocratic state and a rapidly modernizing agrarian society. His broader objective,

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At the end of the Second World War, some 12 million German refugees and expellees fled or were expelled from their homelands in Eastern and Central Europe into what remained of the former Reich. This book examines their economic, social and political integration in Germany from 1945 up to the present day. -- .

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How far England was centrally controlled and how far power remained in the localities are key considerations in understanding English history both in the middle ages and afterwards.

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This book examines the large problems of the Russian past. The linking theme is the balance of continuity and discontinuity in the history of the country across several centuries. The chapters cover a range of topics: politics, administration, economy, sociology and culture. They also consider the latest historical discussions in Russia and abroad.

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Discussing German political development since 1945, this study covers such areas as: occupation policy, 1945-1949; the re-emergence of German political life; Adenauer's high policy - 1949-55; Adenauer's model Germany - 1953-63; and the Grand Coalition and the Brandt Chancellorship.

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In 1945, Elsie C. Bechtel left her Ohio home for the tiny French commune of Lavercantire, where for nearly three years she cared for children displaced by the ravages of war. This book, based her diary, oral testimony, and archival research, draws on these various contexts to establish the complexity and significance of pilgrimage and humanitarian service as intercultural exchanges.

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This book provides a full account of the life and career of the Elizabethan politician and courtier Sir Christopher Hatton. A loyal favourite and minister of a Protestant queen, he was also a patron and protector of Catholics. This account of Hatton opens a new window into the complex religious politics of Elizabeths reign.

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This text examines the continued conflict in Ireland from a comparative and historical framework. Analysing the process through which sectarian conflict was managed, it identifies the evolution of the Irish situation.

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What, in the 16th and 17th centuries, was "superstition" Where might it be found and how might it be countered This text reveals attitudes to prophets, ghosts, saints and demonology, Catholic responses to the Reformation and the apparent presence of "superstition" in the reformed churches.

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concise introduction to Greek religion.

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Religion and the Romans provides a short, modern introduction to religion in the Roman worl. This lively and accessible book will prove invaluable to students of the classical world providing a much needed general survey of Roman religion.

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This is an exceptional collection of essays that looks at the issues of conflict, conversion and coexistence in the religious context since the third century -- .

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A collection of essays that are tightly focused around the issue of religion in England between 1640 and 1660, the time of upheaval and civil war in England -- .

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Western European civilization evolved during the medieval centuries when the whole area was converted to Christianity in its Latin Catholic form. This book is an introduction to the religious life of this formative period -but is concerned less with the institutional Church than with the interaction between the Church and lay society.

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The imposition of a loyalty oath on French clergymen in the winter of 1790 was a turning point in the Revolutionary decade after 1789. What is more, there is a remarkable similarity between the geography of this oath--the regional percentages of those who accepted or rejected it--and the geographic patterns of religious practice and political behav