Anglo-Iranian Relations During World War I

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A study of Anglo-Iranian relations during World War I. This book analyzes such diplomacy as an example of great power politics in regional affairs, examining Britain's concern to maintain stability in...

The Social History of English Rowing

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This book seeks to redress the balance of reporting in the sport's literature which has always favoured the activities of aquatic gentlemen at the public schools, Oxford and Cambridge Universities, He...

A Forgotten Offensive: Royal Air Force Coastal Command's Anti-Shipping Campaign 1940-1945 Cass Series : Studies in Air Power

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The former Muslim republics of the USSR are struggling to strike a balance between the legacy of the Soviet regime and the revival of their own, traditional culture. This volume examines the

In Search of the True Gypsy: From Enlightenment to Final Solution

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The reader of European history who goes searching for Gypsies will only find them in footnotes. Today we still know little about how Gypsies have worked and lived through the centuries; we

Nationalism, Devolution, and the Challenge to the United Kingdom State

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MI6 and the Machinery of Spying: Structure and Process in Britain's Secret Intelligence Cass Series--Studies in Intelligence

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MI6 and the Machinery of Spying traces the development of the agency's internal structure from its inception until the end of the Cold War. The analysis examines how its management structure has

The Call to Seriousness

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Redefining Female Religious Life: French Ursulines And English Ladies in Seventeenth-Century Catholicism Catholic Christendom,

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Scotland: From Prehistory to the Present

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A lively new history from one of Scotland’s brightest young historians.

Marital Economy In Scandinavia And Britain 1400 - 1900 Women and Gender in the Early Modern World Women and Gender in the Ear

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From Grub Street to Fleet Street: An Illustrated History of English Newspapers to 1899

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Grub Street was a real place, a place of poverty and vice. It was also a metaphor for journalists and other writers of ephemeral publications and, by implication, the infant newspaper industry.

An Innocent in Ireland: Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters

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When writer David McFadden sets out on a tour of Ireland, he is determined to so do in a relatively innocent state. Using as a guide only In Search of Ireland, a

Daily Life in Rembrandt's Holland Daily Life

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This engagingly written study presents a rich picture of a dynamic society that had torn itself away from the mediocrity of its past--a stagnant nation of peasants and fishermen--to pursue an overseas

The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union

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This timely and pathbreaking work shows how and why the dramatic collapse of the soviet Union was caused in large part by nationalism, that is, by the increasingly urgent demands of the

Political Democracy and Ethnic Diversity in Modern European History

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European Feminisms, 1700-1950: A Political History

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This ambitious book explores challenges to male hegemony throughout continental Europe. It focuses especially on France, but it also offers comparative material on developments in the German-speaking...