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Jacqueline Turner: The Labour Church

The Labour Church was an organisation fundamental to the British socialist movement during the formative years of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and Labour Party between 1891 and 1914. It was …

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Meredith MacArdle: The History of the World Quiz Book

Taking the history of the world as its basis might seem a mammoth task but this fascinating book does just that, breaking the whole lot down into ten enthralling chapters that cover the ages and the …

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Dr Ian Rich: Holocaust Perpetrators of the German Police Battalions

Holocaust Perpetrators of the German Police Battalions is the first comprehensive English-language study of the structures and actions of German Police battalions in Poland and Ukraine between 1940 …

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Dr Evdoxios Doxiadis: State, Nationalism, and the Jewish Communities of Modern Greece

By looking at the very specific case of the Greek-speaking Romaniote and the Ladino-speaking Sephardic communities in Southern Greece, Epirus and Macedonia, this book explores the attitudes and …

Cover of Dr Marc Lohnstein: Royal Netherlands East Indies Army 1936–42

Dr Marc Lohnstein: Royal Netherlands East Indies Army 1936–42

Until 1945, Indonesia was a Dutch colony known as the Netherlands East Indies. In 1930, the area had over 60 million inhabitants and was a major exporter to Japan, providing some 13 per cent of its …

Cover of Ethan Mark: Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War

Ethan Mark: Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War

**Shortlisted for the ICAS (International Convention of Asia Scholars) Book Prize in the Humanities 2019** Japan”s Occupation of Java in the Second World War draws upon written and oral Japanese, …

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Grigorii Karpovich Kotoshikhin: Russia in the Reign of Aleksei Mikhailovich

The book presents the first English edition of “On Russia in the Reign of Aleksei Mikhailovich” by Grigorii Kotoshikhin. This is the only native source describing the character of the seventeenth-cen …

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Stephen G. Hoffius & Susan Millar Williams: Upheaval in Charleston

History and suspense combine in this scholarly account of a city recovering from the Civil War and rocked by an earthquake and murder. On August 31, 1886, a massive earthquake centered near Charlesto …

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Robert Conquest: The Harvest of Sorrow

Robert Conquest”s The Harvest of Sorrow helped to reveal to the West the true and staggering human cost of the Soviet regime in its deliberate starvation of millions of peasants and remains one of t …

Cover of Menno Vellinga: The Changing Role Of The State In Latin America

Menno Vellinga: The Changing Role Of The State In Latin America

Since the 1930s the state has played a primary role in the development process of Latin American countries, and political systems have had strong corporatist and authoritarian-centralist features. In …