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Paris Review columnist Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects.

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This book examines the Soviet genocide in Ukraine in the 1920s and 1930s, from its MarxistLeninist roots to its subsequent cover-up and denial. The author analyzes the role intellectual elitesespecially teachersplayed in shaping, contesting, and inculcating the history of the genocide.

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A fascinating biography of the Dudley family, who played an integral role in many of the political intrigues of the Tudor period.

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Full of true stories more dramatic than any fiction, The Underground Railroad: A Reference Guide offers a fresh, revealing look at the efforts of hundreds of dedicated persons-white and black, men and women, from all walks of life-to help slave fugitives find freedom in the decades leading up to the Civil War.

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Great works of history have so often had at their heart a wish to sift people in ways that have been profoundly damaging and provided intellectual justification for terrible political decisions. This title presents an agonised attempt to understand how so much of the writing of history has been driven by a fatal desire to dramatize differences.

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During the Holocaust, thousands of Jews from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and later Hungary were transported to Latvia, where they were concentrated in the Riga Ghetto and in extermination camps--joining the thousands of Latvian Jews who were already interned there.

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In the summer of 1940, the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks all that changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled their homes. This book describes the consequences of that defeat.

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Vincent Cannato takes us back to the time when John Lindsay stunned New York with his liberal Republican agenda, WASP sensibility, and movie-star good looks. With peerless authority, Cannato explores how Lindsay Liberalism failed to save New York, and, in the opinion of many, left it worse off than it was in the mid-1960's.

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This book-length examination of the revolution and unification, is an informative narrative written for high school and college students and the general public.

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The unimagined community presents a wide-ranging study of South Vietnemese culture, from political philosophy and psychological warfare to popular culture and film. The book pursues the provocative claim that in its early phase the conflict was not an anti-communist crusade, but a struggle between two different forms of anticolonial communism.

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The unimagined community presents a wide-ranging study of South Vietnemese culture, from political philosophy and psychological warfare to popular culture and film. The book pursues the provocative claim that in its early phase the conflict was not an anti-communist crusade, but a struggle between two different forms of anticolonial communism.

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Understand the growth and evolution of American air power with this overview of the history of the world's most successful aviation force.

The United States Air Force: A Chronology captures the sweep of U.S. Air Force history from the service's inception to present times.

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This book describes six years of conflict management, involving much confrontation and selective diplomacy, during which Cuba was put progressively on the defensive by political (surrogate radio broadcasting and human rights), economic (strengthening the embargo) and military (Grenada) actions.

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This text explores the relations between the US and Europe since 1945. It looks at the alliance from different angles, at personal and economic relationships as well as those focusing on defence. It covers the language of power, and the very concept of a special relationship.

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The author argues that interactions between the movement and US Cold Warriors had a profound and lasting impact on Japanese society and JapanUS relations.

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The author argues that interactions between the movement and US Cold Warriors had a profound and lasting impact on Japanese society and JapanUS relations.

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This book puts American policy in Southeast Asia and the traumatic events of the second Indochina War into the larger perspective of the Cold War.

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This book offers a detailed timeline of the key events in the history of the U.S. Army, from the American Revolutionary War to today's ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Covering the period from the seventeenth century, when trade between the United States and Latin America began, to the present, this historical dictionary provides information on the people, organizations, institutions, and events associated with the United States' presence in Latin America.

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