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Quezon City served as the Philippines’s capital for almost three decades (1948–1976), yet Filipinos today barely remembe
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The image of Coventry in flames was one of the most haunting of the Second World War. Yet the excitement and optimism of
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For over a thousand years, England’s capital has been associated with desire, avarice, and the sins of the flesh. This i
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Amanda Kay McVety has written the first history of the international effort to eradicate rinderpest - a devastating catt
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Breslau has been almost entirely forgotten in the Anglophone sphere as a place of Enlightenment. Moreover, in the contex
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This vibrant history of London in the twentieth century reveals the city as a key site in the development of black inter
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Its original leaders, Stokely Carmichael and Willie Ricks, were Black Nationalists, advocating a militant and extremist
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In Skyscraper, Benjamin Flowers explores the role of culture and ideology in shaping the construction of skyscrapers and
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Chicago is celebrated for its rich diversity, but, even more than most US cities, it is also plagued by segregation and
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Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan is the first book to consider how mass motorization res
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