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¡Salud!British Volunteers in the Republican Medical Service During the Spanish Civil War, 1936?1939Linda Palfreeman

In this response to the lack of accessible literature on what was surely one of the most important aspects conflict-health care and medical assistance during wartime-this book reviews the enormously valuablecontribution of the volunteers who left Britain to serve with the Republican Medical Services during the SpaCivil War. Acknowledgement is also given to the immense effort and self-sacrifice made by men and womenall walks of life who, working ceaselessly at home, made it possible for the medical teams to function in Sp

The first British Medical Unit in Spain had immense political significance for the Spanish Republic, and this wshows how, barely a month into the start of the civil war, this small group was the first visible sign ofinternational support. This work details how volunteers not only helped to create and to maintain an emergmedical service, but how some of the individuals involved were also responsible for important developmentswere of relevance to later military-medical practice and also to the history of medicine in general. Medic...

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Linda Palfreeman is lecturer in journalism at the University of Cardenal Herrera in Elche, Spain. She hasresearched local aspects of the Spanish Civil War and the International Brigades' Medical Service.

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A Classical PrimerAncient Knowledge for Modern MindsDan Crompton

A basic but enjoyable introduction to the study of the culture of the ancient Greeks and Romans, from thelanguages to literature, philosophy, art, and much more

For those who didn't take Classics at school, or who have forgotten most of what they knew, this primer islook back at classical civilization-how they lived, and how many aspects of our own daily lives have been dinfluenced by theirs, from roads and concrete, to central heating, the 12-month calendar, cranes, and evepizza. It covers Greek and Latin languages; offers Greek and Roman history in a nutshell from the Bronze Ag

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through the fall of the Roman empire; provides an introduction to Greek literature including The Iliad , The

Odyssey , and the Greek tragedies; and covers the basics of Latin literature. It also provides basic backgrophilosophy, including Socrates and Plato; ancient architecture including the Parthenon and the Colosseum;science and technology, including such inventions as the alarm clock, the vending machine, flushing toiletsglass. This handy book shows that even a basic knowle...

Dan Crompton is the author of The World's Oldest Joke Book: Hundreds of Hilariously Terrible Ancient JokAuthor Bio

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A Short History of EuropeFrom Charlemagne to the Treaty of LisbonGordon Kerr

From the coronation of Charlemagne in 800 to the signing of the Treaty of Lisbon in 2007, an accessible hiof the people, ideas, institutions, and events that have shaped Europe during the last 1,200 yearsThis fascinating history for beginners provides a coherent map of the jumbled history of Europe and the Euidea that has led up to this point. A continent of countless disparate peoples, races, and nations, governeddifferent ideas, philosophies, religions, and attitudes, Europe nonetheless has a common thread of history r

through it, stitching the lands and peoples of its past and present into one fabric and held together by thecontinent's great institutions: the Church of Rome, the Holy Roman Empire, the European Union, individualmonarchies, trade organizations, and social movements. However, people have always harbored aspirationsmake this vast territory one. The Romans came close and a few centuries later, the foundations for a greaEuropean state were laid with the creation of the Holy Roman Empire. Napoleon overreached himself inattempting to cr...

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Gordon Kerr is the author of Goners, Houses of Death, and Timeline: History of the World .

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All Power to the Councils!A Documentary History of the German Revolution of 1918?1919Gabriel Kuhn

Voices of dissent prior to the founding of the Weimar Republic

"Gabriel Kuhn's excellent volume illuminates a profound global revolutionary moment, in which brilliant ideas debates lit the sky."-Marcus Rediker, author of Villains of all Nations and The Slave Ship"This remarkable collection, skillfully edited by Gabriel Kuhn, brings to life that most pivotal of revolutions,crackling with the acrid odor of street fighting, insurgent hopes, and ultimately defeat… In an era brimminganticapitalist aspirations, these pages ring with that still unmet revolutionary promise of a better world: I wam, I shall be." -Sasha Lilley, author of Capital and Its Discontents and coauthor of CatastrophismThe German Revolution erupted out of the ashes of World War I, triggered by mutinying sailors refusing to sacrificed in the final carnage of the war. While the Social Democrats grabbed power, radicals across the crallied to establish a communist society under the slogan "All Power to the Councils!" The Spartacus Leaguelaunched an uprising in Berlin, council republics were proclaimed in Bremen and Bavaria, and workers' revoltshook...

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Author BioGabriel Kuhn is the founder of the Alpine Anarchist Productions publishing company. He is the author of Li

Under the Jolly Roger , the editor of Living for the Revolution, and the editor and translator of Gustav Land

Revolution and Other Writings.





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Ancient GreeceMike Paine

Western civilization began with the Greeks. From the highpoint of the 5th century BC through the culturaltriumphs of the Alexandrian era to their impact on the developing Roman empire, the Greeks shaped thephilosophy, art, architecture, and literature of the Mediterranean world. Beginning with the Homeric period,believed to be a realm of myth, Paine takes the reader on a journey through more than 12 centuries of Greculture. He shows what archaeologists have revealed of the Trojan Wars and Mycenae, outlines the gloriesAthens at its height, and provides a gripping narrative of the struggle between the Greeks and the mighty

Persian empire. The guide also highlights the careers of great political and military leaders, such as PericlesAlexander the Great, and explores the importance of great philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle. Dramand demagogues, stoics and epicureans, aristocrats and helots all take their place in the unfolding story ofachievement.

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Mike Paine is the author of the Pocket Essential The Crusades.

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Animals and HumansRecurrent Symbiosis in Archaeology and Old Norse ReligionKristina Jennbert

Exploring the relationship between animals and humans in Scandinavia from the Roman Iron Age to the VikinPeriod, this book interprets Old Norse mythology-in which imaginary creatures with strong characters wereinvented-and examines the importance of animals in the human world. According to Old Norse perceptions, and fantasy animals in Midgard became mouthpieces for human characteristics and reflections of people's sposition. With the aid of animals, humans could also show who they really were as well as control higher poCombining results from archaeology and Old Norse texts, this account discusses the functional, symbolic, acognitive meanings of animals and the implications of animal rights.

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Kristina Jennbert is a professor and head of the dept of archaeology and ancient history at Lund Univers

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She is the author of Old Norse Religion in Long-Term Perpectives: Origins, Changes & Interactions and On

Road: Studies in Honor of Lars Larsson.




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Auld EnemiesThe Scots and the EnglishDavid Ross, Rupert Besley

This unique work stands as a record of the long contest of verbal warfare shared between the neighboringnations of Scotland and England. Documenting the many battles between the two countries, this book illushow a war of words and propaganda often accompanied the fighting, and how, even as Scotland and Englaeventually became allies, the verbal barbs continued, becoming sharper, more wide-ranging, and funnier.

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Author BioDavid Ross is the author of numerous books on Scottish history and culture, including Chronology of Scott

History , The Killing Time, and Xenophobe's Guide to the Scots. Rupert Besley is a freelance illustrator whwork has appeared in numerous publications, including Country Life, Private Eye, Punch, and The Oldie magazines. He is the author and illustrator of Scotland for Beginners.

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Barbary PirateThe Life and Crimes of John Ward, the Most Infamous Privateer of His TimeGreg Bak

In 1603 John Ward, a sailor in James VI & I's navy, led a mass desertion, stole a civilian vessel from Portsmand defected to the Ottoman Empire at Tunis. From there, his unbridled and brutal piracy saw him becomemost infamous and feared privateer of his time, revelling in ill-gotten wealth ashore and finally-in the ultimarejection of his native land-embracing Islam. Seen as a Judas bent on undermining all Christendom, he becaprize with a price on his head and was pursued by pirate-hunters across the Mediterranean. While to hiscontemporaries Ward was the blackest of villains, to later generations his exploits are the stuff of legend. GBak uncovers the truth and tells the compelling story of a man who rose from nothing to become a brilliant commander and a spectacularly successful, if amoral, entrepreneur.

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Greg Bak is an historian and archivist. He lives in Canada.

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hael Imhof Verlag3865686091Date: 9/1/11



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BerlinYesterday and TodayMichael Imhof

Reliving the momentous events in the German capital's history, this volume contends that no other city haschanged its face so rapidly in the past century as Berlin. The pre-World War I era is covered before movinthe 1930s megalomania of Hitler and the overwhelming damage of World War II. Chronicling the city's rebirtstudy depicts its exhaustive reconstruction along with the constitution of the Berlin Wall. The city center'sevolution from the 18th to the 21st centuries is also detailed, comparing historical material with current

photographs. This bilingual edition includes English and German.

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Michael Imhof is the author of Berlin: Art and Architecture and Berlin New Architecture.

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versity Of Hertfordshiress1907396632Date: 9/1/12


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Bread and Ale for the BrethrenThe Provisioning of Norwich Cathedral Priory, 1260-1536 Philip Slavin

Despite increased commercialization and an efficient network of local markets in 1300s Europe-as well assignificant costs and risks associated with the production, transportation, and storage of food-some landelords, monasteries, and convents continued to rely on the produce of their own estates. This detailed studout to account for the puzzling situation, covering the period between 1260 and 1536 with an in-depth anof the changing patterns and fortunes of the provisioning of Norwich Cathedral Priory. As it examines the eprocess of food delivery from field to table, the record explores the question of food security within the coof the various crises in the 14th century, and also illustrates the aftereffects of the Black Death. While prounparalleled insight into Norwich Priory, the book also serves as an important resource for understanding thMiddle Ages economy and society of England during a time of upheaval.

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Philip Slavin is a Mellon Fellow and a lecturer in the department of economics at McGill University. He livesMontreal, Quebec.

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Catholicism, War and the Foundation of FrancoismThe Juventud de Acción Popular in Spain, 1931?1939Sid Lowe

Spain's first democracy was announced to popular jubilation in April 1931, a new dawn ushered in without asingle shot being fired. Yet just over five years later the country was plunged into a brutal civil war thatbequeathed hundreds of thousands of deaths and an authoritarian dictatorship under General Francisco Frathat lasted almost forty years. Catholicism, War and the Foundation of Francoism analyses Spain's dramatipolitical shift, reassessing the role of the right as it mobilised against the Second Republic, swinging from

ostensibly -moderate- Catholic conservatism to fascist violence. By providing the first detailed study of theuniformed, paramilitary Juventud de Acci-n Popular (JAP), Sid Lowe challenges the historiographical orthodoSpanish fascism and assumptions about the role of the hegemonic right-wing party during the Republican yJos- Mar-a Gil Robles's CEDA. Drawing on a wide range of previously uncovered primary material, hedemonstrates that much of the parliamentary right, its leadership included, abandoned the legal road to powhen it could no ...

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Sid Lowe is a Madrid-based journalist who writes regularly for The Guardian and contributes to other broadand print media in Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. He completed his PhD at the UniversitSheffield and has studied at the University of Oviedo. He has lived in Madrid for almost a decade.

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Cultural Transformations After CommunismCentral and Eastern Europe in FocusBarbara Tornquist-Plewa, Krzysztof Stala

Focusing on the profound transformation in Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of the Iron Curtain, threcord analyzes complex cultural dimensions, such as lifestyles, habits, value markers, and identity. Writtengroup of experts, it presents case studies from the former communist countries that are members of theEuropean Union today and attempts to answer crucial questions about the constructions of a new identity

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region: Have the processes of democratization and opening the borders produced mentality changes and

value systems? Is there a convergence of values and cultures between the new and old EU-members? Ha

there been backlashes in the processes of reconstructing national identities? This book is a valuable resouanyone interested in European integration, issues of national identity, and the politics and culture of the pCommunist countries.

Barbara Törnquist-Plewa is a professor of Eastern and Central European studies and the director of the for European Studies at Lund University. Krzysztof Stala is an associate professor and the head of Polish

studies at the University of Copenhagen.

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Dangerous Days in the Roman EmpireTerry Deary

The author of children's series Horrible Histories presents the first book in his new offbeat popular history sfor adults-Bill Bryson meets Blackadder

With his trademark crisp, wry writing style and dark sense of humor, Terry Deary begins with the Roman Emin the first in a new series offering concise, informative histories that delve into myths and traditions surrouits subjects and attempts to extract cohesion-and possibly even some truth. The Romans have long been up as one of the first "civilized" societies, and yet in fact they were capable of immense cruelty. Not only tbut they made the killing of humans into a sport. The spoiled emperors were the perpetrators (and sometimthe victims) of some imaginative murders. This book includes some of the violent ways to visit the Elysian (i.e. death), including by animal attack in the Coliseum; by being thrown from the Tarpeian Rock-the fate odeserters in 214 AD alone (could also occur if the emperor didn't like your poetry); by volcanic eruption fromVesuvius; by kicking (Nero's fatal quarrel wit...

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Terry Deary is the author of more than 200 books, including the Fire Thief Trilogy and the Horrible Historieseries, and was voted Outstanding Children's Non-Fiction Author of the 20th century by Books for Keepsmagazine.

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Dead ReckoningThe Dunedin Star DisasterJeff Dawson

In November 1942, the Dunedin Star, a ship of Britain's Blue Star Line, was bound for the Middle East, herconsignment of munitions for the 8th Army supplemented by 21 civilians escaping the Blitz. Three weeks intvoyage, her hull mysteriously holed, the Dunedin Star ran aground off Namibia's infamous Skeleton Coast-thmost violent and desolate shore on earth. Sixty-three passengers were to defy unfathomable odds to reacland-but their struggle for survival had only just begun.

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Dear ComradesMenshevik Reports on the Bolshevik Revolution and the Civil WarVladimir N. Brovkin

Vivid reports of the struggle of two parties vying for supremacy in postczarist Russia.

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Vladimir N. Brovkin is an associate professor of history at Harvard University. He emigrated to the United Stfrom the Soviet Union in 1975 and received his M.A. from Georgetown University and his Ph.D. from Princet

University.

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Discovering the Hidden ListenerAn Empirical Assessment of Radio Liberty and Western Broadcasting to the USSR during the Cold WR. Eugene Parta

This overview of the impact of Western radio and Radio Liberty-from the listeners' perspective-addressesquestions of audience size and listening trends over time, listeners' demographic traits and attitudes, and mBased on more than 50,000 interviews with Soviet citizens, the book sheds light ...

This overview of the impact of Western radio and Radio Liberty-from the listeners' perspective-addressesquestions of audience size and listening trends over time, listeners' demographic traits and attitudes, and mBased on more than 50,000 interviews with Soviet citizens, the book sheds light on what these broadcastsmeant to listeners as the USSR moved toward a freer society.

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R. Eugene Parta is the retired director of Audience Research and Program Evaluation for Radio Free Europe/Liberty in Prague. He has worked in the field of international broadcasting audience research since 1969; inMunich he was director of Media Opinion Research of the RFE/RL Research Institute. Parta has written

extensively on media use, communications, and public opinion in Central and Eastern Europe and been a frespeaker and participant in international academic and professional conferences.

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Estonia and the EstoniansSecond Edition, UpdatedToivo U. Raun

A comprehensive survey of Estonian history.

A comprehensive survey of Estonian history, placing recent events into historical perspective. The authoranalyzes the country's post-communist transition, its strategic geopolitical location, and the role of ethnicEstonians in shaping the history of the area.

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Toivo U. Raun was born in Tartu, Estonia, and educated in the United States, receiving his Ph.D. from PrinUniversity. He is currently a professor of Central Eurasian studies and adjunct professor of history at IndianUniversity, Bloomington, and past president of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies.

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Europe and Its Muslim MinoritiesAspects of Conflict, Attempts at AccordAmikam Nachmani

The presence of Muslim communities in Europe is a politically charged issue. Sporadic attacks by radical Muhave further highlighted the problem of a deep cultural divide between the Muslims and their host countriesThere is, however, no one "Islamic Nation", and a distinction must be made between the radical Muslim minand secular or practicing Muslims who subscribe neither to the theology nor politics of the radicals. The infMuslim immigrants into Europe is rooted in the common human aspiration for a better life. But to date thereEuropean consensus about how to deal with the political, social, religious, and economic problems associatwith their absorption. … This book presents a comprehensive picture of the causes and effects of Muslimimmigration to the West. It discusses the population explosion in the sending countries, with their decliningavailability of jobs and increasing desperation. The author highlights the situation of Western countries witshrinking families and growing workforce shortages, and considers the readiness of the Continent ...

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Amikam Nachmani completed his doctoral studies at Oxford. He teaches at the Department for Political StuBar-Ilan University, Israel, and specializes in East Mediterranean studies, notably Greece, Turkey and Cypru

interests extend from civil war, gender and nationalism, to ethnicity, and natural resources.

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Fawley's Front LineA Century of Fire-fighting and RescueRoger Hansford

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Fire and FlamesA History of the German Autonomist MovementGeronimo, George Katsiaficas, Gabriel Kuhn

Translated for the first time into English, the history of the German autonomous anticapitalist movement istraced back to the 1970s in this firsthand account. Battling police in riot gear, the early members of theautonomous movement used military tactics that included barricading and hurling Molotov cocktails in protDubbed the "Black Bloc" by the German media, those tactics were soon adopted by scores of anticapitalistgroups across the globe. The dawn of the autonomous faction spawned a movement in which average citizcan reclaim their lives from governmental control. Political activists and anticapitalists will find updated histcontext to the movement and the current state of the German autonomous movement in this updated chro

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Geronimo is the pen name of an activist for the German autonomous movement. George Katsiaficas is a

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visiting professor of sociology at Chonnam National University and a Fullbright Fellow. He is the author of T

Imagination of the New Left and The Subversion of Politics. Gabriel Kuhn is a translator and the author ofUnder the Jolly Roger .




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Flight of the TitanThe Story of the R34George Rosie

In the early hours of Thursday, July 10, 1919 hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers rushed out onto the sand rooftops and gaped up into the sky as a great silver ship, hundreds of feet long, rolled slowly across thcity. Restaurants, hotels, theatres and bars emptied as people took to the street to gaze upwards. The shseemed to hover over the New York Times building in 42nd street before turning its bow to the east and heoff towards the Atlantic. New Yorkers had never seen anything like it. They were left to wonder as the thru

the engines died away. But it was no alien visitation. The huge silver craft, bearing a lion rampant across itbow, was the Scottish-built airship R34 manned by a 30-strong crew of World War I veterans (and a stowacat). A few days earlier the R34 had made the first-ever east-west flight across the Atlantic against powehead winds and electrical storms. The flight of the R34 was one of the great feats of British aviation and itbeen shamefully forgotten - but there is a wealth of information out there. Some of it is in the diary ...

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Born in Edinburgh in 1941, George Rosie has had a prolific media career. He has worked as a television repproducer and writer for Channel Four, ITV and STV and has worked as a journalist for a number of newspapincluding the Sunday Times, the Herald, Sunday Herald, The Guardian, The Scotsman, The Independent anthe founding editor of Observer Scotland . He is also the author of numerous stage and radio plays and ofseventeen other books. He is married with three children and lives in Edinburgh.

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France DividedThe French and the Civil War in SpainDavid Wingeate Pike

This book sets out to analyze the schism in French public opinion during the Spanish Civil War that was to the tragic collapse of French national unity. It examines how the French people viewed their position in theinternational imbroglio swirling around the Spanish question, and how news was manipulated as never beforMainstream historical fact is presented as the skeleton on which French press reportage is grafted and incin the historical material is the author's research in the archives of all five of the French départements bordon Spain. The work is divided into two parts, the chronological hiatus coming in December 1936. This divisioexplained by the policy formulated by the democracies that went through no appreciable change; a policysufficiently strong, perhaps, to deter the Axis powers from all-out intervention in Spain, but weak enough allow them to pursue with impunity a victory by attrition. The periodic opening and closing of the French frplayed no decisive part in the outcome, since French aid to the Spanish Republic never came close ...

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David Wingeate Pike received doctorates from Toulouse and Stanford, where he taught Latin American p

culture. He is Sociétaire des Gens de Lettres and distinguished professor emeritus at the American UniversParis.

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Germany: Jekyll and HydeAn Eyewitness Analysis of Nazi Germany

Sebastian Haffner

After he moved to Britain from Germany in the 1930s Sebastian Haffner became so shocked about the situain his native country that he wrote this book in an effort to help people understand the danger Hitler preseto the world. Incredibly accessible, it is packed with acute analysis of both Hitler and the German people-fthe Nazi leaders all the way down to those who opposed them-and is a must-read for anyone interested inliterature of World War II.

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Sebastian Haffner was a German journalist and the author of several historical bestsellers, as well as hisbestselling memoir Defying Hitler , which was published posthumously.

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Glastonbury, the Templars, and the Sovran ShroudA New Perspective on the Grail Legends

Juliet Faith

A convincing new study of the Glastonbury legends which suggests that the Shroud may have com

England as the "Grail"

Shedding new light on the Grail stories and the arrival of Christianity to Somerset, this book illustrates impolinks between Glastonbury and the Celtic settlement at Old Lammana in Cornwall; and examines old tales oobject of great importance-known as "the Sovran cloth"-secretly hidden at both places. The author reveaHenri de Blois, Abbot of Glastonbury, assisted in the transmission of the Grail stories, and that his family linin possession of the Shroud and first exhibited it at Lirey in France in 1356. She also examines why there wsuch great importance placed on oral traditions in ancient times, and what importance these traditions holdpresent-day historians. Finally, recent examination of the Templecombe panel reveals why it is believed theTemplars may have brought the Shroud to England for safekeeping in 1307. Richly illustrated and compiled original research, this book is sure to appeal to everyone interested in the Knig...

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Juliet Faith is the author of The Knights Templar in Somerset .Author Bio




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Greek PilgrimageIn Search of the Foundations of the West

John Carroll

A meditation on classical Greece, this chronicle journeys through the country's great sites, monuments, ancultural works. As it explores the ruins that remain today-in Delphi, at Olympia, and on the Acropolis-thisaccount discusses the pivotal role Greece played in the foundation of the modern world, from science andphilosophy to drama and sport and much more. With two recommended itineraries, maps, and illustrations, record will interest both history buffs and modern travelers.

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John Carroll is a professor of sociology at La Trobe University in Melbourne. He is the author of numerous including The Existential Jesus and The Wreck of Western Culture: Humanism Revisited .

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Gun Control in the Third ReichDisarming the Jews and "Enemies of the State"

Stephen P. Halbrook

Based on newly-discovered, secret documents from German archives, diaries and newspapers of the time, GControl in the Third Reich presents the definitive, yet hidden history of how the Nazi regime made use of gcontrol to disarm and repress its enemies and consolidate power. The countless books on the Third Reich aHolocaust fail even to mention the laws restricting firearms ownership, which rendered political opponents Jews defenseless. A skeptic could surmise that a better-armed populace might have made no difference, bNational Socialist regime certainly did not think so-it ruthlessly suppressed firearm ownership by disfavoredgroups.

Gun Control in the Third Reich spans the two decades from the birth of the Weimar Republic in 1918 througKristallnacht in 1938. The book then presents a panorama of pertinent events during World War II regardineffects of the disarming policies. And even though in the occupied countries the Nazis decreed the death pfor possession of a firearm, there developed instances of heroic armed resistance by Jews, particularl...

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Stephen P. Halbrook is a Research Fellow with the Independent Institute who has argued and won threeconstitutional law cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Dr. Halbrook is the author of eight books includingFounders' Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms; Securing Civil Rights: Freedmen, theFourteenth Amendment, and the Right To Bear Arms; That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of aConstitutional Right; A Right to Bear Arms: State and Federal Bills of Rights and Constitutional Guarantees;Target Switzerland (also in German, French, Italian, and Polish editions); and The Swiss and the Nazis: HowAlpine Republic Survived in the Shadow of the Third Reich. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Florida StatUniversity and J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. His popular articles have appeared in the Wall Journal, San Antonio Express-News, Environmental Forum, USA Today , and Washington Times, and he hasappeared on numerous national TV/radio programs such as "The Phil Donahue Show" and programs on FoxBusiness Network, Court TV, Voice of America, CNN,...

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Gun Control in the Third ReichDisarming the Jews and "Enemies of the State"

Stephen P. Halbrook

Based on newly-discovered, secret documents from German archives, diaries and newspapers of the time, GControl in the Third Reich presents the definitive, yet hidden history of how the Nazi regime made use of gcontrol to disarm and repress its enemies and consolidate power. The countless books on the Third Reich aHolocaust fail even to mention the laws restricting firearms ownership, which rendered political opponents Jews defenseless. A skeptic could surmise that a better-armed populace might have made no difference, b

National Socialist regime certainly did not think so-it ruthlessly suppressed firearm ownership by disfavoredgroups.

Gun Control in the Third Reich spans the two decades from the birth of the Weimar Republic in 1918 througKristallnacht in 1938. The book then presents a panorama of pertinent events during World War II regardineffects of the disarming policies. And even though in the occupied countries the Nazis decreed the death pfor possession of a firearm, there developed instances of heroic armed resistance by Jews, particularl...

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Stephen P. Halbrook is a Research Fellow with the Independent Institute who has argued and won threeconstitutional law cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Dr. Halbrook is the author of eight books includingFounders' Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms; Securing Civil Rights: Freedmen, theFourteenth Amendment, and the Right To Bear Arms; That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of aConstitutional Right; A Right to Bear Arms: State and Federal Bills of Rights and Constitutional Guarantees;Target Switzerland (also in German, French, Italian, and Polish editions); and The Swiss and the Nazis: HowAlpine Republic Survived in the Shadow of the Third Reich. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Florida StatUniversity and J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. His popular articles have appeared in the Wall Journal, San Antonio Express-News, Environmental Forum, USA Today , and Washington Times, and he hasappeared on numerous national TV/radio programs such as "The Phil Donahue Show" and programs on FoxBusiness Network, Court TV, Voice of America, CNN,...

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Historic BerlinPaul Wietzorek

This collection of historic images conducts a tour through old Berlin and its famous landmarks, from the formStadtschloss to Schloss Charlottenburg, with an historic overview providing an introduction to the now unicity. Focusing on the Imperial Period, this document ranges from the formation of the German Empire in 187until the end of World War I in 1918.

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Homer's Secret OdysseyFlorence Wood, Kenneth Wood

The extraordinary story of the breaking of an Ancient Greek code

Homer is renowned as the finest of the storytellers who for countless generations passed down by word ofmouth the myths and legends of Ancient Greece. Yet, for some 2,500 years, there have been persistent fomemories that his genius extended far beyond literature and that scientific knowledge was hidden in his stoof heroes, villains, gods, ghosts, monsters, and witches. Research now reveals that at a time when the Gr

did not have a written script, Homer concealed an astonishing range of learning about calendar making andcycles of the sun, moon, and planet Venus in the Odyssey , his epic of the Fall of Troy and the adventureswarrior-king Odysseus.

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Florence Wood and Kenneth Wood have coauthored four books with historical themes, including Homer's SIliad: The Epic of the Night Skies Decoded.

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Images of ChartismStephen Roberts, Dorothy Thompson

This is a pictorial record of the Chartist Movement. Photography was in its infancy in those years and the photographic record of a Chartist gathering is of the last of the great meetings in April 1848. Pictures of thChartists themselves as they appeared in those years are all from wood or metal engravings mostly publishChartist newspapers. An introduction provides a background to the pictures and their captions.

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Infrastructure and the Political Economy of Nation Building in Spa1720?2010Germà Bel

This book sets out to explain the very particular characteristics of Spanish infrastructure policy. The capitof Madrid plays a central role. It not only achieved the status of economic capital of Spain in recent decadtogether with its status as administrative and political capital Madrid endowed itself as absolute capital. Thchallenge is to understand why such development has taken place. … First: radial policies in transport

infrastructure, which were primarily subordinate to political and administrative objectives, could not be supby the dynamics of economic activity. For that reason these policies demanded the use of extensive budgeresources in the form of subsidies and grants that made possible what legislation alone could not achieve.Second: these policies respond to a regular and continuing historical pattern in Spanish politics, which begawith the accession to the Spanish Crown of the Bourbon dynasty in the early eighteenth century. The newdynasty tried hard to translate into practice the vision of building a Nation like France, with a Capital ...

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Germà Bel is professor of Economics at Universitat de Barcelona, and guest professor at Barcelona GraduatSchool of Economics. Has been visiting professor at Cornell University, and visiting researcher at Harvard aEuropean University Institute; and has published several books and more than fifty international academicarticles on public sector reform.

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Lenin's Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet ArchivesPaul R. Gregory

An enlightening look into the once-secret Soviet state and party archives that Western scholars first gaineaccess to in the early 1990s. Paul Gregory breaks down a decades-old wall of secrecy to reveal intriguing information on such subjects as Stalin's Great Terror, the day-to-day life of Gulag guards, the Soviet invasAfghanistan, the scientific study of Lenin's brain, and other fascinating tales.

Summary

Paul R. Gregory, a Hoover Institution research fellow, holds an endowed professorship in the Department ofEconomics at the University of Houston, Texas, and is a research professor at the German Institute for EcoResearch in Berlin. The holder of a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, he is the author or coauthotwelve books and many articles on economic history, the Soviet economy, transition economies, comparateconomics, and economic demography including Lenin's Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Archi(Hoover Institution Press, 2008), The Political Economy of Stalinism (2004), Before Command: The RussianEconomy from Emancipation to Stalin (1994), Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy (1990, reissu2006), and Russian National Income, 1885-1913 (1982, reissued 2005). He has edited Behind the Façade oStalin's Command Economy (2001) and The Economics of Forced Labor: The Soviet Gulag (2003), both pub

by Hoover Institution Press and summarizing his research group's work on the Soviet state and party archivHis publications based o...

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Los catarosCarter Scott

A passionate journey through the greatest enigmas of the past, this series seeks the answers to questionsare shrouded in mystery. The explanation of the universe has fascinated humans since the beginning of timin their attempts at discovery, they have developed science, worshipped gods, invented myths, and reveamiracles.Un recorrido apasionante por los grandes enigmas del pasado, esta serie busca respuestas a aquellas preguimposibles y llenas de misterio. La explicación del universo ha fascinado al hombre desde sus orígenes, y pa

ha desarrollado la ciencia, adorado a los dioses, recreado e inventado mitos y también se le han revelado lomilagros.

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Carter Scott is the author of several books on ancient civilizations.

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Lost DundeeDundee's Lost Architectural Heritage

Charles McKean, Patricia Whatley

Reviving the second city of renaissance Scotland, this book shows, through previously undiscovered photoand drawings, the life and the maritime quarter of this great port. As it illustrates Dundee's transformation major Georgian town at the center of the flax trade between St. Petersburg and the United States, this acexamines the changes wrought by the production and sale of the jute, by the arrival of railways, and by thadvent of tertiary education. Drawing particularly upon the rich visual history sources of the Charles Lawsodrawing of old Dundee in the Central Library, the DC Thomson photographic collection, and the University oDundee Archives, this is a in-depth look into this constantly regenerating city.

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Charles McKean is a professor of Scottish architectural history at the University of Dundee and is one of

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Scotland's foremost authorities on Scotland's built environment. He is author of Battle for the North: The

Scottish Thirties, Edinburgh: Portrait of a City , and The Scottish Chateau, and is founding editor of theRIAS/Landmark Trust Illustrated Architectural Guides to Scotland. Patricia Whatley is the university archi

and head of Archive, Records Management, and Museum Services, and the director of the Center for ArchiInformation Studies at the University of Dundee.







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Macedonia and the MacedoniansA History

Andrew Rossos

This detailed volume surveys the history of Macedonia from 600 BC to the present day, with an emphasis opast two centuries.

This detailed volume surveys the history of Macedonia from 600 BC to the present day, with an emphasis opast two centuries. It reveals how the so-called Macedonian question has long dominated Balkan politics, ahow for well over a century and a half, it was the central issue dividing Balkan peoples, as neighboring BulgGreece, and Serbia struggled for possession of Macedonia-and denied any distinct Macedonian identity.

Summary

Andrew Rossos was born in Greek (Aegean) Macedonia. He was educated in Czechoslovakia (now the CzecRepublic), Canada, and the United States, receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He is currently profof history at the University of Toronto, Canada.

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Macedonia and the MacedoniansA History

Andrew Rossos

This detailed volume surveys the history of Macedonia from 600 BC to the present day, with an emphasis opast two centuries. It reveals how the so-called Macedonian question has long dominated Balkan politics, ahow for well over a century and a half, it was the central issue dividing Balkan peoples, as neighboring BulgGreece, and Serbia struggled for possession of Macedonia-and denied any distinct Macedonian identity.

Summary

Andrew Rossos was born in Greek (Aegean) Macedonia. He was educated in Czechoslovakia (now the CzecRepublic), Canada, and the United States, receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He is currently profof history at the University of Toronto, Canada.

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Medieval LiteracyA Compendium of Medieval Knowledge with the Guidance of C. S. Lewis

James Grote

Taking a medieval approach in content as well as in form-a compilation of lists-this volume creates a foundfor the study of the medieval mindset by establishing the terms and concepts that scholars would have hacommon at the time: an invaluable lingua franca. With a pedagogical appeal, this interdisciplinary book is acombination text, reference, and popular work that provides a fascinating intellectual history of the Middlewhile complimenting the study of other works from that period.

Summary

James Grote is a development officer, an award-winning financial journalist, and periodically an adjunctprofessor of philosophy for several universities in the Louisville, Kentucky, area as well as for the Abbey of

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Gethsemani. He is the coauthor of Clever as Serpents: Business Ethics and Office Politics and Theology an

Technology.


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National RelationsPublic Diplomacy, National Identity and the Swedish Institute 1945-1970

Nikolas Glover

In Stockholm in January of 1945, an assembly of Swedish diplomats and businessmen initiated an organizatthat was to improve the country's reputation abroad. The new, semi-governmental Swedish Institute wascharged with explaining Sweden's policy of neutrality during the war, with encouraging peace-building, andpromoting foreign trade in the new international world order. Original and insightful, this account analyzes tpolicies, funding, and national narratives of the Swedish Institute. Providing a historical perspective on the

politics of Swedish propaganda and explaining how ideas of communication shaped the Institute's work andrepresentations of Sweden, this record also offers a comparative perspective on American national identityits inherent notions of national exceptionalism.

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Nikolas Glover is a lecturer of history and the history of popular culture at Stockholm University and the coof a Swedish anthology on historical approaches to popular music.

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Nazis in Pre-War London, 1930?1939The Fate and Role of German Party Members and British Sympathizers

James J. Barnes, Patience P. Barnes

The first book to study the history of the Nazis in Britain, this work details how in September 1930 the Naznewspaper, Völkischer Beobachter , sent its first representative to London and soon after, German residentLondon established a local Nazi group, which provided party members with a place to congregate and suppthe new movement. By 1933, more than 100 members belonged to the London group and the book goes ondiscuss how the Nazis in pre-war London created a dilemma for the British foreign and home offices, who wdivided as to how best to treat residents whose allegiance was to the German Reich as some felt that all Norganizations should be banned while others, including MI5, argued that it would be easier to keep track ofif they were in-country. Calling on previously unpublished German documents, this study reveals the fate oGerman diplomats, journalists, and professionals, many of whom were interned in Britain or deported to NazGermany once war broke out in September 1939. An appendix listing the details concerning the nearly 400German Party...

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James J. Barnes is a professor of history at Wabash College. Patience P. Barnes is a research associateWabash College. They are the coauthors of several books, including The American Civil War through British

and Nazi Refugee Turned Gestapo Spy: The Life of Hans Wesemann, 1895-1971.

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Not Our WarWritings Against the First World War

A. W. Zurbrugg

Some of the voices in this book came to oppose World War I after reflecting on experience, others opposeprinciple before a shot was fired-they may have been few in number, but gradually their influence rose. Thianthology presents diverse voices of men and women who questioned and opposed the war: liberals, radicapacifists, anarchists and socialists, soldiers and noncombatants. Featured writers include: James Connolly,Eugene Debs, Emma Goldman, Keir Hardie, Jean Jaurès, Louis Lecoin, V. I. Lenin, John Maclean, Errico Mala

Sylvia Pankhurst, Siegfried Sassoon. They are American, Asian, British, French, German, Irish, Italian, andRussian. Some of the texts are newly translated or appear in English the first time.

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A. W. Zurbrugg is the editor of The ABC of Communism.

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Joan Allen, Owen R. Ashton

Revisionist perspectives on the role of Chartist presses throughout the United Kingdom and Australia (1838the late 1850s) in the campaign for democracy in Victorian Britain and overseas are surveyed in this anthoessays from noted specialists in the history of Chartism.

Summary

Joan Allen has published essays on Chartism and the Co-operative Movement and lectures on modern Britihistory at the University of Newcastle. Owen R. Ashton is the coauthor of Friends of the People and editoThe Chartist Legacy. He is a professor of modern British social history at the Staffordshire University.

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Passenger Steamers of the River ConwyServing the Famous Trefriw Spa

Richard Clammer




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Physical and Cultural Space in Pre-Industrial EuropeMethodological Approaches to Spatiality

Marko Lamberg, Marko Hakanen, Janne Haikari

Written by 19 scholars of history, archaeology, and ethnology, this book takes a multidisciplinary approachEuropean spaces of the past and the human agents within them. Prior to the Industrial Era, the geography Europe posed problems but also offered possibilities for its people. Distances created obstacles to communand state formation, but at the same time, inhabitants and officials in peripheral areas gained room to pursmore independent action, allowing unique customs to flourish. Focusing on northern Europe, this history anhow early modern Europeans-rulers, officials, aristocrats, scholars, priests, and commoners-perceived, utiliand organized the space around them.

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Marko Lamberg is the author of Shaping Ethnic Identities. He is currently leading a project that visualizesmeans of 3D technology, changes in rural environment ca. 1400-2000. Marko Hakanen and Janne Haikar

history professors at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland.

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PiratesA History

Tim Travers

Most histories of piracy start with swashbuckling adventures in the Caribbean in the 1500s and move on toGolden Age of piracy from the 1660s to the 1720s. These areas cannot be overlooked, but in fact, piracy hmuch longer and broader history to its name. This comprehensive history starts with piracy in the ancient aclassical periods, and then shifts to piracy in the Middle Ages and the Mediterranean, before treating treatfine detail the era of the Caribbean and the Golden Age. Also included are chapters on the Barbary corsairs

Chinese piracy, and a look at modern piracy.

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Tim Travers has taught the history of piracy at University of Calgary for more than 20 years. His other titleinclude Gallipoli 1915 , How the War Was Won, and The Killing Ground . He lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

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Portugal (2nd Edition) The Impossible Revolution?

Phil Mailer, Maurice Brinton

An in-depth leftist history of the Portuguese revolution

This is the story of the political revolution in Portugal between April 25, 1974, and November 25, 1975, as sand felt by a deeply committed participant. After the military coup in Portugal on April 25, 1974, the overthof almost 50 years of fascist rule, and the end of three colonial wars, there followed a year and a half of indemocratic social transformation that challenged every aspect of Portuguese society. What started as a mcoup turned into a profound attempt at social change from the bottom up and became headlines on a dailyin the world media. This personal history depicts the hopes, the tremendous enthusiasm, boundless energycommitment, released power, and revolutionary innocence of thousands of ordinary people taking a hand inremolding of their lives. It does so against the background of an economic and social reality that placed limwhat could be done.

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Phil Mailer is a political activist and the former editor of Combate. He lives in Lisbon, Portugal. Maurice B

was the pen name under which Chris Pallis wrote and translated for the British libertarian socialist group,Solidarity.

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Reaching a State of HopeRefugees, Immigrants and the Swedish Welfare State, 1930-2000 Mikael Bystrom, Par Frohnert

Shedding new light on the issues concerning refugees and immigration in 20th-century Sweden, this analysSummary

examines the implications of its immigration policies. On what grounds were refugees admitted? Where did

come from? How did the Swedish state aid its new citizens? What differences were there between refuge

the "imported labor" that was essential to Swedish industry? A group of established Swedish and internatiohistorians answer these questions against the background of the eras passed: the Second World War, the

War, and the labor movement that shaped the national characteristic of Sweden so deeply. Reaching a StaHope contributes to the wider field of research on political and administrative practices around refugeeshistorically and places the Swedish refugee and immigration experience in a European perspective.

Mikael Byström is an associate professor of history at Uppsala University in Sweden. He has publishedextensively on the subject of the debate regarding refugees and migration during World War II. Pär Frohnean associate professor of history at Stockholm University in Sweden. He has published extensively on the iof the Holocaust in European culture and the aid to refugees during the 1930s and the Second World War.

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Real BloomsburyNicholas Murray

The birthplace of Christian socialism and site of the British Museum, University College, the Royal AcademyDramatic Art, the Friends House, and Great Ormond Street Hospital, Bloomsbury is crammed with history ancontemporary decision making. This entertaining and informative book is accompanied by oblique images thpresent Bloomsbury as it's never been portrayed before: intimate, contemporary, exploratory, and, occasiodownright strange.

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Nicholas Murray is a biographer, a poet, a novelist, and a critic. He is the author of biographies of MattheArnold, Aldous Huxley, Franz Kafka, and Andrew Marvell, and A Short Book About Love. He is also the RoyaLiterary Fund Writer for Queen Mary College, University of London.

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Reconstructing SpainCultural Heritage and Memory After Civil WarDacia Viejo-Rose

Exploring the role of cultural heritage in postconflict reconstruction-whether as a motor for the prolongatioviolence or as a resource for building reconciliation-this book centers on the material practices and rhetoricstrategies developed around cultural heritage in post-civil war Spain and the victorious Franco regime'sreconstruction. The analysis seeks to capture a discursively complex set of practices that made up thereconstruction and in which a variety of Spanish heritage sites were claimed, rebuilt or restored, and repre

in various ways as signs of historical narratives, political legitimacy, and group identity. To ascertain the poimpact of post- civil war reconstruction in the medium term, the book examines two time frames: the periodpolitical transition that followed General Franco's death in 1975; and the period 2004-2008, when RodrígueZapatero's government undertook initiatives to "recover the historic memory" of the war and dictatorship. Tobservations made of the Spanish reconstruction are analyzed in terms of how they might reveal general t.

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Dacia Viejo-Rose is a college research associate at Jesus College at Cambridge. She is the founder ofCambridge Post-Conflict and Post-Crisis Group.

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RussiaForward to the PastMarika Pruska-Carroll

Capturing the country's new face and vision under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, this examination documRussia as it enters the 21st century. Providing a closer look at the key elements of Russian society-as wellunderbelly-this overview demonstrates an intimacy not accessible to most observers. Resounding with an idepth knowledge of the country, this analysis presents a unique report on the issues of Russia's generationthe search for a new identity amidst the old icons, and the new paths the country is taking.

Summary

Marika Pruska-Carroll teaches Russian and Eastern European politics at Concordia University in Montreal.is the author of Russia Between Yesterday and Tomorrow . She lives in Montreal, Quebec.

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Russia Between Yesterday and Tomorrow (2nd Edition) Russians Speak Out on Politics, Religion, Sex and AmericaMarika Pruska-Carroll

Russia's transformation from a Communist society to a free-market system is exposed through the eyes ofordinary Russians-young, old, urban, rural, workers, professionals, artists, businesspeople, soldiers, the Mascientists, students, and dropouts. Captured here are the changes that Russia experienced as it entered aof radical transformation in the early 1990s, as well as the frustration, apathy, and cynicism that a newgeneration still feels 10 years later. This new edition includes comments on the concerns of Russia's youth,

Internet, and Russia's adaptation to the free-market economy. This replaces 1550650610.

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Marika Pruska-Carroll teaches Russian and Eastern European politics at Concordia University in Montreal.lives in Montreal, Quebec.

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Scandinavia in the First World WarStudies in the War Experience of the Northern NeutralsClaes Ahlund

Denmark, Norway, and Sweden all managed to stay out of World War I, but all three countries were deeplyaffected by it. Opening with a systematically comparative introduction to the history of the Scandinaviancountries during that time period, this account then presents 13 case studies examining the impact of the on these neutral entities. From inflation and the shortage of consumer goods to widespread poverty and pounrest-not to mention the thousands of Scandinavian soldiers who participated in the war-this uniquecompilation analyzes the military and economic consequences as well as the vital political and social issuesby the conflict.

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Claes Ahlund is a professor of comparative literature at Åbo Akademi University in Finland and a formerprofessor at both Mid-Sweden University and Uppsala University.

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ScrapsThe Wit of the VictoriansE. C. Coleman

An "official beggar" has been established in the Hungarian village of Szent-Marton, in order to keep off vagand gypsies. At Sheffield the other day, at an inquest on the body of a crippled dwarf, who while drunk hareceived fatal injuries by falling down stairs, it was stated that he had been in the infirmary with broken limfewer than 33 times. These and other interesting snippets are contained within the pages of this irreverentat Victorian life from the newspapers of the day.

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Sennen Cove LifeboatsAn Illustrated HistoryNicholas Leach

Considered one of the most treacherous areas of Britain's coastline, Land's End has seen many shipwrecks the past 2,000 years. Where the waters of the Atlantic meet those of the English Channel, storms are freqand violent and have caught out many a ship. Thousands have been dashed against the rocky granite coa1853, the RNLI established a lifeboat station at nearby Sennen Cove, and the people of this small Cornish vhave been saving lives ever since. The crews of Sennen have saved many lives in the past 160 years, helpthose in distress from sailing dinghies to the largest of cargo ships. Nicholas Leach tells the story of Sennelifeboats and the volunteer lifeboat crews who have manned them in this fully revised and updated history lifeboat and wrecks off the tip of Cornwall.

Summary

Author BioNicholas Leach has written a number of books on lifeboats and lighthouses around the UK, including Crom

Lifeboats, Hunstanton Lifeboats, Never Turn Back: A History of Caister Lifeboats, and Padstow Lifeboats. Hthe editor of Ships Monthly .




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Skeletons in the Closet, Skeletons in the GroundRepression, Victimization and Humiliation in a Small Andalusian TownRichard Barker

This book examines the human consequences (individual, social, cultural, and economic) of civil war and porepression in Castilleja del Campo, a town in southern Spain with barely more than 600 inhabitants today. Tnarrow geographical focus allows for a coherent chronological narrative with relevance to current public isssuch as the unequal distribution of wealth, political polarization, the violation of human rights, governmentsurveillance of civilian populations, and extra-legal detentions, torture and executions. … The declarations

eyewitnesses are complemented by personal documents, contemporary newspaper accounts, and documefrom the town's municipal archive and other archives in the province of Seville. The work presents the evefrom the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic in April 1931 onward from multiple points of view andanalyzes the interactions among a gallery of characters: Republican and pro Franco mayors and councilmenunion leaders and affiliates; members of the fascist inspired Spanish Falange; the schoolteacher; the priestwidows an...

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Richard Barker is Spanish Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Skeletons in theCloset is an adaptation in English of his book El largo trauma de un pueblo andaluz (Castilleja del Campo, SeAyuntamiento, 2007). He has also published Fugitive from Spanish Fascism: A Memoir by Miguel Domínguez (Stevens Point, WI: Cornerstone Press, 2010), a translation.

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Stalin's Loyal ExecutionerPeople's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895-1940 Marc Jansen, Nikita Petrov

Stalin's Loyal Executioner , drawn from still-classified Soviet archives, chronicles the meteoric and bloody caof Nikolai Ezhov, NKVD leader and security chief, revealing the tragic scope of communist terrorism under JStalin.

Stalin's Loyal Executioner, drawn from still-classified Soviet archives, chronicles the meteoric and bloody caof Nikolai Ezhov, NKVD leader and security chief, revealing the tragic scope of communist terrorism under JStalin.

Summary

Marc Jansen teaches at Amsterdam University's Institute of Russian and East European Studies and has wrnumerous books and articles on Russian and Soviet history. Nikita Vasil'evich Petrov, author of several boonumerous articles and an expert in Soviet terror history, is vice-chairman of Moscow's Memorial ScientificResearch Center.

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Swedish and German LiberalismFrom Factions to Parties 1860-1920 Martin Aberg

An in-depth analysis of political organization and democratization during the crucial 1860-1920 period in Swand Germany, this book centers on the formation of liberalism. It argues that despite ideology's individualistraits-which made liberals less susceptible to political organization on a mass basis-its followers chose tocompromise between individual and collective action. Revealing how Swedish liberalism made way for peacedemocratization and collective modes of societal organization while German liberalism turned conservative a

prepared for Nazism and extremist nationalism, this record explores the mobilization, formation, and subseqdevelopment of liberalism in these regions.

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Author BioMartin Åberg is professor of history at Karlstad University and the author of Baltic Cities: Perspectives on

and Regional change in the Baltic Sea Area.

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Terry Jones’ BarbariansTerry Jones, Alan Ereira

An Alternative Roman History

An entertaining rewriting of Roman history from the perspective of the "Barbarians" - who weren't really baat all!

In this completely fresh approach to Roman history, Terry Jones offers us not only the chance to see theRomans from a non-Roman perspective, he also reveals that most of those peoples written off by the Romuncivilized, savage and barbaric, were in fact organized, motivated and intelligent groups of people, with nintentions of overthrowing Rome and plundering the Empire.

This original and fascinating study does away with the propaganda and opens our eyes to who really estabthe civilized world. Delving deep into history, Terry Jones and Alan Ereira uncover the impressive cultural atechnological achievements of the Celts, Goths, Persians and Vandals.

In this new paperback edition, Terry and Alan travel through 700 years of history on three continents, bring

wit, irreverence, passion and the very latest scholarship to transform our view of the legacy of the RomanEmpire and the creation of the modern world.

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Terry Jones is best-known as a member of Monty Python. He has also written four books on Medieval Engand is the author of several children's books.

Alan Ereira has worked as an award-winning producer and writer of history programs on radio and televisioover 40 years, and has collaborated with Terry for ten years on a number of historical films. His previous binclude The People's England, The Invergordon Mutiny, The Heart of the World and (with Terry JonesCrusades and Terry Jones' Medieval Lives.

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The 43 GroupBattling with Mosley's BlackshirtsMorris Beckman, Vidal Sassoon, David Cesarani

Written by a founding member, the remarkable history of an incredibly effective anti-fascist action group tshut down thousands of fascist meetings and rallies

Oswald Mosley decided he could carry on where Hitler and Mussolini had left off, and on street corners his speakers would proclaim "not enough Jews were burned at Belsen." Enter the 43 Group. In a ferocious, bloand brilliantly covert five-year campaign, they destroyed the Mosleyites. The membership of the Group wasalmost entirely made up of British servicemen, the original 43 members quickly swelling to more than 300 anincluding a Battle of Britain ace, a VC winner-and Vidal Sassoon. The Group's philosophy of the "3 D's"-DiscDecide and Do it-was quickly manifested on the streets of London, with literally thousands of fascist meetiand rallies sent packing. Quickly gaining a reputation, the 43 Group was organized in "wedges" of a dozen oThese wedges would attend a British Union of Fascists rally and at a given signal would storm the speaker'splatform, attacking BUF stewards and speaker. The Gro...

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Morris Beckman was a founding member of the 43 Group. He is the author of The Jewish Brigade. VidalSassoon (1928-2012) was an internationally famous hairdresser, businessman, and philanthropist, and theauthor of Vidal . He was the youngest member of the 43 Group. David Cesarani is a historian who specializJewish history and the author of Becoming Eichmann.

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The Agrarian History of SwedenFrom 4000 BC to AD 2000Janken Myrdal, Mats Morell

Comprehensive and concise, this account details the agrarian history of Sweden-as it is defined by its presnational borders-from the Neolithic times to present day. Key historical concepts and events are discussedincluding the introduction of planned agriculture alongside the domestication of animals; the feudal relationand interactions between men and women, various age groups, and different social classes during the MiddAges; the changes brought about by industrialism and the development of political democracy; the effectsWorld Wars I and II; and Sweden's inclusion in the European Union in 1995. This study also examines theinterdependence between agriculture and other industries as well as the relationship between agriculture apolitics on a local, regional, national, and international level.

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Janken Myrdal is a professor of agrarian history at the Swedish University of Agricultural Science in UppsaSweden. Mats Morell is a professor of economic history at Stockholm University.

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The Best of ShropshireDavid Trumper

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The BorgiasThe Rise and Fall of the Most Infamous Family in HistoryMichael Mallett

Fact is deftly sorted from fiction in this description of the incredible rise of the Borgias from obscurity to thcenter of the Renaissance.

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The Brussels ReaderEric Corijn, Jessica van de Ven

Gathering texts written by the best experts on Brussels who are affiliated with the Brussels for EuropeMasterclasses, this book is based on a five-year teaching experience to expats. Besides chapters on variouaspects ranging from the history, geography, culture, and politics to migration and institutional organizatioBrussels, the book comprises walks and visits to different parts of the city and some of its most important

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institutions. This is the first reader offering an in-depth understanding of Brussels' urban dynamics in EnglisBrussels Reader is a must for anyone intrigued, involved, or interested in the city becoming the capital of

Europe.

Eric Corijn is a cultural philosopher and is professor of social and cultural (urban) geography at the VrijeUniversiteit Brussel (VUB). He is the founder of the interdisciplinary research team COSMOPOLIS City, CultuSociety (VUB), vice president of the Brussels Studies Institute and initiator of the Brussels for EuropeMasterclasses and the Brussels Academy. He is the author of more than 250 publications. Jessica van de works on the COSMOPOLIS City, Culture & Society (VUB) research team, the Urban Studies Network (VUB the Erasmushogeschool Brussel) and the Brussels Studies Institute (VUB, Université Libre de Bruxelles, UnivSaint Louis). She is a member of the editorial committee of the series Urban Notebooks.

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The CatharsThe Most Successful Heresy of the Middle AgesSean Martin

The gripping, tragic true story of a peaceful sect that was wiped out in Europe's first genocide

Flourishing principally in the Languedoc and Italy, the Cathars taught that the world is evil and must betranscended through a simple life of prayer, work, fasting, and non-violence. They believed themselves to heirs of the true heritage of Christianity going back to apostolic times, and completely rejected the CatholiChurch, regarding it as the Church of Satan; Cathar services and ceremonies, by contrast, were held in fiebarns, and people's homes. Finding support from the nobility in the fractious political situation in southernFrance, the Cathars also found widespread popularity among peasants and artisans. And again unlike the Cthe Cathars respected women, and women played a major role in the movement. Alarmed at the success oCatharism, the Church founded the Inquisition and launched the Albigensian Crusade to exterminate the heThe Crusade was the first to be directed against fellow Christians, and was also the first European genocidWith the fall of th...

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Sean Martin is the author of numerous books, including The Knights Templar and The Gnostic s.Author Bio




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The Criminal Conversation of Mrs. NortonVictorian England's "Scandal of the Century" and the Fallen Socialite Who Changed Women's LivesForeverDiane Atkinson

Westminster, London, June 22, 1836. Crowds are gathering at the Court of Common Pleas. On trial is CarolSheridan Norton, a beautiful and clever young woman who had been maneuvered into marrying the HonorabGeorge Norton when she was just nineteen. Ten years older, he is a dull, violent, and controlling lawyer, buCaroline is determined not to be a traditional wife. By her early twenties, Caroline has become a respected

and songwriter, clever mimic, and outrageous flirt. Her beauty and wit attract many male admirers, includinPrime Minister, Lord Melbourne. After years of simmering jealousy, George Norton accuses Caroline and the Minister of "criminal conversation" (adultery) precipitating Victorian England's "scandal of the century."

In Westminster Hall that day is a young Charles Dickens, who would, just a few months later, fictionalize eas Bardell v. Pickwick in The Pickwick Papers. After a trial lasting twelve hours, the jury's not guilty verdict immediate, unanimous, and sensational. George is a laughingstock. Angry and humiliated he cuts Caroline...

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Diane Atkinson holds a Ph.D. in the politics of women's labor and has worked as a lecturer and curatorAuthor Bio

specializing in women's history at the Museum of London. She is the author of Elsie and Mairi Go to War , Fu

Girls, Love and Dirt , and Suffragettes in Pictures.




The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian CrownHugh Agnew

In this first up-do-date, single volume history of the Czechs, Agnew provides an introduction to the majorthemes and contours of Czech history for the general reader-from prehistory and the first Slavs to the CzeRepublic's entry into the European Union.

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Hugh Agnew is an associate professor of history and international affairs and associate dean of AcademicPrograms at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. Recognized as an expEastern European history, he has appeared on C-SPAN, Voice of America's Czech service, and Radio Prague

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The Economics of Forced LaborThe Soviet GulagPaul R. Gregory, Valery Lazarev

Until now, there has been little scholarly analysis of the Soviet Gulag as an economic, social, and politicalinstitution, primarily owing to a lack of data. This collection presents the results of years of research by Wand Russian scholars.

Until now, there has been little scholarly analysis of the Soviet Gulag as an economic, social, and politicalinstitution, primarily owing to a lack of data. This collection presents the results of years of research by Wand Russian scholars. The authors provide both broad overviews and specific case studies.

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Paul R. Gregory, a Hoover Institution research fellow, holds an endowed professorship in the Department ofEconomics at the University of Houston, Texas, and is a research professor at the German Institute for EcoResearch in Berlin. The holder of a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, he is the author or coauthotwelve books and many articles on economic history, the Soviet economy, transition economies, comparatieconomics, and economic demography including Lenin's Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Archi(Hoover Institution Press, 2008), The Political Economy of Stalinism (2004), Before Command: The RussianEconomy from Emancipation to Stalin (1994), Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy (1990, reissu2006), and Russian National Income, 1885-1913 (1982, reissued 2005). He has edited Behind the Façade oStalin's Command Economy (2001) and The Economics of Forced Labor: The Soviet Gulag (2003), both pubby Hoover Institution Press and summarizing his research group's work on the Soviet state and party archiv

His publications based o...

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The Families Who Made RomeA History and a GuideAnthony Majanlahti

Both history and guide, this fascinating book tells the stories of the noble clans who built the piazzas, palazand fountains we see today. Famous sites take on a new significance as the author tells the family historieall the scandals, intrigues and power grabs.

From the Hardcover edition.

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Anthony Majanlahti is an urban historian and was a researcher at the British School at Rome.Author Bio




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The French Explorers and SydneyColin Dyer

Featuring previously unpublished translations, this insightful volume of journals and records from sevenexpeditions of French exploration between 1788 and 1831 documents the early years of Sydney. These revaccounts present intimate details of the everyday lives at all levels of society, from governors' parties to clabor. The cultural observations and outsider perspectives on the new British colony and its leading citizensurprising and engaging, simultaneously painting a vivid picture of early Australia, British colonial history, aninterests of pivotal French explorers such as Freycinet, Laperouse, and Bouganville.

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Colin Dyer is a research advisor in the School of Language and Comparative Cultural Studies at the Univer

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Queensland. He is the author of The French Explorers and the Aboriginal Australians and A Frenchman's Wa

Across the Nullabor .





The HuguenotsFrance, Exile & DiasporaJane McKee, Randolph Vigne

Scholars from France and from countries of the Huguenot Refuge examine the situation of French Protestabefore and after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, in France and in the countries to which many of thfled during the great exodus which followed the Edict of Fontainebleau. Covering a period from the end of tsixteenth to the beginning of the nineteenth century, the volume examines aspects of life in France, from debate on church unity to funeral customs, but its primary focus is on departure from France and itsconsequences - both before and after the Revocation. It offers insights into individuals and groups, fromgrandees such as Henri de Ruvigny, député général and later Earl of Galway, to converted Catholic priests from businessmen and communities choosing their destination for economic as well as religious reasons, towomen and children moving across European frontiers or groups seeking refuge in the islands of the IndianOcean. … The information-gathering activities of the French authorities and the reception of problematic gsuch as the Camisard pr...

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Jane McKee is president of the Irish Section of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland. She is a

former lecturer in French at the University of Ulster. Randolph Vigne is the author of From Strangers toCitizens, Liberals Against Apartheid , and Thomas Pringle: South African Pioneer, Poet and Abolitionist .

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The Illustrated Guide to Viking Martial ArtsAntony Cummins

A comprehensive guide to hand-to-hand combat that re-creates strategies used by the Vikings

The Viking shield wall is a famed battle strategy, tens or hundreds of men interlocked, reliant on their neighfor survival. What are less well known are the actual techniques used in solo hand-to-hand combat, duels,other forms of close-quarter engagements. Based on a comprehensive analysis of Viking sagas and other psources, this is the first book to present a step-by-step martial system. It reveals the hitherto hidden worViking combat, ranging from the techniques involved in thrust, block, and cut, to the weapons used, thelimitations of period armor, and the range of wounds suffered by combatants. Based on the sagas and writthe Vikings themselves, this book represents one of the earliest fighting manuals in the world, and a fascininsight into the warriors who were the scourge of Dark Age Europe.

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Author BioAntony Cummins is a ninja historian and a regular contributor to magazines such as Combat and Military

and Regalia. He runs the Historical Ninjutsu Research Team with the goal of translating historical ninja manuand is the author of True Ninja Traditions: The Ninpiden and The Unknown Ninja Scroll and True Path of th

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The KazakhsSecond EditionMartha Brill Olcott

This compete history of one of the largest non-Slavic ethnic groups charts it from its emergence in the midfifteenth century to the present. Olcott details the major events that have shaped the character of the Isnation of Kazakhstan, discussing the rise and fall of the Kazakh Khanate, the Kazakhs in imperial Russia,revolutionary and Soviet Kazakhstan, and the struggle for autonomy under Soviet rule.

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Martha Brill Olcott is professor of political science at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York and senior feat the Foreign Policy Research Institution in Philadelphia.

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The Last LegionaryLife as a Roman Soldier in Britain AD400Paul Elliott

A meticulously detailed account of life as a Roman legionary in the last days of the Roman Empire—battle to rations, camp duties to clothing

In 400 AD, Roman rule in Britain was collapsing as the thinly stretched empire was besieged on all sides. Thguide explores all aspects of Late Roman military life, from recruitment to weaponry, marriage to wages, wato religion. It explores the world of the Roman soldier through the eyes of one man, posted to a British garrat the edge of the empire, and follows the soldier's life through training, battle, marriage, and business deafinally following him south as he leaves Britain for good in defense of Rome. When the legionary finally escathe worst posting in the Roman Empire, it is only to join what effectively became a death march over the Awithout food or shelter. Readers of this mesmerizing account will know what it was like to face the chantebattle cry and the charge and slashing axes of the Goths, and why the order "March out!" was so terrifying

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Paul Elliott is the author of Brotherhoods of Fear: A History of Violent Organizations and Warrior Cults: A Hof Magical, Mystical and Murderous Organizations.

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The LatviansA Short HistoryAndrejs Plakans

This is the first English-language volume that brings the history of Latvia to the threshold of the twenty-ficentury. Until the re-establishment of Latvian independence in 1991, Soviet dominance served for nearly fyears to hinder publication of any complete and objective historical record ...

This is the first English-language volume that brings the history of Latvia to the threshold of the twenty-ficentury. Until the re-establishment of Latvian independence in 1991, Soviet dominance served for nearly fyears to hinder publication of any complete and objective historical record of the region. Plakans now placevolution and formation of the Latvian nation in a balanced, historical framework that stretches from the emedieval period to the present.

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Andrejs Plakans is professor of European history in the Department of History at Iowa State University. He author of numerous articles on Latvian and Baltic history.

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The LighthouseThe Mystery of the Eliean Mor Lighthouse KeepersKeith McCloskey

SummaryWhat really happened to the mysteriously vanished lighthouse keepers-a true story, evocative of The Shin

On December 26, 1900, the vessel Hesperus arrived at Eilean Mor in the remote Outer Hebrides with relieflighthouse men and fresh provisions. Staffed by three keepers, the lighthouse had been in operation for a ybut no light had been seen from Eilean Mor for 10 days. Upon arrival, the superintendent, Robert Muirhead,the lighthouse to be completely deserted, and a subsequent search of the surrounding island failed to showsign of what happened to the keepers. The last entry in the lighthouse logbook had been made on Decemband contained a number of strange and distressing entries that offered clues as to the mental state of theOne was reported to have been crying, while another had become "very quiet." When it was revealed thatmen's oilskin coats were missing and the clock in the lighthouse had stopped, inevitable theories surroundinkeepers' fates were soon put forward. These included a giant wave washing them away, murder and suicidth...

Keith McCloskey is the author of Airwork: A History and Mountain of the Dead .Author Bio





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The Little Book of BallsbridgeHugh Oram


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The Little Book of Crime & PunishmentStephen Halliday

This book is a repository of intriguing, fascinating, obscure, strange, and entertaining facts and trivia abouhistory of the British criminal justice system. Armed with this fascinating tome, the reader will have suchknowledge of the days when noses, hands, and heads were cut off, heretics burned at the stake, and rebewere hung, drawn, and quartered. They will be entertained and enthralled, and never short of some frivoloto enhance conversation or quiz! A reference book and a quirky guide, this can be dipped in to time and timagain to reveal something new about the various forms of punishments inflicted on criminals; from duckingscolds, imposing curfews, tagging persistent offenders, and, where necessary, locking them up. A remarkabengaging little book, this is essential reading for all historians interested in the macabre side of British histo

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Stephen Halliday is a writer, lecturer, and broadcaster. He has written for Financial Times, the Guardian,the Observer , and has made several radio and television programs based on his popular books. He also writand reviews regularly for BBC History , the Daily Telegraph, the Literary Review , and the Times. He is the aof From 221B Baker Street to The Old Curiosity Shop and The Great Stink of London.

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The Medieval ChristmasSophie Jackson

Medieval Christmas-roaring fires, Yule logs, boar's head on a platter, and carols. So many of our best-lovedtraditions have their origins in the medieval period that it would be impossible to imagine the season withouand ivy, carol singers calling from door to door, and a general sense of celebration in the face of the harshseason. Sophie Jackson investigates the roots of the Christmas celebration, offering guidance for recreatinelements of the medieval Christmas at home, tips on decorations, instructions for playing medieval games, recipes for seasonal dishes. Fascinating facts about some of our most cherished customs, such as the nat

crib, are unearthed, as are some that are less well known-wassailing the apple trees, the ritual beating ofchildren on December 28, and the appointment of a Lord of Misrule and a boy bishop.

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Author BioSophie Jackson is a freelance writer. She is the author of The Curse of Dasenin, and several articles in M

History magazine.

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The Red Army Faction, A Documentary HistoryVolume 2: Dancing with ImperialismJ. Smith, André Moncourt, Ward Churchill

The long-awaited second volume of the first-ever English-language study of the Red Army Faction (RAF)-WGermany's most notorious urban guerillas-covers the period immediately following the organization's near todecimation in 1977. During this period, the RAF was in a state of regrouping and attempting to renew its tithe radical left in response to the emergence of a new radical youth movement in the Federal Republic, theAutonomen. This reorganization was evidenced by the shifting of focus from freeing prisoners to fighting NABy examining communiqués and texts from 1978 up until the 1982 May Paper, the broader movement is exaand the possibilities and perils of an armed underground organization are contrasted to the more fluid and fpractice of the revolutionary cells at that time. The history of the 2nd of June Movement (2JM), an eclectiguerilla group with its roots in West Berlin, is also evaluated, especially in light of the split that led to somemembers officially disbanding the organization and rallying to the RAF. Finally, the RAF's relations...

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André Moncourt is the pseudonym of a writer with his political roots in the movements of the 1970s and 1

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Along with J. Smith, he coedited The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History, Volume I: Projectiles for People, and coauthored Daring to Struggle, Failing to Win. J. Smith is the pseudonym of an activist who habeen involved in the radical left for more than 20 years. They both live in Montreal. Ward Churchill is a prwriter and lecturer, having authored, coauthored, or edited more than 20 books. He is a member of theleadership council of Colorado American Indian Movement (AIM). He lives in Boulder, Colorado.





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The Rosary, the Republic, and the RightSpain and the Vatican Hierarchy, 1931?1939Karl J. Trybus

The birth of the Second Spanish Republic in April 1931 ushered in a period of possible secularization to SpaLiberals welcomed legal changes, while conservatives feared the special "privileges" they enjoyed would enCatholic Church remained a central focus of left-wing antagonism and right-wing allegiances, and conflictssurrounding the future of religion grew severe. While members of the Spanish Catholic hierarchy had clearlysupported the right and disdained the left, the actions and opinions of the Vatican and its hierarchy station

Spain were much more nuanced. Similarly, when conservative military action plunged Spain into a Civil War 1936, the majority of the Spanish Catholic hierarchy openly supported their victory, but the highest levels Vatican remained silent. This book explores the unique position and specialized reactions of the Vaticanconcerning the Second Republic and Civil War. For the Holy See, the conflict in Spain was not an isolated at the edge of the continent, but part of a larger narrative of ideological and political tension s...

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Karl J. Trybus is assistant professor of history at Limestone College in South Carolina. His research interesfocus on the intersections between Vatican diplomacy and Spanish politics during the 1930s. He lives in GaSouth Carolina.

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The Soap ManLewis, Harris and Lord LeverhulmeRoger Hutchinson

In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent liberal industrial Lord Leverhulme bouglock, stock and barrel-the Hebridean island of Lewis. His intention was to revolutionize the lives andenvironments of its 30,000 people, and those of neighboring Harris, which he shortly added to his estate. Fnext five years a state of conflict reigned in the Hebrides. Island seamen and servicemen returned from theto discover a new landlord whose declared aim was to uproot their identity as independent crofter/fishermturn them into tenured wage-owners. They fought back, and this is the story of that fight. The confrontatresulted in riot and land seizure and imprisonment for the islanders and the ultimate defeat for one of the mpowerful men of his day. The Soap Man paints a beguiling portrait of the driven figure of Lord Leverhulme, also looks for the first time at the infantry of his opposition: the men and women of Lewis and Harris who fohard years fought the law, their landowner, local business opinion and the entire media, to preserve...

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Roger Hutchinson is an award-winning author and journalist. After working as an editor in London, in 1977

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joined the West Highland Free Press in Skye. Since then he has published thirteen books, including Polly: T

True Story Behind Whisky Galore; an acclaimed literary biography of James Boswell; a definitive history of t1966 World Cup; and a life of Aleister Crowley. He is still attached to the WHFP as editor and columnist, anwritten for BBC Radio, The Scotsman, the Guardian, The Herald and the Literary Review . He lives on theHebridean island of Raasay.




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The Templar TreasureAn InvestigationTobias Daniel Wabbel

A fact-based treasure hunt through time…The year 1120 A.D.: Hugues de Payns and eight other men of French high nobility gather in Jerusalem. Thepretense: Guarding the pilgrimage routes after the conquest of Jerusalem by the crusaders. Their real missDigging and searching beneath the Temple Mount for a mysterious object.When they return to France in 1128, they own the most dangerous artifact in European Christendom. Sudd

the Order of the Knights Templar - as they now call themselves - becomes incredibly wealthy. Suddenly, hGothic cathedrals rise from the soil of Northern France - and with them a secret architectural code left by Knights Templar that up to the present day marks the way to the hiding-place of the most importantarcheological relic in human history.Following author Tobias Daniel Wabbel's research and investigation throughout Europe, this book finally solvthe mystery of the legendary treasure of the Knights Templar. Both a travel guide to the secrets of the treof the Knights Templar and an enthralling tale, The Templar Treasure will ...

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Tobias Daniel Wabbel has published six nonfiction books in his native German on subjects that range fromsearch for radio signals of extraterrestrial intelligences and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETthe science-theology debate and a new theology after the Holocaust.

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Tracing Old Norse CosmologyThe World Tree, Middle Earth and the Sun in Archeaological PerspectivesAnders AndrTn, Anders Andrén

The study of Old Norse religion is a truly multidisciplinary and international field of research. The rituals, myand narratives of pre-Christian Scandinavia have been studied and interpreted in detail relying mainly on ChIcelandic literature from the Middle Ages. Here, Anders Andrén offers a long-term perspective on Old Norsecosmology and argues that the fundamental ideas of an ordered universe, time, and space in Old Norse relican be studied in a dialogue between archaeology and the Icelandic narrative tradition. Ideas about the wtree, middle earth, and the sun can be traced in images and material culture from Scandinavian prehistory. combining the prehistoric representations with the later written record the author presents a fresh and nuastudy of the fascinating Old Norse world.

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Anders Andrén is professor of archaeology at Stockholm University. He was formerly professor of medievaarchaeology at Lund University, and has also been a visiting scholar in Athens, Cambridge, Copenhagen,Heidelberg, Sydney, and Uppsala.

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Turning Money into RebellionThe Unlikely Story of Denmark's Revolutionary Bank RobbersGabriel Kuhn

In May of 1989, on a quiet street in Copenhagen, police discovered an apartment that had served for yearhideaway for Denmark's most notorious 20th-century bank robbers. The members, who belonged to a commorganization and lived modest lives in the Danish capital, had, over a period of almost two decades, sent min stolen dollars acquired in spectacular heists to Third World liberation movements, in particular the PopulaFront for the Liberation of Palestine. One of the most puzzling and captivating chapters from the European

imperialist milieu of the 1970s and 1980s, Turning Money into Rebellion is the first-ever account of the storEnglish, covering the events from Middle Eastern capitals and African refugee camps to the group's fateful robbery that earned them a record haul and left a police officer dead. The book includes historical documeillustrations, and an exclusive interview with Torkil Lauesen and Jan Weimann, two of the group's longest-standing members. It is a compelling tale of turning radical theory into action and concerns analysis...

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Author BioGabriel Kuhn is a Stockholm, Sweden-based author and translator. He is the author of All Power to the Co

A Documentary History of the German Revolution of 1918-1919 and Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardc

Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics.



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Wearmouth & JarrowNorthumbrian Monasteries in an Historic LandscapeSam Turner

Presenting the results of new research on the monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow—among the mostsophisticated centers of learning and artistic culture in 7th- and 8th-century Europe, and the home of Bedtheir churches, this study examines the long-lasting effect of their buildings and estates on the surroundinregion from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. The authors trace these relationships through timenew studies of the changing landscape, the monastery precincts, and the surviving structures themselves

detailing how the historical archaeology of the sites reveals how the churches and their communities were in the landscapes of Northumbria but flourished through their links with other parts of Britain and Europe.Researchers from many different backgrounds contributed to the project, using aerial, geophysical,geoarchaeological, and palaeoenvironmental surveys and digital mapping to examine the monasteries andsurrounding lands. This book reveals not only the link between the churches and the region ’ s political andeconomic history, but also demonstra...

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Sam Turner is a professor of archaeology in the school of history, classics, and archaeology at NewcastleUniversity in England. He researches the historic landscapes and early medieval architecture of Britain, Eurand the Mediterranean. Sarah Semple is a reader in archaeology in the department of archaeology at DurhaUniversity in England. Her work focuses on religion and belief in early medieval Europe, with particular referto the role of landscapes and the ideological use of ancient remains. Alex Turner is a research associate inarchaeology in the school of history, classics, and archaeology at Newcastle University. He has more than

years of experience in archaeological survey, with a particular focus on the development of a holistic methusing techniques such as GIS, laser scanning, and geophysical prospection to enable better understandinghistoric buildings.

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When I Heard the BellThe Loss of the IolaireJohn MacLeod

On 31 December 1918, hours from the first New Year of peace, hundreds of Royal Naval Reservists from thof Lewis poured off successive trains onto the quayside at Kyle of Lochalsh. A chaotic Admiralty had madeadequate arrangements for their safe journey home. Corners were cut, an elderly and recently requisitionedsteam-yacht was sent from Stornoway, and that evening HMY Iolaire sailed from Kyle of Lochalsh, grosslyoverloaded and with life-belts for less than a third of all on board. The Iolaire never made it. At two in themorning, in pitch-black and stormy conditions, she piled onto rocks only yards from the harbour entrance a

just half a mile from Stornoway pier, where thronged friends and relatives eagerly awaited the return of theheroes. 205 men drowned, 188 of them natives of Lewis and Harris-men who had come through all the alarand dangers of the First World War only to die on their own doorstep, at the mouth of a harbour many coulthemselves have navigated with ease, on a day precious to Highlanders for family, celebration and togetheThe loss of the...

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John MacLeod was born in Lochaber in 1966. After graduating from Edinburgh University, he began his car

BBC Highland in Inverness and quickly established himself as a freelance writer. He won Scottish Journalist Year in 1991 and contributed regularly to The Scotsman and The Herald . He is presently a columnist with tScottish Daily Mail and is the author of several books. He lives on a croft on the west side of Lewis with a selderly dog, two melodeons, a 4-oven Aga and far too many chickens. He is the author of Banner in the W

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This elegantly illustrated volume provides insights into Hildesheim Cathedral's eventful 1,200-year history,documenting and elucidating its architecture as well as the building's unique decorations. The considerationranges from the legend of the Hildesheim Rosebush during the early ninth century to Bishop Bernward'smonumental 11th century creations. Recalling the destruction and reconstruction of the cathedral during tmid-20th century, this chronicle provides a striking reflection of unbroken vitality, recapturing the ecclesia

and artistic traditions on the cathedral hill in Hildesheim.

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