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Presents a story of the Titanic and its only voyage. This work provides an account of ten of those who died, among them, Titanic's captain Edward Smith and builder Thomas Andrews, John Jacob Astor, the richest man on board, and the bandmaster, Wallace Hartley, who played as the ship sank.

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When Titanic set sail in 1912, she was the largest, most luxurious and most technologically advanced man-made moving object in the world. This book tells the untold stories of the men and women who made the ship of dreams a reality.

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Professor Herr's brief and attractively presented Tocqueville and the Old Regime is to be commended to all who are interested in Tocqueville and his great hook on The Ancien Regime and the Revolution Originally published in 1962. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-prin

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This book provides a wide-ranging analysis of 'unrespectable' women and children living on the margins of mainstream Italian society, considering the interrelated aspects of Italian social history, Catholic charity and social policy over a period of five centuries. -- .

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A multi-perspectival, broadly thematic exploration of ghettoization and deportation in Hungary as spatio-temporal processes, integrating the so-called 'spatial turn' in the humanities into Holocaust Studies. It explores ways of integrating the so-called 'spatial turn' in the humanities into Holocaust Studies.

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A multi-perspectival, broadly thematic exploration of ghettoization and deportation in Hungary as spatio-temporal processes, integrating the so-called 'spatial turn' in the humanities into Holocaust Studies. It explores ways of integrating the so-called 'spatial turn' in the humanities into Holocaust Studies.

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This group of essays, from research affiliated with the UNESCO Slave Route Project, explores trans-Atlantic linkages and cultural overlays during the era of slavery and after. The essays concentrate on ethnicity and culture and their manifestations on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Paperback reissue of original cloth edition published in 2004.

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Trees are special, being bigger than us both physically and metaphorically. This book offers an account of our relationship with them. It states that throughout history, our views of trees have been affected by the changing use of woodland and the effects of deforestation and urbanisation.

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Duellists, drunks and remorseful murderers populate Trials of the self, which highlights the criminal court as a space for publicising and negotiating models of the self. Using criminal trial records, the book argues that inner depth became increasingly important around 1800, not only for elites, but also for common people.

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Was there ever really a black-Jewish alliance in twentieth-century America And if there was, what happened to it This book answers these questions, drawing a portrait of what was less an alliance than a tumultuous political engagement - but one that energized the civil rights revolution, and affected the course of American politics as a whole.

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Comparing the British and Dutch experience of mass society in the twentieth century, this book considers five major areas: politics, welfare, media, leisure, and youth culture. Drawing on history, cultural studies and sociology, it offers insights into the development of modern European society.

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Predating the wheel, the ski has played an important role in our history. This book features a history that begins 20,000 years ago in the last ice age on the icy tundra of an unformed earth.

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The early modern execution was far more than a spectator sport. The period between the Restoration and the American Revolution witnessed the rise and fall of execution literature: last speeches and confessions; criminal trials and biographies, featuring the criminal as an Everyman (or Everywoman) holding up a mirror to the sins of his readers.

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Explore immigration and naturalization issues throughout American history with this collection of primary documents.