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Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85
A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners' own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families Forty years ago, Arthur Scargill led the National Union of Mineworkers on one of the largest strikes in British...- $35.00
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Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85
"An admirably compassionate testament"--Max Hastings, Sunday Times "A vivid and evocative panorama"--James Graham, The Observer "Superb"--John Harris, The Guardian A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners' own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families...- $18.99
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Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914
For those who lived in the wake of the French Revolution, from the storming of the Bastille to Napoleon's final defeat, its aftermath left a profound wound that no subsequent king, emperor, or president could heal. Children of the Revolution follows the ensuing generations...- $33.00
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Empires of the Mind: The Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present
'The empires of the future would be the empires of the mind' declared Churchill in 1943, envisaging universal empires living in peaceful harmony. Robert Gildea exposes instead the brutal realities of decolonisation and neo-colonialism which have shaped the postwar world. Even after the rush...- $29.99
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Empires of the Mind: The Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present
'The empires of the future would be the empires of the mind' declared Churchill in 1943, envisaging universal empires living in peaceful harmony. Robert Gildea exposes instead the brutal realities of decolonisation and neo-colonialism which have shaped the postwar world. Even after the rush...- $19.95
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Europe's 1968: Voices of Revolt
By the late 1960s, in a Europe divided by the Cold War and challenged by global revolution in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, thousands of young people threw themselves into activism to change both the world and themselves. This new and exciting study of...- $46.99
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Fighters Across Frontiers: Transnational Resistance in Europe, 1936-48
This landmark book, the product of years of research by a team of two dozen historians, reveals that resistance to occupation by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during the Second World War was not narrowly delineated by country but startlingly international. Tens of thousands...- $36.95
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Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance
The French Resistance has an iconic status in the struggle to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe, but its story is entangled in myths. Gaining a true understanding of the Resistance means recognizing how its image has been carefully curated through a combination of French politics and...- $35.00
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France Since 1945
The last fifty years of French history have seen immense challenges for the French: constructing a new European order, building a modern economy, searching for a stable political system. It has also been a time of anxiety and doubt. The French have had to...- $26.99
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Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation
A startling and original view of the occupation of the French heartland, based on a new investigation of everyday life under Nazi rule In France, the German occupation is called simply the dark years. There were only the good French who resisted and the...- $28.00
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Surviving Hitler and Mussolini
Surviving Hitler and Mussolini examines how far everyday life was possible in a situation of total war and brutal occupation. Its theme is the social experience of occupation in German- and Italian-occupied Europe, and in particular the strategies ordinary people developed in order to...- $42.95
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The Past in French History
This fascinating book offers a new perspective on French history and political culture by examining how the commemoration of the past pervades French public life. The book surveys the ways that various political communities in France during the past two centuries-proponents of revolution and...- $51.00
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What Is History For?
"History", suggests Robert Gildea, "is a battlefield." Questions of power, rights, identity and nationhood always have an ancient and modern historical dimension and countries still go to war over their interpretation of history. Yet accounts of history are just as prone to fabrication as...- $14.99
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Writing Contemporary History
Writing Contemporary History is an invaluable introduction to the central debates that have shaped the field of contemporary history. It introduces the reader to a variety of important theoretical approaches in the field of contemporary history writing and asks how these approaches have shaped...- $40.95
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