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Making Sense of World History
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Szostak, Rick

"Making Sense of World History is a comprehensive and accessible textbook that helps students understand the key themes of world history within a chronological framework stretching from ancient times to the present day. To lend coherence to its narrative, the book employs a set of organizing devices that connect times, places, and/or themes. This narrative is supported by: Flowcharts that show …

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9780367820886
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Czech Broadside Ballads as Text, Art, Song in Popular Culture, c.1600–1900
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Fumerton, PatriciaKosek, Pavel

This landmark collection makes a major contribution to the burgeoning field of broadside ballad study by investigating the hitherto unexplored treasure-trove of over 100,000 Central/Eastern European broadside ballads of the Czech Republic, from the 16th to the 19th century. Viewing Czech broadside ballads from an interdisciplinary perspective, we see them as unique and regional cultural phenome…

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9789463721554, 9789048553341
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500
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940 CZE c
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Dictators and Autocrats: Securing Power across Global Politics
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Larres, Klaus

In order to truly understand the emergence, endurance, and legacy of autocracy, this volume of engaging essays explores how autocratic power is acquired, exercised, and transferred or abruptly ended through the careers and politics of influential figures in more than 20 countries and six regions. The book looks at both traditional "hard" dictators, such as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, and more mode…

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Ed. 1
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9780367607869, 9780367607876
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464
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909.022 DIC d
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Propaganda and Conflict
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Connelly, MarkFox, JoGoebel, Stefan

Propaganda has always played a key role in shaping attitudes during periods of conflict and the academic study of propaganda, commencing in earnest in 1915, has never really left us. We continue to want to understand propaganda’s inner-workings and, in doing so, to control and confine its influence. We remain anxious about pernicious information warfare campaigns, especially those that seemin…

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9781788316712
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