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GLASER, ELIANE
JUDAISM WITHOUT JEWS Genre: Books - History - World Format: Book - Hardcover  $129.57
Oliver Cromwell's readmission of the Jews to England in 1656 has traditionally been regarded as a watershed in the history of the Jews in England; the culmination of a Christian enthusiasm for Jewish... |
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SAVAGE, JON
TEENAGE Genre: Books - History - World Format: Book - Hardcover $40.65
A history of teen culture documents how its twentieth-century foundations were established in the urban youth cultures of America and Europe during the 1890s, in a social analysis that considers such... |
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JONNES, JILL
CONQUERING GOTHAM Genre: Books - Transportation Format: Book - Hardcover $38.14
Traces the epic story of the struggle to build Penn Station, describing how the nation's most powerful railroad tackled Tammany Hall corruption and the forces of nature to create a tunnel system... |
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OLSON, LYNNE
TROUBLESOME YOUNG MEN Genre: Books - History - World Format: Book - Hardcover $37.58
Describes how, in 1940, a group of rebellious Tory members of Parliament defied the appeasement policies of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to force his resignation and bring to power... |
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PRESTON, DIANA / PRESTON, MICHAEL
TAJ MAHAL Genre: Books - History - World Format: Book - Hardcover $35.63
A narrative history of the great monument of Moghul India traces the story of the Taj Mahal, built by emperor Shah Jahan as a memorial to his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal, examining its creation... |
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TURCHIN, PETER
WAR & PEACE & WAR (REPRINT) Genre: Books - History - World Format: Book - Paperback $25.28
Like Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel. , Peter Turchin in War and Peace and War. uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to make a highly original argument about the rise and fall of... |
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MACMILLAN, MARGARET
NIXON & MAO Genre: Books - History - World Format: Book - Hardcover $56.07
"This book looks at one of the transformative moments of the twentieth century: In February 1972, Richard Nixon, the first American president ever to visit China, and Mao Tse-tung, the enigmatic... |
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ZEITZ, JOSHUA
FLAPPER (REPRINT) Genre: Books - History - American Format: Book - Paperback $19.18
Examining the lives of Lois Long, Coco Chanel, Zelda Fitzgerald, Clara Bow, and other Jazz Age luminaries, a fascinating social history traces the evolution of the new woman of the 1920s and the... |
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BRADFORD, WILLIAM / ROWLANDSON, MARY / CHURCH, BENJAMIN
MAYFLOWER PAPERS Genre: Books - Fiction Format: Book - Paperback $18.72
A compilation of original primary source material features key personal reminiscences and eyewitness accounts that describe the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of seventeenth- and early... |
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TOOZE, ADAM
WAGES OF DESTRUCTION Genre: Books - History - World Format: Book - Hardcover $44.40
A portrait of the Nazi war machine and its downfall traces the pivotal role of economics in every aspect of Nazi power, Hitler's views about the potential of a European force strong enough to take on... |
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GRAYLING, A. C.
AMONG THE DEAD CITIES (REPRINT) Genre: Books - Military Format: Book - Paperback $23.12
Presents an analysis of the miltary rationale used by Britain and the United States for bombing civilian targets in Germany and Japan during World War II, discussing the reasons why such tactics were... |
