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The Age of Aristocracy, 1688 to 1830by William B. Willcox, Walter L. ArnsteinISBN 0618001034 (0-618-00103-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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- The Age of Aristocracy, 1688 to 1830: ISBN 0669043796 (0-669-04379-6)
Softcover, D.C. Heath - The Age of Aristocracy, 1688 to 1830: ISBN 0669134236 (0-669-13423-6)
Softcover, D.C. Heath - The Age of Aristocracy, 1688 to 1830: ISBN 0669244597 (0-669-24459-7)
Softcover, D C Heath & Co - The Age of Aristocracy: 1688 To 1830: ISBN 0669397180 (0-669-39718-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div - The Age of Aristocracy, 1688 to 1830: ISBN 0669979562 (0-669-97956-2)
Hardcover, Heath - The Age of Aristocracy 1688-1830: ISBN 0618001034 (0-618-00103-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
- The Age of Aristocracy, 1688 to 1830: ISBN 0669043796 (0-669-04379-6)
The Age of Improvement, 1783-1867by Asa BriggsISBN 0582369592 (0-582-36959-2)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Centuryby Kevin PhillipsISBN 067003486X (0-670-03486-X)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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Berlin: The Downfall 1945by Antony BeevorISBN 0670886955 (0-670-88695-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Uk
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Bismarckby Edward CrankshawISBN 067016982X (0-670-16982-X)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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A Brief History of the Presbyteriansby Lefferts Augustine LoetscherISBN 0664246222 (0-664-24622-2)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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Britain Yesterday and Todayby Smith, ArnsteinISBN 0669244600 (0-669-24460-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Britain Yesterday and Today: 1830 To the Presentby Walter L. ArnsteinISBN 0618001042 (0-618-00104-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Hardcover, Heath - Britain Yesterday and Today: 1830 To the Present: ISBN 0618001042 (0-618-00104-2)
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British Imperialism: Crisis and Deconstruction, 1914-1990by P. J. Cain, A. G. HopkinsISBN 058220965X (0-582-20965-X)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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British Imperialism: Innovation and Expansion 1688-1914by P. J. Cain, A. G. HopkinsISBN 0582491754 (0-582-49175-4)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Kneeby Dee Brown, Sam BrownISBN 0671494120 (0-671-49412-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee'Book summary:First published in 1970, this extraordinary book changed the way Americans think about the original inhabitants of their country. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos in 1860 and ending 30 years later with the massacre of Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, it tells how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society. During these three decades, America's population doubled from 31 million to 62 million. Again and again, promises made to the Indians fell victim to the ruthlessness and greed of settlers pushing westward to make new lives. The Indians were herded off their ancestral lands into ever-shrinking reservations, and were starved and killed if they resisted. It is a truism that "history is written by the victors"; for the first time, this book described the opening of the West from the Indians' viewpoint. Accustomed to stereotypes of Indians as red savages, white Americans were shocked to read the reasoned eloquence of Indian leaders and learn of the bravery with which they and their peoples endured suffering. With meticulous research and in measured language overlaying brutal narrative, Dee Brown focused attention on a national disgrace. Still controversial but with many of its premises now accepted, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee has sold 5 million copies around the world. Thirty years after it first broke onto the national conscience, it has lost none of its importance or emotional impact. --John Stevenson [via]
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Caesars of the Wildernessby Peter Charles NewmanISBN 0670819360 (0-670-81936-0)
Hardcover, Viking
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Cardiganby Donald Serrell ThomasISBN 0670203882 (0-670-20388-2)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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Charlie Wilson's Warby George CrileISBN 0613998057 (0-613-99805-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeedby Jared DiamondISBN 0670033375 (0-670-03337-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Because he's addressing such significant issues within a vast span of time, Diamond can occasionally speak too briefly and assume too much, and at times his shorthand remarks may cause careful readers to raise an eyebrow. But in general, Diamond provides fine and well-reasoned historical examples, making the case that many times, economic and environmental concerns are one and the same. With Collapse, Diamond hopes to jog our collective memory to keep us from falling for false analogies or forgetting prior experiences, and thereby save us from potential devastations to come. While it might seem a stretch to use medieval Greenland and the Maya to convince a skeptic about the seriousness of global warming, it's exactly this type of cross-referencing that makes Collapse so compelling. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]
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The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940by William L. ShirerISBN 0671203371 (0-671-20337-1)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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Company of Adventurersby Peter C. NewmanISBN 0670803790 (0-670-80379-0)
Hardcover, New York, N.Y., U.S.A.
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The Crisis of Imperialism, 1865-1915by Richard ShannonISBN 0586082492 (0-586-08249-2)
Softcover, Zondervan
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The Dark Heart Of Italyby Tobias JonesISBN 0571205828 (0-571-20582-8)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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The Diary of a Young Girlby Anne FrankISBN 0614125472 (0-614-12547-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Diplomacyby Henry KissingerISBN 0671510991 (0-671-51099-1)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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The Dragon Wakes: China and the West, 1793-1911by Christopher HibbertISBN 0582108063 (0-582-10806-3)
Hardcover, Longmans
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Early Modern Europe 1500-1789by H. G. KoenigsbergerISBN 058249401X (0-582-49401-X)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Early Modern Europe 1500-1789 Updateby KeonigISBN 0582418623 (0-582-41862-3)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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The East India Company: A Historyby Philip LawsonISBN 0582073855 (0-582-07385-5)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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The End of the Ottoman Empire 1908-1923by A. L. MacFieISBN 0582287634 (0-582-28763-4)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Pub Co
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The Enlightenment: An Historical Introductionby Ulrich Im Hof, William E. YuillISBN 063120511X (0-631-20511-X)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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The Enlightenment; a Comprehensive Anthologyby Peter GayISBN 0671217070 (0-671-21707-0)
Softcover, Simon and Schuster
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Europe in the 18th Century, 1713-1789by M.S AndersonISBN 0582357446 (0-582-35744-6)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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Europe in the Eighteenth Century: 1713-1783by Matthew Smith AndersonISBN 0582493897 (0-582-49389-7)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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Europe in the Nineteenth Century, 1789-1905by Agatha RammISBN 0582490286 (0-582-49028-6)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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Europe: Privilege and Protest, 1730-1789by Olwen Hufton, Olwen H. HuftonISBN 0631213813 (0-631-21381-3)
Softcover, Blackwell Publishing Limited
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The European Renaissance : Centres and Peripheriesby Peter BurkeISBN 0631198458 (0-631-19845-8)
Hardcover, Blackwell Publishing Limited
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The Fall of Berlin 1945by Antony BeevorISBN 0670030414 (0-670-03041-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Freedom at Midnightby Larry CollinsISBN 0671220888 (0-671-22088-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Imperialism: The New Debate on Empireby Raymond E. DumettISBN 0582327822 (0-582-32782-2)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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The Greeks: The Land and People since the Warby James PettiferISBN 067084084X (0-670-84084-X)
Hardcover, Viking
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The Guns of Augustby Barbara W. TuchmanISBN 0613187172 (0-613-18717-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Guns of August'Book summary:Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to World War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn't. A classic historical survey of a time and a people we all need to know more about, The Guns of August will not be forgotten.[via]More editions of The Guns of August:
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Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societiesby Jared DiamondISBN 061318114X (0-613-18114-X)
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Hiroshima: A Novellaby Laurence YepISBN 0590208330 (0-590-20833-0)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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History of the Twentieth Century 1900-1933by Martin GilbertISBN 0613217047 (0-613-21704-7)
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A History of Western Philosophy and Its Connection With Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Dayby Russell, Bertrand Russell, 3d EarlISBN 0671201581 (0-671-20158-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Imperial Britain: The Empire in British Politics, C. 1880-1932by Andrew S. ThompsonISBN 0582319218 (0-582-31921-8)
Softcover, Longman Publishing Group
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The Last Journey of William Huskissonby Simon GarfieldISBN 0571216080 (0-571-21608-0)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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Lord Palmerstonby Jasper RidleyISBN 0586037225 (0-586-03722-5)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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The Making of Modern German Christology: From the Enlightenment to Pannenbergby Alister E. McGrathISBN 0631145125 (0-631-14512-5)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub
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Maus: A Survivor's Tale, My Father Bleeds Historyby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0606241817 (0-606-24181-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Spiegelman, a stalwart of the underground comics scene of the 1960s and '70s, interviewed his father, Vladek, a Holocaust survivor living outside New York City, about his experiences. The artist then deftly translated that story into a graphic novel. By portraying a true story of the Holocaust in comic form--the Jews are mice, the Germans cats, the Poles pigs, the French frogs, and the Americans dogs--Spiegelman compels the reader to imagine the action, to fill in the blanks that are so often shied away from. Reading Maus, you are forced to examine the Holocaust anew.
This is neither easy nor pleasant. However, Vladek Spiegelman and his wife Anna are resourceful heroes, and enough acts of kindness and decency appear in the tale to spur the reader onward (we also know that the protagonists survive, else reading would be too painful). This first volume introduces Vladek as a happy young man on the make in pre-war Poland. With outside events growing ever more ominous, we watch his marriage to Anna, his enlistment in the Polish army after the outbreak of hostilities, his and Anna's life in the ghetto, and then their flight into hiding as the Final Solution is put into effect. The ending is stark and terrible, but the worst is yet to come--in the second volume of this Pulitzer Prize-winning set. --Michael Gerber [via]
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Maus: A Survivors's Tale/Here My Troubles Beganby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0606241825 (0-606-24182-5)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Medieval Persia, 1040-1797by David MorganISBN 0582493242 (0-582-49324-2)
Softcover, Trans-Atlantic Pubns
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Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-1875by Geoffrey Francis Andrew BestISBN 0586037586 (0-586-03758-6)
Hardcover, Panther
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Modern Africaby Basil DavidsonISBN 0582655250 (0-582-65525-0)
Softcover, Longman
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Modern Africa: A Social and Political Historyby Basil DavidsonISBN 058221288X (0-582-21288-X)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Napoleonby Geoffrey EllisISBN 0582437520 (0-582-43752-0)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Nineteenth Century Britain: 1815-1914by Anthony WoodISBN 0582353106 (0-582-35310-6)
Softcover, Longman Group United Kingdom
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O Jerusalemby Larry CollinsISBN 0671211633 (0-671-21163-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officerby Nathaniel C. FickISBN 0618773436 (0-618-77343-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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If the Marines are the few, the proud, Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Only one Marine in a hundred qualifies for Recon, charged with working clandestinely, often behind enemy lines. Ficks training begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, after his junior year at Dartmouth, and advances to the pinnacleReconfour years later, on the eve of war with Iraq. Along the way, he learns to shoot a man a mile away, stays awake for seventy-two hours straight, endures interrogation and torture at the secretive SERE course, learns to swim with Navy SEALs, masters the Eleven Principles of Leadership, and much more.
His vast skill set puts him in front of the front lines, leading twenty-two Marines into the deadliest conflict since Vietnam. He vows he will bring all his men home safely, and to do so hell need more than his top-flight education. Hell need luck and an increasingly clear vision of the limitations of his superiors and the missions they assign him. Fick unveils the process that makes Marine officers such legendary leaders and shares his hard-won insights into the differences between the military ideals he learned and military practice, which can mock those ideals. One Bullet Away never shrinks from blunt truths, but it is an ultimately inspiring account of mastering the art of war.More editions of One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer:
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The Origins of European Individualismby Aaron Gurevich, Katherine Judelson, Jacques Le GoffISBN 0631179631 (0-631-17963-1)
Hardcover, Blackwell Publishing Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Origins of European Individualism'Book summary:The development of modern Europe, through such events as the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the rise of industrial capitalism, is often seen in terms of the triumph of individualism. Yet the precise stages in the evolution of the European individual remain one of the most elusive aspects of the region's history. In this broad and thought-provoking investigation, Aaron Gurevich, one of Russia's leading historians, examines the growth of individual consciousness through European history, and assesses its impact on key social and political events. [via]
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The Past Speaks: Sources and Problems in British History Since 1688by Walter L. ArnsteinISBN 0669246026 (0-669-24602-6)
Softcover, D C Heath & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Past Speaks: Sources and Problems in British History Since 1688'Book summary:The Past Speaks provides primary documents arranged thematically to address a number of historical problems. It includes selections on the impact of the French Revolution, Victorian sexuality, and trench warfare in World War I, and chapters on political and economic issues between the two world wars and the end of the British Empire. [via]
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Past Speaks: Sources and Problems in English Historyby Smith, Jean Reeder SmithISBN 0669246018 (0-669-24601-8)
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The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Speechesby Brian MacArthurISBN 0670831263 (0-670-83126-3)
Hardcover, Viking
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A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolutionby Orlando FigesISBN 0670859168 (0-670-85916-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Portable Nietzscheby Friedrich NietzscheISBN 0670010626 (0-670-01062-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Portable Nietzsche'Book summary:The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the worlds leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, Few writers in any age were so full of ideas, and few writers have been so consistently misinterpreted.The Portable Nietzsche includes Kaufmanns definitive translations of the complete and unabridged texts of Nietzsches four major works: Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, Nietzsche Contra Wagner and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. In addition, Kaufmann brings together selections from his other books, notes, and letters, to give a full picture of Nietzsches development, versatility, and inexhaustibility. In this volume, one may very conveniently have a rich review of one of the most sensitive, passionate, and misunderstood writers in Western, or any, literature. Newsweek [via]
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The Reformationby Diarmaid MacCullochISBN 0670032964 (0-670-03296-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reformation'Book summary:Diarmaid MacCulloch wrote what is widely considered to be the authoritative account of the Reformationa critical juncture in the history of Christianity. "It is impossible to understand modern Europe without understanding these sixteenth-century upheavals in Latin Christianity," he writes. "They represented the greatest fault line to appear in Christian culture since the Latin and Greek halves of the Roman Empire went their separate ways a thousand years before; they produced a house divided." The resulting split between the Catholics and Protestants still divides Christians throughout the Western world. It affects interpretations of the Bible, beliefs about baptisms, and event how much authority is given to religious leaders. The division even fuels an ongoing war. What makes MacCulloch's account rise above previous attempts to interpret the Reformation is the breadth of his research. Rather than limit his narrative to the actions of key theologians and leaders of the eraLuther, Zingli, Calvin, Loyola, Cranmer, Henry VIII and numerous popesMacCulloch sweeps his narrative across the culture, politics and lay people of Renaissance Western Europe. This broad brush approach touches upon many fascinating discussions surrounding the Reformation, including his belief that the Latin Church was probably not as "corrupt and ineffective" as Protestants tend to portray it. In fact, he asserts that it "generally satisfied the spiritual needs of the late medieval people." As a historical document, this 750-page narrative has all the key ingredients. MacCulloch, a professor of history as the Church of Oxford University, is an articulate and vibrant writer with a strong guiding intelligence. The structure is sensiblestarting with the main characters who influenced reforms, then spreading out to the regional concerns, and social intellectual themes of the era. He even fast forwards into American Christianityshowing how this historical era influences modern times. MacCulloch is a topnotch historianuncovering material and theories that will seem fresh and inspired to Reformation scholars as well as lay readers. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Rifles: Six Years with Wellington's Legendary Sharpshootersby Mark UrbanISBN 0571216803 (0-571-21680-3)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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The Rise of the Great Powersby H.M. Scott, McKay, Derek & Scott, H. M.ISBN 0582485541 (0-582-48554-1)
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The Rise of the Great Powers 1648-1815by H.M. Scott, McKay, Derek and Scott, H.M.ISBN 0582485533 (0-582-48553-3)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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The Shaping of the Welfare Stateby Reginald Charles BirchISBN 0582352002 (0-582-35200-2)
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Stalingradby Anthony BeevorISBN 0670870951 (0-670-87095-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stalingrad'Book summary:Hitler made two fundamental and crippling mistakes during the Second World War. The first was his whimsical belief that the United Kingdom would eventually become his ally, which delayed his decision to launch a major invasion of Britain, whose army was unprepared for the force of blitzkrieg warfare. The second was the ill-conceived Operation Barbarossa--an invasion of Russia that was supposed to take the German army to the gates of Moscow. Antony Beevor's thoughtfully researched compendium recalls this epic struggle for Stalingrad. No-one, least of all the Germans, could foretell the deep well of Soviet resolve that would become the foundation of the Red Army; Russia, the Germans believed, would fall as swiftly as France and Poland. The ill-prepared Nazi forces were trapped in a bloody war of attrition against the Russian behemoth, which held them in the pit of Stalingrad for nearly two years. Beevor points out that the Russians were by no means ready for the war either, making their stand even more remarkable; Soviet intelligence spent as much time spying on its own forces--in fear of desertion, treachery and incompetence--as they did on the Nazis. Due attention is also given to the points of view of the soldiers and generals of both forces, from the sickening battles to life in the gulags.
Many believe Stalingrad to be the turning point of the war. The Nazi war machine proved to be fallible as it spread itself too thin for a cause that was born more from arrogance than practicality. The Germans never recovered, and its weakened defences were no match for the Allied invasion of 1944. We know little of what took place in Stalingrad or its overall significance, leading Beevor to humbly admit that "[t]he Battle of Stalingrad remains such an ideologically charged and symbolically important subject that the last word will not be heard for many years". This is true. But this gripping account should become the standard work against which all others should measure themselves. --Jeremy Storey [via]
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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern Historyby Sidney W. MintzISBN 0670687022 (0-670-68702-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Washing of the Spears: The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879by Donald R. MorrisISBN 0671628224 (0-671-62822-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Wellington: Pillar of Stateby Elizabeth LongfordISBN 0586041559 (0-586-04155-9)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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Wellington: The Years of the Swordby Elizabeth LongfordISBN 0586035486 (0-586-03548-6)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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Where Wizards Stay Up Lateby Katie HafnerISBN 0613181530 (0-613-18153-0)
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At last, Hafner and Lyon have written a well-researched story of the origins of the Internet substantiated by extensive interviews with its creators who delve into many interesting details such as the controversy surrounding the adoption of our now beloved "@" sign as the separator of usernames and machine addresses. Essential reading for anyone interested in the past -- and the future -- of the Net specifically, and telecommunications generally. [via]
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White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century Indiaby William DalrympleISBN 0670031844 (0-670-03184-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India'Book summary:From the early sixteenth century, it was common for British colonizers in India to embarrass the Crown by "turning Turk" or "going native." Few caused greater scandal than James Kirkpatrick, a British resident in the Court of Hyderabad, who converted to Islam and spied on the East India Company in the midst of an affair with Khair un-Nissa, the great-niece of the region's prime minister.
White Moguls is rich with many eccentric characters, from "Hindoo Stuart," who traveled with his own team of Brahmins, to Alexander Gardner, an American whose self-invented costume was showcased by a tartan turban with egret plumes. A remarkable love story set in an exotic and previously unexplored world, White Moguls is full of secrets, intrigue, espionage, and religious disputes and conjures all the resonance of a great nineteenth-century novel. [via]More editions of White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India:
World Historyby Arthur Schwartz, Lawrence GrossmanISBN 0668047291 (0-668-04729-1)
Hardcover, Arco Pub
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