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Which Road to the Past?

Two Views of History

By: Robert William Fogel,Geoffrey Rudolph Elton

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Which Road to the Past?

Two Views of History

By: Robert William Fogel,Geoffrey Rudolph Elton

Compares statistical and traditional approaches to the study of history and discusses categories of evidence, standards of proof, and the proper subject matter for history.

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Yale University Press

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0300032781

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9780300032789

The Ancient Maya of Mexico

Reinterpreting the Past of the Northern Maya Lowlands

By: Geoffrey E. Braswell

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The Ancient Maya of Mexico

Reinterpreting the Past of the Northern Maya Lowlands

By: Geoffrey E. Braswell

The archaeological sites of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula are among the most visited ancient cities of the Americas. Archaeologists have recently made great advances in our understanding of the social and political milieu of the northern Maya lowlands. However, such advances have been under-represented in both scholarly and popular literature until now. 'The Ancient Maya of Mexico' presents the results of new and important archaeological, epigraphic, and art historical research in the Mexican states of Yucatan, Campeche, and Quintana Roo. Ranging across the Middle Preclassic to the Modern periods, the volume explores how new archaeological data has transformed our understanding of Maya history. 'The Ancient Maya of Mexico' will be invaluable to students and scholars of archaeology and anthropology, and all those interested in the society, rituals and economic organisation of the Maya region.

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401

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Routledge

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1317543602

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9781317543602

The Battle of Trafalgar

By: Geoffrey Bennett

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The Battle of Trafalgar

By: Geoffrey Bennett

Captain Bennett was, for many years, a serving officer in the Royal Navy as well as being one of the most highly regarded naval historians of his time. He sets the battle in the context of the world-wide struggle against Napoleon, describes the ships, their crews and the tactics of the action. In his scholarly but immensely readable account of the battle he discusses the preparatory manoeuvres and the mechanics of naval warfare in the age of sail. He illustrates the text with many diagrams.

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263

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Pen and Sword

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1844151077

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9781844151073

Quakers, Jews, and Science

Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650-1900

By: Geoffrey Cantor

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Quakers, Jews, and Science

Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650-1900

By: Geoffrey Cantor

How do science and religion interact? This study examines the ways in which two minorities in Britain - the Quaker and Anglo-Jewish communities - engaged with science. Drawing on a wealth of documentary material, much of which has not been analysed by previous historians, Geoffrey Cantor charts the participation of Quakers and Jews in many different aspects of science: scientific research, science education, science-related careers, and scientific institutions. The responses of both communities to the challenge of modernity posed by innovative scientific theories, such as the Newtonian worldview and Darwin's theory of evolution, are of central interest.

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434

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OUP Oxford

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0191534897

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9780191534898

Atlantic Wars

From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution

By: Geoffrey Plank

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Atlantic Wars

From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution

By: Geoffrey Plank

In a sweeping account, Atlantic Wars explores how warfare shaped the experiences of the peoples living in the watershed of the Atlantic Ocean between the late Middle Ages and the Age of Revolution. At the beginning of that period, combat within Europe secured for the early colonial powers the resources and political stability they needed to venture across the sea. By the early nineteenth century, descendants of the Europeans had achieved military supremacy on land but revolutionaries had challenged the norms of Atlantic warfare. Nearly everywhere they went, imperial soldiers, missionaries, colonial settlers, and traveling merchants sought local allies, and consequently they often incorporated themselves into African and indigenous North and South American diplomatic, military, and commercial networks. The newcomers and the peoples they encountered struggled to understand each other, find common interests, and exploit the opportunities that arose with the expansion of transatlantic commerce. Conflicts arose as a consequence of ongoing cultural misunderstandings and differing conceptions of justice and the appropriate use of force. In many theaters of combat profits could be made by exploiting political instability. Indigenous and colonial communities felt vulnerable in these circumstances, and many believed that they had to engage in aggressive military action--or, at a minimum, issue dramatic threats--in order to survive. Examining the contours of European dominance, this work emphasizes its contingent nature and geographical limitations, the persistence of conflict and its inescapable impact on non-combatants' lives. Addressing warfare at sea, warfare on land, and transatlantic warfare, Atlantic Wars covers the Atlantic world from the Vikings in the north, through the North American coastline and Caribbean, to South America and Africa. By incorporating the British, French, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Africans, and indigenous Americans into one synthetic work, Geoffrey Plank underscores how the formative experience of combat brought together widely separated people in a common history.

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Oxford University Press

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0190860464

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9780190860462

The Asturian of Cantabria

Early Holocene Hunter-Gatherers in Northern Spain

By: Geoffrey A. Clark

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The Asturian of Cantabria

Early Holocene Hunter-Gatherers in Northern Spain

By: Geoffrey A. Clark

The Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona is a peer-reviewed monograph series sponsored by the School of Anthropology. Established in 1959, the series publishes archaeological and ethnographic papers that use contemporary method and theory to investigate problems of anthropological importance in the southwestern United States, Mexico, and related areas.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816508003

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9780816508006

The Vietnam War

A Military History

By: Geoffrey Wawro

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The Vietnam War

A Military History

By: Geoffrey Wawro

The first comprehensive military history of the war in Vietnam The Vietnam War cast a shadow over the American psyche from the moment it began. In its time it sparked budget deficits, campus protests, and an erosion of US influence around the world. Long after the last helicopter evacuated Saigon, Americans have continued to battle over whether it was ever a winnable war. Based on thousands of pages of military, diplomatic, and intelligence documents, Geoffrey Wawro’s The Vietnam War offers a definitive account of a war of choice that was doomed from its inception. In devastating detail, Wawro narrates campaigns where US troops struggled even to find the enemy in the South Vietnamese wilderness, let alone kill sufficient numbers to turn the tide in their favor. Yet the war dragged on, prolonged by presidents and military leaders who feared the political consequences of accepting defeat. In the end, no number of young lives lost or bombs dropped could prevent America’s ally, the corrupt South Vietnamese regime, from collapsing the moment US troops retreated. Broad, definitive, and illuminating, The Vietnam War offers an unsettling, resonant story of the limitations of American power.

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Basic Books

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1541606094

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9781541606098

Advanced Inorganic Chemistry

By: F. Albert Cotton,Geoffrey Wilkinson,Carlos A. Murillo,Manfred Bochmann

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Advanced Inorganic Chemistry

By: F. Albert Cotton,Geoffrey Wilkinson,Carlos A. Murillo,Manfred Bochmann

For more than a quarter century, Cotton and Wilkinson's Advanced Inorganic Chemistry has been the source that students and professional chemists have turned to for the background needed to understand current research literature in inorganic chemistry and aspects of organometallic chemistry. Like its predecessors, this updated Sixth Edition is organized around the periodic table of elements and provides a systematic treatment of the chemistry of all chemical elements and their compounds. It incorporates important recent developments with an emphasis on advances in the interpretation of structure, bonding, and reactivity.“/p> From the reviews of the Fifth Edition: "The first place to go when seeking general information about the chemistry of a particular element, especially when up-to-date, authoritative information is desired." —Journal of the American Chemical Society "Every student with a serious interest in inorganic chemistry should have [this book]." —Journal of Chemical Education "A mine of information . . . an invaluable guide." —Nature "The standard by which all other inorganic chemistry books are judged." —Nouveau Journal de Chimie "A masterly overview of the chemistry of the elements." —The Times of London Higher Education Supplement "A bonanza of information on important results and developments which could otherwise easily be overlooked in the general deluge of publications." —Angewandte Chemie

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1380

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471199575

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9780471199571

Board Games

The Changing Shape of Corporate Power

By: Arthur Fleischer,Paul Z. Mason,Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr.,Hazard Geoffrey,Miriam Z. Klipper

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The Changing Shape of Corporate Power

By: Arthur Fleischer,Paul Z. Mason,Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr.,Hazard Geoffrey,Miriam Z. Klipper

This is a reprint of a previously published book. It analyzes the metamorphosis in the role of directors of major companies and the new level of responsibility assumed in the board room.

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250

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Beard Books

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1587981629

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9781587981623

Seapower

A Guide for the Twenty-first Century

By: Geoffrey Till

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Seapower

A Guide for the Twenty-first Century

By: Geoffrey Till

This revised, updated and expanded edition of Geoffrey Till's acclaimed textbook provides an invaluable guide for anyone interested in the changing and crucial role of seapower in the 21st century.

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Routledge

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0415622611

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9780415622615

Te Linde's Atlas of Gynecologic Surgery

By: Geoffrey W. Cundiff,Ricardo Azziz,Ricardo Azziz, MD, MPH, MBA,Robert E. Bristow

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Te Linde's Atlas of Gynecologic Surgery

By: Geoffrey W. Cundiff,Ricardo Azziz,Ricardo Azziz, MD, MPH, MBA,Robert E. Bristow

The field of female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery is one of the fastest growing subspecialties in medicine. Since becoming a subspecialty in 1997, the need for up to date information on topics included in this specialty has routinely been the feedback received by residents, fellows and gyn surgeons. This product will incorporate surgical procedures from urology, gynecology, and colorectal surgery and focus on step by step illustrative techniques. While specialists perform many of the procedures included in this text each year, in general practices these procedures are done rela.

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382

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1469831619

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9781469831619

Barnsley in the Great War

By: Geoffrey Howse

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Barnsley in the Great War

By: Geoffrey Howse

Geoffrey Howse is well known for his books on Yorkshire subjects, including six books in the Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths series, two of which cover Barnsley and District and a third which covers South Yorkshire as a whole. In Barnsley in the Great War, he has pulled out the stops and delved deeply into a wide range of diverse events that took place throughout Barnsley during the time when the most horrendous conflict known to man was raging abroad.As well as including interesting passages about the enormous changes that were taking place concerning the employment of women in roles they had never imagined possible, he has also assembled some fascinating accounts spanning the whole of Barnsley, packed with interesting sometimes mind-blowing facts about this beautiful area and its wonderful people. Within its seven absorbing chapters covering the prelude to the Great War and its aftermath, this book is sure to capture the curiosity of all individuals with an interest in the social history of Barnsley.

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285

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Casemate Publishers

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1473884268

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9781473884267

Asia’s Naval Expansion

An Arms Race in the Making?

By: Geoffrey Till

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Asia’s Naval Expansion

An Arms Race in the Making?

By: Geoffrey Till

The navies of China, India and to a lesser extent Japan are expanding rapidly at present. This has the potential to alter the US-dominated naval balance in Asia-Pacific but it also raises a question: are the regions powers involved in a naval arms race? Naval development is and always has been a crucial indicator of economic and political development. It shows the emergence of a significant shift in strategic weight from West to East. But within the Asia-Pacific Region, alongside growing economic and institutional integration, there are geo-political tensions that threaten the regions stability and peace. The balance between the two determines the form that naval development in that region is taking. Some aspects of this suggest the beginnings of a naval arms race that would have profound consequences for the region and the world.

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Routledge

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1351225081

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9781351225083

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Mansfield

By: Geoffrey Sadler

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Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Mansfield

By: Geoffrey Sadler

Midlands murders take center stage in a “gripping” book that “chronicles some of Mansfield’s most gruesome deaths over the past two centuries” (Mansfield Chad). A young girl waylaid and battered with a hedge stake while returning home from Mansfield on a warm summer evening. Four family members butchered in a blazing house just off Commercial Street. An old farmer repeatedly speared by a hayfork in the mire of a rural farmyard. A drunken housewife found murdered in a haystack at Worksop, a razor killing and suicide on Nottingham Road, and the mysterious woman’s skeleton discovered in the spoil of Sherwood Colliery tip. These, and other cases detailed here, show how often violent death has visited Mansfield and North Nottinghamshire in the past. Drawing on two hundred years of reported crime in Mansfield and the surrounding area, this account reveals the grim catalog of foul deeds, the variety of lethal weapons used—from a hedge stake to a mohair bootlace—and the age-old motives of greed, jealousy, forbidden desires, and thwarted love that have so often led men and women to murder.

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Grub Street Publishers

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1783408316

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9781783408313

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Which Road to the Past?

Which Road to the Past?

The Ancient Maya of Mexico

The Ancient Maya of Mexico

The Battle of Trafalgar

The Battle of Trafalgar

Quakers, Jews, and Science

Quakers, Jews, and Science

Atlantic Wars

Atlantic Wars

The Asturian of Cantabria

The Asturian of Cantabria

The Vietnam War

The Vietnam War

Advanced Inorganic Chemistry

Advanced Inorganic Chemistry

Board Games

Board Games

Seapower

Seapower

Te Linde's Atlas of Gynecologic Surgery

Te Linde's Atlas of Gynecologic Surgery

Barnsley in the Great War

Barnsley in the Great War

Asia’s Naval Expansion

Asia’s Naval Expansion

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Mansfield

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Mansfield

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