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    Outsider Theory
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    Outsider Theory

    A vital and timely reminder that modern life owes as much to outlandishthinking as to dominant ideologies.What do the Nag Hammadi library, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, speculativefeminist historiography, Marcus Garvey's finances, and maps drawn by...
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    Torn in Two
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    Torn in Two

    A compelling tale of one of the worst shipwrecks in Great Lakes history and of amazing survival against all odds-now in paperback.Michael Schumacher recreates the circumstances surrounding the terrible storm of November 1966 that broke the mighty...
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    Being Together in Place
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    Being Together in Place

    How place summons Native and non-Native people into dialogue to take up the challenging work of coexistence with each other and the nonhuman worldBeing Together in Place explores the...
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    If a Pirate I Must Be
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    If a Pirate I Must Be

    In a page-turning tale brimming with adventure, author Richard Sanders tells of the remarkable exploits of Bartholomew Roberts (better known as Black Bart), the greatest of the Caribbean pirates. He drank tea instead of rum. He banned women and gambling...
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    Rise of the Cajun Mariners
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    Rise of the Cajun Mariners

    The story of four families of Cajun boatmen and their rise from trappers and shrimpers to mega-millionaires.Rise of the Cajun Mariners documents an untold piece of American history-the beginnings of what is now the global, multibillion-dollar marine oil...
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    Recipes for Royals
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    Recipes for Royals

    Delicious dishes inspired by Netflix's award-winning hit The Crown. Anglophiles, royalists, and binge watchers rejoice! Recipes for Royals is the culinary companion fans of The Crown have been clamoring for since the gripping historical drama first...
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    Teatime at Grosvenor Square
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    Teatime at Grosvenor Square

    Delightful food and drink recipes inspired by Netflix's hit showBridgertonand Julia Quinn's bestselling novels.Finger sandwiches, pastries, roasts, desserts, cocktails, and more!You are cordially invited to dine with society's finest!...
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    A Literary Holiday Cookbook
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    A Literary Holiday Cookbook

    For fans of Little Women, The Chronicles of Narnia, A Christmas Carol, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and more, a literature-inspired cookbook for voracious readers during the festive holiday season.Some of the most famous instances of fictional fare...
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    Who REALLY Killed Martin Luther King Jr.?
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    Who REALLY Killed Martin Luther King Jr.?

    The conventional narrative of MLK's assassination is an FBI and CIA disinformation tactic. Find the proof here. One of the most infamous and devastating assassinations in American history, the murder of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was...
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    Speaking for Israel
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    Speaking for Israel

    The exclusive-and explosive-account of the politics of one of the most controversial nations in the world. According to Aviva Klompas, representing Israel at the United Nations is like volunteering to sell Red Sox paraphernalia outside Yankee Stadium...
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    The Library
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    The Library

    The Library invites you to enter the libraries of ancient Greece, early China, Renaissance England, and modern-day America."An eloquent account of the noble history of libraries, as it has unfolded from the earliest times to the present." -Nicholas A...
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    A Thyme and Place
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    A Thyme and Place

    Revive your inner period cook and master the art of gode cookery with thirty-five recipes celebrating festivals throughout the year! Fancy a leap back in time to the kitchens in the Middle Ages, where cauldrons bubbled over hearths,...
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    But I Live
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    But I Live

    An intimate co-creation of three graphic novelists and four Holocaust survivors, But I Live consists of three illustrated stories based on the experiences of each survivor during and after the Holocaust.David Schaffer and his family survived in Romania...
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    Sex and the Married Girl
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    Sex and the Married Girl

    This book examines how embodied, heterosexual, married sexual experiences were constructed for, and by, Canadian women in the postwar era.Sex who was having it, who shouldn't have it, and who was supposed to be having it but wasn't was a major concern to...
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    Strange Bewildering Time
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    Strange Bewildering Time

    A poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the region was on the brink of massive transformation. In the spring of 1978, at age twenty-two, Mark Abley put aside his studies at Oxford and set off with a...
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  • Up from Slavery
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    Up from Slavery

    Booker T. Washington's famous 1901 memoir, Up From Slavery, charts Washington's rise from an enslaved child with a passion for learning to the nation's most prominent Black educator and first president of Tuskegee University. A tireless advocate for...
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    Out of the Depths
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    Out of the Depths

    With a foreword by Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel! Israel Meir Lau, one of the youngest survivors of Buchenwald, was just eight years old when the camp was liberated in 1945. Descended from a 1,000-year unbroken chain of rabbis, he grew up to become Chief...
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    A Short History of the Ottoman Empire
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    A Short History of the Ottoman Empire

    In this beautifully illustrated overview, Rene Worringer provides a clear and comprehensive account of the longevity, pragmatism, and flexibility of the Ottoman Empire in governing over vast territories and diverse peoples. A Short History of the Ottoman...
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    Hitler, Stalin and I: An Oral History
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    Hitler, Stalin and I: An Oral History

    Heda Margolius Kovly (1919-2010) was a renowned Czech writer and translator born to Jewish parents. Her bestselling memoir, Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968 has been translated into more than a dozen languages. Her crime novel Innocence;...
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  • Depression Era Recipes
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    Depression Era Recipes

    Learn about the Depression Era, how Grandma cooked, and enjoy simple, basic cooking! This book commemorates an era that will never be forgotten, with over 450 back-to-the-basics recipes, household hints, a spice guide and some period poetry.
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    1922
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    1922

    1922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the twentieth century and still affect us today, 100 years later.Empires fell. The Ottoman Empire collapsed after more than six centuries. The British Empire...
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  • Looking for a New England
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    Looking for a New England

    Looking for a New England covers the period 1975 to 1986, from Slade in Flame to Absolute BeginnersA carefully researched exploration of transgressive films, the career of David Bowie, dystopias, the Joan Collins ouevre, black cinema, the origins and...
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    The White Possessive
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    The White Possessive

    The White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession throughthemes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless.Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen MoretonRobinson questionscurrent...
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    A Brief History Of Bali
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    A Brief History Of Bali

    This book tells the story of Bali the "paradise island of the Pacific" its rulers and its people, and their encounters with the Western world. Bali is a perennially popular tourist destination. It is also home to a fascinating people with a long and...
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    The Deputy

    Upon its premiere, The Deputy stirred up more controversy and caused greater repercussions than any other postwar work. Based on Rolf Hochhuth's research into the Vatican activities during World War II, the play's treatment of Pope Pius XII - the...
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    The Comedians

    Jokes change from generation to generation, but the experience of the comedian transcends the ages: the drive, jealousy, heartbreak, and triumph. From the Marx Brothers to Milton Berle to George Carlin to Eddie Murphy to Louis CK-comedy historian Kliph...
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    Forgotten Holocaust, Third Edition

    Forgotten Holocaust has become a classic of World War II literature. As Norman Davies noted, "Dr. Richard Lukas has rendered a valuable service, by showing that no one can properly analyze the fate of one ethnic community in occupied Poland without...
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    Polish Customs, Traditions and Folklore
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    Polish Customs, Traditions and Folklore

    "A richly detailed and well-informed month-by month accounting of all the major Polish customs and traditions practiced over the centuries. Ms. Knab stirs and reawakens our ancestral memory."-The Kosciuszko Foundation Newsletter This unique,...
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  • Darkness and Company
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    Darkness and Company

    Part of the Peter Owen World Series: Baltics. 'Darkness and Company' is an unflinching and morally complex historical novel about a Lithuanian photographer who agrees to record the murderous actions of the occupying SS and local militia in return for the...
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    Crimes Against Humanity
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    Crimes Against Humanity

    This book, newly available in paperback, tells the story of the emergence of the concept of crimes against humanity. It examines its origins, the ethical assumptions underpinning it, its legal and philosophical boundaries, and some of the controversies...
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    New Zealand's empire
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    New Zealand's empire

    This edited collection investigates New Zealand's history as an imperial power, and its evolving place within the British Empire. It revises and expands the history of empire within, to and from New Zealand by looking at the country's spheres of internal...
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    Labour and the politics of Empire
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    Labour and the politics of Empire

    This is a pathbreaking comparative and trans-national study of the neglected influences of nation, empire and race upon the development and electoral fortunes of the Labour Party in Britain and the Australian Labor Party from their formative years of the...
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    So clean
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    So clean

    This book is an unorthodox biography of William Hesketh Lever, 1st Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925), the founder of the Lever Brothers' Sunlight Soap empire. So clean places Lever squarely in his social and cultural context and is fully informed by recent...
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    Imperial citizenship
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    Imperial citizenship

    This is the first book-length study of the ideological foundations of British imperialism in the twentieth century. Drawing on the thinking of imperial activists, publicists, ideologues, and travelers such as Lionel Curtis, John Buchan, Arnold White,...
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    Ordering Africa
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    Ordering Africa

    provides the first comparative overview of the role of anthropology in colonial Africa. With essays exploring metropolitan research institutes, Africans as ethnographers and the transnational features of knowledge production, this volume both...
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    Imagining Armenia
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    Imagining Armenia

    This book examines how Armenia and Armenians were portrayed in Britain at a decisive moment in modern history.It illustrates how British observers represented the 'in-between' position of Armenians and considers the early development of atrocity...
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    The secret vice
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    The secret vice

    The secret vice: Masturbation in Victorian fiction and medical culture provides a unique consideration of writings on self-abuse in the long nineteenth century. The book examines the discourse on masturbation in medical works by English, Continental and...
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    Plain ugly
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    Plain ugly

    Plain ugly examines depictions of physically repellent characters in a striking range of early modern literary and visual texts, offering fascinating insights into the ways in which ugliness and deformity were perceived and represented, particularly with...
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    The British working class in postwar film
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    The British working class in postwar film

    Discussing well-known films and forgotten ones which deserve reassessment, this text uses a sociological model to examine how working class people are portrayed in British feature films from the decade after World War II. It introduces media and film...
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    Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France
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    Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France

    In this volume, leading Burke scholars offer new and challenging essays which allow us to reconsider the historical context in which Reflections on the Revolution in France was written. The essays consider its reception, its engagement in the discourses...
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    The Twelfth-century Renaissance
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    The Twelfth-century Renaissance

    This volume surveys the wide range of cultural and intellectual changes in western Europe in the period c.1050-c.1250. It first establishes the broader context for the changes and introduces the debate on the validity of the "renaissance" label for the...
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    Rain of Ash
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    Rain of Ash

    A major new history of the genocide of Roma and Jews during World War II and their entangled quest for historical justice.Jews and Roma died side by side in the Holocaust, yet the world did not recognize their destruction equally. In the years and...
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    Settling for Less
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    Settling for Less

    Why countries colonize the lands of indigenous people Over the past few centuries, vast areas of the world have been violently colonized by settlers. But why did states like Australia and the United States stop settling frontier lands during the...
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    The Shamama Case
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    The Shamama Case

    How a nineteenth-century lawsuit over the estate of a wealthy Tunisian Jew shines new light on the history of belongingIn the winter of 1873, Nissim Shamama, a wealthy Jew from Tunisia, died suddenly in his palazzo in Livorno, Italy. His passing...
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    Africa's Struggle for Its Art
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    Africa's Struggle for Its Art

    For decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western museums. In Africa's Struggle for Its Art, Bndicte Savoy brings to light this largely unknown but deeply important...
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History: specific events and topics