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Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago

Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago

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Author: Max Allan CollinsFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 998g, 736 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2018The new definitive history of gangster-era Chicago-a landmark work that is as riveting as...
The Long Road To Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution

The Long Road To Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution

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Author: Richard SlotkinFormat: Hardback, 168mm x 244mm, 873g, 512 pagesPublished: WW Norton & Co, United States, 2012In the summer of 1862, after a year of protracted fighting, Abraham Lincoln decided...
Sceptres and Sciences in the Spains: Four Humanists and the New Philosophy, c 1680-1740

Sceptres and Sciences in the Spains: Four Humanists and the New Philosophy, c 1680-1740

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Author: Ruth Hill (Dept. of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia (United States))Format: Hardback, 163mm x 239mm, 304 pagesPublished: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom, 2000This study centres on science,...
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties

Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties

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Author: Mike DavisFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 235mm, 1074g, 800 pagesPublished: Verso Books, United Kingdom, 2020Histories of the US sixties invariably focus on New York City, but Los Angeles was an...
Foresaken, the: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia

Foresaken, the: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia

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Author: Timotheus Tzouliadis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 436 A remarkable piece of forgotten historyathe story of how thousands of Americans were lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of...
Dissonance: The Turbulent Days Between Fort Sumter and Bull Run

Dissonance: The Turbulent Days Between Fort Sumter and Bull Run

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Author: David Detzer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 371 For two weeks in 1861, Washington, D.C., was locked in a state of panic. Would the newly formed Confederate States of...
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties

Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties

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Author: Mike DavisFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 235mm, 1074g, 800 pagesPublished: Verso Books, United Kingdom, 2020Histories of the US sixties invariably focus on New York City, but Los Angeles was an...
Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist

Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist

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Author: Celia Stahr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today...
The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and Essays

The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and Essays

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Author: Christopher C Meyers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and Essays offers teachers of Georgia history an alternative to...
Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America

Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America

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America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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Bush at War: Inside the Bush White House

Bush at War: Inside the Bush White House

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Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith

Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith

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Author: Mary BeardFormat: Hardback, 148mm x 218mm, 670g, 240 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018Focusing on the arrival of the human figure as a subject of art, Mary Beard...
The Letters of John F. Kennedy

The Letters of John F. Kennedy

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The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue

The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue

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Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea

Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea

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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

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The First American: A Story Of North American Archaeology

The First American: A Story Of North American Archaeology

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Author: C. W. CeramBinding: HardbackPublished: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the archaeological history of North America, presenting important findings and insights into...
Selected Chaff: The Wartime Columns of Al McIntosh, 1941-1945

Selected Chaff: The Wartime Columns of Al McIntosh, 1941-1945

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Obama: An Intimate Portrait

Obama: An Intimate Portrait

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Blackout

Blackout

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Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery: The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842

Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery: The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842

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Seven Years War (The British at War)

Seven Years War (The British at War)

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Author: Ludovic Kennedy, Rupert FurneauxBinding: HardbackPublished: HarperCollins Distribution Services, 1973Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThe Seven Years' War (1756-1763) was a transformative global conflict involving major powers, primarily...
Viceroyalties of the West: The Spanish Empire in Latin America

Viceroyalties of the West: The Spanish Empire in Latin America

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Author: Roderick CameronBinding: HardbackPublished: Little, Brown & Co., 1968Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the extensive history and influence of the Spanish Empire in Latin America,...
Unequal Allies

Unequal Allies

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Author: Roger BellBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne University Press, 1977Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsUnequal Allies explores the complexities of international relations, particularly focusing on the US-Japan alliance from its...
Deterring Democracy

Deterring Democracy

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Author: Noam ChomskyBinding: HardbackPublished: Verso, 1991Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: UnblemishedPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsDeterring Democracy explores the differences between the humanitarian rhetoric and the imperialistic reality of United States foreign...
Elusive Treasure: The Story of Early Archaeologists in the Americas

Elusive Treasure: The Story of Early Archaeologists in the Americas

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Author: Brian FaganBinding: HardbackPublished: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the contributions of early archaeologists in uncovering the history of the Americas. It...
Columbus and the Age of Discovery

Columbus and the Age of Discovery

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Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History

Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History

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Naturalists in Paradise: Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon

Naturalists in Paradise: Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon

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Author: John HemmingFormat: Hardback, 172mm x 235mm, 1000g, 368 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Walter Bates and Richard Spruce were English naturalists who went...
Battle for the Big Top: P. T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus

Battle for the Big Top: P. T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus

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Author: Les StandifordFormat: Hardback, 146mm x 238mm, 500g, 272 pagesPublished: PublicAffairs,U.S., United States, 2021Millions have sat under the "big top," watching as trapeze artists glide and clowns entertain, but few...
A Time for Peace: The Legacy of the Vietnam War

A Time for Peace: The Legacy of the Vietnam War

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Economic Insanity: How Growth-Driven Capitalism is Devouring the American Dream

Economic Insanity: How Growth-Driven Capitalism is Devouring the American Dream

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The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump

The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump

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Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life's Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union

Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life's Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union

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America Declares Independence

America Declares Independence

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Friendship and Fratricide: An Analysis of Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss

Friendship and Fratricide: An Analysis of Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss

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Author: Meyer A. ZeligsBinding: HardbackPublished: Andre Deutsch, 1967, First UKCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides an in-depth analysis of the complex relationship between Whittaker...
Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America

Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America

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Author: Kali Nicole GrossBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 2016Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsIn this gripping account, historian Kali Nicole Gross reconstructs the scandalous details of...
Treasures of Ancient America: Pre-Columbian Art from Mexico to Peru

Treasures of Ancient America: Pre-Columbian Art from Mexico to Peru

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Author: S.K. LothropBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1979Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the rich tradition of Pre-Columbian art created by the indigenous peoples of the Americas...
Naturalists in Paradise: Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon

Naturalists in Paradise: Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon

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Author: John HemmingFormat: Hardback, 172mm x 235mm, 1000g, 368 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Walter Bates and Richard Spruce were English naturalists who went...
Tracking the Axis Enemy: Triumph of Anglo-American Naval Intelligence

Tracking the Axis Enemy: Triumph of Anglo-American Naval Intelligence

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Power Wars: The Relentless Rise of Presidential Authority and Secrecy

Power Wars: The Relentless Rise of Presidential Authority and Secrecy

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American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution

American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution

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American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms

American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms

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No God But Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States

No God But Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States

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The Journey to the Mayflower: God's Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom

The Journey to the Mayflower: God's Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom

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Fire and light

Fire and light

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Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South

Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South

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