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Cover -- Book title -- Contents -- How this book will help you in AQA GCSE History -- Section A: Period Studies -- 1 America 1840-1895: Expansion and Consolidation -- 1.1: Expansion: Opportunities and challenges -- 1.2: Conflict across America -- 1.3: Consolidation - forging the nation -- Assessment Focus -- 2 Germany 1890-1945: Democracy and Dictatorship -- 2.1: Germany and the growth of dictatorship -- 2.2: Germany and the Depression -- 2.3: The experiences of Germans under the Nazis -- Assessment Focus -- 3 Russia 1894-1945: Tsardom and Communism -- 3.1: The end of Tsardom

Intro -- Contents -- 1. "God Writes Straight with Crooked Lines" -- 2. "Now We Have Only Peoples' Wars" -- 3. "National Self-Determination" -- 4. "Cossacks! Brethren!" -- 5. No Nostalgia for the "World of Yesterday" -- 6. South of the Border and Across the Pacific -- 7. "Middle Class" Is Not "Bourgeois" -- 8. "I Was a Nationalist, but I Was Not a Patriot" -- 9. The Wave of the Future -- 10. "I Hope It Is Not Too Late" -- 11. To Subdue and Conquer Germany and Japan -- 12. The Division of Europe Almost Complete -- 13. The Brave Harry Truman -- 14. American Nationalism, American Benevolence -- 15. "Europe," and the End of the Cold War -- 16. "Great Leap Forward" -- 17. The Limitations of Human Knowledge -- Index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction /Paolo Sartori -- 1.  Amlākdārs, Khwājas and Mulk Land in the Zarafshan Valley after the Russian Conquest /Alexander Morrison -- 2.  Managing Rural Landscapes in Colonial Turkestan /Beatrice Penati -- 3.  Who Should Manage the Water of the Amu-Darya? /Akifumi Shioya -- 4.  High Rank and Power among the Northern Kirghiz /Daniel G. Prior -- 5.  Performance and Poetics in Kyrgyz Memorial Feasts /Svetlana Jacquesson -- 6.  Using Turki-Language Qazaq Letters to Reconstruct Local Politi­cal History of the 1820s-30s /Virginia Martin -- 7.  A Month among the Qazaqs in the Emirate of Bukhara /Allen J. Frank -- 8.  Creating the Façade of a Despotic State /Andreas Wilde -- 9.  Fathers and Sons /Thomas Welsford -- Index of Islamicate Terminologies /Paolo Sartori -- Index of Persons and Social Groupings /Paolo Sartori -- Index of Places /Paolo Sartori.

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