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The bestselling author of Maharanis recreates the lives of six remarkable women who, in a time of violent revolution, leapt at the chance to exercise their considerable charm, intelligence and acumen, and make their mark on history.

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More than just a work of first-class scholarship, Libertys Exiles is a deeply moving masterpiece that fulfils the historians most challenging ambition: to revivify past experience. Niall Ferguson

Libertys Exiles was shortlisted for the 2011 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize.

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The library has been a battleground of competing notions of what books mean to us, from the clay-tablet collections of ancient Mesopotamia to the legendary libraries of Alexandria, from the burned scrolls of the Qing Dynasty to the book-pyres of the Hitler Youth, from the Dewey Decimal System to the Internet.

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This narrative chronicles Libya's, and to a vast extent Muammar Gaddafi's, remarkable past, meteoric rise to prominence, and convoluted reign, and introduces potential scenarios that may play out in the near term.

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This book provides vivid insight into the experience of steerage emigrants leaving Britain for Australia throughout the nineteenth century. It draws from letters and diaries of passengers, who write movingly about the illness and deaths of their children and tell of coping with everyday life below decks.

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This book makes innovative use of migrant life histories to further understanding the role of memory in the production of migrant identities. Offering a fresh perspective on the post-war Irish experience in England, it develops Popular Memory Theory to illuminate how migrants recompose the self in response to the emotional challenges migration

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This book makes innovative use of migrant life histories to further understanding the role of memory in the production of migrant identities. Offering a fresh perspective on the post-war Irish experience in England, it develops Popular Memory Theory to illuminate how migrants recompose the self in response to the emotional challenges migration

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Life in a Black Community details and explores the Jim Crow era in Annapolis, Maryland. It recounts the tactics blacks used to gain equal rights, details the methods whites employed to deny or curtail their rights, and explores a range of survival and advancement strategies used by black families.

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A portrait of everyday life in medieval times looks at the various types of people who lived and worked in Europe during that time.

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What was it like to live in the time of Jesus With a historian's insight and a reporter's curiosity, Korb gives readers a backstage pass to the unexpected and sometimes down-and-dirty truth about what everyday life was like in first-century Palestine.

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James M. Glass provides a provocative new answer to the questions about the Holocaust that bedevil us to this day: How and why did so many ordinary German participate in the Final Solution And how did they come to regard Jews as less than human and 'deserving' of extermination

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The whirlwind years between World War I and the stock market crash witnessed America's ascendance as a world leader - this text contains the stories of the people who made it happen.

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A photograph, map, or diagram illustrates the text for every site described in this pilgrimage to Palestine, beginning with places connected with John the Baptist and proceeding to Bethlehem and Nazareth, Samaria and Galilee, Jerash, Caesarea, Jericho, the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, and Emmaus. Each entry concludes with a brief bibliography of per

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