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This book is concerned with the interaction of traditional politics, culture and social groups, of local and national influences, of ideals and individuals. It looks at local government, social groups and housing policy in the twentieth century. This is a remarkable story of how these factors were interwoven to create and manage policy. -- .

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Systematically explores what it is conceived as 'hunger politics': the articulations of hunger as a tool of protest by poor consumers; its framing as a problem in the making of public policy; and its (elite) political languages and the attendant effects. -- .

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Systematically explores what it is conceived as 'hunger politics': the articulations of hunger as a tool of protest by poor consumers; its framing as a problem in the making of public policy; and its (elite) political languages and the attendant effects. -- .

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Investigates the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and in the ways in which the poor made ends meet. This book attempts to supply the English 'economy of makeshifts' with an empirical basis and to advance the concept of makeshifts from a vague but convenient label to a more precise yet inclusive definition.

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In The Poverty of Planning, Benno Engels examines the factors that contributed to the rejection of urban planning in nineteenth-century England.

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These essays explore the effects of revolutions upon German history form 1789 to 1989 - the date of Germany's "peaceful revolution" - and discusses the fundamental questions of reform and revolution, the effects of war, counter-revolution and defeat on the social process of modernization.

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A spellbinding story of love and the history of modern China.

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The Quest For Clover embarks on a journey of search and discovery into an elusive ancestor's past. A fifty year expedition through intentional deceit, and how reality finally determines a connection to the past.

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The Rainbow Division (42nd Infantry Division) was the premier National Guard division to fight on the Western Front in the Great War. Patton's tanks supported The Rainbow Division during the St. Mihiel operations, the first time the legendary Patton planned for the use of tanks on the battlefield.

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Dispels the facile stereotypes surrounding America's fortieth president in favour of a levelheaded, cogent understanding of an often misunderstood man - Ronald Reagan.

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This edited collection explores the inspiration of the Russian Revolution of 1917 for black radicals across the African diaspora. The volume challenges European-centred understandings of the Russian Revolution and the global left and enables new insights on the relations between Communism and various black radical traditions.

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This edited collection explores the inspiration of the Russian Revolution of 1917 for black radicals across the African diaspora. The volume challenges European-centred understandings of the Russian Revolution and the global left and enables new insights on the relations between Communism and various black radical traditions.

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Explores the evolving shape of a series of Catholic festivals that took place throughout the duration of Portuguese colonial rule in Goa (1510-1961) -- .

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Philanthropy, a 'love of humankind', is now thought of as the rich giving to good causes. The Reputation of Philanthropy explores how this came about and asks why praise for philanthropists has always been matched by criticism. Original and accessible, the book will inform thinking about the proper role for philanthropy today. -- .

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Through the careful analysis of historical figures and empirical policy successes, The Rhetoric of Genocide: Death as a Text reveals how strategic communication silences make the tragedy of genocide probable and how a greater social ethic for communication openness repels and ends this great evil.