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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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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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-- 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.