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A History of Nigeria
Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country and the world’s eighth largest oil producer, but its success has been undermined in recent decades by...
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Passion and Preferences
The 1896 Democratic National Convention simultaneously proposed a radically new trajectory for American industrial expansion, harshly repudiated its...
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Forest Farmers and Stockherders
Drawing extensively on anthropological theory and ecological models of human adaptation, Forest Farmers and Stockherders explores the single most...
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The First Writing
Ancient writing gives us our first glimpse of history, people and institutions, and yet its origins remain mysterious. This book offers the most...
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En liten världshistoria
Ernst Gombrich (1909�2001) är mest känd för sin Konstens historia. Hans första bok var emellertid en världshistoria för »unga läsare», som...
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Before the Bauhaus
Before the Bauhaus re-evaluates the political, architectural, and artistic cultures of pre-World War I Germany. As contradictory and conflict-ridden...
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Revolution and the People in Russia and China
A unique comparative account of the roots of Communist revolution in Russia and China. Steve Smith examines the changing social identities of...
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Sir John Seeley and the Uses of History
Sir John Seeley, first Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge an historian of the British empire, is best known for his remark that the...
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The Writing Revolution
In a world of rapid technological advancements, it can be easy to forget that writing is the original Information Technology, created to transcend...
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The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages
How did people of the medieval period explain physical phenomena, such as eclipses or the distribution of land and water on the globe? What creatures...
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Global Lives
This is a fascinating and unique account of Britain’s rise as a global imperial power told through the lives of over forty individuals from a huge...
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The Iron Age Community of Osteria dell'Osa
Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri, one of the finest Italian protohistorians, deals in this monograph with a major archaeological site, the Iron Age...
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London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885–1914
London and the Culture of Homosexuality explores the relationship between London and male homosexuality from the criminalization of all ‘acts of...
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Socialism and Democracy in Czechoslovakia
This book is about the political, social and economic changes in Czechoslovakia in the years 1945– 1948. In 1945 the ‘national revolution’...
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Soviet Book Publishing Policy
This book first published in 1978 provides a broad and comprehensive view of the Soviet book publishing industry based on extensive use of Soviet...
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Catherine the Great and the Russian Nobilty
Russian Society in the eighteenth century was dominated by the nobility. This class made large contribution to secular culture and played a role of...
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The Socialist Corporation and Technocratic Power
In this book Dr Woodall analyses the political implications of the pursuit of industrial growth for the authority of the Polish United Workers'...
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Making Empire
This is the dramatic story of the colonial encounter and the construction of empire in Southern Africa in the nineteenth century. What did the...
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The Crisis of Imprisonment
America’s prison-based system of punishment has not always enjoyed the widespread political and moral legitimacy it has today. In this...
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Empire of Difference
This book is a comparative study of imperial organization and longevity that assesses Ottoman successes as well as failures against those of other...
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The Last Great War
What was it that the British people believed they were fighting for in 1914–18? This compelling history of the British home front during the First...
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Selected Historical Essays of F. W. Maitland
Noted as one of the ablest and exacting historians of his generation, this selection of historical essays by F. W. Maitland is designed to render...
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Black: The History of a Color
Black--favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists--has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas:...
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The Coming of the Frontier Press
From the first story about the discovery of gold in California in 1848 to features on today’s western boomtowns, western expansion and journalism...
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