Historical Study Books


Making Thirteen Colonies: 1600-1740 A History of US Book 2Making Thirteen Colonies: 1600-1740 A History of US Book 2
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I really enjoyed this informative book. It was funny and detailed. The author can really paint a...
The Burden of Black ReligionThe Burden of Black Religion
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Religion has always been a focal element in the long and tortured history of American ideas...
Writing History: A Guide for StudentsWriting History: A Guide for Students
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I am an undergraduate history student working on my first substantial research paper, and this...
The American Intellectual Tradition: Volume I: 1630-1865The American Intellectual Tradition: Volume I: 1630-1865
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Revised and updated, the sixth edition of this now standard two-volume anthology brings together...
The Oxford Book of Australian SchooldaysThe Oxford Book of Australian Schooldays


Community Conflicts and the State in IndiaCommunity Conflicts and the State in India
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Political conflicts around religious, caste and regional identities have multiplied in India....
Land, Politics and Trade in South Asia, 18th to 20th CenturiesLand, Politics and Trade in South Asia, 18th to 20th Centuries
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Originally planned as a festschrift for Dharma Kumar, this collection of outstanding essays has...
Essays on Medieval Indian HistoryEssays on Medieval Indian History
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The essays included in this volume explore the interconnections between society, economy,...
Caste in History (Oxford in India Readings: Themes in Indian History)Caste in History (Oxford in India Readings: Themes in Indian History)
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The book provides the much needed historical persepctive on caste and related socio-cultural...
Young Logan CampbellYoung Logan Campbell
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The Islamic World: Past and Present 3-Volume SetThe Islamic World: Past and Present 3-Volume Set
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Since the events of September 11, 2001, students and people everywhere are filled with questions...
The Digital Hand: How Computers Changed the Work of American Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail IndustriesThe Digital Hand: How Computers Changed the Work of American Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail Industries
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In The Digital Hand , James W. Cortada combines detailed analysis with narrative history to...
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century Five-volume setEncyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century Five-volume set
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Focusing on the making of African American society from the 1896 "separate but equal"...
The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial NationalismThe Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism
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During the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, while key decisions were debated by the victorious...
A Teacher's Guide to The Struggle against Slavery: A History in Documents (Pages from History)A Teacher's Guide to The Struggle against Slavery: A History in Documents (Pages from History)

The American Intellectual Tradition: Volume II: 1865 to the PresentThe American Intellectual Tradition: Volume II: 1865 to the Present
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This two-volume anthology brings together some of the most historically significant writings in...
Benjamin Franklin (Lives & Legacies (Oxford))Benjamin Franklin (Lives & Legacies (Oxford))
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Professor Gaustad has written another outstanding biography in the Lives and Legacies Series by...
Budapest: A Cultural History (Cityscapes)Budapest: A Cultural History (Cityscapes)
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It is a brilliant guide to the sights and culture of the city on the Danube where I spent about...
Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal (Reinterpreting History)Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal (Reinterpreting History)
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Atlantic history, with its emphasis on inter-regional developments that transcend national...
Roots and Branches: Current Directions in Slave Studies (Reflexions historiques. Directions)Roots and Branches: Current Directions in Slave Studies (Reflexions historiques. Directions)

The Spiegel StoryThe Spiegel Story
"So began the most spectacular venture in post-war European journalism" stated Anthony...
Associative Networks: The Representation and Use of Knowledge of ComputersAssociative Networks: The Representation and Use of Knowledge of ComputersHeritage of Western Civilization, Volume I: Ancient Civilizations and the Emergence of the West (9th Edition)Heritage of Western Civilization, Volume I: Ancient Civilizations and the Emergence of the West (9th Edition)
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i like the product it came like new like the seller said it would. This was a easy and simple...
Western Civilization: A Social and Cultural History, Combined Edition (2nd Edition)Western Civilization: A Social and Cultural History, Combined Edition (2nd Edition)
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This was a required text for my Western Civilization courses at Marquette University. Unlike...
Afghanistan: Lifting the VeilAfghanistan: Lifting the Veil
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"Afghanistan: Lifting the Veil" is well-titled, as it helps educate what and why the...

España: Ayer y hoyEspaņa: Ayer y hoy
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For courses in Spanish Civilization. Espana: Ayer y hoy provides a comprehensive and systematic...
Western Civilization: A Social and Cultural History, Combined Volume (3rd Edition)Western Civilization: A Social and Cultural History, Combined Volume (3rd Edition)
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Encyclopedia of America in the Twentieth Century, Volume 3: 003Encyclopedia of America in the Twentieth Century, Volume 3: 003Aspects of Western Civilization: Problems and Sources in History, Volume IIAspects of Western Civilization: Problems and Sources in History, Volume II
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An introduction to western civilization which aims to convey the "humanness" that lies...
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the PresentWhen Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
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My parents are of the Boomer generation and I am Generation Y. My major in college was history...

The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's RussiaThe Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
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The Whisperers, a collection of hundreds of short stories comprised from interviews, letters and...
The World in 2020 - Power, Culture and Prosperity: A Vision of the FutureThe World in 2020 - Power, Culture and Prosperity: A Vision of the FutureGod's Chinese Son : The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong XiuquanGod's Chinese Son : The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong XiuquanRegeneration: The Story Behind the DomeRegeneration: The Story Behind the DomeCourtesans and FishcakesCourtesans and Fishcakes
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A brilliantly entertaining and innovative history of the ancient Athenians' consuming...

Big HouseBig House
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The highly praised biography of an archetypal great house and the family who lived there for...
Over BritainOver BritainSociological Theory: Classical Founders and Contemporary PerspectivesSociological Theory: Classical Founders and Contemporary PerspectivesThe Quotable HistorianThe Quotable Historian
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Perspectives on the human experience from every era, drawn from the greatest histories and those...
Computer Media and Communication: A Reader (Oxford Readers in Media and Communication)Computer Media and Communication: A Reader (Oxford Readers in Media and Communication)
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This book is a unique collection of some of the most important writings ever of understanding...

Ancient Philosophy: A New History of Western Philosophy Volume 1Ancient Philosophy: A New History of Western Philosophy Volume 1
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Sir Anthony Kenny's four-volume History of Western Philosophy begins at the traditional...
Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory (Modern Social & Political Philosophies)Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory (Modern Social & Political Philosophies)
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John Finnis's latest book is not really about Aquinas. It is, rather, an attempt to supply a...
Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy: Volume 3Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy: Volume 3
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Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth...
Imagining Sex: Pornography and Bodies in Seventeenth-Century EnglandImagining Sex: Pornography and Bodies in Seventeenth-Century England
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Imagining Sex is a study of pornographic writing in seventeenth-century England. It explores a...
Manifest Activity: Thomas Reid's Theory of ActionManifest Activity: Thomas Reid's Theory of Action
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Manifest Activity presents and critically examines Thomas Reid's doctrines about the model...

Portraits and PersonsPortraits and Persons
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In Portraits and Persons , one of our leading philosophers of art illuminates the fascinating...
Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution: RevisitedIntellectual Origins of the English Revolution: Revisited
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This is a revised edition of Christopher Hill's classic and groundbreaking examination of...
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: HistoriographyThe Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography
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Where should we situate the British Empire in the larger picture of world history? This fifth...
Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
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Jonathan Israel presents his work as an important new history of the `Early' Enlightenment...
Enter the King: Theatre, Liturgy, and Ritual in the Medieval Civic TriumphEnter the King: Theatre, Liturgy, and Ritual in the Medieval Civic Triumph
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This study describes for the first time the ritual purposes, symbolic vocabulary, and...

Rome and Baetica: Urbanization in Southern Spain c.50 BC-AD 150 (Oxford Classical Monographs)Rome and Baetica: Urbanization in Southern Spain c.50 BC-AD 150 (Oxford Classical Monographs)
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Fear explores the cultural interaction between Rome and the various native groups found in...
The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in BritainThe Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain
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The British empire was a huge enterprise. To foreigners it more or less defined Britain in the...
The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347-274 BC)The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347-274 BC)
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Dillon is known to us mostly for his works on Neoplatonism and Middle Platonism (including his...
History As Re-enactment: R. G. Collingwood's Idea of History (Clarendon Paperbacks)History As Re-enactment: R. G. Collingwood's Idea of History (Clarendon Paperbacks)
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This book explains and defends a central ideas in the theory of history put forward by R. G....
Democracy: The Unfinished Journey, 508 BC to AD 1993Democracy: The Unfinished Journey, 508 BC to AD 1993
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Why democracy? Could be one of the titles of the book. Why this political system with its...

The Decline of Mortality in Europe (International Studies in Demography)The Decline of Mortality in Europe (International Studies in Demography)
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This book examines the remarkable decline of mortality in Europe which began in the 19th century...
A Dictionary of British History (Oxford Paperback Reference)A Dictionary of British History (Oxford Paperback Reference)
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If the average reader of an English history of any type were asked to comment upon the...
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (Open University Set Book)The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (Open University Set Book)
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I think the other reviewers are fair in regards to the positive qualities of this book. I would...
Computer Media and Communication: A Reader (Oxford Readers in Media and Communication)Computer Media and Communication: A Reader (Oxford Readers in Media and Communication)
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This book is a unique collection of some of the most important writings ever of understanding...
Ancient Philosophy: A New History of Western Philosophy Volume 1Ancient Philosophy: A New History of Western Philosophy Volume 1
Best Price: $11.32
Sir Anthony Kenny's four-volume History of Western Philosophy begins at the traditional...

Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory (Modern Social & Political Philosophies)Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory (Modern Social & Political Philosophies)
Best Price: $41.67
John Finnis's latest book is not really about Aquinas. It is, rather, an attempt to supply a...
Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy: Volume 3Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy: Volume 3
Best Price: $12.98
Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth...
Imagining Sex: Pornography and Bodies in Seventeenth-Century EnglandImagining Sex: Pornography and Bodies in Seventeenth-Century England
Best Price: $117.89
Imagining Sex is a study of pornographic writing in seventeenth-century England. It explores a...
Manifest Activity: Thomas Reid's Theory of ActionManifest Activity: Thomas Reid's Theory of Action
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Manifest Activity presents and critically examines Thomas Reid's doctrines about the model...
Portraits and PersonsPortraits and Persons
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In Portraits and Persons , one of our leading philosophers of art illuminates the fascinating...

Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution: RevisitedIntellectual Origins of the English Revolution: Revisited
Best Price: $148.60
This is a revised edition of Christopher Hill's classic and groundbreaking examination of...
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: HistoriographyThe Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography
Best Price: $48.94
Where should we situate the British Empire in the larger picture of world history? This fifth...
Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
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Jonathan Israel presents his work as an important new history of the `Early' Enlightenment...
Primary Sources in African-American History, Volume I (4th Edition) (v. 2)Primary Sources in African-American History, Volume I (4th Edition) (v. 2)Structured System Programming (Prentice Hall International Series in Computing Science)Structured System Programming (Prentice Hall International Series in Computing Science)
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Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and ArtistsNothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists
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This collection of magazine reviews and essays, first published in 1990, serves as a short...
A History of ReadingA History of Reading
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Book titles can be misleading because they work under the assumption that hundreds of pages can...
On Revolution (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)On Revolution (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
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This book is yet another deep, original and controversial contribution of Hannah Arendt to...
The Kingdom of Auschwitz (Penguin History)The Kingdom of Auschwitz (Penguin History)Margaret Mead and the Heretic: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological MythMargaret Mead and the Heretic: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth
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Although he is a New Zealander I had not heard of Derek Freeman until the play about his work...

The Assault On JerusalemThe Assault On Jerusalem
Having not read the full three volume history of the Crusades that this excerpt is taken from,...
Eroticism (Penguin Modern Classics)Eroticism (Penguin Modern Classics)
This work contains Bataille's own research into eroticism, its origins of taboo, religious...
The Penguin Book of the Renaissance (Penguin Classic History)The Penguin Book of the Renaissance (Penguin Classic History)A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World (Making of the Modern World)A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World (Making of the Modern World)
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The premise of this book is that everything happening in China after May 4, 1919 and the signing...
Battlefield: Decisive Conflicts in HistoryBattlefield: Decisive Conflicts in History
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Salamis, Agincourt, Lepanto, Trafalgar, Gettysburg, Iswandlana, the Somme, Stalingrad--...

All Kinds of MagicAll Kinds of Magic
This is the autobiographical account of Mollie Harris's adolescence in the Oxfordshire...
The History of the English People 1000-1154 (Oxford World's Classics)The History of the English People 1000-1154 (Oxford World's Classics)
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Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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Simon Critchely's little book on "Continental Philosophy" (2001) for Oxford...
The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny (Ideologies of Desire)The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny (Ideologies of Desire)
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This book is brilliant, fascinating and full of surprises - at every turn. There's no need...
The Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural HistoryThe Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural History
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"The future is certain," according to an old Soviet joke, "it is only the past...

As The Romans Did: A Sourcebook in Roman Social HistoryAs The Romans Did: A Sourcebook in Roman Social History
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Definitive Work On Rome, I read this book for a graduate course in Roman history. Jo-Ann...
A History of US:  Book 6: War, Terrible War, Teacher's Guide, Second EditionA History of US: Book 6: War, Terrible War, Teacher's Guide, Second Edition
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This A History of US guide includes teaching strategies, conceptual frameworks, and assessment...
Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military HistoryEncyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History
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I was born into the post-Vietnam generation. My original impressions of that war were Gerald...
What the Butler Saw: Two Hundred and Fifty Years of the Servant ProblemWhat the Butler Saw: Two Hundred and Fifty Years of the Servant Problem
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Turner has searched out the documentary evidence of the life of servants in Britain. His book...
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human NatureThe Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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Steven Pinker's book 'The Blank Slate' offers a fairly humane picture of human...

Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its EnemiesOccidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies
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The attacks of September 11th have spawned a plethora of books about Islam and the Middle East,...
A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great CivilizationsA New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
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Clive Ponting's "A New Green History" is an ambitous book. Starting with the...
A Civilization PrimerA Civilization Primer
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Written specifically to aid history students with insufficient knowledge of social science...
Classics of Western Thought Series: The Ancient World, Volume IClassics of Western Thought Series: The Ancient World, Volume I
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Ordered this particular book to accompany a distance education course by the most excellent Dr....
British Botanical and Horticultural Literature Before 180 Hb (Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints)British Botanical and Horticultural Literature Before 180 Hb (Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints)
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A Dictionary of Dates (Oxford Paperback Reference)A Dictionary of Dates (Oxford Paperback Reference)
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This dictionary is subdivided into five sections: Introduction; Dates, Index, Chronology of...
Oxford Dictionary of World HistoryOxford Dictionary of World History
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This new Oxford reference work is the most up-to-date dictionary of world history available in...
Oxford Dictionary of British History (Oxford Paperback Reference)Oxford Dictionary of British History (Oxford Paperback Reference)
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Covering over 2,000 years, The Oxford Dictionary of British History is a handy and invaluable...
  
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