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About the Book Told for the first time, the riveting story of how common people - miners, cooks, former soldiers - shook off the intimidation of Se...

About the Book After seventy-two arduous years, the fate of the suffrage movement and its masterwork, the Nineteenth Amendment, rested not only on ...

About the Book The Rescue is the true story of the brave American and Filipino guerrillas on Negros Island in the Philippines who resisted the Japa...

About the Book During the twentieth century, American corporations have spread American material productivity and American values such as consumeri...

About the Book The fascinating six-hundred-year history of one of the world's most coveted gems and the royal feuds, intrigues, and betrayals it en...

About the Book What is terrorism and can it ever be defended? Beginning with its definition, proceeding to its possible justifications, and culmina...

About the Book One moment the Vikings were a mere speck on the sea; the next, a murderous force slashing its way into unprotected monasteries and v...

About the Book Five years after her return home from Auschwitz, Piera Sonnino found the courage to tell the story of the extermination of her paren...

About the Book A memorable account of a forgotten chapter in American history If you think that America's western expansion began on the banks of t...

About the Book This is a revised edition of R. C. Smail's classic account of the military achievements of the Crusaders in the context of a 'feudal...

About the Book In 1979, Margaret Thatcher rose to power and the ensuing years are key to understanding Britain in the 21st century. Keith Laybourn ...

About the Book This text is part of a six-volume work which offers an overview of art, music, literature, history and philosophy. Book 1 explores t...

This anthology is a collection of excerpts from more than 100 documents detailing women's experiences from the end of the 18th century to the outbr...

Dr Erasmus Darwin seemed an innocuous Midlands physician, a respectable stalwart of eighteenth-century society. But there was another side to him. ...

About the Book In A New Republic, one of America's most respected historians offers a major statement on the nature of our political system and a c...

About the Book An inspiring memoir of a colonial life, set against the background of the ending of the British Empire. Evacuated as a schoolboy fro...

About the Book In America's Wars, one of the nation's leading authors of popular history provides a unique one-stop resource for essential informat...

About the Book How does China invest abroad? What is the easiest way for that country to effectively institute corporate governance? How can China ...

About the Book How does an image become iconic? In Christ to Coke, eminent art historian Martin Kemp offers a highly original look at the main type...

About the Book The conflict in Bosnia, disputes within the new World Trade Organizatiion and debates about NATO enlargement all illustrate a single...

About the Book We are used to the idea that each state has clearly defined borders, which cleanly separate different nationalities from one another...

About the Book Landing on the beach at Gallipoli, aged 16, Alec Campbell looked no more than 12-years-old in his big brother's uniform. He was a yo...

About the Book In the decade after 1945, as the Cold War freeze set in, a new Europe slowly began to emerge from the ruins of the Second World War,...

About the Book Explores the modern-day legacy of French colonialism in India. This work comes to the conclusion that the nature of the fledgling Fr...

About the Book In Spies We Trust reveals the full story of the Anglo-American intelligence relationship - ranging from the deceits of World War I t...

About the Book By the 1920s, Jews were--by all economic, political, and cultural measures of the day--making it in America. But as these children o...

About the Book Praise for Unsolved Mysteries of American History "The facts are presented clearly and concisely, and the answers have been thoroug...

About the Book A comprehensive, highly readable reference This is an authoritative, one-stop resource for essential information on the exploration ...

About the Book In 1954, eighteen years before Nixon's momentous visit to China, scores of European delegations set off for Beijing, in response to ...

About the Book Nikolaus Himmelmann is a distinguished scholar who has written extensively on Greek and Roman art and the reception of ancient art i...

About the Book In Romantic Voices Paul Privateer provides a philosophical history of a key component of the Romantic ideology - the problem of a sp...

About the Book Review: Thoroughly researched, Gellately's fine contribution to Cold War studies will engage readers with its inside-the-Kremlin det...

About the Book The Romans first set military foot on Greek soil in 229 BCE; only sixty or so years later it was all over, and shortly thereafter Gr...

The American Promise is more teachable and memorable than any other U.S. survey text. The balanced narrative braids together political and social h...

About the Book In this authoritative and comprehensive resource, you'll find detailed information on a vast array of topics related to the American...

About the Book The Devil's Doctor The true story of one man s courageous fight against unspeakable evil In May 1940, as Nazi panzers overran the ...

About the Book Love has a history. It has meant different things to different people at different moments and has served different purposes. This b...

About the Book In the first English-language edition of a general, synthetic history of French Jewry from antiquity to the present, Esther Benbassa...

About the Book An interpretative history of the Korean War. The text examines the war within the broader context of Korea's history, offering an an...

About the Book The dramatic arc of Saigo Takamori's life, from his humble origins as a lowly samurai, to national leadership, to his death as a reb...

About the Book Praise for H. Paul Jeffers Diamond Jim Brady: Prince of the Gilded Age "One of the most entertaining historical business narrative...

About the Book In this well illustrated book Lewin artfully captures the roiling field of paleoanthropology. Beginning with the discovery in 1856 o...

About the Book The shifting balance of economic power away from Western Europe and the United States and towards East and Southeast Asia - firstly ...

About the Book The Rise of Professional Society lays out a stimulating and controversial framework for the study of British society, challenging ac...

About the Book The popular story of Churchill's war-time rhetoric is a simple one: the British people were energized and inspired by his speeches, ...

About the Book The War fo Independence had a substantial impact on the lives of all Americans, establishing a nation and confirming American identi...

About the Book Popular, prolific, and impassioned, British historian A. J. P. Taylor (1906-1990) was also outspoken, controversial, and quarrelsome...