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Van Diemen's Land: A History
Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a...
The Imperial Cruise: A True Story of Empire and War
In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Taft, his gun-toting daughter Alice and a gaggle of congressmen on a mission to Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea....
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian- a searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century. A NEW YORK TIMES, NEW...
Cairo: The City Victorious
Every great city deserves a book like this one: a sweeping chronicle by an author whose motives mix passion and bewilderment. Over the course of four and a half millennia,...
Russia: A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East
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Tasmania's Convicts: How felons built a free society
To the convicts arriving in Van Diemen's Land, it must have felt as though they'd been sent to the very ends of the earth. In Tasmania's Convicts Alison Alexander tells...
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society, Updated With a New Preface
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The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence
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War at the End of the World: Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight For New Guinea, 1942 - 1945
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Born in Africa: The Quest for the Origins of Human Life
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Gandhi Before India
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Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History
Author: Thomas J. Barfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times. The world's first great empires...
Africa's Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat
Author: Benedicte Savoy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial...