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Courtship, love, and marriage are seen today as very private affairs, and historians have generally concluded that after the late eighteenth century young peopl

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"In these two volumes, which replace the Reader's Guide to Canadian History, experts provide a select and critical guide to historical writing about pre- and po

This volume brings together historians of imperialism and race, travel and modernity, Islam and India, the Pacific and the Atlantic to show how a 'transnational