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  • The Old House

    by Kenneth Maxwell ...
    In a quiet town a group of mischievous boys make plans to trick an unsuspecting newcomer, Dylan, who they see as an easy mark for their sinister plans. The boys weave a web of deception around Dylan, luring him to a dreaded neighborhood house with promises of adventure and camaraderie. Little does Dylan know that each step he takes brings him closer to a terrifying truth hidden in the house that ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Naked Tropics

    Essays on Empire and Other Rogues

    by Kenneth Maxwell ...
    Series series New World in the Atlantic World
    In this volume distinguished historian Kenneth Maxwell collects some of his most significant writings, following Portugal's imperial journey from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean and from the coast of Asia to the mouth of the Red Sea. Maxwell takes the reader on a lively journey from Macao to the Amazon forests-each piece in the collection is a reflection of the authors driving passions. Major ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Conflicts and Conspiracies

    Brazil and Portugal, 1750-1808

    by Kenneth Maxwell ...
    A study of Brazil during a critical formative period which illuminates the causes of her special historical development within Latin America. Professor Maxwell analyzes the shifting relationships between Portugal, England and Brazil during the second half of the 18th Century. Through his study, Professor Maxwell is concerned with the social, economic and political significance of the events he ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • 2012 and the End of the World

    The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse

    by Matthew Restall, Amara Solari ...
    Did the Maya really predict that the world would end in December of 2012? If not, how and why has 2012 millenarianism gained such popular appeal? In this deeply knowledgeable book, two leading historians of the Maya answer these questions in a succinct, readable, and accessible style. Matthew Restall and Amara Solari introduce, explain, and ultimately demystify the 2012 phenomenon. They begin by ... Read more

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  • The Pope and Mussolini

    The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe

    by David I. Kertzer ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEFrom National Book Award finalist David I. Kertzer comes the gripping story of Pope Pius XI’s secret relations with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. This groundbreaking work, based on seven years of research in the Vatican and Fascist archives, including reports from Mussolini’s spies inside the highest ... Read more

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  • Rastafari: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ennis B. Edmonds ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From its obscure beginnings in Jamaica in the early 1930s, Rastafari has grown into an international socio-religious movement. It is estimated that 700,000 to 1 million people worldwide have embraced Rastafari, and adherents of the movement can be found in most of the major population centres and many outposts of the world. Rastafari: A Very Short Introduction provides an account of this ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Nineteenth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 5)

    The Search for Stability in the 'Long Nineteenth Century' – The 1798 Rebellion, the Great Potato Famine, the Easter Rising and the Partition of Ireland

    by D. George Boyce ...
    Series Book 5 - New Gill History of Ireland
    The elusive search for stability is the subject of Professor D. George Boyce's Nineteenth-Century Ireland, the fifth in the New Gill History of Ireland series. Nineteenth-century Ireland began and ended in armed revolt. The bloody insurrections of 1798 were the proximate reasons for the passing of the Act of Union two years later. The 'long nineteenth century' lasted until 1922, by which the ... Read more

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  • Irresistible North

    From Venice to Greenland on the Trail of the Zen Brothers

    by Andrea Di Robilant ...
    From the author of A Venetian Affair and Lucia comes a charming odyssey in the path of the mysterious Zen brothers, who explored parts of the New World a century before Columbus, and became both a source of scandal and a cause célèbre among geographers in the following centuries.This delightful journey begins with Andrea di Robilant’s serendipitous discovery of a travel narrative published in ... Read more

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  • Last Dance in Havana

    by Eugene Robinson ...
    In power for forty-four years and counting, Fidel Castro has done everything possible to define Cuba to the world and to itself -- yet not even he has been able to control the thoughts and dreams of his people. Those thoughts and dreams are the basis for what may become a post-Castro Cuba. To more fully understand the future of America's near neighbor, veteran reporter Eugene Robinson knew exactly ... Read more

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  • A Spanish Company in the Battle for France and Germany (1944-45)

    by Raymond Dronne ...
    Captain Raymond Dronne's memoir of the regular army unit he commanded from the summer of 1943 to the spring of 1945, No. 9 Company of the Chad March Regiment, also known as 'La Nueve', a company made up almost entirely of Spanish veterans of the civil war and social revolution of 1936-1939 — anarchists, socialists, republicans. It was Dronne's column that was ordered by General Leclerc to liberate ... Read more

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  • Chinese Cubans

    A Transnational History

    by Kathleen M. López ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    In the mid-nineteenth century, Cuba’s infamous “coolie” trade brought well over 100,000 Chinese indentured laborers to its shores. Though subjected to abominable conditions, they were followed during subsequent decades by smaller numbers of merchants, craftsmen, and free migrants searching for better lives far from home. In a comprehensive, vibrant history that draws deeply on Chinese- and Spanish ... Read more

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