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The famous poem, If by Rudyard Kipling, is said to be based on the life of Jameson, and the suffering he endured as a result of the 1896 raid that he and his Rhodesian and Bechuanaland policemen carried out on Paul Kruger's Transvaal Republic.
How many letters can be claimed to have been as influential as this?Leo Tolstoy's 'Letter to a Hindu' was originally sent to the Indian revolutionary and scholar Tarak Nath Das.Its... Læs mere
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This book, first published in 1998, examines a key period of Russian history, between the success of the autocracy in retaining... Læs mere
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Reconsidering the fossil speculation, the museum displays, and the media frenzy that ushered dinosaurs into the American public consciousness, this work takes us back to the birth of dinomania, the modern obsession with all things Jurassic.
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To combat behavior they viewed as sexually promiscuous, politically undesirable, or downright criminal, social activists in... Læs mere
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Exploring the origins of welfare in the context of local politics, this book examines the first welfare policy created specifically for mother-only families in Chicago in 1911. This revealing study shows how assumptions about women's roles have historically shaped public policy.
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Offering a vision of the creation of the American city, Max Page looks at the infamously transitory nature of New York and argues that the early 20th-century city was dominated by the politics of destruction and rebuilding that became the hallmark of modern urbanism.
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Susan Schulten tells a story of Americans beginning to see the world around them, tracing U.S. attitudes towards world geography from the end of 19th century exploration to the dawn of the Cold War. The work discusses the study of geography and its place in culture and politics
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