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A simple and non-biased history.

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From the arrival of the First Fleet to the present, Irish immigrants and their descendants have been at the centre of Australian life. This book takes the reader on a journey through the Irish experience in Australia, visiting locations right across the nation where the Irish story unfolds. It concentrates on the period 1788 to 1921.

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Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer The aeroplane Alastair Panton captained throughout this intense period was a Bristol Blenheim Mark IV and this is very much the story of a pilot and his plane. He saw hisBlenheim as his friend and hero. It was the vehicle from which he and his crew were able to spot the enemy and subsequently save lives.

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This powerful work demonstrates how slavery shaped the day-to-day experience of New Yorkers, black and white, and how slavery, as a way of doing business, propelled New York to become the commercial and financial power it is today.

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"A stunning work of popular history-the story of how a crop transformed the history of slavery. Author Jori Lewis reveals how demand for peanut oil in Europe ensured that slavery in Africa would persist well into the twentieth century, long after the European powers had officially banned it in the territories they controlled"--

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This classic volume by acclaimed historian Ira Berlin is a moving portrait of life for the thousands of free black people living in the American South before the Civil War.

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In this comprehensive global history, Alan Mayne explores the evolution and meaning of the 'slum', from its origins in London early in the nineteenth century to its use to describe favela communities in the lead up to the Rio de Janeiro Olympic games in 2016.

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'A gripping history of Stalin's military intelligence service filled with new details on previously unknown operations and the brutal characters of the Soviet secret world.' Simon Sebag Montefiore, BBC History Magazine Books of the Year. Winner, the inaugural St Ermin's Hotel Intelligence Book of the Year Award, 2012.

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Test your knowledge of the most important era of rock music.

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This is the first comprehensive social history of Ireland in the years between the Famine and independence/partition (1850-1922) to appear in a quarter-century, Lively and colourful, it offers new perspectives on work, education, emigration, marriage, health, institutions, extreme poverty, housing and diet. -- .

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Explores the intimate relationship of non-Native and Native sexual politics in the United States

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Strangely beautiful, utterly unique, "Specimens of Hair" presents the obsessive work of a 19th-century amateur naturalist who collected hundreds upon hundreds of specimens of hair--animal and human, Including thirteen of the first fourteen U.S. presidents--in his quest to understand the mysteries of the natural world.

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"Bestselling author and historian Nathaniel Lande explores the Great War at the heart of the twentieth century through the prism of theater. He presents the war as a drama that evolved and developed as it progressed, a production staged and overseen by four contrasting masters: Roosevelt, Churchill, Hitler, and Stalin."--Provided by publisher.

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