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In the Land of Magic Soldiers
A Story of White and Black in West Africa
Daniel Bergner
Picador
"The journalist and novelist Daniel Bergner is right . . . to see Africa's civil wars as a horror of our time that deserves exploration . . . Bergner has a keen eye . . . What is of value in this book is less what it says about Sierra Leone than about the human condition."—
Adam Hochschild,
The New York Times Book Review
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First Generations
Women in Colonial America
Carol Berkin
Hill and Wang
Carol Berkin's multicultural history reconstructs the lives of American women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-women from European, African, and...
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The Sense of Reality
Studies in Ideas and Their History
Sir Isaiah Berlin; Edited by Henry Hardy; Introduction by Patrick Gardiner
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
"For anyone wanting to understand the history of ideas, this book will be indispensable."
—John Gray,
The New York Times Book Review
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Shadows of Blue & Gray
The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce; Edited by Brian M. Thomsen
Forge Books
Ambrose Bierce didn't just write about the Civil War, he lived through it--on the battlefields and over the graves--and in doing so gave birth to a literary...
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Mordecai
An Early American Family
Emily Bingham
Hill and Wang
"In
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Joy Kasson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Using History
Jeremy Black
Bloomsbury USA
"Deftly describes the way public history is distorted, manipulated, and used by governments and groups, but...never falls back on a nihilistic relativism.... Historians, college students, and all those interested in the uses of history will find this frequently witty book to be fascinating."—
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Emperor Charles V
1500-1558
Wim Blockmans
Bloomsbury USA
The world of the first half of the sixteenth century was exceptionally dynamic. Voyages of discovery made the world larger; science and technology were...
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History Play
The Lives and Afterlife of Christopher Marlowe
Rodney Bolt
Bloomsbury USA
Rodney Bolt’s delightful life of Marlowe plays out a surprising solution to an enduring literary mystery, bringing the spirit of Shakespeare alive as we’ve...
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The Soldier's Pen
Firsthand Impressions of the Civil War
Robert E. Bonner; Foreword by James G. Basker
Hill and Wang
"For anyone interested in viewing America's traumatic Civil War from the perspective of ordinary individuals who found themselves in the Union and Confederate armies, Robert E. Bonner's
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David Brion Davis, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of
Inhuman Bondage
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The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
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Opium
A History
Martin Booth
St. Martin's Griffin
Known to mankind since prehistoric times, opium is arguably the oldest and most widely used narcotic. Opium: A History traces the drug's astounding impact on...
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Cannabis
A History
Martin Booth
Picador
To some it's the classic "gateway drug," to others it is a harmless way to relax, or provide relief from pain. Some fear it is dangerous and addictive, while...
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Golden Boy
Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood
Martin Booth
Picador
At seven years old, Martin Booth found himself with all of Hong Kong at his feet when his father was posted there in 1952. This is his memoir of that youth, a...
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Florence Nightingale
The Making of an Icon
Mark Bostridge
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The common soldier’s savior, the standard-bearer of modern nursing, a pioneering social reformer: Florence Nightingale belongs to that select band of...
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Mussolini
R. J. B. Bosworth
Bloomsbury USA
"Exhaustive study of Benito Mussolini...leaves no stone unturned in trying to explain the complexities of
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and his times...Reveals the author's appreciation of the complex ingredients of Il Duce's legacy, a legacy that still influences Italian politics...Although his 22-year dictatorial reign brought misery to millions, Mussolini never bought into the racist fanaticism of his Nazi brethren. As Bosworth infers, Mussolini's inherent zest for life kept him from becoming the grim exterminator Hitler wanted him to be...The definitive study of the Italian dictator and belongs in every public and academic library with a strong European history collection."—
Library Journal
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Scurvy
How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
Stephen R. Bown
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
Scurvy took a terrible toll in the Age of Sail, killing more sailors than were lost in all sea battles combined. The threat of the disease kept ships close to...
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Merchant Kings
When Companies Ruled the World, 1600--1900
Stephen R. Bown
Thomas Dunne Books
Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world It was an era when monopoly trading companies...
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Arc of Justice
A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
Kevin Boyle
Holt Paperbacks
Winner of the National Book Award
"Masterful . . . An important, scholarly work . . . The writing is graceful [and] it endows the story with the majesty and consequence of an epic . . . This is the kind of book that causes students to major in history."—
Paul Butler,
The Boston Globe
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The Yom Kippur War
And the Airlift Strike That Saved Israel
Walter J. Boyne
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
It's usually called the Yom Kippur War. Or sometimes the October War. The players that surround it are familiar: Sadat and Mubarak, Meir and Sharon, Nixon and...
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The Coldest War
A Memoir of Korea
James Brady
St. Martin's Griffin
America's "forgotten war" lasted just thirty-seven months, yet 54,246 Americans died in that time -- nearly as many as died in ten years in Vietnam. On the...
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Woodrow Wilson
The American Presidents Series: The 28th President, 1913-1921
The American Presidents
H. W. Brands; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., General Editor
Times Books
"A worthy overview that acknowledges Wilson's considerable strengths and his many limitations."—
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The Koreans
Who They Are, What They Want, Where Their Future Lies
Revised and Updated; Michael Breen
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
"Michael Breen gives readers an insight into the history and character of a complex people which helps us assess how they might deal with the current complex period in their development."—
Catherine Lee, Seoul correspondent,
The Economist
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Nineteenth-Century Germany
Politics, Culture, and Society 1780-1918
Edited by John Breuilly
Bloomsbury USA
"The collection is a satisfying introduction to the area. The essays are comprehensive without becoming superficial and balance the need for factual information with the requirement that students are provided with quite sophisticated discussions of tricky historiographical disputes."—
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A Sentimental Murder
Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century
John Brewer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
One April evening in 1779, Martha Ray, the pretty mistress of a famous aristocrat, was shot dead at point-blank range by a young clergyman who then attempted...
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The Venus Fixers
The Remarkable Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II
Ilaria Dagnini Brey
Picador
An untold chapter in WWII history, the story of the corps of unlikely soldiers who saved Italy's most precious art and architecture from destruction.
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