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1492 The Year the World BeganIn this extraordinary, sweeping history, Felipe Fernández Armesto traces key elements of the modern world back to that single, fateful year. Everything changed in 1492 the ... |
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A Companion to Latin American HistoryThe Companion to Latin American History collects the work of leading experts in the field to create a single source overview of the diverse history and current trends in the ... |
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A History of LaosThe book highlights Laos' complex and shifting political alliances. |
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Books on Fire The Destruction of Libraries throughout HistoryAlmost as old as the idea of the library is the urge to destroy it. Author Lucien X. Polastron traces the history of this destruction, examining the causes for these disasters, the treasures that have been lost, and where the surviving books, if any, |
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British Aircraft Carriers 1939 45In August 1917, at the height of the First World War, a small biplane landed on the makeshift flight deck of HMS Furious the first ever carrier landing in aviation history. ... |
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Eastern Origins of Western CivilisationJohn Hobson challenges the ethnocentric bias of mainstream accounts of the Rise of the West. |
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Flesh and Stone The Body and the City in Western CivilizationThis vivid history of the city in Western civilization tells the story of urban life through bodily experience. |
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Food In Global HistoryExperts from a variety of disciplines place food in the framework of global history, looking at the global connections of ecology, public policy, diet, and customs on several ... |
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Great Escapes Alcatraz the Berlin Wall Colditz Devils Island andIan Crofton,Hardcover, English language edition,Pages186,Pub by Quercus Books |
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Hunters Herders and Hamburgers The Past and Future of Human AnimalRichard W. Bulliet engagingly recounts the dynamic relationship between humans and animals from prehistory to the present. Bulliet explores four stages in the history of the ... |
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