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By: David A. Copeland
ISBN: 9780313334351
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Clay Cane
ISBN: 9781728272429
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc
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By: Walter Rodney
ISBN: 9781788731157
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: Verso Books
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"This edition published by Verso 2019 First published by Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications 1969."
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By: David Hirst
ISBN: 9780571219452
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Narrates the history of the conflict between Jews and Arabs in Palestine since the 1880s, from the arrival of the first Zionist pioneers. This updated edition of Hirst's classic work explains why the history of Palestine is still relevant to what is happening in the region now.
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By: Pamela Haag
ISBN: 9780465048953
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Basic Books
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An acclaimed historian explodes the myth about the "special relationship" between Americans and their guns, revealing that savvy 19th century businessmen-not gun lovers-created American gun culture
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By: Lady Antonia Fraser
ISBN: 9780753814017
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2003
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2003
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A historian's account of The Gunpowder Plot.
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By: Lorraine de Meaux
ISBN: 9781905559992
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 31st October 2019
Publisher: Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
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The first biography of an influential Russian-Jewish family who launched themselves in Parisian high society in the mid-19th century and then later returned to Russia.
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By: Chris Bellamy
ISBN: 9781848543447
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The first complete history of the the world's most formidable soldiers - written by an award-winning historian
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By: Seamus O'Mahony
ISBN: 9781803285665
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: John Man
ISBN: 9780553819663
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 30th July 2009
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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The invention of one man - Johann Gutenberg - had caused a revolution. Printing by movable type was a discovery waiting to happen.
Born in 1400 in Mainz, Germany, Gutenberg struggled against a background of plague and religious upheaval to bring his remarkable invention to light.
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By: Professor A J P Taylor
ISBN: 9780140134988
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1990
UK Publication Date: 27th September 1990
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A history of the Habsburg monarchy from the end of the Holy Roman Empire to the monarchy's dissolution in 1918. The book offers an insight into the problems inherent in the attempt to give peace, stability and common loyalty to a hetergeneous population.
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By: Andrew Wheatcroft
ISBN: 9780140236347
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1996
UK Publication Date: 26th September 1996
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The Habsburgs have been described as demons - responsible for a 'history of atrocities'; and, as dodos - living fossils unable to adapt to the modern world. This book features figures as mad Queen Juana, progressing through Spain with her husband's decaying body; the 'heroically fertile' Maria Theresa; and, the Maximilian, 'Emperor' of Mexico.
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By: Edward E. Baptist
ISBN: 9780465049660
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 25th October 2016
Publisher: Basic Books
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"In this assiduously researched and tightly argued volume, Baptist gives us what is by far the finest account of the deep interplay of the slave trade (especially within the nation's borders) and the development of the U.S. economy."-Bloomberg View, Top Ten Nonfiction Books of 2014
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By: Robert Ferguson
ISBN: 9780141017754
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th November 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Takes us on a journey to a misty region inhabited by Hallfred the Troublesome Poet, Harald Bluetooth, Ragnar Hairy-Breeches, Ivar the Boneless and Eyvind the Plagiarist, in which literature, history and myth dissolve into one another.
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By: June Eding
ISBN: 9781578267590
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Hatherleigh Press,U.S.
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The Handbook for Americans, Revised Edition is an essential reference guide for every American to the United States and its tradition of freedoms and responsibilities.
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By: June Eding
ISBN: 9781578265589
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Hatherleigh Press,U.S.
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The essential reference for citizens of the United States of America"--Cover.
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By: Nicholas Guyatt
ISBN: 9780861542215
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2023
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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Buried in the history of our most famous jail, a unique story of captivity, violence and race
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By: Nicholas Guyatt
ISBN: 9781786079893
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2022
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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Buried in the history of our most famous jail, a unique story of captivity, violence and race
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By: Kristin L. Hoganson
ISBN: 9780525561637
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 7th May 2020
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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A provocative and highly original exploration of the rural, small-town 'heartland' of mythic American identity - and the gaps between stereotype and reality.
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By: Jason Sokol
ISBN: 9780465055913
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
Publisher: Basic Books
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A vivid portrait of how Americans grappled with Martin Luther King Jr.'s death and legacy in the days, weeks, and months after his assassination
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By: Matt Richards
ISBN: 9781789460919
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd
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The previously untold tale of one of the greatest escapes from occupied Europe ever committed by Allied forces.
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By: Paul Zarembka
ISBN: 9781583228258
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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Examines what is still unkown about the truth behind 9/11 and the abounding theories that keep surfacing.
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By: Richard Sennett
ISBN: 9781839767951
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: Verso Books
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How to find dignity and a meaningful life in the modern city
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By: James Morton
ISBN: 9781472139269
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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In the form of a collection of street maps, an episodic history of diverse stories, some lost, forgotten or hidden within one of the great cities of the world.
