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This riveting combination of true crime and social history examines a dozen cases from the 1800s involving thirteen French and English women charged with murder. Each incident was a cause célèbre, and this mixture of scandal and scholarship offers illuminating details of backgrounds, deeds, and trials.
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The eighteenth century laid the foundations for Britain's worldwide empire and economic prosperity. It was a period of great contrasts: between poverty and wealth, elegance and riotous ribaldry. This Pitkin Guide unwraps what made Georgian Britain in a fascinating text and beautiful contemporary illustrations. Look out for more Pitkin Guides on the very best of British history, heritage and travel, particularly the other books in the 'Life in' series:...
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Taking the terrorist attacks of 9/11 as their starting point, five new essays look at how Jewish culture has changed over the past two decades. Covering music (Vanessa Paloma Elbaz), art (Monica Bohm Duchen), literature (Bryan Cheyette), theatre (Judi Herman) and film (Nathan Abrams), the essays explore the role of confidence in the cultural output of minority communities and ask whether the trends identified look set to continue over the coming years.
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As famous during his lifetime as after his death, Rembrandt (1606-1669) was one of the greatest masters of the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century. His portraits not only transport us back to that fascinating time, but also represent, above all, a human adventure, beneath every dab of paint the spirit of the model seems to stir. Yet these portraits are only the tip of the Rembrandt iceberg, which consists of over 300 canvasses, 350 engravings, and...
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This monograph celebrates the life of a remarkable man of Regency times – the banker, brewer, wine merchant and hop factor Timothy Brown. Its publication also serves to mark the bicentenary of his elevation to Master of the Worshipful Company of Brewers, in 1817. Brown was as well known for his advanced, reformist views in the politics of the day –earning him the soubriquet 'Equality' Brown – as for his acts of philanthropy and Radical patronage....
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Many stories of fishermen meeting Great White and other sharks. No one gets eaten. Many are reticent about going out on or diving into the ocean for quite a while after meeting man-eating sharks face to face. Stories of fishermen having other problems. Interesting tales of truck driving during WW2. Arguments with feisty farm animals who usually win. Opal Mining at Coober Pedy. Plenty of thieves present. Some accidently fall down unused 90 foot shafts,...
88) Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics and Imperial Ambitions in the United States and Japan
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A transpacific history of clashing imperial ambitions, Contraceptive Diplomacy turns to the history of the birth control movement in the United States and Japan to interpret the struggle for hegemony in the Pacific through the lens of transnational feminism. As the birth control movement spread beyond national and racial borders, it shed its radical bearings and was pressed into the service of larger ideological debates around fertility rates and...
89) One Family's Journey Through Ten Centuries: A social history of the second millennium – Book One
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We trace one family, generation by generation, throughout the one thousand years of the second millennium. The trilogy sets the family within its social environment, describing its migration from the continent, and across England, Scotland, and Ireland to settle in the New World. From that we get a vivid picture of what affected, motivated, worried, and encouraged this Saxon family and how they coped. Since the migration of this family was typical...
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As time passes, we often forget or in many situations, we never know the history of us as a nation and as a people. This book contains both positive and negative accounts of us as a nation of immigrants of whom many found success. It also tells the story of those who although worked hard found it as an unfriendly all too often a place of isolation and brokenness. There is, however, a hope that for what seems to have taken centuries to arrive-a hope...
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A century on from the construction of an Edwardian street in inner Manchester, this contemporary portrait of the street tells the stories of today's residents. Born in sixteen countries from four continents, the stories told by the residents themselves narrate their journeys from nomadic herding in Somalia to conscientious objection in post-war Germany and the UK, and from arranged marriages in South Asia to arriving penniless from rural Ireland....
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Summary of White Trash by Nancy Isenberg | Includes Analysis Preview: White Trash by historian Nancy Isenberg is a riveting chronicle of class in America as explored through the role and the plight of the white underclass from the days of colonial settlers to the present. Despite the founders' declaration that all men are created equal," the reality of life in America has continuously told a different story. With careful research, Isenberg reviews...
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The Kiwanis Legacy focuses on the history of Kiwanis International, starting in the year 1914, and ending in 2010. The narrative unfolds by decade. It provides world history overviews to clarify the socio-cultural context in which Kiwanis developed. It notes the important details of the organization's evolution as driven by Kiwanians, from convention delegates to board members. It shares the colorful viewpoints of Kiwanis scribe Roe Fulkerson. And...
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A journey back in time to find out why legislation was passed so unexpectedly in the UK in 1885 to make homosexual behavior illegal - a law that led to the prosecution of tens of thousands of men until it was repealed eight decades later, but not before the prosecution of Oscar Wilde led to a moment of fear, unprecedented in modern British history, for those whose lives made them vulnerable. This is not just an important work in an emerging gay history,...
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Culture, Not Politics. We live in a politicized time. Culture wars and increasingly partisan conflicts have reduced public discourse to shouting matches between ideologues. But rather than merely bemoaning the vulgarity and sloganeering of this era, says acclaimed author and editor Gregory Wolfe, we should seek to enrich the language of civil discourse. And the best way to do that, Wolfe believes, is to draw nourishment from the deepest sources of...
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When we board a modern twenty-first century aircraft, we are all confident of, hopefully, a smooth flight, and delivery, to our destination of choice.
This was not the case of Malaysia Airlines Flight no. MH-370. It never landed at its destination, nor any other airport. This chronology of the facts of its final flight is written to help soothe the nerves of the international flying public.
Because MH-370 vanished mysteriously, its story was written...
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Que serait la communauté française de Barcelone sans la multitude d'acteurs institutionnels et associatifs qui l'ont forgée et qui continue encore à la faire vivre?
En presque 600 ans de présence, celle-ci n'a cessé d'évoluer.
C'est à travers son Histoire que nous voulons vous faire voyager et mieux connaître son périple avec la Catalogne.
Ce livre est illustré de plus de 100 photos et documents historiques.
Cet ouvrage est placé sous...
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El origen de Andorra, provincia de Teruel, hay que buscarlo en las poblaciones ibéricas de sus inmediaciones. Sin embargo no se puede hablar de "Historia de Andorra" hasta el siglo XII cuando aparece documentada por primera vez en la Carta Puebla de Alcañiz de 1157.
El presente volumen abarca desde la reconquista por los aragoneses a los musulmanes en 1140 hasta la demarcación de sus términos territoriales en 1291.
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Taking you through the year day by day, “The London Book of Days” contains quirky, eccentric, amusing and important events and facts from different periods of history, many of which had a major impact on the religious and political history of Britain as a whole. Ideal for dipping into, this addictive little book will keep you entertained and informed. Featuring hundreds of snippets of information gleaned from the vaults of London's archives, it...
100) The Zinn Reader
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No other radical historian has reached so many hearts and minds as Howard Zinn. It is rare that a historian of the Left has managed to retain as much credibility while refusing to let his academic mantle change his beautiful writing style from being anything but direct, forthright, and accessible. Whether his subject is war, race, politics, economic justice, or history itself, each of his works serves as a reminder that to embrace one's subjectivity...
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