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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United...
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The mass migration of east European Jews and their resettlement in cities throughout Europe, the United States, Argentina, and Australia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries not...
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The image is indelible: densely packed lines of slow-moving Redcoats picked off by American sharpshooters. Written with flair and a wealth of details that will engage scholars and history...
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The harrowing story of one of America's first and costliest wars-featuring a new foreword by bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick...
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Qu permiti el surgimiento de la democracia en la antigua Grecia? C mo conquist Espa a Am rica Central y del Sur? Qu provoc la ca da del Muro de Berl n? Este libro responde a...
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The Spanish Inquisition calls to mind cruelty, injustice, and religious persecution, but in On the Spanish Inquisition, Maistre shows us that the facts are quite different. So far from...
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Following his prizewinning studies of the Vietnam War, renowned anthropologist Heonik Kwon presents this ground-breaking study of the Korean War's enduring legacies seen through...
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An unflinching, detailed portrait of the Polish women who were forced to labor in Nazi Germany and subjected to brutality, starvation and exploitation. An important contribution to...
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For some historians, medieval Iberian society was one marked by peaceful coexistence and cross-cultural fertilization; others have sketched a harsher picture of Muslims and Christians...
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A commentary of the meetings that took place in the White House during the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis...
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A false prophecy leads to the rise of a great empire... and a dangerous queen. 11th century North Africa. In an attempt to change her destiny, love-struck Zaynab makes a false prophecy:...
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In 865, a great Viking army landed in East Anglia, precipitating a series of wars that would last until the middle of the following century. It was in this time of crisis that the modern...
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In this dazzling evocation of the Ottoman Empire's power, Goodwin explores how the Ottomans rose and how, against all odds, they lingered on for 600 years. In doing so, he also...
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Luce presents an enlightening study of the forces shaping India as it tries to balance the stubborn traditions of the past with an unevenly modernizing present. Deeply informed by scholarship...
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