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Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century
Andrew Wender Cohen - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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How skirting the law once defined America's relation to the world.In the frigid winter of 1875, Charles L. Lawrence made international headlines when he was arrested for smuggling silk worth $60 million into the United States. An intimate of Boss Tweed, gloriously dubbed "The Prince... |
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Voices of History: Speeches That Changed the World
Simon Sebag Montefiore - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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In this exuberant collection, acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore takes us on a journey from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Some speeches are heroic and inspiring; some diabolical and atrocious. Some are exquisite and poignant; others cruel and chilling. The speakers... |
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The Roman Army: The Greatest War Machine of the Ancient World
Chris ed McNab - Metro Books
Format: Hardcover
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Chris McNab's latest title for Osprey follows the Roman Army from the first armed citizens of the early Republic through the glorious heights of the Imperial legions to the shameful defeats inflicted upon the late Roman army by the Goths and Huns. Tracing the development of tactics,... |
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The World: A Family History of Humanity
Simon Sebag Montefiore - ?Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A magisterial world history unlike any other that tells the story of humanity through the one thing we all have in common: families * From the New York Times best-selling author of The Romanovs"Succession meets Game of Thrones." - Daily Mail Plus * "The author brings... |
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What the British Did: Two Centuries in the Middle East
Peter Mangold - I B Tauris
Format: Print book
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Britain has been engaged in the Middle East for over two centuries. During the Napoleonic Wars it expelled the French from Egypt. During World War I it helped to dismantle the Ottoman empire. During World War II, it defeated the Italians and Germans. In the post-war years, it attempted... |
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Implosion: Can America Recover from Its Economic and Spiritual Challenges in Time?
Joel C. Rosenberg - Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author and international political expert Joel C. Rosenberg tackles the question: Is America an empire in decline or a nation poised for a historic Renaissance?America teeters on a precipice. In the midst of financial turmoil, political uncertainty, declining morality, the constant... |
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Scared Fearless: An Unlikely Agent in the US Secret Service
Kathryn Clark Childers
Format: Hardcover
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The era: the 1970s. The location: an airplane en route to Washington, DC. Kathryn Clark Childers chats with a fellow passenger.Recruited to the Secret Service as one of its first five female agents, Childers would surprise many people, including herself. Her duties included undercover work,... |
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Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
Elinor Cleghorn - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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brought together in a fascinating sweeping narrativeFemale circumcision in the 1800s as a respective remedy for misunderstood diseases, prefrontal lobotomies as "cures" for ulcerative colitis in the 1950s, and unreported deaths from initial clinical trials of birth control in Puerto... |
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