Country Music: A Very Short Introduction presents a compelling overview of the music and its impact on American culture…

This is the first comprehensive, multi-author survey of German history that features cutting-edge syntheses of major topics…

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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may…

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Between 1760 and 1800, the people of the United States created a new nation, based on the idea that all people have the…

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An introduction to the thought and background of the Greek historian Thucydides, this book examines his account of the great…

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The Reformation was a seismic event in European history, one that changed the medieval world. Much of what followed in…

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Produkt Civil Rights Movement - Holt, Thomas C. (James Westfall Thompson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of…

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This Very Short Introduction assesses More's life, writings and achievements, and examines changing views of his character,…

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringThis Very Short Introduction is a general introduction to oral history…

International Relations since 1945 is a comprehensive introduction to the global history of International Relations. The…

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Critics of Herodotus have generally shown an unease in the face of the religious passages of the Histories, a sense that he…

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The Handbook of Neurologic Music Therapy is a comprehensive landmark text presenting a new and revolutionary model of music…

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Children of Lucifer tells the history of Satanism, from its earliest conception as polemical construct by the Christian…

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One of only a few women who ruled ancient Egypt as a king during its thousands of years of history, Tausret was the last…

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The period between 1867 and 1914 remains the greatest watershed in human history since the emergence of settled agricultural…

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A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive…

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This work provides an indispensable study of the role played by the Catholic Church during one of the most tumultuous…

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From 1938 to 1945, the Protestant church leader Martin Niemöller was detained as 'Hitler's Personal Prisoner' in Nazi…

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Produkt Canada First, Not Canada Alone - McKercher, Asa (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History,…

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Chronicles the origins and early developmental history of the new medical field of gene therapy. Friedmann examines the…

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This is the first scholarly biography of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) in any language. Based upon a wealth…

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A history of how Max Weber theorized politics. The principal subject is the theory of politics framed in the last decade of…

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Reveals to the world for the first time a unique and hitherto undiscovered selection of interviews with leading participants…

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A concise and comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, including plague, tubercolosis, smallpox,…

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First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Kenneth Morgan's Very Short…

Hobson-Jobson is a unique lexicon of British India. Part dictionary, part encyclopedia it shows how words of Indian origin…

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The Iliad tells the story of Greek warrior Achilles' great anger and the tragic death of Hector during the Trojan War,…

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Arrian's account of Alexander's life and campaigns, published as the Anabasis and its companion piece the Indica, is our…

The Habsburgs are the most famous dynasty in continental Europe. From the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries, they ruled…

The appetite for Equiano and his memoir shows no signs of abating, as this new edition shows. James Walvin, The Times…

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Eminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high art. It replaced…

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In the ancient Graeco-Roman world, it was a common practice to curse an enemy or rival by writing an incantation on a tablet…

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This study presents a new perspective on an important fourteenth-century Greek theologian, Gregory Palamas. Kniha…

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Written by two senior scholars, A History of Africa introduces students to the history of the world's second largest…

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Rome acquired her great empire under republican institutions. These institutions were held to be remarkably stable because…

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Discovered in Egypt in 1945, the fascinating and challenging Nag Hammadi writings forever changed our understanding of early…

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The new edition of this comprehensive nephrology desk reference focuses on aspects of renal disease that are important to…

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In 1890, Professor Arthur Willis Goodspeed, a professor of physics at Pennsylvania USA was working with an English born…

By the mid-nineteenth century, geologists and palaeontologists had reconstructed an authoritative narrative of Earth''s deep…

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Tracing the history of the book throughout the world from ancient times to the present day, this reference draws on the…

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In The Rise and Fall of the Age of Psychopharmacology, esteemed historian Edward Shorter proposes that the recent history of…

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John Owen was a leading theologian in 17th-century England. Through his association with Oliver Cromwell in particular, he…

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Produkt Revolutionary Russia - Weinberg, Robert (Professor of History, Professor of History, Swarthmore College) a…

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Produkt Cold War - Winkler, Allan M. (Distinguished Professor of History, Distinguished Professor of History, Miami…

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This is the first environmental history of Russia's steppes. David Moon focuses on the settlement of migrants from central…

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This biography of the life and science of 20th Century physicist Pieter Zeeman draws on a wealth of newly discovered…

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This collection of essays explores how Roman scholars and grammarians addressed different kinds of linguistic diversity…

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Produkt American Political History - Critchlow, Donald (Professor of History, Professor of History, Arizona State…