Search Results: Returned 9 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 9
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2005., Chelsea House Publishers Call No: 943.71 COT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Arbitrary bordersSummary Note: Presents a history of the Czech Republic and its people. Historical points include being part of the Austrian empire in the 1800s, independence in 1918, Nazi occupation in World War II, Communist rule, the Prague Spring, and the Velvet Revolution.
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2004., Chelsea House Call No: 940.3 WAG Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Arbitrary bordersSummary Note: Explains the lasting impact the Treaty of Sèvres had on the world, discussing how the borders created by that treaty more than seventy years ago continue to be a source of conflict today.
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2004., Chelsea House Publishers Call No: 973.92 BRA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Series Title: Arbitrary bordersSummary Note: Discusses the forty-year competition between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies.
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-- Thirty-eighth parallel and the Demilitarized Zone2005., Chelsea House Call No: 951.904 MAT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Arbitrary bordersSummary Note: Presents a study of the Korean peninsula and the division created in 1945 by both the United States and the Soviet Union and examines its impact upon the people of both North and South Korea, how neither side has ever accepted it, and their dreams of reunification in the future.
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2004., Chelsea House Publishers Call No: 974.8 DAV Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Series Title: Arbitrary bordersSummary Note: Two surveyors from Great Britain settles the violent boundary disputes between Colonial Maryland and Pennsylvania and it remains one of the most important lines ever drawn in America.
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2005., Chelsea House Publishers Call No: 941.608 COT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Series Title: Arbitrary bordersSummary Note: A history of a period in the late 1960s known as "The Troubles" in which 4000 died before an uneasy peace came to Northern Ireland.
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2005., Chelsea House Publishers Call No: 968.06 COT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Arbitrary bordersSummary Note: Provides an overview of the history of South Africa, including the three hundred years of colonial occupation by the Dutch and British, the establishment of settlers domination over non-whites, institutionalized slavery, and, later, apartheid, and includes information on F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela's efforts to reform its political system and reconfigure arbitrary borders.
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2005., Chelsea House Publishers Call No: 973.621 DAV Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Arbitrary bordersSummary Note: This book describes the United States-Mexico border, a place born in the words of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which was signed in 1848.
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-- Vietnam, the seventeenth parallel2004., Chelsea House Publishers Call No: 959.704 COT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Series Title: Arbitrary bordersSummary Note: A temporary partitioning of Vietnam at the 17th parallel was an arbitrary border that was to assure peaceful relations, but in the end only provoked further hostilities.
