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  • Bacteria and Bayonets

    The Impact of Disease in American Military History

    by David Petriello ...
    A fascinating look at how microbes have affected war outcomes from colonial times to the present.Various powerful enemies from the British to the Nazis, and legendary individuals including Tecumseh and Robert E. Lee, have all fallen before the arms of the American soldier. Yet the deadliest enemy faced by the nation, one that has killed more warriors than all its foes combined, is disease.But ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Military History of New Jersey

    by David Petriello ...
    Series series Military
    War came to Garden State soil early. The Dutch fought the Indians in Kieft's War, while the English fought the Spanish in the War of Jenkins' Ear and the French, Swedes and native nations in dozens of other conflicts. New Jersey played an integral role as the "Crossroads of the American Revolution." The Battle of Trenton, the crossing of the Delaware and battles at Monmouth and Springfield helped ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Republican Party and the Rise of China

    by David Petriello ...
    No man - or country - is an island, and China's emergence over the past two centuries was not solely the product of internal actions. In this ground-breaking study, David Petriello argues that out of all of the catalyzing influences in the creation of modern China, none was more vital than the Republican Party in the United States. From the 1780s to today, the various incarnations of this American ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • The Big Change

    America Transforms Itself, 1900–1950

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    The New York Times–bestselling history of the first half of the twentieth century—five decades that transformed America—from the author of Only Yesterday.During the first fifty years of the twentieth century, the United States saw two world wars, a devastating economic depression, and more social, political, and economic changes than in any other five-decade period before. Frederick Lewis Allen, ... Read more

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  • Mad or Bad

    Crime and Insanity in Victorian Britain

    by David J. Vaughan ...
    In a violent 19th century, desperate attempts by the alienists - a new wave of 'mad-doctor' - brought the insanity plea into Victorian courts. Defining psychological conditions in an attempt at acquittal, they faced ridicule, obstruction - even professional ruin - as they strove for acceptance and struggled for change. It left 'mad people' hanged for offenses they could not remember, and bad ... Read more

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  • A Visitor's Guide to Shakespeare's London

    by David Thomas ...
    Series Book 3 - A Visitor's Guide
    A fresh and colorful look at Shakespeare's London published on the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death.In A Visitor's Guide to Shakespeare's London, readers can explore the streets of Shakespeare's London and see the sights he saw, while learning how people ate, drank, misbehaved, and had fun. You will discover what it was like to be a tourist in the sixteenth century from the voices of ... Read more

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  • The Good Years: From 1900 To The First World War [Illustrated Edition]

    by Walter Lord ...
    Includes more than 25 illustrationsWALTER LORD NEVER STARTS FROM SCRATCH. For months before a word of this book was written, he could be found roaming the country, ferreting out the fascinating people who helped shape these years. One week it might be Elijah Baum, who piloted Wilbur Wright to his first lodgings at Kitty Hawk…the next, and old fireman who fought the flames at San Francisco…the next ... Read more

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  • Anatomy of Malice

    The Enigma of the Nazi War Criminals

    by Joel E. Dimsdale ...
    An eminent psychiatrist delves into the minds of Nazi leadershipin "a fresh look at the nature of wickedness, and at our attempts to explain it" (Sir Simon Wessely, Royal College of Psychiatrists).When the ashes had settled after World War II and the Allies convened an international war crimes trial in Nuremberg, a psychiatrist, Douglas Kelley, and a psychologist, Gustave Gilbert, tried to fathom ... Read more

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  • And Still I Rise

    Black America Since MLK

    by Kevin M. Burkes, Henry Louis Gates ...
    The companion book to the PBS series—a timeline and chronicle of the fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos.Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still I Rise explores a half-century of the African American experience. More than fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the birth of Black Power, the United States has had a ... Read more

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  • The Day the Bubble Burst

    A Social History of the Wall Street Crash of 1929

    by Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan-Witts ...
    The New York Times bestseller that tells the story of an overheated stock market and the financial disaster that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s.A riveting living history about Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929. Captures the era, the intoxicating expectancy, the hope that ruled men's heart and minds before the bubble burst and the black despair of the decade that followed. ... Read more

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  • A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England

    by Michelle Higgs ...
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    An "utterly brilliant" and deeply researched guide to the sights, smells, endless wonders, and profound changes of nineteenth century British history ( Books Monthly, UK).Step into the past and experience the world of Victorian England, from clothing to cuisine, toilet arrangements to transport—and everything in between. A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England is "a brilliant guided tour of Charles ... Read more

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