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This collection of fifteen insightful essays examines the complexity and diversity of Quaker anti...

As we approach the bicentenary of the abolition of the Atlantic trade, Walvin has selected the hi...

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At the beginning of the twentieth century, soccer was widely accepted as the most popular game in...