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Featuring documents of the period by participants such as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, H. The contributions are divided into five sections, covering ideas influential on the early New Left, the anti-war movement, SDS and Weathermen, the counterculture and Yippies and the the women's movement.

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One of the world's foremost historians argues that this long decade ushered in nothing less than a cultural revolution--one that raged most rampantly in the United States, Britain, France, and Italy. 48 halftones.

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An overview of the trans-Atlantic slave trade from its sixteenth century beginnings until its final absolution in the nineteenth century. It covers the main countries involved and explains the inner workings of the trade and the developments that made it easier and more profitable as the centuries passed.

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This book argues that the interwar classroom shaped twentieth-century Britain. It recreates and analyses life in Londons elementary schools in the 1920s and 1930s, building a mosaic of the educational experience. It argues that schools were grounded in their local communities and should be seen as key drivers of social change.

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An inquiry into the collective psychology of the ancient Romans that speaks not about military conquest, sober law, and practical politics, but about extremes of despair, desire, and envy. This title makes us uncomfortably familiar with a society struggling at or beyond the limits of human endurance.

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Based on original research and previously unpublished material, this study reevaluates the Soviet Unions involvement in the Horn of Africa and traces the evolution of Moscows foreign policy toward Somalia and Ethiopia during the Cold War.

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Based on original research and previously unpublished material, this study reevaluates the Soviet Unions involvement in the Horn of Africa and traces the evolution of Moscows foreign policy toward Somalia and Ethiopia during the Cold War.

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This lively and intriguing study looks at the way sports both reflected and shaped Victorian society.

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Explores how radical Chinese and Japanese thinkers committed to social change in the first decades of the twentieth century addressed issues concerning national identity, social revolution, and the role of the national state in achieving socio-economic development.

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This compelling social history tells the stories of ordinary people in modern Japan. Tatsuichi Horikiri spent a lifetime searching out old items of clothing and oral accounts to shed light on those who used these items. He illuminates not only the often desperate lives of these people but also their hopes, aspirations, and human values.

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This compelling social history tells the stories of ordinary people in modern Japan. Tatsuichi Horikiri spent a lifetime searching out old items of clothing and oral accounts to shed light on those who used these items. He illuminates not only the often desperate lives of these people but also their hopes, aspirations, and human values.

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A fascinating history of working-class struggle in Ghana's gold mines.

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A fascinating history of working-class struggle in Ghana's gold mines.

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An introduction and research guide to onomastics the study of names, this book covers the major areas of name study in individual chapters on personal names (anthroponyms), place names (toponyms), acronyms, brand names and trade names.

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Based on the author's dissertation, University of Wisconsin.

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Whether in wartime or peace, tales of love, laughter and hardship from the girls in the Rowntrees factory in Yorkshire

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The telephone used to be a luxury item. McMaster chronicles the fascinating story of the telephone's rise, its spread to ubiquity in today's society, and the billion-dollar industry it has engendered.

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*A book to compare to Primo Levi's classic account of life in a Concentration Camp - IF THIS IS A MAN. THE TENTH CIRCLE OF HELL is about life in a Serbian prison camp in 1992.

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Promoted as virtually unsinkable, the ultimate luxury liner, the largest ship in the world, the RMS Titanic sank on its maiden voyage in April 1912, taking some 1,500 people to their death.

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"Most histories of Reconstruction deal primarily with political issues and the larger conflicts between Democrats and Republicans, notherners and southerners. The Trouble They Seen departs from this ap"