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The period of the 'long' Second World War (1936-1948) was marked by mass movements of diverse populations. This book looks at: the Spanish Republicans fleeing Franco's Spain in 1939, the French civilians trying to escape the Nazi invasion in 1940, and the millions of people displaced or expelled by the forces of Hitler's Third Reich.

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The period of the 'long' Second World War (1936-1948) was marked by mass movements of diverse populations. This book looks at: Spanish Republicans fleeing Franco's Spain in 1939, the French civilians trying to escape the Nazi invasion in 1940, and the millions of people displaced or expelled by the forces of Hitler's Third Reich.

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This is a history of European minority communities. It deals with the dispersed minorities, the Jews and the gypsies, as well as the muslims of the Balkans and the diaspora of Germans in eastern Europe from the Middle Ages to 1945.

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The astonishing tale of the first sea voyage to circumnavigate the entire globe. Magellans dramatic maritime expedition in 1519 discovered the straits that enabled Europe to trade with the Eastern spice islands and changed the course of history.

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Journalist Chesnoff presents the story of the largest organized robbery in history: the systematic looting of Europe's Jews by the Nazis, in cooperation with most of the nations in Europe, and how Swiss banks hoarded the assets of Holocaust victims. of photos.

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This study examines Native American protests in the Pacific Northwest during the 1960s and 1970s. It focuses on the successful occupation of Fort Lawton in 1970 and the creation of the Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center in 1975, both of which the author frames within the larger history of Native American activism.

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Examines the political and cultural history of late-19th and early 20th century Spain and links the development of a liberal tradition and a public sphere to Spain's smooth transition to parliamentary government in the mid-1970s.

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This short history tells the story of five hundred years of papermaking against the general background of the coming of paper and printing in Britain, through the major developments of the Industrial Revolution, up to the technological advances which have made possible the enormous high-speed paper machines of the present day.

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Paris is the city of light and the city of darkness - a place of ceaseless revolution and reinvention that for two thousand years has drawn those with the highest ideals and the lowest morals to its teeming streets. This book features myriad citizens whose stories have shaped Paris.

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A study highlighting the active political nature of the unemployed rather than one of passive victims of the system. The efforts of the unemployed to unite are traced from 1884, when they were first viewed as a group, up to the formation of the National Unemployment Workers' Movement in 1939.

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A study of the Parliamentarian guardianship and upbringing of Charles Is younger children after the outbreak of the civil wars.

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The book explains how and why nuclear weapons cooperation between the US and its allies has evolved since the 1950s. By bringing institutional perspectives to the study of how alliances operate, it focuses on the objectives and sources of influence of US allies in Europe and Asia as they cooperate with the US on the worlds most powerful weapons.

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Patchwork quilts are hugely evocative emblems of our domestic past. With no two quite the same, each example hints both at the story of the particular household in which it was produced and at a larger piece of social history. This book offers an introduction to an important aspect of British domestic history.

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Preeminent historian Stanley Weintraub reveals the story behind one of the most remarkable holiday seasons in American history- December 1941- when the country, bracing itself for war, turned to the White House for inspiration and leadership as Roosevelt and Churchill met to forged one of history's greatest alliances.

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For thousands of years peat was the main fuel that warmed houses all over the British Isles, and the mark of the peat cutter is written deep in the landscape. This book celebrates a cultural history that extended from the Iron Age to the twentieth century. It tells the story of the use of peat for fuel in the British Isles.

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Offers an illustrated history of the British wheeled baby carrier, from the eighteenth century to the end of the classic pram era. This book details the technological changes that affected pram design, and the rise in popularity of the pram.

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