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Sons of the White Eagle in the American Civil War: Divided Poles in a Divided Nation
Mark F Bielski · Casemate
Pages: 296
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This book describes nine transplanted Poles who participated in the Civil War. They span three generations and are connected by culture, nationality and adherence to their principles and ideals. The common thread that runs through their lives the Polish White Eagle is that they came from... |
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Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
Carlos M N Eire · Yale University Press
Pages: 928
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This fast-paced survey of Western civilization's transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention... |
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Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio
Misha Glenny · Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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From the author of McMafia and DarkMarket, an unflinching investigation into the tumultuous social, political, and economic landscape of modern-day Brazil.His name was Antonio, but they would call him Nem. From the infamous favela of Rocinha in Rio, he was a hardworking young father forced... |
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Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
Nicholas Guyatt · Basic Books
Pages: 403
Format: Print book |
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Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that "all men are created equal"? The usual answer is racism, but the reality is more complex and unsettling. In Bind Us Apart, historian Nicholas Guyatt argues that, from the Revolution... |
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A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
David Welky · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 512
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A remarkable true story of adventure, betrayal, and survival set in one of the world's most inhospitable places.In 1906, from atop a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, hundreds of miles from another human being, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted a line of mysterious... |
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To March for Others: The Black Freedom Struggle and the United Farm Workers
Lauren Araiza · University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover |
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In 1966, members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, an African American civil rights group with Southern roots, joined Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers union on its 250-mile march from Delano to Sacramento, California, to protest the exploitation of agricultural workers.... |
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Empire of cotton : a global history
Sven Beckert · Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Pages: 615
Format: Print book |
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"The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality in the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Sven Beckert's rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen... |
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Incarnations: A History of India in Fifty Lives
Sunil Khilnani · Farrar
Pages: 464
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An entertaining and provocative account of India's past, written by one of the country's leading thinkersFor all of India's myths, its sea of stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space, recapturing the human... |
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