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Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
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The present influence and conduct of Great-Britain impartially considered. In a letter from a foreign minister at the Hague, to Count - residing at the court of London. Faithfully translated from the original French.
Foreign minister at the Hague.Date: [1741]- Books
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Some considerations upon His Majesty's message; and the Dutchies of Bremen and Verden. In a letter to the Worshipful Mr. - Mayor of S- To which is prefix'd, a map of those Dutchies; and of the Rivers Elbe and Weser.
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William Pitt the younger as a Roman charioteer, sitting on a chariot drawn by the British lion and the white horse of Hanover, vanquishes the advocates of peace with France. Etching by J. Gillray, 1795.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: April 30 1795Reference: 585566i- Books
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A discourse on trade, and other matters relative to it. Viz. Of Trade in general: Of the Trade of England: Of Husbandry, Feeding, Tillage, Corn, Fruit, Fish, Minerals, Trees, Manufactures, Sheep-Wool, Cotton-Wool. Hemp and Flax: Glass, Earthen-Ware, Silk, Distilling: The great Advantages of a universal National Bank demonstrated: Sugar-Baking, Tobacco, Tanning, Clock-Work, Paper - Mills, Powder - Mills: Method to improve our Manufactures, by imploying the Poor: Of Courts of Merchants, Silver Coin: An effectual Method to prevent the Running of Wool: Of our Trade to the East and West-Indies, Africa, the Plantations, Iceland, the Canaries, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Italy, Holland, Hamburgh, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, France, South-Sea, &c. What foreign Trades are profitable, and what not. An Essay on National Credit, and the Irish Linnen Manufacture, &c. &c. &c. Wrote at the request of several Members of Parliament. And now Published for universal Benefit. By John Cary, Esq; Merchant of Bristol.
Cary, John, -1720?.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
Catalogue of the International Health Exhibition Library : division I. - health.
International Health Exhibition (1884 : London, England)Date: 1884