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The Destruction of the Imperial Army: Volume 4: Catastrophe: Sedan, Strasbourg and Metz 1870The fourth and concluding volume in this series - The Destruction of the Imperial Army - takes an in-depth look at events between the humiliating French surrender at Sedan and the ignominious submission of Bazaine and the Army of the Rhine at Metz as,...
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The Destruction of Jewish Kovno (Kaunas, Lithuania)The ghetto in Kovno has its own tragic place in history because of the cruelty of conditions there and the revolt of Jews towards the end of its days. The dire circumstances of the ghetto became more widely known after World War II with...
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The Creation of Modern Buenos Aires: Football, Civic Associations, Barrios, and Politics, 1912-1943The Creation of Modern Buenos Aires examines the impact of civic associations on the culture and the society of Buenos Aires and their ties to politics in the first decades of the twentieth century. The period saw the emergence of the modern political system...
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The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in IranIn The Color Black, Beeta Baghoolizadeh traces the twin processes of enslavement and erasure of Black people in Iran during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She illustrates how geopolitical changes and technological advancements in the nineteenth century made enslaved East Africans uniquely visible in...
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The Civil Rights Movement (Cornerstones of Freedom: Third Series)Explore the important events in African American history during the struggle for civil rights in the middle years of the twentieth century.Even before the first glorious ring of the Liberty Bell, America was a land of freedom and promise. The Cornerstones of Freedom series...
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The Children of Gods and Fighting MenThe first in a gripping new historical fantasy series that intertwines Irish mythology with real-life history, The Children of Gods and Fighting Men is the thrilling debut novel in the Gael Song series by Shauna Lawless. They think they've killed the last of us......
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The Chapters of Coming Forth by Day or The Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead - The Egyptian Hieroglyphic Text Edited from Numerous PapyrusThis book contains the chapters of the "Book of the Dead", an ancient Egyptian funerary text that was used starting from the beginning of the New Kingdom (approximately 1550 BCE) to approximately 50 BCE. Contents include: "The Book of the Dead", "Description of the...
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The BundahishnBundahishn, meaning "Primal Creation", is the name traditionally given to an encyclopediaic collection of Zoroastrian cosmogony and cosmology written in Book Pahlavi. The original name of the work is not known. Although the Bundahishn draws on the Avesta and develops ideas alluded to in...
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The Boy from Clearwater: Book 2After his imprisonment in Green Island, Kun-lin struggles to pick up where he left off ten years earlier. He reconnects with his childhood crush Kimiko and finds work as an editor, jumping from publisher to publisher until finally settling at an advertising company. But...
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The Boston Marathon: A Celebration of America's Greatest RaceOffering an inside look at the most famous marathon in the world, this exploration traces the Boston Marathon's 26.2-mile route from the starting line on narrow Main Street in Hopkinton to the Boylston Street finish line in downtown Boston, bringing to life the history,...
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The Bookshop: A History of the American BookstoreAn affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cultural life, from department stores to indies, from highbrow dealers trading in first editions to sidewalk vendors, and from chains to special-interest community destinations Bookstores have always been unlike...
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The Book of Facts and Trivia: American HistoryMore than 100 stories that include hundreds of American history facts American history is made accessible with fascinating questions, richly illustrated text, colorful personality studies, and little-known facts. Written for and aimed at general audiences Wonderful for learning history Ideal as a fun bathroom...
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The Book of Bibles. 40th Ed.In the beginning was the word, and in the Middle Ages were kings, princes, and high-ranking religious members whose wealth and influence produced illustrated bibles of extraordinary craftsmanship. This edition brings together 50 of the finest medieval bible manuscripts from the Austrian National Library....
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The Belt and Road City: Geopolitics, Urbanization, and China's Search for a New International OrderAn exploration of how China's Belt and Road Initiative seeks to reshape international order and how it has catalyzed a new era of infrastructural geopolitics Over the past decade China has put infrastructural and urban development at the heart of a strategy aimed at...
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The Beloved Vision: A History of Nineteenth Century MusicWhen one thinks of "great" classical music, we harken back to the nineteenth century and the Romantic tradition. The emotional resonance of nineteenth century has moved generations musicians and resonated with countless listeners. It has inspired artists and writers. But no writer until how...
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The Beloved Vision: A History of Nineteenth Century MusicWhen one thinks of "great" classical music, we harken back to the nineteenth century and the Romantic tradition. The emotional resonance of nineteenth century has moved generations musicians and resonated with countless listeners. It has inspired artists and writers. But no writer until how...
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Theatre Censorship in Contemporary Europe: Silence and ProtestWith contributions from an international range of scholars, this ground-breaking study explores the forms, contexts, and impacts of theatre censorship in twenty-first-century Europe.Author: Anne EtiennePublisher: University of Exeter PressPublished: 01/23/2024Pages: 266Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75dISBN: 9781804130513This title is not returnable
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The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)Conversations defining the Arctic region often provoke debate and controversy -- for scientists, this lies in the imprecise and imaginary line known as the Arctic Circle; for countries like Canada, Russia, the United States, and Denmark, such discussions are based in competition for land...
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The American Flag: An Encyclopedia of the Stars and Stripes in U.S. History, Culture, and LawAt a time when the U.S. flag is both a source of both pride and controversy, this volume provides the first encyclopedic A-to-Z treatment of the U.S. flag in American history, culture, and law.This title is a comprehensive resource for understanding all aspects of...
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The American Transportation Revolution: A Social and Cultural HistoryA history of steamboats and railroads in the United States prior to the Civil War.In the first half of the nineteenth century, transportation in the United States underwent an extraordinary transformation. Steamboats and railroads turned long-distance travel from an arduous undertaking into a regularized...
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