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  • Old Ironsides Old Ironsides
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    Old Ironsides

    This is the story of the oldest warship afloat in the world, the venerable frigate USS Constitution, the cornerstone of the nascent American navy created by act of Congress in 1794. To set the stage for the dominance of this remarkable vessel, military...
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  • St Augustine in History St Augustine in History
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    St Augustine in History

    A guidebook that stands apart from all others, this book presents the history of St. Augustine, America's oldest city, by historical period, introducing readers to specific sites that represent each period.
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  • The Black Atlantic's triple burden The Black Atlantic's triple burden
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    The Black Atlantic's triple burden

    This book demonstrates the continuities of five centuries of European-led slavery and colonialism in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, examining calls for reparations in all three regions for what many now regard to have constituted crimes against...
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  • Studio Electrophonique Studio Electrophonique
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    Studio Electrophonique

    Studio Electrophonique tells the story of the Sheffield home studio that helped launch the careers of some of the biggest names in British pop: The Human League, Heaven 17, Pulp, ABC and more.
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  • The Jacobites and the Grand Tour The Jacobites and the Grand Tour
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    The Jacobites and the Grand Tour

    Investigating the functioning of travel in political culture by using early modern small states as a case study, this book examines the complex relationship between Jacobitism, educational travel, and small state diplomacy.
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  • Myths and Mysteries of the Old West Myths and Mysteries of the Old West
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    Myths and Mysteries of the Old West

    How much of what we know about the history of the Old West is true? In this new book, author Michael Rutter looks at the legend and lore behind such notorious figures as Billy the Kid and Calamity Jane and the stories of famous gun fights and battles,...
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  • Year 1966 Year 1966
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    Year 1966

    Year 1966 analyzes the breakthrough moment in the culture of the Polish People's Republic when revolutionary social and cultural changes slowed down in the mid-1960s, leading to a turn towards the idea of a nation as a field of ideological dispute...
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  • Crime, Enlightenment, and Punishment Crime, Enlightenment, and Punishment
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    Crime, Enlightenment, and Punishment

    This book studies the social consequences of bureaucratic and scientific change during the transition to modern states and societies in the Age of Enlightenment, as it explores how the Habsburg Empire deployed new ways and means to integrate existing...
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  • Muslim Fortresses in the Levant Muslim Fortresses in the Levant
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    Muslim Fortresses in the Levant

    During much of the twelfth century the Crusaders dominated the military scene in the Levant. The unification of Egypt and Syria by Saladin gradually changed the balance of power, which slowly begun to tilt in favour of the Muslims. This book examines the...
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  • The Guilt of the Penitent The Guilt of the Penitent
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    The Guilt of the Penitent

    It is 1277, the fifth year of the reign of Edward I. A priest lies dead, murdered on the steps of his altar. Children go missing on the streets of medieval St Albans. Lady Jeanne de Lascy, a young noble, is abducted from the Lazar House on Watling Street...
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  • Palestinian History and Politics Palestinian History and Politics
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    Palestinian History and Politics

    This textbook brings together a collection of the most important primary sources in the study of Palestinian nationalism, from the late nineteenth century through to the present day.
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  • (Post)Colonial Ports (Post)Colonial Ports
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    (Post)Colonial Ports

    This book examines the role of (post)colonial ports in creating and shaping the ecotonal, cultural, historical, material, environmental, socio-political and economic contexts in formerly colonized regions, spanning the Caribbean, Africa, North America,...
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  • Coast Salish Canoes Coast Salish Canoes
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    Coast Salish Canoes

    This classic is now reissued as an authorized Second Edition with more historic photos, full-color images, diagrams, and reflections from the author in a "Forty Years Later" section. Since first published by Seattle's Center for Wooden Boats in 1991,...
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  • Tâm Tình Phố Núi Tâm Tình Phố Núi
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    Tâm Tình Phố Núi

    Tâm Tình Phố Núi là câu chuyện về ba thế hệ trong gia đình tác giảĐào Thị Quỳnh. Nhìn từ nhiều góc độ, câu chuyện của gia đình thiếunữ tên Quỳnh là một tấm gương phản ảnh những gì đã xảy ra chomột đất nước và một dân tộc mang tên Việt Nam, với tất cả...
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    Death Dealer Death Dealer
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    Death Dealer

    By his own admission, SS Kommandant Rudolf Höss was history's greatest mass murderer, having personally supervised the extermination of approximately two million people, mostly Jews, at the death camp in Auschwitz, Poland. Death Dealer is the first...
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    Origins of the Dred Scott Case

    The Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott decision denied citizenship to African Americans and enabled slavery's westward expansion. It has long stood as a grievous instance of justice perverted by sectional politics. Austin Allen finds that the outcome of...
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    Spaces of Anticolonialism

    Spaces of Anticolonialism is the first book-length account of anticolonialism in Delhi, as the capital of Britain's empire in India. It pioneers a spatial governmentality analysis of the networks, mobilizations, and hidden spaces of anticolonial...
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    Murder, New England

    True tales of murder in New England, from the colonial period to today, chronicled by a true crime master, New York Times bestselling author, and star of Investigation Discovery's new television show Dark Minds
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    Outlaw Tales of South Dakota

    From Wild Bill Hickok to Lame Johnny, Jack McCall to Lee "Curly" Grimes, the most notorious desperadoes and their deeds are featured in this history of the Mount Rushmore State. Through these astonishing true stories, Outlaw Tales of South...
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    Haunted Greenwich Village

    Among NYC's many treasures is Greenwich Village, a Bohemian area filled with creativity and rebellion. Haunted Greenwich Village, a collection of stories of ghosts, mysteries, and paranormal happenings in Greenwich Village, will leave readers...
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    The People's War

    This is the story of one of history's great events, the American Revolutionary War, told almost entirely in the words of the soldiers and sailors who fought it and the civilians who endured it.
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    Miss Lizzie's War

    As the Civil War gound on, an underground Unionist movement flourished in the heart of the Confederacy led by Elizabeth Van Lew, a wealthy and well connected member of Richmond's elite, who risked everything to help save the Union and became General...
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    More Than Petticoats

    New Mexico has not always been the "Land of Enchantment." It was shaped into the great state that it is today by remarkable people throughout history. More than Petticoats: Remarkable New Mexico Women describes the lives of female teachers, writers,...
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    Digital Genealogy as Second-Wave Digital Humanities

    In the first major engagement with Aberdeenshire's rural society since Carter's The Poor Man's Country of 1979, Riddell's study of Northeast Scotland encourages readers to consider the vast potential held by Digital Genealogy for second-wave Digital...
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  • Women's Troubles
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    Women's Troubles

    How do feminist movements develop and organise in ethno-nationally divided societies? How does this challenge our understandings of contemporary fourth wave feminism? Women's Troubles sets out to answer these questions using rich empirical data and...
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    Family Amnesia
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    Family Amnesia

    Family Amnesiais a visual tribute and love letter honoring the artist's Chinese American family roots in the U.S. The art book explores her family's multi-generational resilience and resistance through mixed media collages, my grandfather's photographs,...
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    Iran's Grand Strategy
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    Iran's Grand Strategy

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shia Revival A gripping account that overturns simplistic portrayals of Iran as a theocratic pariah state, revealing how its strategic moves on the world stage are driven by two pervasive threats-external...
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    My North End Family Stories

    Peggy writes about her immediate and extended family who settled in Boston's Italian enclave, the North End. From her strong and feisty Grandma Nonna to all of her Aunts, Uncles and Cousins that lived close by, we are given a firsthand glimpse of the...
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    The Brightness of Darkness Of An African

    The Brightness of Darkness of an African is a continuous story of the Unknown of the Known in Africa. Chungu unveils the roots and stems of racism in our societies. He does a research in both the Republic of South Africa and in the United States of...
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    The Unknown of the Known in Africa

    The Unknown of the Known in Africa is the story of George Eden Bess from Germany who does research as a historian. George unveils unknown King Shaka and his plan to make Southern Africa to be in his palm of hand. George's purpose becomes a plan to bring...
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    Walrus With A Gold Tooth

    In the two decades between the Second World War and the Great Alaska Earthquake, Anchorage grew by a factor of 10. Money was, quite literally, washing down the street. The economic boom was so great that all you needed to make a million dollars was a...
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    Cowboys of the Sky

    For more than 80 years, bush pilots have carried supplies, delivered mail, and transported emergency personnel over Alaska's rugged terrain. They've flown with felons handcuffed to the seat, with corpses strapped to the wing, and with drugged polar bears...
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    Above the Arctic Circle

    Above the Arctic Circle transports the reader back in time to the Alaska of 1911 into the Athabaskan Indian village of Fort Yukon and beyond. It was a time when travel was by trail or river on routes shared by man and wild beast, when communication...
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    Mujeres de La Patria

    Teresa Fernandez Soneira (Havana, Cuba, 1947-) is a Cuban writer and historian that has researched and published books on the history of education and the Catholic Church in Cuba. As a researcher, she has made important contributions with her books:...
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    Monsenor Agustin Roman, Guia Espiritual de Los Cubanos

    Salvador Larrua-Guedes (Camagüey, Cuba, 1942) went to grade school and high school in Catholic schools in Cuba. He received degrees in journalism and mathematics, as well as a doctorate in Economics. He is a registered investigator at the Archivo General...
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    50 AÑOS DE REVOLUCIÓN EN CUBA. EL LEGADO DE LOS CASTRO

    Estudios sobre la situación de Cuba en los primeros 50 años de revolución.Sobre la personalidad de Fidel Castro, la economía, industria,energía eléctrica, saqueo del patrimonio, sistema laboral, igualdad yprivilegios, la administración de justicia,...
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    Life and Death on the Mormon Frontier

    This thoroughly researched and vivid account examines a murderous spree by one of the West's most notorious outlaw gangs and the consequences for a small Mormon community in Arizona's White Mountains.On March 27, 1900, Frank LeSueur and Gus Gibbons...
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    Mormon Thunder

    Jedediah Morgan Grant was a man who knew no compromise when it came to principles—and his principles were clearly representative, argues Gene A. Sessions, of Mormonism’s first generation. His life is a glimpse of a Mormon world whose...
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    Bible Records of Washington County, Maryland

    These Bible records have been taken from copies, notes, and in some cases, the Bibles themselves, on file at the Washington County Historical Society. Washington County was often a stopping point for families heading west to Ohio, Illinois and beyond...
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    The Namesake, the Biography of Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

    Except for Douglas MacArthur, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. is the most decorated soldier in American history, having earned his Congressional Medal of Honor and every other medal offered by the United States to the foot soldier for combat heroism.As a young...
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    The Writings of Oliver Olney

    Oliver H. Olney, an early convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, fled to Nauvoo, Illinois, following persecution in Missouri. In Nauvoo, Olney became disgruntled with church leadership and viewed Joseph Smith as a fallen prophet. His...
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    The War of Confederate Captain Henry T. Owen

    Henry Thweatt Owen fought the War of 1861-1865 on many fronts. As a commander of Company C, 18th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia, Confederate States of America, he fought against the Union Army. He also fought on a second front in...
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