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A History of Portugal and the ...The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconques... The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of Hispania. With no geographical raison d être and no obvious political roots in its Roman Germanic or Islamic pasts it for long remained a small struggling realm on... more
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Vintage Civil War Library: Thi...NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - An extraordinary ... prof... NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - An extraordinary ... profoundly moving history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the... more
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Water and the West : The Color...Back in print for the first time in over ten years this classic account of the... Back in print for the first time in over ten years this classic account of the numerous struggles--national state and local--that have occurred over western American water rights since the late 1800s is thoroughly expanded and updated to trace the... more
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Day Of Deceit : The Truth Abou...In Day of Deceit Robert Stinnett delivers the definitive final chapter on Amer... In Day of Deceit Robert Stinnett delivers the definitive final chapter on America s greatest secret and our worst military disaster. Drawing on twenty years of research and access to scores of previously classified documents Stinnett proves that Pearl... more
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Islamic Central Asia: An Antho...Islamic Central Asia is the first English-language anthology of primary docume... Islamic Central Asia is the first English-language anthology of primary documents for the study of Central Asian history. Scott C. Levi and Ron Sela draw from a vast array of historical sources to illustrate important aspects of the social cultural... more
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Cold War on the Home Front : T...Amid a display of sunshine-yellow electric appliances in a model home at the 1... Amid a display of sunshine-yellow electric appliances in a model home at the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon squared off on the merits of their respective economic... more
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Soul Survivor : The Reincarnat...This is the story of James Leininger who-- a little more than two weeks after ... This is the story of James Leininger who-- a little more than two weeks after his second birthday-- began having blood-curdling nightmares that just would not stop. When James began screaming out recurring phrases like Plane on fire! Little man can t... more
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Australian Fashion Unstitched ...Australian Fashion Unstitched provides a compelling and authoritative survey o... Australian Fashion Unstitched provides a compelling and authoritative survey of the myriad influences and attributes of Australian fashion over the last sixty years. This post-war period saw Australia s fashion industry come of age. The word couturier... more
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After the Bounty : A Sailor s ...In 1787 the Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty captained by William Bligh set sail for... In 1787 the Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty captained by William Bligh set sail for Tahiti in search of breadfruit plants. Soon after leaving Tahiti Master s Mate Fletcher Christian led a successful revolt setting Bligh and eighteen of his men adrift. In... more
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A History of Modern Russia (Pa...Russia had an extraordinary twentieth century undergoing upheaval and transfor... Russia had an extraordinary twentieth century undergoing upheaval and transformation. Updating his acclaimed History of Modern Russia Robert Service provides a panoramic perspective on a country whose Soviet past encompassed revolution civil war mass... more
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Critical Issues in American Hi...This concise history focuses on the development of American conservatism in th... This concise history focuses on the development of American conservatism in the twentieth century up to the present. more
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New Dawn: The Battles for Fall...GOLD MEDAL FOR NON-FICTION HISTORY 2010 MILITARY WRITERS SOCIETY OF AMERICA Fa... GOLD MEDAL FOR NON-FICTION HISTORY 2010 MILITARY WRITERS SOCIETY OF AMERICA Fallujah. Few names conjure up as many images of blood sacrifice and valor as does this ancient city in Al Anbar province forty miles west of Baghdad. This sprawling concrete... more
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Walls of Algiers: Narratives o...Walls of Algiers examines the historical processes that transformed Ottoman Al... Walls of Algiers examines the historical processes that transformed Ottoman Algiers the Bulwark of Islam into Alger la blanche the colonial urban showpiece - and after the outbreak of revolution in 1954 - counter-model of France s global empire. In... more
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Images of America: Narraganset...This collection of historic photographs and illustrations will guide you throu... This collection of historic photographs and illustrations will guide you through quaint Narragansett s early years into its peak in the late 19th century. Narragansett By-the-Sea is a narrow strip of land along the southwestern shore of Narragansett... more
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Local Government in Early Amer...In Local Government in Early America Brian P. Janiskee examines the origins of... In Local Government in Early America Brian P. Janiskee examines the origins of the town hall meeting and other iconic political institutions whose origins lie in our colonial heritage. This work offers an overview of the structure of local politics in... more
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Images of America: Skokie (Pap...Settled in the late 1840s and incorporated as Niles Centre in 1888 Skokie was ... Settled in the late 1840s and incorporated as Niles Centre in 1888 Skokie was founded by immigrants from Germany and Luxembourg who created a small-town rural community filled with farms and greenhouses. A short-lived real estate boom in the 1920s gave... more
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Utah Series in Turkish and Isl...History of the way nineteenth and early twentieth century American missionarie... History of the way nineteenth and early twentieth century American missionaries affected future U.S.-Middle East relations. more
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It Happened in Italy: Untold S...IMAGINE ELIZABETH BETTINA S SURPRISE when she discovered that her grandmother ... IMAGINE ELIZABETH BETTINA S SURPRISE when she discovered that her grandmother s village had a secret: over a half century ago many of Campagna s residents defied the Nazis and risked their lives to shelter and save hundreds of Jews during the... more
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Routledge Studies in Middle Ea...This book provides a detailed survey and analysis of US-Kurdish relations and ... This book provides a detailed survey and analysis of US-Kurdish relations and their interaction with domestic regional and global politics. Using the Kurdish issue to explore the nature of the engagement between international powers and weaker... more
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International Library of Twent...After World War II Europe stood divided between two clearly defined and compet... After World War II Europe stood divided between two clearly defined and competing ideologies and systems of government. Within this context of confrontation and mutual hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union Rinna Kullaa provides a... more
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