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"e;A carefully understated but chilling account of the whole 3 1/2 centuries during which 15 million Africans were snatched from their homes and delivered into slavery in the New World.

Decades after Francis Fukuyama's 'end of history' thesis became famous, the conflicts and turmoil of history have returned; Dr.

This book comprehensively examines the extensive history of India by focusing on the unifying themes of history.

This book brings together anthropological and historical studies that analyze burial rituals within the Caribbean through the theoretical lens of syncretism and the hybridization of post-colonial and contemporary time periods.

Between 500,000 to 2 million people died in the Cultural Revolution.

This book explores the dynamic interplay between memory and history during the crucial period from the 8th to the 14th century in medieval India.

Khalil Maleki (19011969) was a selfless campaigner for democracy and social welfare in twentieth-century Iran.

This is a detailed yet accessible guide to the way in which religion and politics interacted during the earliest years of Islam.

This book focuses on a key case study in the history of American territories, public works, transportation and the constitutional system of checks and balances.

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This volume explores the family formation and life course of Polish people in Ireland, who make up the largest immigrant group in Ireland.

Democracy today is widely regarded as an ideal form of government.

"e;The Splendid Splinter,"e; Teddy Ballgame,"e; The Kid"e;no matter the nickname, Ted Williams was one of the most accomplished hitters in baseball history.

This book proposes a new historical framework for the analysis of the relationship between communist Poland and neutral Austria during the final decade of the Cold War.

This book explores in a theoretical and practical sense the challenges and opportunities arising in the initial and ongoing formation processes for teachers in Catholic schools.

In Climbing Parnassus, winner of the 2005 Paideia Prize, Tracy Lee Simmons presents a defense and vindication of the formative power of Greek and Latin.

This book unravels the intricate tapestry of Chinese state-society and government-citizen interactions in both legal historical and contemporary contexts.

Measuring the success of emancipation in the British West Indies became crucial in the struggle against slavery in antebellum America.

This book provides a detailed account of the Czechoslovak-American dispute that arose over monetary gold which was forcibly seized by Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

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Beyond Washington and Jefferson: Ranking the Founders.

This book illuminates the aesthetically underrated meaningfulness of particular elements in works of art and aesthetic experiences generally.

This book traces the development of U.

This book explores the subcultures, cultural trends and regulations of leisure and subcultures among young people in Beijing from 1949 to the 1980s.

The collection contains materials of archival documents and memoirs concerning the famine of 1931-1933 in Central Kazakhstan.

This book gives an account of the origins of theoretical mechanics in antiquity, its limited reception in the Arabic and Latin Middle Ages, and its recovery and subsequent development in Italy to the time of Galileo.

Edited and self-published by Bernadette Mayer and Vito Acconci from 1967 to 1969, 0 to 9 not only documented some of the most compelling examples of intermedia performance, contemporary poetry, and post-formalist art of the period, but also pioneered new ways of conceiving (and using) the magazine as medium and instrument.

This book provides a contemporary overview of Boko Haram's activities.

This book gathers contributions negotiating feminism's place within medieval studies.