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The Emergence of Bicycling and Automobility in Britain
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The Emergence of British Power in India 1600-1784: A Grand Strategic Interpretion
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The Emergence of Provincial Politics: The Madras Presidency 1870–1920 (Cambridge South Asian Studies, Series Number 18)
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The Emergency and the Indian English Novel
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The Empire of the Great Mogol: A Translation of De Laet’s ”Description of India and Fragment of Indian History”
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The Empress Theophano: Byzantium and the West at the Turn of the First Millennium
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The Empty Throne: The Quest for an Imperial Heir in the People`s in the People`s Republic of China: Quest for an Imperial Heir in the People’s Republic of China
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The Encyclopaedia of Islam: Glossary and Index of Technical Terms ( Vol I-VII)
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The Ends of History: Questioning the Stakes of Historical Reason
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The English Charted Trading Companies, 1688-1763: Guns, Money and Lawyers (Routledge Research in Early Modern History)
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The English Experience: A Survey of English History from Early Times to the End of Empire (History of Civilization)
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The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recoliections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok. (Oxford in Asia Paperbacks)
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