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On Reading the Grapes of Wrath
Susan Shillinglaw · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 224
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In this compelling biography of a book, Susan Shillinglaw delves into John Steinbeck's classic to explore the cultural, social, political, scientific, and creative impact of The Grapes of Wrath upon first publication, as well as its enduring legacy. First published in April 1939, Steinbeck's... |
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Darjeeling: The Colorful History and Precarious Fate of the World's Greatest Tea
Jeff Koehler · Bloomsbury USA
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Darjeeling's tea bushes run across a mythical landscape steeped with the religious, the sacred, and the picturesque. Planted at high elevation in the heart of the Eastern Himalayas, in an area of northern India bound by Nepal to the west, Bhutan to the east, and Sikkim to the north,... |
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The Emperors: How Europe's Greatest Rulers Were Destroyed by World War I
Gareth Russell · Amberley
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On 28 June 1914, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne was assassinated on a visit to Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist called Gavrilo Princip. The assassination set in motion the events that led to the outbreak of the First World War, one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history and a trauma... |
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Listen, Yankee!: Why Cuba Matters
Tom Hayden · Seven Stories Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Based on unprecedented access to both Cuban and American officials, a book that offers fresh insight into one of history's most enigmatic relationships between nation-states - from one of America's best-known voices of political and social activism.Listen, Yankee! offers an account... |
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In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815
Jennifer S Uglow · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pages: 752
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A beautifully observed history of the British home front during the Napoleonic Wars by a celebrated historianWe know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic Wars--but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry,... |
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The Worth of War
Benjamin Ginsberg · Prometheus Books
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Although war is terrible and brutal, history shows that it has been a great driver of human progress. So argues political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg in this incisive, well-researched study of the benefits to civilization derived from armed conflict. Ginsberg makes a convincing case that... |
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