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  • Ruling Oneself Out

    A Theory of Collective Abdications

    by Ivan Ermakoff, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    What induces groups to commit political suicide? This book explores the decisions to surrender power and to legitimate this surrender: collective abdications. Commonsensical explanations impute such actions to coercive pressures, actors’ miscalculations, or their contamination by ideologies at odds with group interests. Ivan Ermakoff argues that these explanations are either incomplete or ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Anne Boleyn: A Short Biography

    by Ashleigh Jenson ...
    EXTRACT:Although popular culture depicts the Chateu Vert pageant as being the moment Henry fell in love with Anne, it is not clear when the king did notice her. What is clear, is that from 1522 onwards, Anne's prospective suitors at court were stopped in their tracks by Henry VIII. Whether he simply sought to make her his mistress, as he had done with his sister, or to make her his wife, is also ... Read more

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  • DIARY OF A NAPOLEONIC FOOT SOLDIER

    by Jakob Walter ...
    A grunt’s-eye report from the battlefield in the spirit of The Red Badge of Courage and All Quiet *on the Western Front—*the only known account by a common soldier of the campaigns of Napoleon’s Grand Army between 1806 and 1813.When eighteen-year-old German stonemason Jakob Walter was conscripted into the Grand Army of Napoleon, he had no idea of the trials that lay ahead. The long, grueling ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Thirty Years' War 1618-1648

    by Samuel Rawson Gardiner ...
    This edition features• a linked Table of Contents, linked Footnotes, and linked IndexCONTENTS (abridged list)CHAPTER I. CAUSES OF THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR.CHAPTER II. THE BOHEMIAN REVOLUTION.CHAPTER III. IMPERIALIST VICTORIES IN BOHEMIA AND THE PALATINATE...CHAPTER IX. THE DEATH OF WALLENSTEIN AND THE TREATY OF PRAGUE.CHAPTER X. THE PREPONDERANCE OF FRANCE.CHAPTER XI. THE END OF THE WAR.About the ... Read more

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  • The Retreat to Corunna

    Bretwalda Battles, #21

    by Oliver Hayes ...
    Series Book 21 - Bretwalda Battles
    The Retreat to Corunna was a spectacular defeat for the British Army, yet it managed to save its reputation by carrying out one of the great fighting retreats of military history.In 1808 a British army under Sir John Moore advanced from its base at Lisbon into Spain to aid Spanish armies fighting against a French invasion led by the Emperor Napoleon himself. As the British approached Madrid they ... Read more

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  • Provincializing Europe

    Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition

    by Dipesh Chakrabarty ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues, is built into the social sciences. The very idea of historicizing carries with it some peculiarly ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A City in Civil War – Dublin 1921–1924

    The Irish Civil War

    by Padraig Yeates ...
    The long-awaited concluding volume of Pádraig Yeates' 'Dublin at War' trilogyIn A City in Civil War: Dublin 1921–1924, acclaimed historian Pádraig Yeates turns his attention to Ireland's bloody and hard-fought Civil War and its impact on the capital city and its inhabitants.The fascinating A City in Civil War tells the story of Dublin's troubled passage to independence amidst the acrimony and ... Read more

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  • The Super Summary of World History Revised

    With A Strong Emphasis On Western European And American History

    by Alan Dale Daniel BA MBA JD ...
    The Super Summary of World History is a very compact history of the world emphasizing western culture and political processes. The Super Summary is for the thinking person. This new history raises exciting questions and puts events into new perspectives to stimulate real thinking about history rather than accepting that the past is set in stone. History isn’t just names and dates, but a range of ... Read more

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  • History of Western Europe

    by James Robinson ...
    History, in the broadest sense of the word, is all that we know about everything that man has ever done, or thought, or hoped, or felt. It is the limitless science of past human affairs, a subject immeasurably vast and important but exceedingly vague. The historian may busy himself deciphering hieroglyphics on an Egyptian obelisk, describing a mediæval monastery, enumerating the Mongol emperors of ... Read more

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  • The Forgotten Women Heroes: Second World War Untold Stories - The Women Heroes in the Extraordinary World War Two[Military, History,War,World War]

    by Scott S. F. Meaker ...
    *** This is a short and Untold Stories of the Women Heroes in the Extraordinary World War Two ***These women have been footnotes in history and at least one of them was a model for women in James Bond books and movies. The women however have remained in the shadows of the stories of the Second World War. These women fade into history even though their actions were crucial in changing the outcome ... Read more

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  • In the Balance

    by Winston S. Churchill ...
    Series series Winston S. Churchill Post-War Speeches
    This collection of speeches by the Nobel Prize-winning Prime Minister presents the addresses he delivered abroad between 1949 and 1950.After guiding his country through the darkest times of World War II, Winston Churchill was defeated in the General Election of 1945. But he once again become Prime Minister in 1951. This collection features Churchill's speeches, addresses, and other public ... Read more

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  • The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies

    by Guenter Lewy ...
    Roaming the countryside in caravans, earning their living as musicians, peddlers, and fortune-tellers, the Gypsies and their elusive way of life represented an affront to Nazi ideas of social order, hard work, and racial purity. They were branded as "asocials," harassed, and eventually herded into concentration camps where many thousands were killed. But until now the story of their persecution ... Read more

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