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"The latest edition of ""A Dictionary of Historical Terms"" provides a work of reference for students and teachers of history. Ranging in time over 1500 years (from the onset of the Dark Ages and the rise of Islam to the closing decade of the 20th century) the dictionary provides a wealth of compact definitions of many hundreds of historical terms chosen from every epoch of modern world history. Arranged alphabetically, and thoroughly updated and expanded for this new edition, the entries range from medieval Europe to post colonial Africa, from the Addled Parliament of Stuart England to the Zemstov of imperial Russia. Also included are contemporary terms ranging from ""ethnic cleansing"" and ""the Christmas Revolution"" to ""the Whitewater Affair"" and ""New Labour"". Terms relating to social, economic, gender and intellectual issues are also included, while geographical areas as diverse as Latin America, the Arab world and the Pacific are fully covered in the volume."

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Author:   C. Cook
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   3rd ed. 1998
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.587kg
ISBN:  

9780333673478

ISBN 10:   0333673476
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   10 August 1998
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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CHRIS COOK was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and Nuffield College, Oxford. He has been director of successive surveys by the Modern Archives Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science, as well as Head of History at what is now the University of North London. His many previous publications for Macmillan include the six-volume Sources in British Political History, 1900-51. He is compiler (with John Paxton) of European Political Facts, 1900-1996 and A Short History of the Liberal Party,1900-1997. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he is also editor of the best-selling Pears Cyclopaedia.

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