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Africans In America: America's Journey Through Slavery
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Author: Charles Johnson, Patricia Smith, And The Wgbh Series Research TeamBinding: PaperbackPublished: A Harvest Book - Harcourt Brace & Co.,, 1999Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks:...
Life In The Bush
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Author: Katharine KirklandBinding: PaperbackPublished: Kenneth W. Mackenzie, 1994Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis historical memoir presents a vivid firsthand account of colonial...
Portraits Of Power: Those Who Shaped The Twentieth Century
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Author: Jeremy Murray-Brown (comp.)Binding: PaperbackPublished: Octopus Books Ltd, London, 1979Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. This compelling historical account chronicles the lives...
The World In Progress: 1815-1914
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Author: B. J. ElliottBinding: PaperbackPublished: Hutchinson Educational , 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Faded cover with minimal surface wear. This historical...
The D-Day Experience: From The Invasion To The Liberation Of Paris
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Author: Richard HolmesBinding: PaperbackPublished: Imperial War Museum, 2006Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Mixed Media. All facsimile documents and memorabilia and, CD...
Japan Journey: The Columban Fathers In Nippon
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Author: Edward FischerBinding: PaperbackPublished: Crossroad, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis historical account, Japan Journey: The Columban Fathers In Nippon, chronicles the...
Mother Mary Berchmans Daly: Foundress Of St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne (SIGNED)
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Author: Edna M. Skewes R.S.C. (Sister Agnes Skewes)Binding: PaperbackPublished: Spectrum Publications, Melbourne, 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageMother Mary Berchmans Daly: Foundress Of...
Old Convict Days
$25.00 AUD
Author: William DerrincourtBinding: PaperbackPublished: Penguin Colonial Facsimiles, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Faded spine. Old Convict Days chronicles the harsh realities...
Patrick Mcmahon Glynn: Letters To His Family (1874-1927)
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Author: Gerald Glynn O'Collins, S.J.Binding: PaperbackPublished: The Polding Press, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Light creasing on spine. Light stains on...
Treasures Of The Vatican Collections
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Author: Alan LevyBinding: PaperbackPublished: Plume, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageTreasures Of The Vatican Collections presents a magnificent visual and historical journey...
Father San Vitores: His Life, Times, And Martyrdom
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Author: Emilie G. JohnstonBinding: PaperbackPublished: Micronesian Area Research Center, University of Guam, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling historical biography chronicles...
London: Immigrant City
TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH 'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the extent to which the diversity of immigrant origins has...
Chariot of Knowledge
Discover the lost history of the Ancient Olympic Games. In popular belief, the Olympic Games were primarily a Greek invention. Yet, this perception covers a secret history that connects the...
American Slavery, 1619-1897
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A concise, engaging overview of American slavery from the beginning of the colonial era to emancipation and its aftermath. Kolchin takes a broad geographical perspective, putting American slavery in the...
Changing Altitudes: Stories of Australian Air Force Women
In the early years of the Second World War, Australian women began lobbying to contribute to the nation's wartime effort. From 1940, women were signing up to serve in the...
Sweet Land of Liberty?: The African-American Struggle for Civil Rights
A powerful and moving account of the campaign for civil rights in modern America. Robert Cook is concerned less with charismatic leaders like Martin Luther King, and more with the...
Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England
28th April 1870. The flamboyantly dressed Miss Fanny Park and Miss Stella Boulton are causing a stir in the Strand Theatre. All eyes are riveted upon their lascivious oglings of...
A New Time for Mexico
Fuentes' bold and timely study discusses the origins and nature of the tumultuous events that have recently transformed Mexican politics and society. The rebellion in Chiapas, a rash of assassinations,...
Closing Pandora's Box: Arms Race, Arms Control and the History of the
This history of arms control in the 20th century challenges the liberal-pacifist view of international relations, and explains the Cold War from a post-Cold War perspective, untangling the complex realities...
De Gaulle: The Ruler 1945-1970
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The second volume of Jean Lacouture's acclaimed biography of Charles de Gaulle opens with the creation of the Fourth Republic in the aftermath of World War II and with the...
Twentieth-Century France: Politics and Society 1898-1991
Originally published as "Dreyfus to de Gaulle", this authoritative account has been revised and extended, its greater chronological range reflected in the new title.Two substantial additional chapters have been incorporated...
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Man Against the Sea (Collins Modern
The worst storm in history seen from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape. The...
Wonder Drug: The Hidden Victims of America's Secret Thalidomide
Longlisted for the Andrew 2024 Carnegie Medal for Non-Fiction The shocking, never-before-told story of America's thalidomide victims In Germany on Christmas Day 1956 a baby girl was born without ears....
Freedom at Midnight: Inspiration for the major motion picture
Inspiration for the major film starring Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal and Huma Qureshi and directed by Gurinder Chadha. Seventy years ago, at midnight on 14 August 1947, the...
Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets
A history of unmarried motherhood through three generations of an Irish family, and the secrets we conceal How far would you go for the missing? When Clair Wills was in...
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
A landmark work of contemporary history and a wake-up call that aims to restore our understanding of the basis of our way of life, from the author of international bestseller...
1971 - Never a Dull Moment: Rock's Golden Year
The story of the year that rock music exploded, featuring almost every star who defined the decade *THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER* As seen on Apple TV - 1971-...
Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic
Opens a fascinating new window onto medieval and early modern life - a world where it's possible to meet the devil on the road, control the future through stars, and...
Attack Warning Red!: How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War
A fascinating, frightening and sometimes funny window into an all-too recent world - everyday life in Britain in the shadow of the mushroom cloud The first book to tell the...
When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most
The explosive expose of the billion-dollar company that has often made our world more unequal, more corrupt and more dangerous. **A TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR...
A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard
The untold story of why our country looks like it does, from the bestselling champion of national heritage, Simon Jenkins The story of Britain is revealed through its buildings, and...
Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
Baillie Gifford-shortlisted author Harald J hner (Aftermath- Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich) presents a staggering new assessment of the short life of the Weimar Republic between the...
Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world In Leadership, Kissinger analyses the lives of six extraordinary leaders through the distinctive...
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
The dark, compelling history of a colonial witch-hunt, from the author of Witchfinders In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock...
The World According to Colour: A Cultural History
A beguiling, human history of colour by one of art history's most exciting voices The world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as...
The Gathering Storm: The Second World War
In his introduction, John Keegan discusses Churchill's historical methods and the extraordinary achievement of The Second World War. This volume also includes appendices, an index, maps and diagrams. Winston Churchill's...
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian
'The next Bill Bryson.' New York Times Winner of the Best Narrative Travel Book Award from the British Guild of Travel Writers The Danes are the happiest people in the...
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...
Fascism: Three Major Regimes
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Author: Heinz LubaszBinding: PaperbackPublished: John Wiley & Sons, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Minor wear on cover and spine. . Fascism:...
Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society Vol. 52 Pt. 3, September 1966
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Author: Royal Australian Historical SocietyBinding: PaperbackPublished: Royal Australian Historical Society, 1966Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe Journal Of The Royal Australian Historical...
South American Folk Pottery
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Author: Gertrude LittoBinding: PaperbackPublished: Watson-Guptill Publications., 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Bumping and sun-fading to spine and...
From Conquest To Colonization: Spain In The Mariana Islands 1690 To 1740
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Author: Fr. Francis X. HezelBinding: PaperbackPublished: Division of Historic Preservation, 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, sticker remnants on back coverThis scholarly...
Thomas Arnold The Younger In Van Diemen's Land
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Author: P. A. HowellBinding: PaperbackPublished: Historical Research Association, Tasmania, 1964Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Creased spine. This compelling historical biography chronicles...
A Journey Through Time: Our District's Time Line 1836 - 2003
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Author: Joy RourkeBinding: PaperbackPublished: Birregurra District Historical Centre INc, 2003Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Minor wear on cover, otherwise internally sound....
Australian War Memorial: Canberra
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Author: -Binding: PaperbackPublished: Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1963Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAustralian War Memorial, Guide to Australian War Memorial Canberra presents...
The Romans On The Riviera And The Rhone: A Sketch Of The Conquest Of Liguria And The Roman Province
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Author: W.H. HallBinding: PaperbackPublished: Ares Publishers, 1111Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Light crease on front cover.This historical account chronicles the Roman Empire's expansion into the picturesque regions...
European Edged Weapons
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Author: T. WiseBinding: PaperbackPublished: Almark Publications, 1974Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerEuropean Edged Weapons by T. Wise presents a comprehensive historical account of bladed weaponry across the continent....
The Making Of Modern Ireland 1603-1923
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Author: J.C. BeckettBinding: PaperbackPublished: Faber., 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Markings to bottom-edge of pages, tanning and foxing to pages, minor staining to cover,...