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The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and ...
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C. S. Lewis · 1994
Hailed as "the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind," this work paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, as historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and ...
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins ...
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Karl Polanyi · 2001
In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution.
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and ...
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S. C. Gwynne · 2010
*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award* *A New York Times Notable Book* *Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award* This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the ...
The Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348-1350: A Brief ...
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NA NA · 2016
A fascinating account of the phenomenon known as the Black Death, this volume offers a wealth of documentary material focused on the initial outbreak of the plague that ravaged the world in the 14th century.
Obama's Wars
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Bob Woodward · 2010
Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with most of the key players, including the president, Woodward tells the inside story of Obama making the critical decisions on the ...
The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World
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Vijay Prashad · 2007
An alternative history of the Cold War from the perspective of impoverished Third-World people includes coverage of such topics as the 1927 Brussels conclave of the League Against Imperialism and the launch of the Third World project during ...
The Blitzkrieg Legend: The 1940 Campaign in the West
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Karl-Heinz Frieser · 2013
In a little over a month, Germany defeated the Allies in battle, a task that had not been achieved in four years of brutal fighting during World War I. First published in 1995 as the official German history of the 1940 campaign, this book ...
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
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Serhii Plokhy · 2015
As award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy argues in The Gates of Europe, we must examine Ukraine's past in order to understand its fraught present and likely future.
For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
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James M. McPherson · 1997
" For Cause and Comrades deserves similar accolades, as McPherson's masterful prose and the soldiers' own words combine to create both an important book on an often-overlooked aspect of our bloody Civil War, and a powerfully moving account ...
Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, ...
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David Holloway · 1994
'Stalin and the Bomb' represents a comprehensive history of Soviet nuclear policy, from developments in physics in the 1920s to the emergence of nuclear deterrence in the 1950s.