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Reckonings
A single word - Auschwitz - is often used to encapsulate the totality of persecution and suffering involved in what we call the Holocaust. Yet a focus on a single concentration …
RMS Queen Mary
This colourful history tells the story of Cunard’s RMS Queen Mary, who along with her running mate Queen Elizabeth covered the transatlantic route from Southampton to New York via …
I Would Rather Sleep in Texas
This superb work of history tells the story of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and the people who struggled to make this daunting land their home. Spanish conquistadors and Mexican …
Texas Secessionists Standoff
On April 27, 1997, Richard Lance McLaren and his followers in the so-called ';Republic of Texas (ROT)' militia held Joe and Margaret Ann Rowe hostage inside their own home at the …
English Historical Documents
English Historical Documents is the most ambitious, impressive and comprehensive collection of documents on English history ever published. An authoritative work of primary …
History of Women in Ireland, 1500-1800
The first general survey of the history of women in early modern Ireland. Based on an impressive range of source material, it presents the results of original research into women's …
Dooleys of Richmond
The Dooleys of Richmond is the biography of two generations of a dynamic and philanthropic immigrant family in the urban South. While most Irish Catholic immigrants who poured into …
An Extract From the Observations Made in a Tour to Italy, by the Chevalier de la Condamine, ... Translated by a Fellow of the Royal Society, With an Alphabetical Index
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its …
The Secular City
Central to the Enlightenment is the ideal of the Secular City, in militant reply to the Civitas Dei of St Augustine. The essays in this volume, all by distinguished eighteenth …
Frederick Delius
Frederick Delius is among the most celebrated English composers of the 20th century. Widely studied and performed, his works are considered models of the British impressionist …
Man Who Flattened the Earth
Self-styled adventurer, literary wit, philosopher, and statesman of science, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759) stood at the center of Enlightenment science and culture. …
College of William and Mary in the Civil War
America's second oldest higher education institution experienced the full violence of the Civil War, with a wartime destiny of destruction compounded by its strategic location in …