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This historical study looks at how reformers have used urban planning and architecture to improve the health of urban residents of the United States. It begins...
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The Medieval Python
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The New Middle Ages

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No one working today in Middle English studies or in period-related film and/or documentary can proceed untouched by Terry Jones' thought-provoking views....
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Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940
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Using case studies of cholera, plague, malaria, and yellow fever, this book analyzes how factors such as public health diplomacy, trade, imperial governance,...
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Aristocratic Families in Republican France, 1870-1940
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This is a study of the daily life, concerns, and dynamics of aristocratic families in the France of the Third Republic. Elizabeth Macknight draws on a vast...
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Church, Nation and Race
Catholics and Antisemitism in Germany and England, 1918-45

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Church, Nation and Race compares the worldviews and factors that promoted or, indeed, opposed antisemitism amongst Catholics in Germany and England after the...
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Statesmanship, Character, and Leadership in America

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Statesmanship, Character and Leadership demonstrates how individual leaders acted at critical turning points in American history. Terry Newell's analysis...
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Sport under Communism
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Global Culture and Sport Series

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This book is the first in-depth exploration of why East Germany was, for two decades, one of the three most successful nations in both the Summer and Winter...
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The Gulf States
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