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How Italian Food Conquered the World

Palgrave Macmillan
Not so long ago, Italian food was regarded as a poor man’s gruel—little more than pizza, macaroni with sauce, and red wines in a box. Here, John Mariani shows...
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The Shah

Palgrave Macmillan
Though his monarchy was toppled in 1979 and he died in 1980, Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlevi, the last Shah of Iran, remains relevant today. He was a social...
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George VI

I.B. Tauris
Despite his struggle with a crippling shyness and sense of inadequacy, exacerbated by the stammer that was the focus of the Oscar-winning film The King’s...
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Castro's Secrets
The CIA and Cuba's Intelligence Machine

Palgrave Macmillan
In CASTRO'S SECRETS, highly acclaimed author and intelligence expert Brian Latell offers a strikingly original view of Fidel Castro in his role as Cuba's...
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When Eagles Dared
The Filmgoers' History of World War II

I.B. Tauris
When Eagles Dared tells the stories of the historical events of World War II and the films that have depicted these events on cinema screens, presenting a...
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The Dying Sahara
US Imperialism and Terror in Africa

Pluto Press
In The Dark Sahara ( Pluto Press, 2009), Jeremy Keenan exposed the collusion between the U.S. and Algeria in fabricating false flag terrorism to justify the...
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Brazil on the Rise
The Story of a Country Transformed

Palgrave Macmillan
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Redefining Social Justice
New Labour, Rhetoric and Reality

Manchester University Press
The rhetoric of New Labour has captured the centre ground of British politics and now frames the policymaking agenda of all mainstream political parties. In...
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The Strongman
Vladimir Putin and the Struggle for Russia

I.B. Tauris
Russia under Vladimir Putin has proved a prickly partner for the West, a far cry from the democratic ally many hoped for when the Soviet Union collapsed....
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Operation Sea Lion
Hitler's Plot to Invade England

Tauris Parke Paperbacks
On July sixteenth, 1940, Hitler issued Directive No. 16, setting in motion Operation Sea Lion—his plan to invade England. The success of Operation Sea Lion...

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The History of Latin America
Collision of Cultures
Palgrave Essential Histories Series

Palgrave Macmillan
This narrative history of Latin America surveys five centuries in less than five hundred pages. The first third of the book moves from the Americas before...
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Cosa Nostra
A History of the Sicilian Mafia

Palgrave Macmillan
The Gold Dagger Award-winning history of the Sicilian mafia
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Queen Victoria

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Dead for little more than one hundred years, Queen Victoria has already been the subject of more biographies than any other woman born since 1800. This newest...
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The IRA

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This updated edition of the best-selling history of the IRA now includes behind-the-scenes information on the recent advances made in the peace process. With...
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After Fidel, Updated Edition
Raul Castro and the Future of Cuba's Revolution

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A chief U.S. intelligence officer tells the inside story of Fidel Castro's 40-year rule and the man who will in all probability succeed him--his brother Raul
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A Terrible Revenge, Second Edition, Fully Revised and Updated
The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans

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The genocidal barbarism of the Nazi forces has been well documented. What is little known is the fate of fifteen million German civilians who found themselves...
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Edward VII
The Last Victorian King

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To his mother, Queen Victoria, he was “poor Bertie,” to his wife he was “my dear little man,” while the President of France called him “a great English king,”...
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Michael Collins
The Man Who Made Ireland

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When the Irish nationalist Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he observed to Lord Birkenhead that he may have signed his own death...
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The History of Cuba
Palgrave Essential Histories Series

Palgrave Macmillan
A narrative history of Cuba from prehistoric times to the present.
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Mussolini
The Rise and Fall of Il Duce

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With his signature insight and compelling style, Christopher Hibbert explains the extraordinary complexities and contradictions that characterized Benito...
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The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe
Revised and Updated

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Eastern European history is a difficult subject for Westerners to understand, partly because of the region's political, ethnic, and cultural diversity. The...
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A Force More Powerful
A Century of Non-Violent Conflict

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This nationally-acclaimed book shows how popular movements used nonviolent action to overthrow dictators, obstruct military invaders and secure human rights in...
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Broken Genius
The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age

Palgrave Macmillan
The first biography of William Shockley--inventor of the transistor, father of silicon semi-conductors, and center of one of the most vicious controversies in...
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A History of Slovakia
The Struggle for Survival

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This classic book offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of Slovakia, from its establishment on the Danubian Plain to the present. While paying...