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Documents That Changed the Way We Live
Joseph Janes · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 273
Format: Hardcover
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Documents are milestones and markers of human activity, part of who and what we are. Our story can be told through the objects, profound and trivial, famous and forgotten, by which we remember and are remembered. Documents That Changed the Way We Live examines dozens of compelling stories... |
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Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power
Luis M Botana · Knopf
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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The three dazzlingly beautiful, wildly rich Wyndham sisters, part of the four hundred families that made up Britain's ruling class, at the center of cultural and political life in late-Victorian/Edwardian Britain. Here are their complex, idiosyncratic lives; their opulent, privileged... |
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Glory and Dishonour:: Victoria Cross Heroes Whose Lives Ended in Tragedy or Disgrace
BRIAN IZZARD · Amberley Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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There have been many books on Victoria Cross heroes but this is the first one to explore the lives of those for whom the greatest accolade did not bring contentment, happiness or lasting fame. Men like the Cheltenham-born Duncan Boyes. The 17-year-old Midshipman Boyes won the VC in 1864,... |
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The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England
GRAHAM ROBB · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Best-selling author Graham Robb finds that the 2,000-year-old map of Ptolemy unlocks a central mystery of British history.Two years ago, Graham Robb moved to a place of legend called the Debatable Land, an independent territory that once served as a buffer between Scotland and England.... |
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Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain
Brian A Catlos · Basic Books
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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A magisterial, myth-dispelling history of Islamic Spain spanning the millennium between the founding of Islam in the seventh century and the final expulsion of Spain's Muslims in the seventeenthIn Kingdoms of Faith, award-winning historian Brian A. Catlos rewrites the history of Islamic... |
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Rising in Flames: Sherman's March and the Fight for a New Nation
J D Dickey · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestselling historian sheds new light on Sherman's epic "March to the Sea," especially the soldiers, doctors, nurses, and civilians who would change the nation for the better. America in the antebellum years was a deeply troubled country, divided by partisan... |
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Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan
RUBY LAL · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Four centuries ago, a Muslim woman ruled an empire.When it came to hunting, she was a master shot. As a dress designer, few could compare. An ingenious architect, she innovated the use of marble in her parents' mausoleum on the banks of the Yamuna River that inspired her stepson's... |
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Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case that Propelled Him to the Presidency
Dan Abrams · Hanover Square
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The true story of Abraham Lincoln's last murder trial, a strange case in which he had a deep personal involvement - and which was played out in the nation's newspapers as he began his presidential campaign.At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went... |
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Dagger John: Archbishop John Hughes and the Making of Irish America
John Loughery
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Acclaimed biographer John Loughery tells the story of John Hughes, son of Ireland, friend of William Seward and James Buchanan, founder of St. John's College (now Fordham University) , builder of Saint Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, pioneer of parochial-school educatio |
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