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• Venice and Venetia Under the Habsburgs 1815-1835.(Book Review)

  - 2003-03-01

  By David Laven. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xi + 256. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. This is an important and scholarly revisionist work that offers a fundamental re-evaluation of Venice under Francis I and, in doing so, is important not only for...

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• DEBATING DUSSEHRA AND REINTERPRETING REBELLION IN BASTAR DISTRICT, CENTRAL INDIA.(research)

  - 2001-03-01

  This article unpacks the history of a 'tribal' region in Central India to show that the current appearance of 'two-dimensionality' or stark opposition between the people and the state is a product of colonial and post-colonial policies rather than a pre-colonial relic. It challenges the idea...

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• Albion Ascendant: English History, 1660-1815.(Review)

  - 1999-03-22

  Prest, Wilfrid Albion Ascendant: English History, 1660-1815 New York: Oxford University Press 363 pp., $27.95 paper ISBN 0-19-820418-3 Publication Date: September 1998 Albion Ascendant, by Wilfrid Prest, is a story of changes: agrarian, demographic, imperial, industrial, political, urban. Personalities are kept in...

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