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Ray Wooster
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• Author(s): Ray Wooster • Publisher: Tsl Publications • Publisher Imprint: Tsl Publications • BISAC: GeneralRay Wooster shares memories of his early years growing up in Greenford and Northolt, greater London in the 1930s and 1940s. Telling of 'm...
View full detailsWhen Heaven Visits: Dramatic Accounts of Military Heroes
Jerry Barnes
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• Author(s): Jerry Barnes • Publisher: Elk Lake Publishing Inc • Publisher Imprint: Elk Lake Publishing Inc • BISAC: Military - Wars & Conflicts (Other)When Heaven Visits presents twenty-four real life stories of page-turning action and encou...
View full detailsWhen Heaven Visits: Dramatic Accounts of Military Heroes
Jerry Barnes
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• Author(s): Jerry Barnes • Publisher: Elk Lake Publishing Inc • Publisher Imprint: Elk Lake Publishing Inc • BISAC: Military - Wars & Conflicts (Other)When Heaven Visits presents twenty-four real life stories of page-turning action and encou...
View full detailsIndian Frontier Warfare
George John Younghusband
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• Author(s): George John Younghusband • Publisher: Naval & Military Press • Publisher Imprint: Naval & Military Press • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaOriginally published in 1898 as part of the respected Wolseley Series of military ...
View full detailsThe Clouds Remember
Leonard Bridgman, Oliver Strewart
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• Author(s): Leonard Bridgman | Oliver Strewart • Publisher: Naval & Military Press • Publisher Imprint: Naval & Military Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War ILeonard Bridgman's atmospheric wash paintings with Oliver Stewart's...
View full detailsEveryman at War: Sixty Personal Narratives Of Fighting By All Ranks On Land Sea And Air During The Great War
C. B. Purdom
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• Author(s): C. B. Purdom • Publisher: Naval & Military Press • Publisher Imprint: Naval & Military Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IExcellent collection of sixty firsthand British accounts of service in the Great War, wit...
View full detailsYashka My Life as Peasant, Officer and Exile: the Recollections of the Founder and Commander of the Russian Women's Battalion of Death During the Firs
Maria Botchkareva
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• Author(s): Maria Botchkareva • Publisher: Leonaur Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Leonaur Ltd • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IThe modern 'Joan of Arc' of the Great War and Russian RevolutionThis the story of an astonishing life told in her ...
View full detailsYashka My Life as Peasant, Officer and Exile: the Recollections of the Founder and Commander of the Russian Women's Battalion of Death During the Firs
Maria Botchkareva
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• Author(s): Maria Botchkareva • Publisher: Leonaur Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Leonaur Ltd • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IThe modern 'Joan of Arc' of the Great War and Russian RevolutionThis the story of an astonishing life told in her ...
View full detailsWriting the Landscape: Exposing Nature in French Women's Fiction 1789-1815
Christie Margrave
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• Author(s): Christie Margrave • Publisher: Legenda • Publisher Imprint: Legenda • BISAC: General
A Modernist in Exile: The International Reception of H. G. Adler (1910-1988)
Lynn L. Wolff
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• Author(s): Lynn L. Wolff • Publisher: Legenda • Publisher Imprint: Legenda • BISAC: HolocaustH. G. Adler (Prague, 1910-London, 1988), a survivor of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and two other Nazi concentration camps, is unique for his scholarly a...
View full detailsMilitary Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union
Erica L. Fraser
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• Author(s): Erica L. Fraser • Publisher: University of Toronto Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralRearming Masculinity explores military masculinity in the Soviet Union after the catastrophe o...
View full detailsThe History of the Decatur, Illinois Police Department: Volume 4
Mark Barthelemy
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• Author(s): Mark Barthelemy • Publisher: Lulu.com • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com • BISAC: GeneralThis historical work details the policing of a Midwest city of 50,000 population during the first half of "The Roaring Twenties." Walk the beats with...
View full detailsWords Have a Past: The English Language, Colonialism, and the Newspapers of Indian Boarding Schools
Jane Griffith
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• Author(s): Jane Griffith • Publisher: University of Toronto Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press • BISAC: Canada - GeneralWords Have a Past traces settler colonial narratives represented in newspapers produced in late nineteen...
View full detailsMesopotamia 1914-15: Extracts from a Regimental Officer's Diary-With the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry during the First World War
H. Birch Reynardson
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• Author(s): H. Birch Reynardson • Publisher: Leonaur Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Leonaur Ltd • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IA superb account of the Great War in the Middle EastMesopotamia (modern day Iraq) was the scene of much bitter f...
View full detailsMesopotamia 1914-15: Extracts from a Regimental Officer's Diary-With the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry during the First World War
H. Birch Reynardson
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• Author(s): H. Birch Reynardson • Publisher: Leonaur Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Leonaur Ltd • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IA superb account of the Great War in the Middle EastMesopotamia (modern day Iraq) was the scene of much bitter f...
View full detailsPre-Columbian Art of the Caribbean
Lawrence Waldron
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• Author(s): Lawrence Waldron • Publisher: University of Florida Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Florida Press • BISAC: Caribbean & West Indies - GeneralAbundantly illustrated, this volume is a pioneering survey of the ancient art of...
View full detailsCanada's Odyssey: A Country Based on Incomplete Conquests
Peter H. Russell
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• Author(s): Peter H. Russell • Publisher: University of Toronto Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press • BISAC: Canada - Pre-Confederation (to 1867)150 years after Confederation, Canada is known around the world for its social di...
View full detailsAdvertising the Self in Renaissance France: Authorial Personae and Ideal Readers in Lemaire, Marot, and Rabelais
Scott Francis
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• Author(s): Scott Francis • Publisher: University of Delaware Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Delaware Press • BISAC: Europe - GeneralAdvertising the Self in Renaissance France is a study of how authors and readers are represented in pr...
View full detailsAdvertising the Self in Renaissance France: Authorial Personae and Ideal Readers in Lemaire, Marot, and Rabelais
Scott Francis
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• Author(s): Scott Francis • Publisher: University of Delaware Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Delaware Press • BISAC: Europe - GeneralAdvertising the Self in Renaissance France is a study of how authors and readers are represented in pr...
View full detailsA Time for Shadows
T. J. Banks
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• Author(s): T. J. Banks • Publisher: Booklocker.com • Publisher Imprint: Booklocker.com • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IWanting to "make a difference," young Iris Amory joins the Red Cross as a nurse and finds herself serving in a hos...
View full detailsMass Suicides on Saipan and Tinian, 1944: An Examination of the Civilian Deaths in Historical Context
Alexander Astroth
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• Author(s): Alexander Astroth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General When the Americans invaded the Japanese-controlled islands of Saipan and Tinia...
View full detailsA Very Muddy Place: War Stories
Stephen Wendell
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• Author(s): Stephen Wendell • Publisher: Peregrine Publishing Company • Publisher Imprint: Peregrine Publishing Company • BISAC: Military - World War IAn intimate account of a soldier's experience in World War I, A VERY MUDDY PLACE takes us on a...
View full detailsA Very Muddy Place: War Stories
Stephen Wendell
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• Author(s): Stephen Wendell • Publisher: Peregrine Publishing Company • Publisher Imprint: Peregrine Publishing Company • BISAC: Military - World War IAn intimate account of a soldier's experience in World War I, A VERY MUDDY PLACE takes us on a...
View full detailsSurvival in the 'Dumping Grounds'
Laura Evans
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• Author(s): Laura Evans • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Africa - GeneralIn Survival in the 'Dumping Grounds', Laura Evans examines the multi-layered social history of apartheid-era relocation into South Africa's Ciskei ban...
View full detailsNew Discourses in Medieval Canon Law Research: Challenging the Master Narrative
Christof Rolker
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• Author(s): Christof Rolker • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Europe - MedievalNew Discourses in Medieval Canon Law Research offers a new narrative for medieval canon law history which avoids the pitfall of teleological expl...
View full detailsFamagusta Maritima: Mariners, Merchants, Pilgrims and Mercenaries
Michael J. K. Walsh
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• Author(s): Michael J. K. Walsh • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Military - NavalFamagusta Maritima: Mariners, Merchants, Pilgrims and Mercenaries presents a collection of scholarly studies spanning the thousand year histor...
View full detailsGreat Immortality: Studies on European Cultural Sainthood
Jón Karl Helgason, Marijan Dovic
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• Author(s): Jón Karl Helgason | Marijan Dovic • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Europe - GeneralWinner of the Excellence Award for Collaborative Research granted by the European Society of Comparative Literature (ESCL) In G...
View full detailsCuba En 1959. Los Primeros Días del Asalto Comunista a Cuba
Raul Chao
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• Author(s): Raul Chao • Publisher: Ediciones Universal • Publisher Imprint: Ediciones Universal • BISAC: Caribbean & West Indies - CubaRaúl Eduardo Chao received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University and, after a brief stint in the ind...
View full details1956 Suez War and the New World Order in the Middle East: Exodus in Reverse
Yagil Henkin
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• Author(s): Yagil Henkin • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Middle East - Egypt (see also Ancient - Egypt)The 1956 Suez War, fought between Egypt and the improbable coalition of Britain, France, and Israel...
View full detailsKorean American Pioneer Aviators: The Willows Airmen
Edward T. Chang, Woo Sung Han
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• Author(s): Edward T. Chang | Woo Sung Han • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyThis is the untold story of the brave Korean men who took to the skies more than twenty years befor...
View full detailsIsrael's Armor
Walter L. Hixson
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• Author(s): Walter L. Hixson • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyThe United States and Israel have long had a 'special relationship'. The US became the firs...
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Walter L. Hixson
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• Author(s): Walter L. Hixson • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyThe United States and Israel have long had a 'special relationship'. The US became the firs...
View full detailsCassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature
Emily Pillinger
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• Author(s): Emily Pillinger • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThis book explores the miscommunications of the prophet Cassandra - cursed to prophesy the truth but ne...
View full detailsThe Lords of Tetzcoco
Bradley Benton
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• Author(s): Bradley Benton • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Latin America - MexicoTetzcoco was one of the most important cities of the pre-Hispanic Aztec Empire. When the Spaniards ...
View full detailsPolis Histories, Collective Memories and the Greek World
Rosalind Thomas
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• Author(s): Rosalind Thomas • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceGreek 'local histories', better called polis and island histories, have usually been seen as the poor re...
View full detailsLatin American Constitutions
M. C. Mirow
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• Author(s): M. C. Mirow • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Latin America - GeneralLatin American Constitutions provides a comprehensive historical study of constitutionalism in Latin ...
View full detailsExquisite Slaves
Tamara J. Walker
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• Author(s): Tamara J. Walker • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Latin America - GeneralIn Exquisite Slaves, Tamara J. Walker examines how slaves used elegant clothing as a language fo...
View full detailsSicherheit Denken: Entspannungspolitik auf der Zweiten Ebene 1969-1990
Sabine Loewe-Hannatzsch
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• Author(s): Sabine Loewe-Hannatzsch • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • BISAC: GeneralGerade wegen der Abk�hlung des sowjetisch-amerikanischen Verh�ltnis...
View full detailsOral History and the War: The Nazi Concentration Camp Experience in a Biographical-Narrative Perspective
Machteld Venken, Piotr Filipkowski
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• Author(s): Machteld Venken | Piotr Filipkowski • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • BISAC: HistoriographyThis book is rooted in the author's experience a...
View full detailsFayez Sayegh - The Party Years 1938-1947
Adel Beshara
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• Author(s): Adel Beshara • Publisher: Black House Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Black House Publishing • BISAC: Middle East - Israel & PalestineThis book provides an introduction to the early writings and political activism of Fayez Sayegh...
View full detailsFayez Sayegh - The Party Years 1938-1947
Adel Beshara
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• Author(s): Adel Beshara • Publisher: Black House Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Black House Publishing • BISAC: Middle East - Israel & PalestineThis book provides an introduction to the early writings and political activism of Fayez Sayegh...
View full detailsThe Building of an Airport: Port Columbus: "America's Greatest Air Harbor" 1929
Robert F. Kirk
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• Author(s): Robert F. Kirk • Publisher: Authorhouse • Publisher Imprint: Authorhouse • BISAC: United States - State & Local - GeneralThe building of an airport in 1929 was not just developing a design and bringing together concrete and steel...
View full detailsThe Building of an Airport: Port Columbus: "America's Greatest Air Harbor" 1929
Robert F. Kirk
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• Author(s): Robert F. Kirk • Publisher: Authorhouse • Publisher Imprint: Authorhouse • BISAC: United States - State & Local - GeneralThe building of an airport in 1929 was not just developing a design and bringing together concrete and steel...
View full detailsMaggie's Forty Acres
Gregory N. Richardson
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• Author(s): Gregory N. Richardson • Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services • Publisher Imprint: Lulu Publishing Services • BISAC: GeneralA dying Maggie fills the last days of her life by telling her life story to her sister and care giver Alice. Bo...
View full detailsValues that Divide-Degrade-Destroy
Tommy L. Jamison
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• Author(s): Tommy L. Jamison • Publisher: Liberty Hill Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Hill Publishing • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralValues and ideologies are a major source of a nation's longevity. History is full of empires that have come ...
View full detailsAlexander the Great and Hernán Cortés: Ambiguous Legacies of Leadership
Justin D. Lyons
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• Author(s): Justin D. Lyons • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceThis biographical pairing of Alexander the Great and Hern�n Cort�s reflects both upon the character and the leadership abiliti...
View full detailsOrigins of UNICEF, 1946-1953
Jennifer M. Morris
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• Author(s): Jennifer M. Morris • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - GeneralStarted as a temporary organization, UNICEF navigated Cold War tensions in order to provide assistance to mi...
View full detailsMuslim Interpreters in Colonial Senegal, 1850-1920: Mediations of Knowledge and Power in the Lower and Middle Senegal River Valley
Tamba M'Bayo
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• Author(s): Tamba M'Bayo • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Africa - WestThis book explores the intermediary functions of Muslim interpreters in Senegal to affirm their status as active historical agents i...
View full detailsHistoric Nevada Waters: Four Rivers, Three Lakes, Past and Present
Hunt Janin, Ursula Carlson
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• Author(s): Hunt Janin | Ursula Carlson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT The Great Basin is a hydrographic region that inc...
View full detailsStories of Big Oak Flat
Mike Whitney
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• Author(s): Mike Whitney • Publisher: Lulu.com • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com • BISAC: GeneralA collection of stories and folklore from 1850 to 1950 passed down by the first Big Oak Flat homesteaders and their descendants to my grandfather, Dow W...
View full detailsA Women's History of the Christian Church: Two Thousand Years of Female Leadership
Elizabeth Gillan Muir
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Gillan Muir • Publisher: University of Toronto Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press • BISAC: WomenTracing two thousand years of female leadership, influence, and participation, Elizabeth Gillan Muir examin...
View full detailsDiktaturen
Johannes Hürter, Hermann Wentker
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• Author(s): Johannes Hürter | Hermann Wentker • Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Oldenbourg • BISAC: Europe - Germany Diktaturen sind ein zentraler Gegenstand zeithistorischer Forschung, der seit einigen Jahren no...
View full detailsRussia's Hostile Measures in Europe: Understanding the Threat
Raphael S. Cohen, Andrew Radin
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• Author(s): Raphael S. Cohen | Andrew Radin • Publisher: RAND Corporation • Publisher Imprint: RAND Corporation • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralThis report examines current Russian hostile measures in Europe and forecasts how Russia might threa...
View full detailsSeeds of Power: Explorations in Ottoman Environmental History
Onur Inal, Yavuz Kose
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• Author(s): Onur Inal | Yavuz Kose • Publisher: White Horse Press • Publisher Imprint: White Horse Press • BISAC: Middle East - Egypt (see also Ancient - Egypt) The Ottoman Empire was one of the greatest early modern world empires, stretching fr...
View full detailsBallads of the North, Medieval to Modern: Essays Inspired by Larry Syndergaard
Sandra Ballif Straubhaar, Richard Firth Green
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• Author(s): Sandra Ballif Straubhaar | Richard Firth Green • Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications • Publisher Imprint: Medieval Institute Publications • BISAC: Europe - MedievalLarry Syndergaard's contributions down the decade, to ballad s...
View full detailsHistorical Dictionary of Argentina
Bernardo A. Duggan, Colin M. Lewis
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• Author(s): Bernardo A. Duggan | Colin M. Lewis • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Americas (North Central South West Indies)The Historical Dictionary of Argentina c...
View full detailsThe Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony After Genocide
Carolyn J. Dean
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• Author(s): Carolyn J. Dean • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - GeneralThe Moral Witness is the first cultural history of the "witness to genocide" in the West. Carolyn J. Dean sh...
View full detailsThe Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War
Jeremy A. Yellen
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• Author(s): Jeremy A. Yellen • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - Japan"The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere offers a lucid, dynamic, and highly readable history of Japan's att...
View full detailsEmpire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands
Krista A. Goff, Lewis H. Siegelbaum
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• Author(s): Krista A. Goff | Lewis H. Siegelbaum • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionEmpire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands engages with the e...
View full detailsThe Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony After Genocide
Carolyn J. Dean
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• Author(s): Carolyn J. Dean • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - GeneralThe Moral Witness is the first cultural history of the "witness to genocide" in the West. Carolyn J. Dean sh...
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