Elizabeth's Spy Master : Francis Walsingham and the Secret War that Saved England by Robert Hutchinson
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Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 by Antony Beevor
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Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance agains ...Show more
Harem - The World Behind the Veil by Alev Lytle Croutier
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This book explores harems all over the world, focusing on the celebrated Seraglio of Turkey's Topkapi Palace as a paradigm for all. We are shown the slave market and boudoirs of sultans, the daily routines of the odalisques - their baths, clothes and appetites - and the peculiar lives of the eunuchs who ...Show more
On Listening to Holocaust Survivors - Recounting and Life History by Henry Greenspan
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How do Holocaust survivors find words and voice for their memories of terror and loss? This landmark book presents striking new insights into the process of recounting the Holocaust. While other studies have been based, typically, on single interviews with survivors, this work summarizes twenty years of ...Show more
The Creole Mutiny - A Tale of Revolt Aboard a Slave Ship by George Hendrick; Willene Hendrick
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
On the night of November 7, 1841, the Creole, a brig transporting at least 135 slaves from Richmond, Virginia, to the auction block at New Orleans, was about 130 miles northeast of the Bahamas. In the darkness, a band of 19 slaves led by Madison Washington seized the crew and its captain. Over the next ...Show more
Sawah Cultivation in Ancient Java - Aspects of Development During the Indo-Javanese Period, 5th to 15th Century by N. C. Van Setten van der Meer
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Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: Oriental Monograph Ser.
THE PELICAN HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE by MAURICE KEEN
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The Year 1000 - What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium - An Englishman's World by Robert Lacey; Danny Danziger
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
In the year 1000 the world was one of mystery and magicians, monks, warriors and wandering merchants - people who feared an apocalypse and people who had no idea what year it was or what lay beyond the nearest valley. It was a world of dark forests and Viking adventures in which fear was real and death ...Show more
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England : A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Ian Mortimer's Time Traveller's Guides | Reading Level: very good
An original, entertaining and illuminating guide to a completely different world: England in the Middle Ages Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to the point, where are you going to stay? Should you go to a c ...Show more
Island Stories - Britain and Its History in the Age of Brexit by David Reynolds
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Category: HISTORY
'Splendid... a clear, wellwritten and highly stimulating account of the flaws in our understanding of Britain's past that bedevilled the great debate over the country's relations with the EU' Literary Review Politicians like to extol 'our island story' as if there is just one island and one story. Isl ...Show more