History and Archaeology Books
Cambridge University Press Luther Conflict and Christendom
Book SynopsisMartin Luther - monk, priest, intellectual, or revolutionary - has been a controversial figure since the sixteenth century. Most studies of Luther stress his personality, his ideas, and his ambitions as a church reformer. In this book, Christopher Ocker brings a new perspective to this topic, arguing that the different ways people thought about Luther mattered far more than who he really was. Providing an accessible, highly contextual, and non-partisan introduction, Ocker says that religious conflict itself served as the engine of religious change. He shows that the Luther affair had a complex political anatomy which extended far beyond the borders of Germany, making the debate an international one from the very start. His study links the Reformation to pluralism within western religion and to the coexistence of religions and secularism in today''s world. Luther, Conflict, and Christendom includes a detailed chronological chart.Trade Review'This is no partisan book. Readers will find themselves surprised by, and disabused of, common assumptions about the Reformation being primarily theological or populist.' P. E. Blosser, Choice'The grand total of events, persons, writings, places, and ideas that Ocker surveys is astounding. And yet, amidst the copious details and the range of materials, the book does not leave one bewildered. Ocker manages to narrate a compelling and readable account of the controversy about Luther from Wittenberg in the early 16th century to South America in the 21st.' Jarrett A. Carty, Reading Religion'Martin Luther is one of history's most extensively debated and studied figures. Ocker's focus is not only Luther's biography or theology. Rather, this work explores factors that contributed to the reception of Luther's teaching in both Europe and America from the era of the Reformation until the present. This book's clarity about the reception history of Luther's teaching on various levels of political contexts from nations to individuals make it important reading for both historians and theologians.' Aaron Klink, Religious Studies Review'The book itself, in its paperback incarnation, is handsomely produced … Christopher Ocker's elegant and richly documented study also inspires a sense of déjà-vu, echoing the debates of the 1970s and '80s which pitted social historians of the Reformation against church historians …' David Bagchi, The Journal of Ecclesiastical HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The birth of an unconcluded controversy; 2. Calming the rebel masses; 3. The political anatomy of the Luther affair; 4. Rebel princes and religious wars; 5. Discriminations; 6. Three orthodoxies; 7. Many Martins; Epilogue. The global-historical Luther; Appendix: a table chronicling four processes that mark the parameters of the religious controversy over Luther to 1564.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Intellectuals
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Hunting Leroux
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Penguin Books Ltd The Reformation
Book SynopsisOwen Chadwick stands out as the trustsed authority on Reformation history. Not only is his scholorly knowledge outlined with enough precision to impress any aspiring historian, but Chadwick also manages to convey the facts with a level of underlying passion.Table of ContentsPart One: The Protest1. The Cry for Reformation2. Luther3. Calvin4. The Reformation in England to 15595. The Growth of Reformed Protestantism6. The Radicals of the Reformation7. The Assault upon CalvinismPart Two: The Counter-Reformation8. The Counter-Reformation9. The Conquistadors10. The Eastern Orthodox ChurchPart Three: The Reformation and the Life of the Church11. Divided Christendom12. The Decline of Ecclesiastical Power13. Ministry and Worship14. ConclusionSuggestions for Further ReadingIndex
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Oxford University Press A Fake Saint and the True Church The Story of a
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewImpressive * Jennifer D Selwyn, Journal of Jesuit Studies *Fake Saint and the True Church is not the first microhistory about an early modern forgery, but Stefania Tutino's narrative skill and historical expertise make it a brilliantly accessible addition to this genre... This is microhistory at its best. * Katherine Elliot Van Liere, American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Making of a Success Story Chapter 2: A Wonderful Find Chapter 3: An Unexpected Ally Chapter 4: A Controversial Partner Chapter 5: The Fraud is Uncovered Chapter 6: The Roman Curia Takes Over Chapter 7: The Curia at an Impasse Chapter 8: The End of the Story Conclusion List of Abbreviations Bibliographical Notes
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INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US Slouching Toward Utopia
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Random House USA Inc Batavias Graveyard The True Story of the Mad
Book SynopsisIn 1628 the Dutch East India Company loaded the Batavia, the flagship of its fleet, with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java; the ship itself was a tangible symbol of the world’s richest and most powerful monopoly. The company also sent along a new employee to guard its treasure. He was Jeronimus Corneliszoon, a disgraced and bankrupt man with great charisma and dangerously heretical ideas. With the help of a few disgruntled sailors, he hatched a plot to seize the ship and her riches. The mutiny might have succeeded, but in the dark morning hours of June 3, 1629, the Batavia smashed through a coral reef and ran aground on a small chain of islands near Australia. The captain and skipper escaped the wreck, and in a tiny lifeboat they set sail for Java—some 1,500 miles north—to summon help. More than 250 frightened survivors waded ashore, thankful to be alive. Unfortunately, Jeronimus and the mutineers had survived too, a
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University Press of Kansas The SovietAfghan War How a Superpower Fought and
Book SynopsisThe war in Afghanistan (1979-1989) has been called ""the Soviet Union's Vietnam War"", a conflict that pitted Soviet regulars against a relentless, Afghan guerilla force. In this work, the Russian general staff takes a close critical look at the Soviet military's performance in that war.Trade ReviewA formidable contribution to our understanding of this war.""- War in History;""Includes numerous evaluations and comments by the editors that are just as valuable as the Russian text. . . . Reading [this book] may help us avoid the costly mistakes made by the Soviets.""- Marine Corps Gazette;""If one is interested in the nuts and bolts of Russian military approaches to counter-guerrilla warfare, it would be hard to find a better analysis.""- Journal of Military History Quarterly Review;""Indispensable to students of military tactics, as well as area specialists, as its lessons continue to be pertinent to conflict in Central Asia.""- Naval War College Review;""This superb translation will generate widespread and unprecedented interest in the subject. Offering a candid view of a war that played a significant role in the ultimate demise of the Soviet Union, this book presents analysis absolutely vital to Western policymakers, as well as to political, diplomatic, and military historians, and anyone interested in Russian and Soviet history. It also provides insights regarding current and future Russian struggles in ethnic conflicts both at and within their borders, struggles that could potentially destroy the Russian Federation.""- David M. Glantz, coauthor of The Battle of Kursk;""Provides a treasure trove of information and analysis.""- William E. Odom, author of The Collapse of the Soviet Military and On Internal War;""This superb translation will generate widespread and unprecedented interest in the subject. Offering a candid view of a war that played a significant role in the ultimate demise of the Soviet Union, this book presents analysis absolutely vital to Western policymakers, as well as to political, diplomatic, and military historians, and anyone interested in Russian and Soviet history. It also provides insights regarding current and future Russian struggles in ethnic conflicts both at and within their borders, struggles that could potentially destroy the Russian Federation.""- David M. Glantz, coauthor of The Battle of Kursk;""Provides a treasure trove of information and analysis.""- William E. Odom, author of The Collapse of the Soviet Military and On Internal War
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University Press of Kansas The Union Soldier in Battle
Book SynopsisWinner of the US Civil War Center Ribbon of Honor.Trade ReviewRich with insight, Hess's book merits recognition among the most insightful studies of the Civil War fighting man of the past half-century. - Civil War History ""Packs an emotional punch.... Hess explores less why Billy Yank fought than how he coped successfully with the stresses and horrors of combat, both during the war and afterward."" - Journal of American History ""The most telling examination of the experience of Civil War battle we have."" - William C. Davis, author of The Cause Lost: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy ""This book stands out as the best yet written within the genre. Hess takes us as close as we're likely to get to the shock and horror of battle without actually experiencing it."" - Steven E. Woodworth, author of Davis and Lee at War ""A major contribution."" - Infantry ""In a superb book, the finest to date on the ordeal of combat, Hess describes most memorably the sounds and smells and feel of combat; the randomness of death; the psychology of the battle line; changing definitions of courage; the Christian soldiers' struggle with the sinfulness of killing...."" - American Historical Review
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Gill Books SixteenthCentury Ireland The Incomplete Conquest
Book SynopsisThe sixteenth century saw the decisive expansion of English royal power in Ireland, together with the failure of the Reformation.
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Prentice Hall Press Andrew Jackson Miracle Of No
Book SynopsisAnother pop history page-turner from the New York Times bestselling authors of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.
£14.39
Arcadia Publishing Baltimore in World War II Images of America
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The History Press Ltd Wellington pocket GIANTS
Book SynopsisWellington is a giant because he was one of the greatest military commanders in British history, an important figure in the emergence of Britain as a great imperial power, a man who dominated British society and politics for 35 years.
£11.06
The History Press Ltd Robin Hood
Book SynopsisA new edition with an updated gazetteer and filmography
£19.18
Dufour Editions,U.S. A Knight and His Castle
Book SynopsisFrom the author's famous life of a medieval knight series, this book provides a lively and informative history of the castle, its design, building, defense, as well as its armoury, daily life, and the training of knights.
£10.00
New Directions Publishing Corporation Three Book Sebald Set
Book SynopsisThe masterworks of W. G. Sebald, now in gorgeous new covers by the famed designer Peter MendelsundTrade Review"Think of Sebald as memory’s Einstein." -- Richard Eder - Los Angeles Times"Sebald is a thrilling, original writer. He makes narration a state of investigative bliss." -- W. S. Di Piero - The New York Times Book Review"One of contemporary literature’s most transformative figures: utterly unique. His books combine memoir, fiction, travelogue, history, and biography in the crucible of his haunting prose style to create a strange new literary compound. Susan Sontag, in a 2000 essay in the Times Literary Supplement, asked whether ‘literary greatness [was] still possible’. She concluded that ‘one of the few answers available to English-language readers is the work of W. G. Sebald.’ The books are fascinating for the way they inhabit their own self-determined genre, but that’s not ultimately why they are essential reading. There is a moral magnitude and a weary, melancholy wisdom in Sebald’s writing that transcends the literary and attains something like an oracular register. Reading him feels like being spoken to in a dream." -- The New Yorker
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. One Day We Will Live Without Fear Everyday Lives
Book SynopsisWhat was life in the Soviet Union really like? Through a series of true stories, One Day We Will Live Without Fear describes what people's day-to-day life was like under the regime of the Soviet police state. Drawing on events from the 1930s through the 1970s, Mark Harrison shows how, by accident or design, people became entangled in the workings of Soviet rule.
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Hammer Sickle and Soil
Book SynopsisIn Hammer, Sickle, and Soil, Jonathan Daly tells the harrowing story of Stalin's transformation of millions of family farms throughout the USSR into 250,000 collective farms during the period from 1929 to 1933. History's biggest experiment in social engineering at the time and the first example of the complete conquest of the bulk of a population by its rulers, the policy was above all intended to bring to Russia Marx's promised bright future of socialism. In the process, however, it caused widespread peasant unrest, massive relocations, and ultimately led to millions dying in the famine of 193233. Drawing on scholarly studies and primary-source collections published since the opening of the Soviet archives three decades ago, now, for the first time, this volume offers an accessible and accurate narrative for the general reader. The book is illustrated with propaganda posters from the period that graphically portray the drama and trauma of the revolution in Soviet agriculture under Sta
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Wesleyan University Press Solkattu Manual
Book SynopsisThe first hands-on introduction to South Indian spoken rhythm
£25.95
University of New Mexico Press Tucumcari Tonite A Story of Railroads Route 66
Book SynopsisBlends in-depth research and personal and family experiences to re-create a ‘memoir’ of Tucumcari. Drawing on newspapers and government documents as well as business records, personal interviews, and archival holdings, Stratton weaves a poignant tale of a western town’s rise and decline.Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One. The Jewish Founding Fathers Chapter Two. Railroad Town Chapter Three. Highways and Byways Chapter Four. A Big Dam in the Middle of Nowhere Chapter Five. The Hometown of Billy Walters Chapter Six. The Townless Highway Chapter Seven. Railroad Blues Chapter Eight. Living with the Bypass Chapter Nine. Down the Slippery Slope Chapter Ten. Some Went Running Chapter Eleven. The Other Side: Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£20.85
University of Exeter Press The Treaty of Bayonne 1388 Exeter Hispanic Texts
Book SynopsisThe Treaty of Bayonne of 1388 between Juan I, King of Castile, and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and Pretender to the Castilian throne, was one of the most important treaties of the Hundred Years War. In the transcription of the documents, the original spellings of words, however inconsistent, have been respected.Trade Review Table of Contents
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University of Exeter Press Gentry Leaders In Peace And War The Gentry
Book SynopsisThe strength of the government of Devon in the early seventeenth century lay in the quality of its leaders. They ruled together in harmony, free from rivalries, the influence of any powerful resident nobles and saved from religious conflicts. This book emphasizes this strength through a series of biographical studies.Trade Review "Dr Wolffe offers a well-researched and positive contribution to appreciation of the local dimension of early Stuart government. Her pertinent questions elicit thoughtful and stimulating answers. Gentry Leaders enhances the burgeoning historical list of the University of Exeter Press." (Cathedral News, February 1998) "A well-researched and positive contribution to appreciation of the local dimension of early Stuart government. Her pertinent questions elicit thoughtful and stimulating answers." (Exeter Cathedral News, February 1998) Table of ContentsIllustrations Preface Abbreviations Part I: The Gentry Government of Devon 1625-1640 1. The Setting for the Gentry Government 2. The Collegiality of the Devon Bench from 1625 to 1640 3. Ancient and Modern Divisions in the Localities 4. The Devon Justice of the Peace at Work 5. The Gentry as Royal Tax Collectors Part II: The Gentry Governors of Devon in the Early Seventeenth Century 6. Sir George Chudleigh: His Rise to Prominence in the County 7. Sir George Chudleigh: Gentry Governor and Reluctant Rebel 8. Richard Reynell of Creedy: The Diligent Justice of the Peace 9. Walter Yonge: The Puritan Diarist 10. The Ship Money Sheriffs 11. John Willoughby: A New Class of Justice of the Peace 12. The Character of the Gentry Government of Devon Notes Bibliography Index
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British Museum Press A Royal Renaissance Treasure and its Afterlives
Book SynopsisBeautifully illustrated publication, showcasing spectacular contextual objects from the collection of the British Museum and other museums.Table of Contents Introduction by Timothy Schroder and Dora Thornton Chapter 1: Diplomatic gifts between Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England (Timothy Schroder) Chapter 2: Treasures associated with King Francis I in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, including the Cellini Salt Cellar and the Gemma Augustea (Paulus Rainer) Chapter 3: Pierre Mangot and goldsmiths at the court of King Francis I of France (Michèle Bimbenet-Privat) Chapter 4: The status and significance of the Sibyls Casket by Pierre Mangot in the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum (Dora Thornton) Chapter 5: Hans Holbein the Younger and his designs for goldsmiths’ work in relation to the Clock Salt (Olenka Horbatsch) Chapter 6: The Clock Salt and its history after the reign of Charles I (Rosemary Ransome Wallis) Chapter 7: Rothschild family collecting and their taste for continental Renaissance silver in the nineteenth century (Julia Siemon) Scientific study of the Clock Salt and its making: a new look at the clock mechanism (Andrew Meek, Oliver Cooke, Fleur Shearman, Denise Ling, Caroline Cartwright, Dan O’Flynn and Joanne Dyer) Conclusion by Timothy Schroder and Dora Thornton Bibliography Index
£60.86
Hebrew Union College Press,U.S. The Jew in the Medieval World
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1938, Jacob Rader Marcus's classic source book on medieval Judaism provides the documents and historical narratives which let the actors and witnesses of events speak for themselves. Marc Saperstein offers a new introduction and updated bibliography.
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St Michael's Abbey Press Napoleon the Fourth
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Anomie Publishing Meekyoung Shin
Book SynopsisLondon and Seoul-based Korean artist Meekyoung Shin (b.1967) is internationally renowned for her sculptures that probe the mis- and re-translations that often emerge when objects of distinct cultural and historical specificity are dislocated from their original context.
£21.35
Amberley Publishing On the Trail of Mary Queen of Scots
Book SynopsisFollow Mary, Queen of Scots through the resplendent castles, towering cathedrals, manor houses and chapels associated with her turbulent life.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Total Onslaught: War and Revolution in Southern
Book SynopsisThe end of the Second World War may have heralded peace in Europe but conflicts in Southern Africa were about to begin. The imperial powers were weakened by the cost of war and a string of wars challenged colonial rule in countries such as Namibia, Angola and Rhodesia. Once independence was achieved, civil wars between rival factions unfamiliar with democratic principles resulted. Liberation movements such as those in South Africa demanded self-rule and end to Apartheid. Tribal feuds, corruption and the ambitions of dictators led to more conflicts such as the protracted fighting in the Congo. These were wars that ran on until both sides were exhausted often only to be re-kindled after short periods of uneasy peace. The cost in human and material terms has been devastating and in too many cases remain so. Economic development has been frustrated and the result is often poverty, abuse and genocide. The Author who knows Southern Africa as a native is superbly equipped to tell this fascinating if tragic record.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou: A Marriage of
Book SynopsisHe became king before his first birthday, inheriting a vast empire from his military hero father; she was the daughter of a king without power, who made an unexpected marriage at the age of fifteen. Almost completely opposite in character, together they formed an unlikely but complimentary partnership. Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou have become famous as the Lancastrian king and queen who were deposed during the Wars of the Roses but there is so much more to their story. The political narrative of their years together is a tale of twists and turns, encompassing incredible highs, when they came close to fulfilling their desires, and terrible, heart-breaking lows. Personally, their story is an intriguing one that raises may questions. Henry was a complex, misunderstood man, enlightened and unsuited to his times and the pressures of kingship. In the end, overcome by fortune and the sheer determination of their enemies, their alliance collapsed. England simply wasn't ready for a gentle king like Henry, or woman like Margaret who defied contemporary stereotypes of gender and queenship. History has been a harsh judge to this royal couple. In this discerning dual biography, Amy Licence leads the way in a long-overdue re-evaluation of their characters and contributions during a tumultuous and defining period of British history.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Violent Abuse of Women in 17th and 18th
Book SynopsisThe seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are the gateway between the medieval world and the modern, centuries when the western societies moved from an age governed principally by religion and superstition to an age directed principally by reason and understanding. Although the worlds of science and philosophy took giant strides away from the medieval view of the world, attitudes to women did not change from those that had pertained for centuries. Girls were largely barred from education - only around 14% of women could read and write by 1700 - and the few educated women were not permitted to enter the professions. As a result women, especially if single, were employed in menial jobs or were forced into a life of petty crime. Many survived by entering the 'oldest profession in the world'. The social turbulence of the first half of the seventeenth century afforded women new opportunities and new religious freedoms and women were attracted into the many new sects where they were afforded a voice in preaching and teaching. In a time of unprecedented and unbridled political discussion, many better educated women saw no reason why they should not enter the debate and began to voice their opinions alongside those of men, publishing their own books and pamphlets. These new and unprecedented liberties thus gained by women were perceived as a threat by the leaders of society, and thus arose an unlikely masculine alliance against the new feminine assertions, across all sections of society from Puritan preachers to court judges, from husbands to court rakes. This reaction often found expression in the violent and brutal treatment of women who were seen to have stepped out of line, whether legally, socially or domestically. Often beaten and abused at home by husbands exercising their legal right, they were whipped, branded, exiled and burnt alive by the courts, from which their sex had no recourse to protection, justice or restitution. Many of the most brutal forms of punishment were reserved exclusively for women, and even where the same, they were more savagely applied than would be the case for similar crimes committed by men. This work records the many kinds of violent physical and verbal abuse perpetrated against women in Britain and her colonies, both domestically and under the law, during two centuries when huge strides in human knowledge and civilisation were being made in every other sphere of human activity, but social and legal attitudes to women and their punishment remained firmly embedded in the medieval.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Ancient Dynasties: The Families that Ruled the
Book SynopsisAncient Dynasties is a unique study of the ruling families of the ancient world known to the Greeks and Romans. The book is in two parts. The first offers analysis and discussion of various features of the ruling dynasties (including the leading families of republican Rome). It examines patterns, similarities and contrasts, categorizes types of dynasty and explores common themes such as how they were founded and maintained, the role of women and the various reasons for their decline. The second part is a catalogue of all the dynasties (over 150 of them) known to have existed between approximately 1000 BC and AD 750 from the Atlantic Ocean to Baktria (roughly modern Afghanistan). It gives genealogical tables and tells where and when they held power. Thoroughly researched and with geanological tables to support the lucid text, the whole forms a valuable study and invaluable reference to the families that wielded power in the Classical world.
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Medieval Institute Publications Ladies, Whores, and Holy Women: A Sourcebook in
Book SynopsisThis sourcebook presents editions and translations of seven fourteenth- and fifteenth-century texts that advance our understanding of gender, sexuality, and class in the late medieval German-speaking world. Three of the translated texts are fiction. Additionally, there is a religious treatise, a religious legend, an inventory of books, and a legal document. While each of these texts is instructive in and of itself, they gain in complexity when brought into dialogue with one another.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Die Beichte einer Frau / A Woman’s Confession Chapter 2 Schwester Katrei and Die Frau von ein-und-zwanzig Jahren / Sister Catherine and the Twenty-One-Year-Old Woman Chapter 3 Bücherverzeichnis der Elisabeth von Volkenstorff / Elisabeth of Volkenstorff’s Booklist Chapter 4 Stiefmutter und Tochter / Stepmother and Daughter (Augsburg Redaction and Nuremberg Redaction) Chapter 5 Ordnung der gemeinen Weiber in den Frauenhäusern / Regulations concerning Prostitutes Dwelling in Brothels
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Medieval Institute Publications Medieval London: Collected Papers of Caroline M.
Book SynopsisCaroline M. Barron is the world's leading authority on the history of medieval London. For half a century she has investigated London's role as medieval England's political, cultural, and commercial capital, together with the urban landscape and the social, occupational, and religious cultures that shaped the lives of its inhabitants. This collection of eighteen papers focuses on four themes: crown and city; parish, church, and religious culture; the people of medieval London; and the city's intellectual and cultural world. They represent essential reading on the history of one of the world's greatest cities by its foremost scholar.Table of ContentsCrown and City 1. The Tyranny of Richard II 2. The Quarrel of Richard II with London, 1392-7 3. London and the Crown, 1451-61 4. The Deposition of Richard II 5. Richard II and London Parish, Church, and Religious Culture 6. The Parish Fraternities of Medieval London 7. London and St. Paul's Cathedral in the Later Middle Ages 8. The Travelling Saint: Zita of Lucca and England 9. The Will as Autobiography: The Case of Thomas Salter, Priest, Died November 1558 The People of Medieval London 10. Richard Whittington: The Man behind the Myth 11. Ralph Holland and the London Radicals: 1438-1444 12. The "Golden Age" of Women in Medieval London 13. Johanna Hill (d. 1441) and Johanna Sturdy (d. c. 1460), Bell-Founders 14. The Child in Medieval London: The Legal Evidence The Intellectual & Cultural World 15. Centres of Conspicuous Consumption: The Aristocratic Townhouse in London, 1200-1550 16. The Expansion of Education in Fifteenth-Century London 17. Chivalry, Pageantry and Merchant Culture in Medieval London 18. The Political Culture of Medieval London
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Medieval Institute Publications St. Albans and the Markyate Psalter: Seeing and
Book SynopsisOne of the most compelling and provocative books of twelfth-century England, the Markyate Psalter was probably produced at St. Albans Abbey between 1120 and 1140. Heralded as a high point of English Romanesque illumination, the manuscript contains the Chanson de St. Alexis. Leading scholars of twelfth-century manuscript studies explore the Psalter, understanding it through new methodologies, pursuing innovative lines of inquiry. The collection shines fresh light on a well-known manuscript, and broadens the discourse about the book and its readers.Trade Review"...Readers interested in a deep dive of the Psalter itself will be thankful for such careful, detailed analyses and for such numerous, glistening, often full-page reproductions of the Psalter's pages and initials." --Lauren Mancia, The Medieval Review 18.10.08Table of ContentsAbbreviations Illustrations Introduction by Kristen Collins and Matthew Fisher Saint Anselm's "Grand Tour" and the Full-Page Picture Cycle in the Markyate Psalter by T. A. Heslop The Patronage and Ownership of the Markyate Psalter by Nigel Morgan Handling the Letter by Aden Kumler The Repainting of Psalm 101 and Meaningful Change in the Markyate Psalter by Kristen Collins and Nancy Turner Voicing the Psalms in the Markyate Psalter: Devotional Experience and Experiments with Images and Words by Kerry Boeye Intercessory Prayer and the Initials of the Markyate Psalter by Rachel Koopmans La Vie de Saint Alexis and the Alexis Quire in the Crusading Context by Zrinka Stahuljak The Psalmist and the Saint: David, Alexis, and the Construction of Meaning in a Twelfth-Century Composite Manuscript by Kathryn Gerry Blindness and Insight, Seeing and Believing: Reading Two Emmaus Sequences from St. Albans by Morgan Powell Praying with Pictures in the Gough Psalter by Martin Kauffmann Madness and Innocence: Reading the Infancy Cycle of a Romanesque Vita Christi by Kristen Collins The St. Alban's Psalter Monograph of 1960: Fifty Years Later by J. J. G. Alexander
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Soft Skull Press Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the
Book Synopsis“An illuminating work of massive insight” on the complex ideas and events that initiated the historical shift between the 19th and 20th centuries (Alan Moore, author of V for Vendetta and Watchmen). “An always-provocative view of an era that many people would just as soon forget . . . an absorbing tour of the 20th century.” —Kirkus Reviews In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs argues that before 1900, history seemed to make sense. We can understand innovations like electricity, agriculture, and democracy. The twentieth century, in contrast, gave us relativity, cubism, quantum mechanics, the id, existentialism, Stalin, psychedelics, chaos mathematics, climate change and postmodernism. In order to understand such a disorienting barrage of unfamiliar and knotty ideas, Higgs shows us, we need to shift the framework of our interpretation and view these concepts within the context of a new kind of historical narrative. Instead of looking at it as another step forward in a stable path, we need to look at the twentieth century as a chaotic seismic shift, upending all linear narratives. Higgs invites us along as he journeys across a century “about which we know too much” in order to grant us a new perspective on it. He brings a refreshingly non-academic, eclectic and infectiously energetic approach to his subjects as well as a unique ability to explain how complex ideas connect and intersect—whether he’s discussing Einstein’s theories of relativity, the Beat poets' interest in Eastern thought or the bright spots and pitfalls of the American Dream.
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Bloomsbury Publishing After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed
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Casemate Publishers Ancient Greeks at War: Warfare in the Classical
Book SynopsisAncient Greeks at War is a lavishly illustrated tour de force covering every aspect of warfare in the Ancient Greek world from the beginnings of Greek civilization through to its assimilation into the ever expanding world of Rome. As such it begins with the onset Minoan culture on Crete around 2,000 BC, then covers the arrival of the Mycenaean civilisation and the ensuing Late Bronze Age Collapse, before moving on to Dark Age and Archaic Greece. This sets the scene for the flowering of Classical Greek civilization, as told through detailed narratives of the Greek and Persian Wars, Peloponnesian Wars and the rise of Thebes as a major power.The book then moves on to the onset of Macedonian domination under Philip II, before focusing in detail on the exploits of his son Alexander the Great, the all-conquering hero of the ancient world. His legacy was the Hellenistic world with its multiple, never ending series of conflicts that took place over a huge territory, ranging from Italy in the west all the way to India in the east. Those covered include the various Wars of the Successors, the rise of the Bactrian-Greek and Indo-Greek kingdoms, the various wars between the Antigonid Macedonian, Seleucid and Ptolemaic kingdoms, and later the onset of the clash of cultures between the rising power of Rome in the west and the Hellenistic kingdoms. In the long run the latter proved unable to match Rome's insatiable desire for conquest in the eastern Mediterranean, and this together with the rise of Parthia in the east ensured that one by one the Hellenistic kingdoms and states fell. The book ends with the destruction of Corinth in 146 BC after the defeat by Rome of the Achaean League. The conclusion considers the legacy of the Ancients Greeks in the Roman world, and subsequently.Table of ContentsIntroduction Timeline of the Ancient Greek World Glossary Chapter 1. Minoan, Mycenaean and Dark Age Greece Chapter 2. Classical Greece Chapter 3. The Hellenistic Greek World Chapter 4. Early Greek Military Systems Chapter 5. Classical Greek Military Systems Chapter 6. Hellenistic Greek Military Systems Chapter 7. On Campaign and in Battle Chapter 8. Allies and Enemies of the Ancient Greeks Conclusion Select Bibliography Index
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Trine Day Shamanic Graffiti: 100,000 Years of Drugs, 100
Book SynopsisFreud said dreams were the “royal road” to the unconscious, and then along came a superhighway: psychedelics. Personally, we can access the psychedelic experience, but Frank Ogden shepherded over a thousand people’s experiences. What is presented is the howling unconscious released from the normal chemical constraints that restrict it. Written in the simple, but vivid style Frank popularized in his bestselling, The Last Book You’ll Ever Read, Shamanic Graffiti presents an alternative history of the brain and it’s functions: shamanism. Giving real world examples, the book finishes-up by exploring the theories of two pre-eminent psychedelic theoreticians, Dr. Timothy Leary and Dr. Stan Grof and looks at the future of psychedelic drugs.
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Fonthill Media LLc Midlothian, Texas, Through Time
Book Synopsis"Early settlers first arrived in this area in 1847 because of the numerous springs and fertile soil. Through the Peters Colony, many more families arrived in 1848-1850 and helped establish Ellis County. Several local men were elected to county offices in 1850. The earliest village in the vicinity was called Lebanon. The name Barkersville was used briefly because Rev. Charles Barker's home served as the first post office. The first railroad, Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe, came through in 1883, and the Houston & Texas Central arrived in 1886, leading to Midlothian's incorporation in 1888. Many surrounding country villages became engulfed by Midlothian, such as Mt. Zion, Christian Chapel, Auger Hole, Onward, Walnut Grove, Long Branch, and Mountain Peak. Cotton was the chief crop grown in Ellis County for many years. World War II pulled Midlothian out of the depression, along with the rest of the country. Many returning servicemen chose to commute to Fort Worth or Dallas to do other things besides farming. Nowadays Midlothian is home to three cement plants that use the abundant limestone in cement production."
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Casemate Publishers Marine Scouts
Book SynopsisAugust 1990, 30,000 Iraqi troops have invaded Kuwait and are in a position to influence nearly half of the world's oil supply. The United Nations condemn the aggression but it is clear that only military intervention is going to displace Saddam Hussein. Captain Joseph 'Quarry' Samuels and the Marines of Scout Platoon, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Division are tasked with discovering the strength and deployment of Iraqi troops. Quarry and his scouts are soon engaged in a game of cat and mouse with the 10,000-strong 108th Iraqi Armored Division. Operating behind enemy lines, they put themselves squarely in danger's way in order to collect the intelligence necessary to launch military operations. When hostilities end, with the greatest one-sided military victory of all time, the Marines deserve to be on their way home. However, Quarry remains in Kuwait to continue the deadly game with an old nemesis, but this time with a new ally on his side.
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Casemate Publishers Hell in the Streets of Husaybah: The April 2004
Book SynopsisDuring the April 2004 fights throughout Iraq, most media attention was focused on the city of Fallujah. However, at the same time, out on the border with Syria in and around the city of Husaybah, fighting was equally intense.This book tells the story of that period through many first-person accounts of intense fighting in the town of Husaybah, Iraq, during. It is based on interviews with Marines at all levels of the fight, from battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel Matt Lopez, USMC, to infantrymen and squad leaders. When the Lima Company commander Captain Richard Gannon (Call sign Lima 6) was killed on entry to an enemy-held building, the company’s executive officer, Lieutenant Dominique Neal (Lima 5) informed his Marines that he had assumed command with the radio message, “Lima 5 is now Lima 6.” It also details the heroic actions of Corporal Jason Dunham who saved the Marines around him by covering an enemy grenade with his body.Table of ContentsDEDICATION PREFACE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: THE FIGHT IN HUSAYBAH, APRIL 2004 Overview Lieutenant Colonel Matthew A. Lopez, Commanding Officer 3/7 Trip to Al Qaim Commander Edward W. Hessel, MD, USN, STP 4 Lance Corporal Jason A. Sanders, Kilo Company, 3/7 Corporal Kristopher E. Benson, CAAT Blue, Weapons, 3/7 Captain Bradford W. Tippett, Commanding Officer India Company, 3/7 Staff Sergeant Alexander A. Carlson, 3rd Platoon India Company, 3/7 Gunnery Sergeant Brian W. Eyestone, 5th Platoon, 1st Force Recon Company Corporal Michael T. Phillips, 1st Combat Engineer Bn, Attached to 3/7 Lance Corporal Jerad A. Allen, C Company MPs, Attached to 3/7 Lance Corporal Daniel P. Baute C Company MPs, Attached to 3/7 Corporal Ryan D. Griffey, Truck Platoon, MHG, Attached to 3/7 CHAPTER 2 LIMA COMPANY 3/7 MARINES, Camp Husaybah Convoy to Firm Base Lance Corporal Daniel R. Johnston, 1st Platoon, Lima Company, 3/7 Corporal Jason A. Lemcke, 1st Platoon, Lima Company, 3/7 Lieutenant Bradley R. Watson, 3rd Platoon Commander, Lima Company, 3/7 HM3 Justin T. Purviance, USN, Senior Line Corpsman, Lima Company, 3/7 Captain Dominique B. Neal, Commanding Officer, 1st Platoon, Lima Company, 3/7 CHAPTER 3 FINAL INTERVIEWS WITH 3/7 MARINES AT CAMP AL QAIM Return to Camp Al Qaim 1st Sergeant Michael J. Templeton, Kilo Company, 3/7 Lance Corporal Jonathon D. Stamper, 3rd Platoon, Kilo Company, 3/7 Lance Corporal Brian M. Schultz, 4th Platoon, Kilo Company, 3/7 Colonel Craig A. Tucker, Commanding Officer Regimental Combat Team 7 (RCT7) Return to Camp Fallujah FINAL THOUGHTS GLOSSARY BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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Casemate Publishers America'S War in Syria: Fighting with Kurdish
Book SynopsisWith America's War on Terror and the subsequent democracy experiments in Afghanistan and Iraq having turned into geopolitical disasters, the US military campaign in alliance with the Kurdish forces in Syria is one of the few success stories. Military experts and politicians in Washington, DC, judge the intervention against ISIS in Syria as the nation's most successful campaign since WWII, based on the overwhelming military victory, the functioning Kurdish civilian governing structures that followed the fighting, the extremely light military footprint and the strong link to Kurdish partners many political analysts. However, since neither these experts nor many journalists were on the ground during the fighting, they struggle to explain exactly how this particular operation turned into a just war.The authors, however, were there. Between the three of them, they fought for over two years with the Kurdish forces. They participated in all the large Kurdish operations against the Islamic State between late 2014 and mid-2016. The endured a muddy archaic trench warfare, witnessed the first waves of decisive US and British airstrikes against ISIS, and experienced the impact America had on the battlefield. Later, when American, British and French Special Forces were deployed at the frontlines, the authors worked closely with those teams when they evacuated hundreds of wounded from the battlefield together.Based on the authors' unique insights, this book analyses America's war in Syria and structures the intervention into different phases including the secretive build up and the ultimate destruction of the ISIS Caliphate.Trade Review...has relevance for readers studying the conflict in Syria, specifically but also for those looking at American interventions in general. The book would also be useful to those who are studying democratic theory and applying it to developing countries, and the Middle East in particular. * Aether: A Journal of Strategic Airpower & Spacepower 14/12/2022 *The authors take a complex conflict and carefully explain the ever-changing alliances and support from myriad actors…The book was well written and enjoyable. I would suggest it to anyone who works or has interest in national security and modern military history. * Military Review 16/11/2022 *Table of ContentsPart I: From Symbolic Airstrikes to First Coalitions Chapter 1: The Fall of Mosul Chapter 2: Shingal Chapter 3: Securing the Earth Berm I Chapter 4: Securing the Earth Berm II Chapter 5: The First Wave of Aggressive Airstrikes Chapter 6: The First Major Offensive Against Daesh Chapter 7: Occupying Arab Lands Chapter 8: Daesh's Counter Offense Part II: The New Syrian Democratic Forces Go to War Chapter 9: A New Alliance Is Formed Chapter 10: Operation Wrath of Khabur Chapter 11: Between Operations Chapter 12: Crossing the Euphrates Chapter 13: The Meat Grinder Chapter 14: Rolling with the Operators Part III: Defeating the Caliphate: A Kurdish-American Success Story Chapter 15: Rojava Becomes Formal Chapter 16: Operation Wrath of Euphrates Chapter 17: Al-Jazeera Storm Chapter 18: The American Exit Strategy Part IV: Madness Chapter 19: America Has Blood on Its Hands Chapter 20: Who Are We?
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Gaslight: Lantern Slides from the Nineteenth
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Baraka Books Iron Bars And Bookshelves: A History of the
Book SynopsisThe Morrin Centre in Quebec City, built on the site of military barracks known as the Royal Redoubt, served first as a “common gaol” (public prison), then as the Morrin College, the first English-language institute of higher education in the city, and has been home to the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec for many years. The Society has hosted in its astonishing library such illustrious figures as Charles Dickens and Emmelyne Pankhurst. With incredible anecdotes, the authors guide us through the building’s two-century history and its place in the history of Quebec City, Quebec, and Canada.Trade ReviewThis book is creative nonfiction/cultural history at its best. The illustrations are excellent and well reproduced. The appearance of the work is attractive. The notes and references are copious. Here is a world in a sense - a Quebec City that has enriched its present time by the preservation and adaptation of its past inheritance." —Sandra Stock, Quebec Heritage News
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Baraka Books The Prophetic Anti-Gallic Letters: Adam Thom and
Book SynopsisThe Prophetic Anti-Gallic Letters Adam Thom and the Hidden Roots of The Dominion of Canada by Adam Thom was published in 1836 based on Thom's editorials in Montreal Herald written under the pseudonym "Camillus" in the previous two years. They were never reprinted, despite their importance and above all the people for whom Thom was the public voice, namely the executive committee of the powerful Constitutional Association of Montreal, that included the president George Moffatt as well as Peter McGill and John McCord. Thom was also co-author of the famous Durham Report. More than an anti-French, anti-Republican tract, The Anti-Gallic Letters, though generally ignored by historians, are crucial to understanding how British North America mutated into the Dominion of Canada in 1867. Erroneously characterized as a minor discord between the Melbourne cabinet in London and a select group of merchants, bankers and gentlemen of the Montreal Tory oligarchy, The Anti-Gallic Letters reveal the total disagreement among people of British culture and background in London or in Montreal on how power should be controlled in the colonies of Canada. Westminster, inspired by the 1832 Reform Bill, believed in a gradual and harmonious transfer of British parliamentary values and institutions to a majority group of a different culture, language and background, described as "The great body of people" by Governor Gosford in his 1835 Throne speech read in French. But the Montreal Tory Oligarchy, mobilized by fear and bravado, anticipated the worst, while still espousing the same British imperial world mission as Westminster. Seeing Montreal as the hub of British North America, they brandished the spectre of a British Empire dismembered by a French Republic arising in the St. Lawrence Valley or annexation of Upper and Lower Canada by the powerful American Republic. They thus considered themselves justified to threaten the use lethal force to make Downing Street change its course. Moreover, as François Deschamps shows, they succeeded: first in 1837 with the brutal repression of the Patriotes in Lower Canada and the Reformers in Upper Canada, second with the Durham Report and the Act of Union, and finally with the 1867 BNA Act creating the Dominion of Canada. Now reprinted, the Anti-Gallic Letters with Deschamps's fascinating presentation and notes provide a new but crucial point of view as Canada prepares to mark the 150th anniversary of the Dominion of Canada in 2017. The book includes a comprehensive bibliography.
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Fonthill Media Ltd The Foreign Policy of the Third Reich: 1933-1939
Book SynopsisEvery phase of the Third Reich's foreign policy was determined by its authoritarian leader, Adolf Hitler. Following his rise to power, his political acuity and utter lack of scruple enabled him to achieve numerous diplomatic successes against the well-intentioned but largely ineffectual Anglo-French democracies. First by duplicity, then by bluff and bluster, and finally by brinkmanship, Hitler succeeded in establishing a strengthened and united Greater Germany (Grossdeutschland) in preparation for a Second Great War. This book examines in depth the revanchist foreign policy of Hitler's Germany from 1933 to 1939: the withdrawal of Germany from the League of Nations, German rearmament, the introduction of compulsory military service and the enlargement of the German Armed Forces, the remilitarization of the Rhineland, the notorious Hossbach Conference, the Austrian 'Anschluss', the Munich Conference, the brazen seizures of Bohemia-Moravia and the Memel District, the Danzig crisis, the cynical brokering of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, and the German invasion of Western Poland.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: German Diplomacy and the Inaction of the Western Powers; Part II: Annexation and Expansion; Part III: Preparations for War; Appendix A: The Reich Defence Law, 21 May 1935; Appendix B: The Hossbach Memorandum, 10 November 1937; Appendix C: Operation Otto: The Planned Invasion of Austria, 11 March 1938; Appendix D: Operation Green: The Secret Plan for an Aggressive War against Czechoslovakia, 30 May 1938; Appendix E: The Munich Agreement, 29 September 1938; Appendix F: Decree Regulating the Status of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, 16 March 1939; Appendix G: Memorandum from the German Government Denouncing the Anglo- German Naval Agreement, 27 April 1939; Appendix H: The Pact of Steel (The German-Italian Alliance) and Secret Additional Protocol, 22 May 1939; Appendix I: The Nazi-Soviet Pact (Treaty of Non-Aggression Between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) and Secret Additional Protocol, 23 August 1939; Appendix J: Proposal for a Settlement of the Problem of Danzig and the Polish Corridor and of the German-Polish Minorities Question, 31 August 1939; Appendix K: Directive No. 1 for the Conduct of the War, 31 August 1939; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index.
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Oxbow Books Butrint 6: Excavations on the Vrina Plain Volume
Book SynopsisButrint 6 describes the excavations carried out on the Vrina Plain by the Butrint Foundation from 2002–2007. Lying just to the south of the ancient port city of Butrint, these excavations have revealed a 1,300 year long story of a changing community that began in the 1st century AD, one which not only played its part in shaping the city of Butrint but also in how the city interacted and at times reacted to the changing political, economic and cultural situations occurring across the Mediterranean World over this period. Volume II discusses the finds from the Vrina Plain excavations.This volume provides an insight into how the Vrina Plain community lived, worked and ultimately died and includes chapters on the medieval and post-medieval ceramics from the excavations, analysis of the human and faunal remains, environmental evidence, Roman and Medieval coins, a detailed study of the small finds as well as a discussion of the glass including a report on a number of glass cakes, ingots of raw glass associated with glass working that were found during the excavations.The volume also reports on five lead seals dating from the late 9th to the 10th century, an uncommon find but one which when considered with the contemporary coins suggests that for 100 years the Vrina Plain was Butrint.Trade ReviewThese volumes, which are also excellent on the editorial plan, contribute to strengthening the decisive centrality of the Butrint project in the context of Mediterranean archaeological experiences of the last thirty years, also because the quality of the scientific approach is accompanied by an updated reflection on the main themes that touch on the transformation of ancient society in its passagetowards the Middle Ages. * Archeologia Medievale *Table of Contents1. The Medieval and Post-Medieval pottery finds from the Vrina Plain excavations. Joanita Vroom 2. The Ancient and Early Byzantine Coins from Vrina Plain. Sam Moorhead 3. Byzantine and Early Modern Coins (9th – 17th centuries). Pagona Papadopoulou 4. Lead seals. Pagona Papadopoulou 5. The human skeletons from the Vrina Plain Todd W. Fenton, Angela Soler, Carolyn V. Hurst, and Jared Beatrice 6. Vrina Plain Small Finds John Mitchell Appendix: The conservation of the Vrina Plain small finds Pippa Pearce 7. The Vessel Glass of the Vrina Plain: A Catalogue Karen Stark 8. Glass cakes and glass tesserae from the Vrina Plain Nadine Schibille 9. The Faunal Remains Richard Madgwick 10. Aquatic resource exploitation at the Vrina Plain from the 1st to the 13th century AD Rena Veropoulidou 11. Hand-collected shell. Matt Law and Richard Madgwick 12. The archaeobotanical evidence of the Vrina Plain settlement Alexandra Livarda
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