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Historical Heroines

One Hundred Women You Should Know About

by Michelle Rosenberg, Sonia D Picker ...

From Mata Hari and Pocahontas to Lucrezia Borgia and Hedy Lamarr—fascinating portraits of history's most unforgettable, and some unjustly forgotten, women.Cleopatra. Audrey Hepburn. Sappho. Calamity Jane. Marie Antoinette. Lilith. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Dame Emma Hamilton. Mary Shelley. Mary Frith. Some are celebrated in folklore legend; some are remembered only as movie stars; many will be ... Read more

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From Mata Hari and Pocahontas to Lucrezia Borgia and Hedy Lamarr—fascinating portraits of history's most unforgettable, and some unjustly forgotten, women.Cleopatra. Audrey Hepburn. Sappho. Calamity Jane. Marie Antoinette. Lilith. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Dame Emma Hamilton. Mary Shelley. Mary Frith. Some are celebrated in folklore legend; some are remembered only as movie stars; many will be
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Warriors and Wenches

Sex and Power in Women's History

by Michelle Rosenberg ...

Series series History Snapshots
Femmes both fierce and fatale. "A superb slice of history served up in a grand manner" from the coauthor of Historical Heroines ( Books Monthly ).The world is full of women we don't know whose stories have been overlooked or airbrushed from history.Often faced with limited life choices, this book proudly showcases those women who took matters into their own hands and became forces to be reckoned ... Read more

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Femmes both fierce and fatale. "A superb slice of history served up in a grand manner" from the coauthor of Historical Heroines ( Books Monthly ).The world is full of women we don't know whose stories have been overlooked or airbrushed from history.Often faced with limited life choices, this book proudly showcases those women who took matters into their own hands and became forces to be reckoned
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Medieval Women

by Michelle Rosenberg ...

Reveals extraordinary medieval women, from famous figures to forgotten Jewish businesswomen, Crusader Queens, mystics, and more, offering a rich historical tapestry.A jewel of a book, this latest release from one of Pen & Sword’s women historians, contains a treasure trove of medieval dramatis personae, from the more mainstream figures such as Lady Godiva and Joan of Arc to the lesser known ... Read more

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Reveals extraordinary medieval women, from famous figures to forgotten Jewish businesswomen, Crusader Queens, mystics, and more, offering a rich historical tapestry.A jewel of a book, this latest release from one of Pen & Sword’s women historians, contains a treasure trove of medieval dramatis personae, from the more mainstream figures such as Lady Godiva and Joan of Arc to the lesser known
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Not So Virtuous Victorians

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A snapshot of the less illustrious side of Victorian times—the fascinating men, women, and scandals that shaped an era.What springs to mind when you think of British Victorian men and women? Manners, manners and more manners. Behavior that was as rigid and constricted as the corsets women wore. From iron-knicker sexual prudery to men so uptight they furtively released their pent-up emotions in ... Read more

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A snapshot of the less illustrious side of Victorian times—the fascinating men, women, and scandals that shaped an era.What springs to mind when you think of British Victorian men and women? Manners, manners and more manners. Behavior that was as rigid and constricted as the corsets women wore. From iron-knicker sexual prudery to men so uptight they furtively released their pent-up emotions in
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The Tudors

by Michelle Rosenberg ...

Series series History Snapshots
Discover more about the famous Tudor monarchs, from Henry VII to Elizabeth I.Everything you never knew about the powerful Tudor dynasty - from Henry VII to the glorious Elizabeth I. From Battles at Bosworth to battles for supremacy of the royal bedchamber, marriage, war, murder, divorce, religious dissent, Renaissance letters, science and art, political alliances, the Reformation, treason, a ... Read more

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Discover more about the famous Tudor monarchs, from Henry VII to Elizabeth I.Everything you never knew about the powerful Tudor dynasty - from Henry VII to the glorious Elizabeth I. From Battles at Bosworth to battles for supremacy of the royal bedchamber, marriage, war, murder, divorce, religious dissent, Renaissance letters, science and art, political alliances, the Reformation, treason, a
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Totalitarianism

Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism

by Hannah Arendt ...

The great twentieth-century political philosopher examines how Hitler and Stalin gained and maintained power, and the nature of totalitarian states.In the final volume of her classic work The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt focuses on the two genuine forms of the totalitarian state in modern history: the dictatorships of Bolshevism after 1930 and of National Socialism after 1938. ... Read more

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The great twentieth-century political philosopher examines how Hitler and Stalin gained and maintained power, and the nature of totalitarian states.In the final volume of her classic work The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt focuses on the two genuine forms of the totalitarian state in modern history: the dictatorships of Bolshevism after 1930 and of National Socialism after 1938.
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Authoritarianism

Three Inquiries in Critical Theory

by Wendy Brown, Peter E. Gordon, Max Pensky ...

Series series TRIOS
Three distinguished scholars draw on critical theory to address the causes and circumstances behind the rise of autocracies and oligarchies.Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, xenophobia, and paeans to "traditional values," in brazen bids for electoral support. How are we to understand this move to the mainstream of political ... Read more

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Three distinguished scholars draw on critical theory to address the causes and circumstances behind the rise of autocracies and oligarchies.Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, xenophobia, and paeans to "traditional values," in brazen bids for electoral support. How are we to understand this move to the mainstream of political
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Uncivil Agreement

How Politics Became Our Identity

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The psychology behind political partisanship: "The kind of research that will change not just how you think about the world but how you think about yourself." —Ezra Klein, VoxPolitical polarization in America has moved beyond disagreements about matters of policy. For the first time in decades, research has shown that members of both parties hold strongly unfavorable views of their opponents. This ... Read more

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The psychology behind political partisanship: "The kind of research that will change not just how you think about the world but how you think about yourself." —Ezra Klein, VoxPolitical polarization in America has moved beyond disagreements about matters of policy. For the first time in decades, research has shown that members of both parties hold strongly unfavorable views of their opponents. This
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Thy Will Be Done

The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil

by Gerard Colby, Charlotte Dennett ...

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A "blistering exposé" of the USA's secret history of financial, political, and cultural exploitation of Latin America in the 20th century, with a new introduction ( Publishers Weekly ).What happened when a wealthy industrialist and a visionary evangelist unleashed forces that joined to subjugate an entire continent? Historians Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett tell the story of the forty-year ... Read more

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A "blistering exposé" of the USA's secret history of financial, political, and cultural exploitation of Latin America in the 20th century, with a new introduction ( Publishers Weekly ).What happened when a wealthy industrialist and a visionary evangelist unleashed forces that joined to subjugate an entire continent? Historians Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett tell the story of the forty-year
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The Founding of Israel

The Journey to a Jewish Homeland from Abraham to the Holocaust

by Martin Connolly ...

A chronological history of the Jewish people—from the earliest attempts to establish a homeland during Biblical times to the creation of Israel.More than seventy years ago in 1948, the State of Israel came into being amidst great controversy. How did the state arise? What led to the founding of Israel?This book sets out to give a chronological journey of the Jewish people from the time Abraham ... Read more

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A chronological history of the Jewish people—from the earliest attempts to establish a homeland during Biblical times to the creation of Israel.More than seventy years ago in 1948, the State of Israel came into being amidst great controversy. How did the state arise? What led to the founding of Israel?This book sets out to give a chronological journey of the Jewish people from the time Abraham
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Antisemitism

Part One of The Origins of Totalitarianism

by Hannah Arendt ...

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In the first volume of her landmark philosophical work, The Origins of Totalitarianism, the political theorist traces the rise of antisemitism in Europe.Since it was first published in 1951, The Origins of Totalitarianism has been recognized as the definitive philosophical account of the totalitarian mindset. A probing analysis of Nazism, Stalinism, and the "banality of evil", it remains one of ... Read more

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In the first volume of her landmark philosophical work, The Origins of Totalitarianism, the political theorist traces the rise of antisemitism in Europe.Since it was first published in 1951, The Origins of Totalitarianism has been recognized as the definitive philosophical account of the totalitarian mindset. A probing analysis of Nazism, Stalinism, and the "banality of evil", it remains one of
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U. S. Grant and the American Military Tradition

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A concise biography of the legendary Union general and controversial US president from "one of America's foremost Civil War authorities" ( Kirkus Reviews ).Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times–bestselling historian Bruce Catton explores the life and legacy of one of the nation's most misunderstood heroes: Ulysses S. Grant. In this classic work, Grant emerges as a complicated figure whose ... Read more

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A concise biography of the legendary Union general and controversial US president from "one of America's foremost Civil War authorities" ( Kirkus Reviews ).Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times–bestselling historian Bruce Catton explores the life and legacy of one of the nation's most misunderstood heroes: Ulysses S. Grant. In this classic work, Grant emerges as a complicated figure whose
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