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\nOnce sidelined from public memory, World War II is now a historical touchstone in China. Rana Mitter links reassessment of…

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An eminent historian of the Holocaust examines why Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, though faced with mounting evidence of…

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Kniha 9780674990753 The Greek Anthology W. R. Paton…

"The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours" je hloubkové zkoumání pojmu hrdiny v antické řecké literatuře od Homéra až po Platóna,…

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This collection examines the Ukrainian economy during the late 20th century-a period of epochal change. The papers are…

The product of a colloquium at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies, this volume offers a broadly based, comparative…

The culmination of decades of research by premier military historians, this is the first comprehensive, single-volume…

Monarchical presidential regimes in the Arab world looked as though they would last indefinitely-until events in Tunisia and…

This first English translation of lectures Claude LĂ©vi-Strauss delivered in Tokyo in 1986 synthesizes his ideas about…

From the earliest times, successive waves of foreign invaders have left their mark on Italy. Beginning with Germanic…

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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution is a classic of American historical literature required reading for…

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\nThe Mongols are universally known as conquerors, but they were more than that: influential thinkers, politicians,…

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\nTravelers have always experimented with disguise while observing the disguises of others. Each of the chapters in Mobility…

\nThe unique relationship between dogs and humans has had huge evolutionary consequences, changing the physical, behavioral,…

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\nIn 1831 enslaved Jamaicans revolted. What began as a peaceful movement soon became a bloodbath as British troops…

\nStandard histories of infectious disease celebrate brilliant minds such as Florence Nightingale, John Snow, and Robert…

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In 1896 a massive Ethiopian army routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's conquest of Africa to an end. In…

The foremost historian of 18th-century France explores how the Old Regime's institutions operated and how they were…

In discussing both poets and scholars from a broad historical span, with emphasis on the German legacy of genius, Hamilton…

By the late 19th century Odessa was the most polyglot and cosmopolitan city in the empire. In the first decades of the 20th…

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On a June night in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in disguise, hoping to escape the turmoil of the…

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\nIn 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979, it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society that…

The Giza Plateau represents perhaps the most famous archaeological site in the world. With the advent of new technologies,…

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AFinancial TimesBest History Book of the Year.AFinancial TimesSummer Reading Favorite\"[V]ividly evokes cultural life in…

\nThis data-rich sociological study uses everything from census figures to Who’s Who to analyze how, over 125 years, the…

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\nIt can seem as though the Cold War division of Europe was inevitable. But Stalin was more open to a settlement on the…

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Marco Santagata illuminates one of the world's supreme poets from many angles philosopher, father, courtier, political…

Peter Brown explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul between 250 and 650 CE, showing how…

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\nHow did the United States appoint itself as the world\'s supreme military power? Stephen Wertheim delves into the archives…

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At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz.…

Despair at Gallipoli. Victory at Vimy Ridge. A European generation lost, an American spirit found. The First World War, the…

Tells the history of how the United States government, along with private philanthropies like the Ford and Rockefeller…

A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of altering ordinary waking consciousness, this book…

In the first complete history of the War of 1812 written from a British perspective, Latimer offers an authoritative account…

A history of German resistance to Hitler in high places, this book offers a glimpse into one of the most intractable…

By examining the history of menopause over the course of the twentieth century, Houck shows how the experience and…

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Today, many believe the Civil War was fought over slavery. This view satisfies our contemporary sense of justice, but as…

\nPerhaps nothing has ever been so frightening to people of faith as \"the modern.\" Pluralistic and rationalizing,…

\nThe American working class didn\'t disappear with the manufacturing economy. It transformed. Instead of unionized…

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\nGenerations of Russians have pursued wealth and power in the East, colonizing Pacific regions and spreading political…