A Nation on Trial: France and the Legacy of the Dreyfus Affair, Paperback - Margery Elfin

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The Strange Affair of Madeleine Smith is an engrossing insight into the suffocating world of Victorian women and the great divide between social cl...

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An intimate history of the Holocaust that casts new light on our understanding of victimhood and survival.

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Now in its second edition, Transnational France takes a transnational approach to the history of modern France that draws the reader into a key asp...

Examines various dimensions of the impact of Stephen Lawrence on policing policy and practice. This book identifies a series of dimensions and proc...

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A controversial examination of the internal Israeli debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a best-selling Israeli author Since the Six-D...

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Contemporary Protest and the Legacy of Dissent offers an insight into modern European protest movements, focusing on the strategies, activities, an...

In the courtroom, lawyers establish certain facts to prove their cases. But can the legal mind discern the validity of one's belief or unbelief? Wi...

Reducere. In this elegant book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He con...

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A superior exploration of the consequences of the hollowing out of our agricultural heartlands.--Kirkus Reviews In the tradition of Wendell Berry, ...

The second book in Dolores Redondo's atmospheric Baztan trilogy, featuring Inspector Amaia Salazar. With masterful storytelling and a detective to ...

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A thematic foundation for an interdisciplinary conversation about gendered resistance in locations including Brazil, Yemen, India, and the United S...

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This book examines the role of civil law in determining mental capacity over a five hundred year period in England and in New Jersey. -- .Publisher...

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