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Nineteenth Century Society
The aim of this book is to demonstrate both the difficulties and the opportunities which the accumulation of statistical information in economically...
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Marxism in Russia
This book is a documentary record of the statements and debates that defined the formative period of a movement that has affected modern politics and...
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Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800–1860
Anna Johnston analyses missionary writing under the aegis of the British Empire. Johnston argues that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in...
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Legacies of Dachau
Auschwitz, Belsen, Dachau. These names still evoke the horrors of Nazi Germany around the world. This book takes one of these sites, Dachau, and...
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The Cambridge History of Egypt
The Cambridge History of Egypt offers the first comprehensive English-language treatment of Egyptian history through thirteen centuries, from the...
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Wide Awake in the Windy City
In Wide Awake in the Windy City, Matt Golosinski traces the century-long ascent of the Kellogg School of Management, detailing its influence on...
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Writing a Usable Past
In Writing a Usable Past, Brintlinger considers the interactions of post-Revolutionary Russian and émigré culture with the genre of biography in...
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Bridges of Memory Volume 2: Chicago
In the second volume of Bridges of Memory, historian Timuel D. Black Jr. continues his conversations with African-Americans who migrated to Chicago...
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Class Formation and Urban Industrial Society
In 1750 Bradford was a small market town of about 4000 inhabitants in the Yorkshire, West Riding. By 1850 it had become a major industrial city of...
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Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical
For the Victorian reading public, periodicals played a far greater role than books in shaping their understanding of new discoveries and theories in...
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Deering Library - An Illustrated History
Published to commemorate the Deering Library's 75th anniversary, this book explores the Deering and McCormick families, who funded the project;...
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The Beginnings of Quakerism
This is an account, from the original sources, of the early history of Quakerism, founded in England at the time of the Puritan revolution and the...
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The Second Period of Quakerism
The late William C. Braithwaite's Second Period of Quakerism was first published in 1919, and reprinted with corrections in 1921. This edition...
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Hunting and the Politics of Violence before the English Civil War
A major contribution to debates about the origins of the Civil War, this study of English forests and hunting from the late sixteenth-century to the...
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The Language of Empire
The Roman Empire has been an object of fascination for the past two millennia, and the story of how a small city in central Italy came to dominate...
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Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany
This is a study of the ideological and political relationship between Zionism and anti-Semitism in modern Germany, from the nineteenth century...
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The Ottoman Road to War in 1914
Why did the Ottoman Empire enter the First World War in late October 1914, months after the war’s devastations had become clear? Were its leaders...
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Berlin in the Twentieth Century
Berlin has been the focal scene of some of the most dramatic and formative events of the twentieth century. Through periods of decadence, fascism,...
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The Roman Bazaar
It has long been held by historians that trade and markets in the Roman Empire resembled those found later in early modern Europe. Using the concept...
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Crying Shame
Building on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive historical evidence, Crying Shame analyzes lament across thousands of years and nearly every...
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Poor Relief and Welfare in Germany from the Reformation to World War I
This account of poor relief, charity, and social welfare in Germany from the Reformation through World War I integrates historical narrative and...
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Welfare States in East Central Europe, 1919–2004
A comparative-historical study of welfare states in the former communist region of East Central Europe. Inglot analyzes almost one hundred years of...
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Nuclear Implosions
Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System follows a small public agency in Washington State that undertook...
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