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By: Vivienne Rae-Ellis

ISBN: 9780522847444
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1992
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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Offers a portraint of a greedy, vain and unscrupulous man bent on self-aggrandisment. This study of George ('Black') Robinson, first Chief Protector of Aborigines in Australia, reveals a man long held to be a civilizer and Christianizer of Tasmanian Aborigines to have been a monster of deceit and a betrayer of those it was his role to protect.


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By: Stephan Lesher

ISBN: 9780201407983
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1995
Publisher: Hachette Books
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Alabama Governor George Wallace captured the national spotlight in fiery opposition to Civil Rights. But biographer Stephan Lesher suggests Wallace's more lasting significance is that of working class spokesman against the intrusion of "big" government. "The first serious study of the whole of Mr. Wallace's career".--The New York Times Book Review.


(Hardback)

By: Frank E. Grizzard

ISBN: 9781576070826
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This encyclopedia offers an A-Z retrospective of George Washington's life, career, and historical significance, based in large part on Washington's own words and those of his contemporaries.


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By: James T Flexner

ISBN: 9780316286022
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1972
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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By: Brenda Niall

ISBN: 9780522847437
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1996
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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After a childhood among artists, French migrs and English radicals in Regency London, Georgiana lived as a young woman at her father's castle in the Highlands. By allowing Georgiana's own voice to be heard through her letters and journals Brenda Niall has brought a legendary colonial figure into authentic vibrant life.


(Hardback)

By: Alex E. Hindman

ISBN: 9781498537636
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Using archival materials from Gerald Fords term, this book shows how the constitutional presidency reinforces even the politically weakest presidents under the separation of powers system. The constitutional presidency endures even when political circumstances may foreclose other informal personal powers of persuasion.


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By: Alexander B. Adams

ISBN: 9780306803949
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1990
Publisher: Hachette Books
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"In the Apaches' final campaign, Geronimo led 19 warriors against 5,000 U.S. troops. No Apaches were killed, and the U.S. suffered heavy casualties. For the Apaches could travel seventy miles a day on"


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By: Mary A. Stout

ISBN: 9780313344541
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The first biography of Geronimo aimed at the high school and undergraduate student audience, this book provides a balanced account of Geronimo's life in the context of key historical and cultural events of his lifetime.


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By: Fred Burton

ISBN: 9780345494252
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Burton, a key figure in international counterterrorism and domestic spycraft, offers this hard-hitting memoir, in which he emerges from the shadows to reveal who he is, what he has accomplished, and the threats that lurk unseen except by an experienced few.


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By: M. Nelson McGeary

ISBN: 9780691621463
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Famed conservationist and twice governor of Pennsylvania, Gifford Pinchot knew every United States President from Grant to Truman. His idol was Theodore Roosevelt, whom he served while head of the United States Forest Service and whom he emulated when he was chief executive of Pennsylvania. This first published biography (except for his autobiograp


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By: Anne Isba

ISBN: 9781847250261
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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William Gladstone, 'The Grand Old Man' of nineteenth-century politics, was Prime Minister four times. Throughout his life, women, including Queen Victoria (with whom he had a somewhat strained relationship - she famously describing him as a 'half-mad firebrand') were of great importance to him.


(Hardback)

By: Richard Shannon

ISBN: 9781847252029
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A study of W E Gladstone that offers an account of one of the most important and consequential political careers in modern British and Irish history. It is a story of how a statesman of almost superhuman energy and forcefulness of character strove to realise God's purposes, as he saw them, in the twisting and slippery paths of public service.


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By: Richard Shannon

ISBN: 9781847252036
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A study of W E Gladstone that offers an account of one of the most important and consequential political careers in modern British and Irish history. It is a story of how a statesman of almost superhuman energy and forcefulness of character strove to realise God's purposes, as he saw them, in the twisting and slippery paths of public service.


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By: Simin Fadaee

ISBN: 9781526177971
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Arguing against the idea that Marxism is a Eurocentric theory with nothing to teach the Global South, this book explores the lives and ideas of a remarkable set of revolutionaries, from Ho Chi Minh to Ali Shariati.


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By: Richard Holmes

ISBN: 9780007111763
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Biographies edited and introduced by Richard Holmes.


(Paperback)

By: Raif Reuth

ISBN: 9780094739307
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1995
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A biography of Goebbels, drawing on dramatic new material released from secret archives in former East Germany.


(Paperback, 2nd edition)

By: Professor Richard Overy

ISBN: 9781350149106
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Originally published: London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984.


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By: Gary McKay

ISBN: 9781741146349
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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Gary McKay returns to Viet Nam with a group of other veterans to record their reactions when confronted by the past - and their former enemy.


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By: Daphne Du Maurier

ISBN: 9781844080731
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2007
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Du Maurier uncovers the truth of Anthony Bacon, Francis and their friends which have long puzzled Elizabethan historians.


(Paperback, Revised edition)

By: Tom Bower

ISBN: 9780007259625
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2007
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The gripping inside story of Gordon Browns rise to become Prime Minister.


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By: Charles Flood

ISBN: 9780306821516
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Hachette Books
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Prominent historian and biographer, Charles Bracelen Flood, reveals the last year of General Grant's life and the portrait of a man, who despite his flaws, had great courage and determination, an abiding love of family and country, and an unshakeable vision for reconciling a divided nation.


(Hardback)

By: Mary Daughtry

ISBN: 9780306811739
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2002
Publisher: Hachette Books
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Based on original Lee family documents never before published, this is the first biography of the famous General's son, William "Rooney" Lee, who commanded a cavalry division with great distinction during the Civil War


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By: Aldous Huxley

ISBN: 9780099477822
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2005
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2005
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A gripping biography by the author of Brave New World

The life of Father Joseph, Cardinal Richelieu's aide, was a shocking paradox. After spending his days directing operations on the battlefield, Father Joseph would pass the night in prayer, or in composing spiritual guidance for the nuns in his care.


(Paperback)

By: James Morwood

ISBN: 9781849668866
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A lively short biography of one of the best known Roman emperors.

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