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This text, which is the first volume in the best-selling History of England series, tells how a small and insignificant outpost of the Roman empire evolved into a nation that has produced and disseminated so many significant ideas and institutions.

The Eighth Edition incorporates more women's history, while continuing to provide balanced political and economic coverage with social and cultural history woven throughout.

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The devastating defeat of American military forces in the Phillipines is chronicled in this fascinating, lively account of an often overlooked chapter in American history.

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From its beginning with the bloody Battle of Wilson's Creek on August 10, 1861, to its end in surrender on June 23, 1865, the Civil War in the Indian Territory proved to be a test of valor and endurance for both sides.

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Examines the complex and disturbing history of immigration and racism in Canada. This book covers themes including Native/non-Native contact, migration and settlement in the nineteenth century, immigrant workers and radicalism, human rights, internment during WWII, and racism.

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The West Transformed is a comprehensive, mainstream introductory Western Civilization or European History textbook. It covers a variety of fields of history including social history, but stresses traditional topics and a strong narrative. The development of civilization in the West is presented as a series of cultural, technological, social, and political transformations. A strong unifying theme focuses on the tensions between continuity and change in human affairs.

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Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project against a backdrop of the budding civil rights era. 100,000 first printing.

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An intriguing journey into the colorful world of eighteenth-century London captures the practical details of everyday life--cooking, laundry, clothing, jewelry, cosmetics, medicine, sex, education, etiquette, religion, crime--drawing on period diaries, newspapers, advice books, and other papers spanning the period from 1740 to 1770. Reprint. 10,000 first printig.

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Newspapers were a key source for popular opinion in the nineteenth century, and The Newspaper Indian is the first in-depth look at how newspapers and newsmaking practices shaped the representation of Native Americans, a contradictory representation that carries over into our own time. John M. Coward has examined seven decades of newspaper reporting, journalism that perpetuated the many stereotypes of the American Indian. Indians were not described on their own terms but by the norms of the white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant society that wrote and read about them. Beyond the examination of Native American representation (and, more often, misrepresentation) in the media, Coward shows how Americans turned native people into symbolic and ambiguous figures whose identities were used as a measure of American Progress. The Newspaper Indian is a fascinating look at a nation and the power of its press. It provides insight into how Native Americans have been woven with newsprint into the very fabric of American life.

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In the aftermath of the methodological destruction of Iraq during the Persian Gulf War, the power and efficiency of new computerized weapons and surveillance technology has become chillingly apparent. For Manuel De Landa, however, this new weaponry has a significance that goes far beyond military applications: he shows how it represents a profound historical shift in the relation of human beings both to machines and to information. The recent emergence of "intelligent" and autonomous bombs and missiles equipped with artificial perception and decision making capabilities is, for De Landa, part of a much larger transfer of cognitive structures from humans to machines in the late twentieth century.
In this remarkable book De Landa provides a rich panorama of these astonishing developments. He details the mutating history of information analysis and machinic organization from the mobile siege artillery of the Renaissance, the clockwork armies of the Thirty Years War, the Napoleonic campaigns, and the Nazi blitzkrieg up to present day cybernetic battle management systems and satellite reconnaissance networks. Much more than a history of warfare, De Landa provides an unprecedented philosophical and historical reflection on the changing forms through which human bodies and materials are combined, organized, deployed, and made effective.

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New to the Third Edition:

  • Contemporary evaluations of the causes of Hitler's hatred for the Jews, based on new research, new approaches, and new ideas. This new coverage gives students updated material on current German/Jewish relations and asks students to evaluate the present-day environment.
  • "Can it Happen Again?" feature examines genocides which have occurred since the Second World War.
  • New final chapter: Aftermath covers what happened to survivors, the post-war trials of the Nazi war criminals, and the division and occupation of Germany after the Allied invasion, providing students with more complete and updated information about this period of history and its aftermath.
  • Updated bibliography including Websites, providing students with the latest publications in Holocaust history.

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From the Iranian hostage crisis through the Gulf War and the bombing of the World Trade Center, the American news media have portrayed "Islam" as a monolithic entity, synonymous with terrorism and religious hysteria. In this classic work, now updated, the author of Culture and Imperialism reveals the hidden agendas and distortions of fact that underlie even the most "objective" coverage of the Islamic world.

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