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A broad overview of the history of women from the ancient Greeks to today.

Examines people, relationships and the workplace over 2,500 years to show the role and impact on Western society and politics

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This book reveals the eighteenth-century home as a site of emergence for science. By rejecting the limiting associations of domestic life, this book re-imagines a culture of enquiry populated by apprentices and housewives as much as Fellows of the Royal Society.

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From murder to duelling, highway robbery to mugging, this is an exploration of seven centuries of violence in England. It is the tale of the countless assaults, feuds and riots that pepper our history - and of the fascinating individuals who have made up the brutal underside of our national story from medieval times to the present day.

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If Cleopatra's nose had been half an inch longer, neither Caesar nor Mark Antony would have fallen in love with her. This title treats outstanding physical attractiveness as a quality or possession, comparable to power, intelligence, strength, wealth, education or family, that had a marked effect on history.

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The only child of divorced parents, the author was often sent to stay at her grandparents' country house Golsoncott. Years later, she began to piece together the lives of those she knew fifty years before. In this title, she delves into the domestic past of her former home, and the contrasts between life today and the way they lived then.

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A lark for the sake of their country tells the tale of the upper and middle-class 'volunteers' in Great Britain's 1926 General Strike. -- .

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This book describes the historical and legal experiences of Americans of Asian ancestry who began to come to the United States in the mid-19th century. This study examines the way immigration and naturalization laws were unfairly administered against Asian immigrants and throws light on a less than admirable period of American legal history.

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Utilizing biographical, demographic, political, social, and cultural approaches, the nine essays in this book provide a probing look at the South's diversity and its important place in the national past.

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Comprises essays dealing with crime, law and punishment in colonial Australia. Topics include: women under the convict system in New South Wales; the paradoxical relationship between race, justice and criminal law in north Queensland; and regulation of the vagrant in late 19th-century Melbourne.

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A Progressive Education argues that the period after WWII witnessed a fundamental transformation in concepts of childhood and adolescence in England and Wales. -- .

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A Progressive Education argues that the period after WWII witnessed a fundamental transformation in concepts of childhood and adolescence in England and Wales. -- .

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Drawing upon a wide range of private papers, this family biography recreates the social and domestic setting of an ambitious family which had been part of the highest levels of political leadership in Britain for almost 150 years, throwing important light upon public and private centres of power and influence from the late 18th to the early 20th century.

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In the second half of the twentieth century Dominicans became New York City's largest, and poorest, new immigrant group. By 1990, one of every ten Dominicans lived in New York. This book tells the fascinating story of this emblematic migration from Latin America to the United States.

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This history of Burrell & Son of Glasgow describes the way in which ship ownership and operation developed during the final years of the age of sail and the beginning of the era of steamships.

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This book uncovers the contribution that homegrown womens magazines made to shaping complex debates about the position of women in society in 1960s Ireland. Womans Way is explored alongside the lesser-known titles Womans View, Womans Choice, and Young Woman.