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An intimate intellectual, political and personal portrait of Edward Said, one of the 20th centuries leading public intellectuals

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A renowned historian and writer dismantles foreign policy decisions of the Trump and Biden administration.

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In the planned colony of South Australia, Aboriginal people were to be British subjects, held accountable for their actions by English law, but fully entitled to its protection. However, the dreams rapidly soured as British law struggled to protect the settlers' interests and failed to protect Aboriginal lives and birthrights.

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Tells the story of how troubled race relations among American occupation soldiers, and black-white mixing within Germany, shaped German notions of race after 1945. This book explores how racial ideologies are altered through transnational contact accompanying war and regime change, even in the intimate areas of sex and reproduction.

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This book examines 'seditious memories' in the Restoration period. It reveals the social depth of opposition to the Stuarts and the Church of England, and asks why people were prepared to take the risk of voicing their resistance in public. -- .

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Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers--that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culture--almost anything but abstract

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In colonial Australia manners marked the difference between savagery and civilisation, between vulgarity and refinement. Colonists recoiled in shock and confusion at the customs of Indigenous Australians, but they also sensed the savagery lurking in white society. The story of behaviour, respect and manners in colonial Australia.

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Incorporating theoretical and quantitative history, this book examines a specific model of historical change and, more generally, investigates the utility of the dynamical systems approach in historical applications. It is of interest to practitioners of economic history, historical sociology, complexity studies, and demography.

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A memoir of a life in the Qing dynasty. It reveals a sensitive and artistic man, who failed at the civil service examinations that were the gateway to official employment and had to settle for becoming an itinerant private secretary, dabbling unsuccessfully in making a living as an artist and a merchant.

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Two brilliant and influentialminds look beyond capitalism, and chart a roadmap for a planet ravaged by pandemics, a climate crisis, and wars.

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New paperback edition of the definitive work on America's response to the Holocaust.

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Debunks one of the most enduring myths of imperialism, civilization, and conquest: the notion that the Western civilizer is a god to savages. This work reveals the captain as both the self-conscious civilizer and as the person who, his mission gone awry, becomes a "savage" himself.

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The Great Irish Famine claimed the lives of one million people, mainly from the lower classes. In recent decades, its history has become the focus of considerable scholarly and popular attention, but much remains to be retrieved and reconstructed, particularly at the level of the rural poor. This book fills that gap.

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The sole surviving diary of a Holocaust resistance fighter, written from inside the Nazi concentration camps.

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A book about the French in London from William the Conqueror, via the Huguenots, and the emigres of the French Revolution ( such as the families of Joseph Bazelgette, Augustus Pugin and Isambard Brunel), and on to London, the capital of the Free French during WWII.