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Late in 1755, an army of British regulars and Massachusetts volunteers completed        one of the cruelest, most successful military campaigns in North American history,        capturing and deporting seven thousand French-speaking Catholic Acadians from the        province of Nova Scotia, and chasing an equal number into the wilderness of...

This is the first systematically comparative study of environmental protest in a representative cross-section of EU member states. It breaks entirely new ground in the study of environmental politics in Europe and is a major contribution to the study of protest events....

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The Ottoman Age of Exploration is the first comprehensive historical account of this century-long struggle for global dominance. Based on extensive research in the archives of Turkey and Portugal, as well as materials written on three continents and in a half dozen languages, it presents an unprecedented picture of the global reach of the Ottoman...

In the topic's first synthetic historical treatment, Kenneth Kusmer looks at the treatment of the homeless in America, tracing the phenomenon from the poorhouse in the nation's early years, to its growth during the Civil War, to the building of a welfare system during the Progressive Era, to the rise of the skid row in cities and hobo camps during...

A History of Birders and Their GuidesThomas Dunlap shows how bird guides have changed with science and popular interest and how birding's twin activities, conservation and recreation, have over the last 120 years shaped our understanding of nature and supported its preservation as part of the nation and our lives....