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This riveting combination of true crime and social history examines a dozen cases from the 1800s involving thirteen French and English women charged with murder. Each incident was a cause célèbre, and this mixture of scandal and scholarship offers illuminating details of backgrounds, deeds, and trials.
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A journey back in time to find out why legislation was passed so unexpectedly in the UK in 1885 to make homosexual behavior illegal - a law that led to the prosecution of tens of thousands of men until it was repealed eight decades later, but not before the prosecution of Oscar Wilde led to a moment of fear, unprecedented in modern British history, for those whose lives made them vulnerable. This is not just an important work in an emerging gay history,...
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Examines the evolution of black nationalist thought from its earliest proto-nationalistic phase in the 1700s to the Garvey movement in the 1920s
Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in modern black nationalist leaders such as Stokely Carmichael and Malcolm X. But what of the ideological precursors to these modern leaders, the writers, and leaders from whose intellectual legacy modern black nationalism emerged? Wilson Jeramiah Moses, whom...
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The classic Australian migrant story from acclaimed writer and journalist tony de Bolfo. In 1994, Melbourne journalist tony De Bolfo developed a burning need to discover what prompted his grandfather and two brothers to leave their homeland in northern Italy for a new life in Australia. He turned to his great-uncle Igino De Bolfo, the only surviving member of the original trio who undertook that arduous 46-day voyage aboard the steamship Re d'Italia...
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Gin has been a drink of kings infused with crushed pearls and rose petals, and a drink of the poor flavored with turpentine and sulfuric acid. Born in alchemists' stills and monastery kitchens, its earliest incarnations were juniper flavored medicines used to prevent plague, ease the pains of childbirth, even to treat a lack of courage. In The Book of Gin, Richard Barnett traces the life of this beguiling spirit, once believed to cause a "new kind...
86) One Family's Journey Through Ten Centuries: A social history of the second millennium – Book One
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We trace one family, generation by generation, throughout the one thousand years of the second millennium. The trilogy sets the family within its social environment, describing its migration from the continent, and across England, Scotland, and Ireland to settle in the New World. From that we get a vivid picture of what affected, motivated, worried, and encouraged this Saxon family and how they coped. Since the migration of this family was typical...
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'I hadn't been in Hackney for 24 hours but I knew that the way I saw life and people had changed forever. There was such goodness here but there was a sadness I had never imagined before, and it wasn't even lunchtime yet ...'
On a hot summer's day in 1969, fresh-faced 17 year old Nurse Sarah Hill arrives at Hackney General Hospital in London's East End.
Battered suitcase in hand, she takes eager steps in her white calf-length Mary Quant boots towards...
88) Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics and Imperial Ambitions in the United States and Japan
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A transpacific history of clashing imperial ambitions, Contraceptive Diplomacy turns to the history of the birth control movement in the United States and Japan to interpret the struggle for hegemony in the Pacific through the lens of transnational feminism. As the birth control movement spread beyond national and racial borders, it shed its radical bearings and was pressed into the service of larger ideological debates around fertility rates and...
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The advent of email and texting has dramatically changed the way we communicate. In essence, we have lost "touch" in our dealings with each other. This change may have been speeded by newer technologies, but telegraphs and telephones had a great impact in our perceptions of time and place. Before mass communication, the way we ordered and embedded knowledge and the possibilities of social interaction were defined by the extended human experience of...
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El castillo-palacio de Alaquàs es una de las obras más destacadas de la arquitectura renacentista valenciana. En el centenario de su declaración como Bien de Interés Cultural (1918), este libro acoge una serie de estudios sobre algunos de los aspectos históricos, culturales, arquitectónicos y artísticos que enmarcan y establecen la singularidad de este inmueble. El volumen aborda los rasgos que caracterizaron la nobleza valenciana durante la...
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The many influences of the past on our diet today make the concept of 'British food' very hard to define. The Celts, Romans, Saxons, Vikings and Normans all brought ingredients to the table, and the country was introduced to all manner of spices after the Crusades. The Georgians enjoyed a new level of excess and then, of course, the world wars forced us into the challenge of making meals from very little. The history of cooking in Britain is as tumultuous...
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Desde la aparición de Napster y otros servicios para compartir archivos a través de internet, los famosos P2P, la mayoría de la población ha asumido que la piratería intelectual es un producto de la era digital, una amenaza a la expresión creativa como nunca antes ha existido. La primera década del siglo XXI ha visto cómo la industria cultural de todo el mundo se enfrentaba con una forma de piratería intelectual que no entendía de fronteras...
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All seems tranquil as newly qualified health visitor Sarah motors into a small Kentish hilltop village in her new green mini. She's barely out of the car when she's called to assist the midwife with a bride who's gone into labour in the middle of her own wedding reception. And so her adventures begin....
As a health visitor, Nurse Sarah is as green as grass, but she puts her best foot into wellies and braves the mad dogs, killer ganders and muddy...
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London and the Kingdom is a three-volume historical study about the city of London throughout the history. First volume covers the history of London from circa 4th century AD and the late Roman period to the end of 15th century. Second volume covers the period from the accession of James VI of Scotland as a king James I of England in 1603 to the death of Queen Anne in 1714. The third volume begins with the accession of George I and covers the history...
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Tim Maltin, Britain's foremost authority on RMS Titanic, can finally reveal precisely why Titanic struck the iceberg. Through vivid images, first person testimonies and forensic investigation Maltin also reveals why the nearby ship, the Californian, failed to come to her rescue, resulting in the death of 1500 passengers. Titanic: A Very Deceiving Night finally draws to a close the world's biggest maritime mystery.
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Essays on Descartes, Schopenhauer, Marx, Bergson, Adam Smith,David Ricardo Kuhn, Hecksher-Ohlin. Topics include: certainty, ego,duration, consciousness, free-will, alienation, naturalism, scientifi crevolutions, profi ts, rents, classical and marginalist economics, foreigntrade theory.Th ese essays were written when I was a graduate student in philosophyin the late 1960s at New York University and then a decade later asa graduate student in economics...
97) The Zinn Reader
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No other radical historian has reached so many hearts and minds as Howard Zinn. It is rare that a historian of the Left has managed to retain as much credibility while refusing to let his academic mantle change his beautiful writing style from being anything but direct, forthright, and accessible. Whether his subject is war, race, politics, economic justice, or history itself, each of his works serves as a reminder that to embrace one's subjectivity...
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LEBEN UND ÜBERLEBEN IM "LAND IM GEBIRGE" IN FRÜHEREN ZEITEN
Dieser reich illustrierte historische Streifzug durch das Tiroler Almleben früherer Jahrhunderte erzählt vom Existenzkampf der Menschen in der alpinen Hochweidestufe.
Der Zeitraum zwischen 1560 und 1850, die sogenannte "Kleine Eiszeit", macht sich in Tirol durch eine markante Klimaverschlechterung bemerkbar. Auf den hochgelegenen Tiroler Almen wirkt sich diese härteren Bedingungen durch...
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1867: El Imperio Austrohúngaro, dinastía Habsburgo, surge como una superpotencia del siglo XIX. Descubra su apasionante historia, económica y cultural, desde la coronación de Francisco José e Isabel hasta el despertar de los nacionalismos y desmembramiento final del imperio en la Primera Guerra Mundial.
El 8 de junio de 1867, el emperador Francisco José de Austria recibía la Corona de San Esteban en Budapest. Esta ceremonia marcará el comienzo...
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