Decolonization

Perspectives from Now and Then

Edited by Prasenjit Duara

Decolonization brings together the most cutting-edge thinking by major historians of decolonization, including previously unpublished essays and writings by leaders of decolonizing countries including Ho...

Published November 27th 2003 by Routledge.

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The Regency of Tunis and the Ottoman Porte, 1777-1814

Army and Government of a North-African Eyâlet at the End of the Eighteenth Century

By Asma Moalla

This study of the Tunisian army and government in the time of the pasha-bey Hammûda the Husaynid (1777--1814) stresses the deeply Ottoman character of these...

Published November 27th 2003 by Routledge.

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On Living Through Soviet Russia

Edited by Daniel Bertaux, Anna Rotkirch, Mr Paul R Thompson, Paul Thompson

For a period of over seventy years after the 1917 revolutions in Russia, talking about the past, either political or personal, became dangerous. The new...

Published November 27th 2003 by Routledge.

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Did Singapore Have to Fall?

Churchill and the Impregnable Fortress

By Kevin Blackburn, Karl Hack

This book provides a sophisticated summary of up-to-date knowledge on the Fall of Singapore, including the critical tensions between Churchill and local commanders. A focus...

Published November 20th 2003 by Routledge.

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The Great Game

Britain and Russia in Central Asia

Edited by Sir Martin Ewans

The Great Game: Britain and Russia in Central Asia is a collection of key works written in the course of the nineteenth century, when Central...

Published November 20th 2003 by Routledge.

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Early Explorations of Russia

By Marshall Poe

It was only during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that western Europeans discovered the lands now known as Russia. Travellers to these lands published their...

Published October 23rd 2003 by Routledge.

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The Witchcraft Sourcebook

Edited by Brian P. Levack

This fascinating collection of documents illustrates the development of ideas about witchcraft from ancient times to the twentieth century. Many of the sources come from...

Published October 16th 2003 by Routledge.

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The Indian Ocean in World History

By Milo Kearney

Throughout history, dominance of the Indian Ocean has been a critical factor in defining a nation's supremacy and power. It is well known that it...

Published October 9th 2003 by Routledge.

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The Great War

1914–1918

By John H. Morrow Jr.

The Great War is a landmark history that firmly places the First World War in the context of imperialism. Set to overturn conventional accounts of...

Published October 6th 2003 by Routledge.

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Sweatshop USA

The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective

Edited by Daniel E. Bender, Richard A. Greenwald

For over a century, the sweatshop has evoked outrage and moral repugnance. Once cast as a type of dangerous and immoral garment factory brought to...

Published September 11th 2003 by Routledge.

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