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The Holocaust events, motives and legacy / by Housden, Martyn, 1962-

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Forging Napoleon's Grande Armée motivation, military culture, and masculinity in the French army, 1800-1808 / by Hughes, Michael J., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…: sustaining motivation in the armies of Napoleon, 1803-1808.…”
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The altruistic personality : rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe / by Oliner, Samuel P.

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Saving the forsaken religious culture and the rescue of Jews in Nazi Europe / by Oliner, Pearl M.

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Embracing the Other : Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism /

Subjects: “…Motivation (Psychology) Congresses. 142980…”
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The 'book' of travels genre, ethnology, and pilgrimage, 1250-1700 /

Subjects: “…Travelers' writings, European Themes, motives.…”
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Alexander's veterans and the early wars of the successors by Roisman, Joseph, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Map of Alexander's Campaigns -- Motives and Bias in the History of Hieronymus of Cardia -- Alexander and Discontent : The King and His Army in India and Opis, Mesopotamia -- The Veterans and the Macedonian Internal Strife in Babylon (323) -- The Dissolution of the Royal Army, I : The Veterans of Perdiccas and Craterus -- The Dissolution of the Royal Army, II : The Veterans of Eumenes, Neoptolemus and Alcetas, and the Meeting in Triparadeisus -- The Veterans, Eumenes, and Antigonus in Asia Minor -- Eumenes and the Silver Shields -- The Silver Shields in Battle and Eumenes' Death.…”
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The Tet Offensive a concise history / by Willbanks, James H., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Historical overview -- Prelude -- Border battles, hill fights, and Khe Sanh -- The Tet Offensive -- The battle for Hue -- The siege of Khe Sanh -- The impact of the Tet Offensive -- Assessing the Tet Offensive -- Issues and interpretations -- Motivations and objectives of the Tet Offensive - Military intelligence and surprise at Tet -- What happened at Hue? …”
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Global History and New Polycentric Approaches Europe, Asia and the Americas in a World Network System /

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The Aurelian wall and the refashioning of imperial Rome, AD 271-855 by Dey, Hendrik W., 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Toward an architectural history of the Aurelian wall, from its beginnings through the ninth century -- Planning, building, rebuilding, and maintenance : the logistical dynamics of a (nearly) interminable project -- Motives, meaning, and context : the Aurelian wall and the late Roman state -- The city, the suburbs, and the wall : the rise of a topographical institution -- Sacred geography, interrupted -- The wall and the "Republic of St. …”
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Thucydides between history and literature

Table of Contents: “…Raaflaub -- The distribution of character judgments in Thucydides / Matthieu de Bakker -- Ascribing motivation in Thucydides : between historical research and literary representation / Melina Tamiolaki -- The causes of the Athenian pestilence and the plague / Paul Demont -- Representations of time and space: The presence of the past in Thucydides / Jonas Grethlein -- The Cylon conspiracy : Thucydides and the uses of the past / Tim Rood -- Katâ ethne kai kata poleis : from the catalogues to the archaeologies / Roberto Nicolai -- In the shadow of Pericles: Athens' Samian victory and the organization of the Pentekontaetia / Marek Węcowski -- Transformations of landscapes in Thucydides / Vassiliki Pothou -- Thucydides and politics: "Reading" Athens : foreign perceptions of the agency of leaders and demos in Thucydides / Sarah Brown Ferrario -- Thucydides and the masses / Suzanne Saad -- Thucydides' Pericles : between historical reality and literary representation /Panos Christodoulou -- Aspects of the narrative: The balance of power and compositional balance: Thucydides, book I / June Allison -- Blurring the boundaries of speech: Thucydides and indirect discourse / Paula Debnar -- The narrative strategy: observations on the 7th book of Thucydides / Anna Lamari -- "The dot on the i" : Thucydidean epilogues / Hans-Peter Stahl -- The narrative legacy of Thucydides: Polybius book 1 / Nikos Miltsios -- The language of Thucydides: The litotes of Thucydides / Pierre Pontier -- History as presence : time, tense and narrative modes in Thucydides / Rutger J. …”
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Muslim rap, halal soaps, and revolutionary theater artistic developments in the Muslim world /

Table of Contents: “…Hardcore Muslims: Islamic themes in Turkish rap between diaspora and homeland / Thomas Solomon -- Contesting Islamic concepts of morality: heavy metal in Istanbul / Pierre Hecker -- Iranian popular music in Los Angeles: a transnational public beyond the Islamic state / Farzaneh Hemmasi -- Part 2. Motivations. Ritual as strategic action: the social logic of musical silence in Canadian Islam / Michael Frishkopf -- Pious entertainment: Hizbullah's Islamic cultural sphere /Joseph Alagha -- Of morals, missions, and the market: new religiosity and "art with a mission" in Egypt / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- Part 3. …”
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China's influence and the centre-periphery tug of war in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Indo-Pacific /

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The Arabian frontier of the British Raj merchants, rulers, and the British in the nineteenth-century Gulf / by Onley, James, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Conventions, terminology, and transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The subject -- The sources -- Overview -- Empire -- British India's informal empire and spheres of influence in Asia and Africa -- British India's residency system in Asia and Africa -- The origins of the residency system, 1613-1763 -- The politicization and expansion of the residency system, 1764-1947 -- The residency system and Britain's Indian empire -- Imperialism and the strategy of informal empire -- The Indian political service (IPS), 1764-1947 -- Early British involvement in the Gulf, 1616-1822 -- Britain's political residency in the Gulf, 1822-1971 -- Britain's native agency in Bahrain, c. 1816-1900 -- Agents of empire -- British India's native agency system in Asia -- British India's native agency system in Asia -- British India's native agency system in the Gulf -- British motives for employing native agents -- Robinson's theory of collaboration -- The Indian origins of the native agency system -- The politicization of the native agency system in India and the Gulf -- Early native agents in the Gulf -- The establishment of the native agency system in the Gulf -- Advantages for the British -- Disadvantages for the British -- Advantages and disadvantages for the native agents -- The operation of British India's native agency in Bahrain -- The agency building -- The agency's finances and organization -- The agent's intelligence-gathering duties, c.1816-1900 -- The agent's judicial duties, 1861-1900 -- The agents' political duties, 1872-1900 -- The agents' social duties -- British India's native agents in Bahrain -- The banias, c.1816-34 -- The Safar family agents -- Mirza Muhammad Cali Safar, 1834-42 -- Hajji Jasim (Hajji Abu'l Qasim), 1842-62 -- Hajji Ibrahim bin Muhsin bin Rajab, 1862-4 -- Years of abeyance, 1865-71 -- Hajji Cabd al-Nabi Khan Safar, 1872-84 -- Hajji Ahmad Khan Safar, 1884-91 -- Temporary agents, 1891-3 -- Agha Muhammad Rahim Safar, 1893-1900 -- Hajji Cabbas bin Muhammad bin Fadhil, 1900 -- The native agency staff after 1900 -- Challenges to the agents, 1834-97 -- The decline of British India's native agency system in Bahrain and the Gulf -- The rift in agent-ruler relations, 1895-1900 -- The agent's conflict between trade and politics, 1897-9 -- The argument for a political agency, 1897-9 -- The transition to a political agency, 1899-1900 -- The Arabian frontier of the Indian empire -- Appendix A a British India's residency system in Asia and Africa -- British India's residency system, 1880s -- Gulf residency organization -- Gulf residency staff -- Gulf residency budget -- Graded officers serving in political residencies, 1877 -- British military establishments in the Gulf -- Appendix B rulers and residents -- Rulers of Bahrain -- Residents in Bushire -- Agents for the lower Gulf (qishm island) -- Political residents in the Gulf (Bushire) -- Political residents in the Gulf (Ras al-Jufair, Bahrain) -- Governors of Bombay -- Viceroys of India -- Appendix C British India's native agents in Bahrain -- Native agents -- Native agency staff -- British-Indian steam navigation Co. agents (Gray Paul & Co.) -- Merchant grades -- Appendix D British control : Bahrain v. the Indian states -- Appendix E Anglo-Bahraini legal obligations and rights.…”
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Theory in the Pacific, the Pacific in theory : archaeological perspectives /

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Toward an anthropology of nation building and unbuilding in Israel /

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Charles de Gaulle / by Knapp, Andrew

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Israeli rejectionism a hidden agenda in the Middle East peace process / by Amit, Zalman

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