Lenin's Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia 9780312367305

The shining sea: David Porter and the epic voyage of the U.S.S. Essex during the War of 1812 9780465069941, 0465069940

Table of Contents; Introduction: The War of 1812; Maps; Prologue: First Victory; 1. President Madison's War Plan; 2

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The Disastrous Voyage of the Santa Margarita

Among the coral outcrops of the island of Rota, lies the wreck of a Spanish galleon, the Santa Margarita - Spring 1601.

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On the Ideological Front: The Russian Intelligentsia and the Making of the Soviet Public Sphere 9780300145076

Having emerged, exhausted but triumphant, from the bloody and divisive Russian Civil War, V. I. Lenin and his colleagues

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John Herschel's Cape Voyage: Private Science, Public Imagination and the Ambitions of Empire 0754635589, 9780754635581, 9781315251479

In 1833 John Herschel sailed from London to Cape Town, southern Africa, to undertake (at his own expense) an astronomica

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The Public and the Private in Aristotle's Political Philosophy 9781501740831

Aristotle offers a conception of the private and its relationship to the public that suggests a remedy to the limitation

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The Russian Intelligentsia 9780231897150

Looks at the condition and prospects of a body of intellectuals known in Russia, pre-Revolutionary and Soviet, as the In

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War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan : The Ethnographer’s Tale [1 ed.] 9781472415820, 2015000814, 9781315466934

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Philosophy of private law

This book tackles contemporary jurisprudential debates on the nature and foundation of liability in private law. The com

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The Private Life of the Romanoffs 9781528766746

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Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings: A Philosophy of War

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