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In ancient Greece, the spoken word connoted power, whether in the free speech accorded to citizens or in the voice of the poet, whose song was thought to know no earthly bounds. This title provides an investigation into silence as a distinctive and meaningful phenomenon in archaic and classical Greece.

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Pulling together many subject areas into one, this study of the Anglo/ Indian silk trade shows the complexity of the Empire by linking usually disparate histories -- .

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An original study of unmarried motherhood in Britain and Ireland from 1926-1973.

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Addresses imperial memory across various empires, different forms of commemoration and over two centuries

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Since the days of antiquity people have been forced into servitude because of differences in gender, race, class, religion, or level of power. This volume discusses age and gender, caste and class, and origin and ethnicity as the factors, effects and legacy of one of the oldest and most outrageous human practices.

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It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste - the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics - existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. This book demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined.

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"Slavery is not and has never been a "peculiar institution," but one that is deeply rooted in the history and economy of most countries. Although it has flourished in some periods and declined in other"

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At the turn of the 16th/ 17th centuries, the Safavid state in large measure depended on an elite class of Royal slave.

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Smash the Pillars explores the efforts by scholars and activists to decolonize Dutch history and memory and resist the physical, epistemological, and psychological violence imposed by the Dutch state, its institutions, and dominant narratives.

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Charts women's changing relationship to tobacco from the 1880s to the 1980s, during which time smoking transformed from a male practice to one enjoyed by both sexes. Focusing on the feminization of cigarette smoking, the author unravels the role of visual culture and the impact of social, economic, medical and technological changes.

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Charts women's changing relationship to tobacco from the 1880s to the 1980s, during which time smoking transformed from a male practice to one enjoyed by both sexes. Focusing on the feminization of cigarette smoking, the author unravels the role of visual culture and the impact of social, economic, medical and technological changes.

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Established in German-occupied Poland, the Nazi at Sobibor began its killing operation in May 1942 in which 167,000 people had been murdered. On 14 October 1943, prisoners staged a uprising in which 300 men and women escaped. This book presents the creation of the killing centre, its personnel, forced labour, escape attempts and the uprising.

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Established in German-occupied Poland, the Nazi at Sobibor began its killing operation in May 1942 in which 167,000 people had been murdered. On 14 October 1943, prisoners staged a uprising in which 300 men and women escaped. This book presents the creation of the killing centre, its personnel, forced labour, escape attempts and the uprising.

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Ambassador Brucan provides the first social history of the remarkable transition from communism to capitalism in Eastern Europe and Russia.

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Analyzes the attitudes and policies of the Nazi leadership towards the German working class. This book argues that the regime did not securely integrate the working class and was thus less successful in imposing mass economic sacrifices in the interests of forced rearmament.

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Analyzes the attitudes and policies of the Nazi leadership towards the German working class. This book argues that the regime did not securely integrate the working class and was thus less successful in imposing mass economic sacrifices in the interests of forced rearmament.

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Here William Roy conducts a historical inquiry into the rise of the large publicly traded American corporation. Roy focuses on political, social, and institutional processes governed by the dynamics of power.