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'Parks...offers detailed cultural observation, witty yet eagle-eyed, of what makes Italians so Italian' The TimesHow does Italy really work?When Valeria travels from hot, dusty Basilicata to begin her studies in a northern university town, she has little idea of the...
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Vintage Digital
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2020-07-30
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Four hundred years ago, a group of men and women who had challenged the religious establishment of early seventeenth-century England and struggled as refugees in the Netherlands risked everything to build a new community in America. The story of those who journeyed...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-07-30
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16 SEPTEMBER 1620: 400 YEARS SINCE THE MAYFLOWER SET SAILOn a blustery day in September 1620 a small ship, the Mayflower, set sail from the English port of Plymouth. Known to history as the Pilgrims, the passengers on board were beginning an adventure to find religious...
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Vintage Digital
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2020-07-30
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Follows the military lives of three soldiers across the Roman world, providing interesting, historical insight into the Roman military from the late republic to the end of antiquity in the west This book introduces readers to three historical Roman soldiers—Titus Pullo...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2020-07-29
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Rise and Fall of an Empire: A Progressive Caribbean emphasizes the significance of literature, media, history, slavery, culture and ideology which helped shape the Caribbean. This interdisciplinary work includes lesser known events, individuals and organizations that...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-07-29
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A sweeping history of America's long and fateful military relationship with the Philippines amid a century of Pacific warfareEver since US troops occupied the Philippines in 1898, generations of Filipinos have served in and alongside the US armed forces. In Bound by...
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Basic Books
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2020-07-28
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This critical sourcebook compiles excerpts from the extensive interviews undertaken by the Wolfenden Committee on the subject of prostitution. The Committee is remembered, first and foremost, for recommending the decriminalization of sex between men....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-07-25
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This Palgrave Pivot analyzes how six countries in Central America—Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama—connected to and through computer networks such as UUCP, BITNET and the Internet from the 80s to the year 2000. It argues that this story...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-07-24
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This ground-breaking study explores welfare institutions in western law in the middle ages and establishes, for the first time, a legal model for the hospital. On Hospitals takes us beyond canon law, Carolingian capitularies, and Justinian's Code and Novels, to late...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-24
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This ground-breaking study explores welfare institutions in western law in the middle ages and establishes, for the first time, a legal model for the hospital. On Hospitals takes us beyond canon law, Carolingian capitularies, and Justinian's Code and Novels, to late...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-24
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The enthralling story of an eighteenth-century family and their extraordinary achievements.Four brothers, three sisters. Brought up in a Northumberland rectory and in the close of Durham Cathedral, the Sharps would achieve exalted positions at the heart of British...
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Vintage Digital
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2020-07-23
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"This is a beautiful book, a masterpiece of brevity and depth" New European"This tense novella builds to a final reckoning" The TimesIn October 1944, a thirteen-year-old girl arrives in a tiny farming community in Lower Austria, at some distance from the main theatre of...
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Maclehose Press
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2020-07-23
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'[R]eadable and thoughtful . . . does an excellent job of exploring how the murderous political police in all its incarnations defined the Soviet Union, and left a poisonous legacy still with us today'Professor Mark Galeotti, author of The Vory and A Short History of...
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Robinson
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2020-07-23
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Canada is not one nation, but three: English Canada, Quebec, and First Nations. Yet as a countryCanada is very successful, in part because it maintains national diversity through bilingualism, multiculturalism, and federalism. Alongside this contemporary opennessCanada...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-23
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Canada is not one nation, but three: English Canada, Quebec, and First Nations. Yet as a countryCanada is very successful, in part because it maintains national diversity through bilingualism, multiculturalism, and federalism. Alongside this contemporary opennessCanada...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-23
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**Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'As thrilling as any novel. Bailey has an extraordinary talent for bringing history to life' Kate Atkinson'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday...
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Penguin
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2020-07-23
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During the spring and summer of 1918, with World War I still undecided, British, French and American agents in Russia developed a breathtakingly audacious plan. Led by Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, a dashing, cynical, urbane 30-year-old Scot, they conspired to...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-23
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During the spring and summer of 1918, with World War I still undecided, British, French and American agents in Russia developed a breathtakingly audacious plan. Led by Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, a dashing, cynical, urbane 30-year-old Scot, they conspired to...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-23
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This book examines trades in animals and animal products in the history of the Indian Ocean World (IOW). An international array of established and emerging scholars investigate how the roles of equines, ungulates, sub-ungulates, mollusks, and avians expand our...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-07-21
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The essays in this collection offer robust theoretical analysis of language and cultural rights, class and gender, policy and politics, history and historiography, nation and nationalism, and Marxism. They continue to remain original to a vast array of debates and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-07-20
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