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Making the Soviet Intelligentsia
Making the Soviet Intelligentsia explores the formation of educated elites in Russian and Ukrainian universities during the early Cold War. In the postwar period, universities …
Making Prussians, Raising Germans
Reframing the German War of 1866 as a civil war, Making Prussians, Raising Germans offers a new understanding of critical aspects of Prussian state-building and German …
Europe and the Making of England, 1660–1760
Wide-ranging and original re-interpretation of English history and national identity during the vital century (1660–1760) in which the country emerged as the leading world power …
The Making of Johnson's Dictionary 1746–1773
Following the discovery of manuscript materials, including hundreds of unpublished additions and changes, for Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language, Allen Reddick …
Yankee Merchants and the Making of the Urban West
By the early 1850s, St. Louis was one of the fastest-growing cities in America. In this book, Jeffrey Adler analyzes the forces that determined the role of western cities in the …
Making National Diasporas
This Element explains the historical conditions for the seemingly anomalous presence of people outside of 'their own' Soviet republic and the sometimes-fraught consequences for …
Making the Market
Corporate capitalism was invented in nineteenth-century Britain; most of the market institutions that we take for granted today - limited companies, shares, stock markets, …
The Making of American Industrial Research
This book tells the story of how and why industrial research was established in America by two large and innovative corporations: General Electric, formed in a merger of Edison …
The Making of International Human Rights
This book fundamentally reinterprets the history of international human rights in the post-1945 era by documenting how pivotal the Global South was for their breakthrough. In stark …
Law-Making and Society in Late Elizabethan England
Recent years have seen a re-assessment by historians of the Elizabethan parliament. David Dean’s book contributes to this development by offering the first detailed account and …
The 1549 Rebellions and the Making of Early Modern England
This is a major study of the 1549 rebellions, the largest and most important risings in Tudor England. Based upon extensive archival evidence, the book sheds fresh light on the …
Female Friends and the Making of Transatlantic Quakerism, 1650–1750
Quaker women were unusually active participants in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century cultural and religious exchange, as ministers, missionaries, authors and spiritual leaders. …