English | ISBN: 1611178703 | 2018 | 240 Pages | PDF | 17 MB Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South investigates the lives of unmarried white women-from the pre- to the post-Civil War South-within a society that placed high value on women’s marriage and motherhood....
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English | ISBN: 0367222795 | 2019 | 404 Pages | PDF | 7 MB The Routledge History of Queer America presents the first comprehensive synthesis of the rapidly developing field of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer US history. Featuring nearly thirty chapters on essential subjects and themes...
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English | ISBN: 1108470750 | 2018 | 248 Pages | PDF | 13 MB China’s rise to power is the signal event of the twenty-first century, and this volume offers a contemporary view of this nation in ascendancy from the inside. Eight recent essays by Xu Jilin, a...
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English | ISBN: 0073385506 | 2010 | 416 Pages | PDF | 20 MB Medieval Europe introduces today’s students to the medieval roots of our own society. In an accessible and engaging narrative, it tells how the peoples of medieval Europe built, understood, and changed their world. Never...
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2014 | ISBN: 1848327277 | English | 224 Pages | EPUB | 13 MB War is the story of individuals painted into a broader tapestry of overpowering events. While examining the wider historical perspective to lay the foundation, this book relates the individual stories of the Second World...
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2014 | ISBN: 1781593949 | English | 224 Pages | EPUB | 12 MB The Small Scale Raiding Force (SSRF) was formed in February 1942 by Gus March Phillips with Major General Gubbins SOE European chief’s approval. March-Phillips and his Maid of Honor Force had just had complete...
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2018 | ISBN: 1107070317 | English | 348 Pages | PDF | 7 MB How did decolonization impact on Britain itself? And how did Britain manage its transition from colonial power to postcolonial nation? Sarah Stockwell explores this question principally via the history of the overseas engagements of...
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ISBN: 162534340X, 1625343418 | 2018 | EPUB | 272 Pages | 2 MB During the Cold War, determined translators and publishers based in the Soviet Union worked together to increase the number of foreign literary texts available in Russian, despite fluctuating government restrictions. Based on extensive interviews with...
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ISBN: 0415580765 | 2010 | EPUB | 216 Pages | 2 MB First published in 1947, Straight On is a first-hand account of the authors’ work with the Red Cross in central and eastern Europe at the end of the Second World War, including their work providing medical...
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