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RMS Aquitania: The Ship BeautifulShe entered service two months before the start of World War I, was scrapped six years after World War II ended, and was the longest lasting of all four funnelled liners. For two wars, she spent much time transporting troops but for the rest...
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A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New YorkJourney through the splendor and the excesses of the Gilded Age Every aspect of life in the Gilded Age took on deeper, transcendent meaning intended to prove the greatness of America: residences beautified their surroundings; works of art uplifted and were shared with the...
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The Chairman: John J. McCloy & the Making of the American EstablishmentAgainst the backgrounds of World War II, the Cold War, the construction of Pax Americana, the Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy assassination, and Vietnam, Bird shows us McCloy's astonishing rise from self-described "chore boy" to "chairman of the Establishment." His powerful circle shaped the...
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Peasant Life in ChinaA fascinating insight into the life of the vast majority of Chinese people at the end of 19th century. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing...
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Bike Across America 1965: Finding My FatherThis book chronicles two young men trying to find their way through the confusing issues of the '60s. One trying to find his father and the other trying to find his future. Neither could have realized the different American cultures they would encounter, which...
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Kittever Memorial BookIn the dreadful summer months of the year 1942, when the Germanmass-murderers were each day shooting, burning and gassingthousands of Polish Jews; in the fateful days - after the Yuden actionin Kittev - when I myself wasn't sure about the next day, I resolvedthat...
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History & Hope: The Alliance Party in Northern IrelandIn 1970, a group of people had what many commentators felt was a ludicrous dream, that politics in Northern Ireland "should not be dominated by division, but should be about co-operation, partnership and reconciliation." This dream was to become the Alliance Party of Northern...
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The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire'Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it with lucid authority' New Statesman The story of the fall of the Ottoman Empire, published to coincide with the centenary of its dissolution The Ottoman Empire had been one of...
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The Routledge Atlas of the HolocaustThe graphic history of the Nazi attempt to destroy the Jews of Europe during the Second World War is illustrated in this series of 363 detailed maps. The maps, and the text and photographs that accompany them, powerfully depict the fate of the Jews...
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Back Door to War: The Roosevelt Foreign Policy 1933-1941Using a vast array of official documents secured at the highest levels of the US Government, official US Senate historian and history professor Charles Tansill delves deep into the origins of American involvement in the Second World War, and comes to a startling conclusion:...
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We Survived: The Stories Of Fourteen Of The Hidden And The Hunted Of Nazi GermanyThousands of Jews and "Aryan" Germans opposed to Hitler led illegal lives under the Nazi terror and survived the relentless hunt of the Gestapo, the concentration camps, and the bombing. They survived in various ways; some as ordinary citizens taking part in the work-day...
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Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social GospelThis magisterial follow-up to the Grawemeyer Award-winning The New Abolition explores the black social gospel's crucial second chapter "Magnificent . . . Breaking White Supremacy interweaves histories of families and institutions, of the black church and its storied presence, of African Americans in Africa...
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The South Sea BubbleThis classic account of the first great British financial scandal is a brilliant recreation of eighteenth-century social and economic life and will interest anyone fascinated by scandal, corruption, and human vanity.Author: John CarswellPublisher: Literary Licensing, LLCPublished: 10/15/2011Pages: 334Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w...
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Oklahomo: Lessons in Unqueering AmericaBy exploring the scandal-filled lives of four Oklahomans, this book demonstrates how unqueering operates in a conservative American context. Carol Mason weaves a story about how homogenizing, antigay ideas evolve from generation to generation so that they achieve particular economic, imperial, racial, and gendered...
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Josephine Baker and the Rainbow TribeCreating a sensation with her risqué nightclub act and strolls down the Champs Elysées, pet cheetah in tow, Josephine Baker lives on in popular memory as the banana-skirted siren of Jazz Age Paris. In Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe, Matthew Pratt Guterl brings...
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Americanization of NarcissismAmerican social critics in the 1970s, convinced that their nation was in decline, turned to psychoanalysis for answers and seized on narcissism as the sickness of the age. Books indicting Americans as greedy, shallow, and self-indulgent appeared, none more influential than Christopher Lasch's famous...
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The Naval War of Pacific, 1879-1884: Saltpeter WarThe War of the Pacific (Spanish: Guerra del Pac fico), also known as the Saltpeter War (Spanish: Guerra del salitre) was a war between Chile and a Bolivian-Peruvian alliance. It lasted from 1879 to 1884, and was fought over Chilean claims on coastal Bolivian...
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Tibet in Agony: Lhasa 1959The Chinese Communist government has twice invoked large-scale military might to crush popular uprisings in capital cities. The second incident--the notorious massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989--is well known. The first, thirty years earlier in Tibet, remains little understood today. Yet in wages of...
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Slavish Shore: The Odyssey of Richard Henry Dana Jr.In 1834 Harvard dropout Richard Henry Dana Jr. sailed to California as a common seaman. His account of the voyage, Two Years Before the Mast, quickly became an American classic. But literary acclaim could not erase the young lawyer's memory of the brutal floggings...
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Man's Better Angels: Romantic Reformers and the Coming of the Civil WarBanks failed, credit contracted, inequality grew, and people everywhere were out of work while political paralysis and slavery threatened to rend the nation in two. As financial crises always have, the Panic of 1837 drew forth a plethora of reformers who promised to restore...
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