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Fur, Fortune, and Empire
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Eric Jay Dolin |
In Fur, Fortune, and Empire, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin chronicles the rise and fall of the fur trade of old, when the rallying cry was "get the furs while they last." Beavers, sea otters, an… |
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White women captives in North Africa
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Khalid Bekkaoui |
"A fascinating anthology of historical narratives composed from the late sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries by European women abducted by Muslim corsairs and enslaved in North Africa during the … |
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The Muslim Question in Europe
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Peter O'Brien |
An estimated twenty million Muslims now reside in Europe, mostly as a result of large-scale postwar immigration. In The Muslim Question in Europe, Peter O'Brien challenges the popular notion that the… |
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Seeing the first Australians
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Tamsin Donaldson,Ian Donaldson |
First sight / Ian Donaldson & Tamsin Donaldson -- The first European depictions / Bernard Smith -- Reactions on Cook's voyage / Glyndwr Williams -- Savage sportsmen / James Urry -- The Darwinian pers… |
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European and native American warfare, 1675-1815
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Armstrong Starkey |
Challenging the historical tradition that has denigrated Indians as 'savages' and celebrated the triumph of European 'civilization', Armstrong Starkey presents military history as only one dimension … |
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West of the Revolution
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Claudio Saunt |
Details the other revolutions during 1776, including the reaction of the native residents of San Francisco in the wake of the first European settlement there and the devastation of the Aleutian Islan… |
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Last Hope Island
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Lynne Olson |
"When the Nazi Blitzkrieg subjugated Europe in World War II, London became the safe haven for the leaders of seven occupied countries--France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Norway, Czechoslovakia and… |
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Guide de survie des Européens à Montréal
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Marc Rigole,Claude-Victor Langlois |
« Le Guide de survie des Européens à Montréal révèle ce que personne n'a jamais osé avouer sur l'immigration au Québec, la poutine, les banques, les taxes, la météo, les pieds carrés, les castors, le… |
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A voyage long and strange
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Tony Horwitz |
The bestselling author of Blue Latitudes takes us on a thrilling and eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America
On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he’s mislaid more than a … |
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The Europeans
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Henry James |
One of a series of new editions of Henry James's most famous short stories and novels. |
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Peoples and empires
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Anthony Pagden |
"Anthony Pagden tells the story of the great empires of the West, from the days of Alexander the Great and Rome to the fall of Europe's colonial system after World War II.".
"Peoples and Empires exp… |
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From the Tagus to the Ganges
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Sanjay Subrahmanyam |
Collection of essays previously published; based on various conference presentations. |
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An outcast of the islands
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Joseph Conrad |
Conrad’s Second novel (An Outcast of the Islands) is about the colonial enterprise and their faults while they take a region. The characters are complex and deep. It makes for a great read.Please Not… |
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Heart of Darkness
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Joseph Conrad |
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Charles Ma… |
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Heart of darkness, and the critics
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Joseph Conrad |
The Congo diary / Joseph Conrad -- In the heart of darkness / G. Jean-Aubry -- On Conrad's use of memory / Edward Garnett -- Reassessment of "Heart of darkness" / Douglas Hewitt -- The journey within… |
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Victory
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Joseph Conrad |
Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the… |
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The nigger of the "Narcissus"
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Joseph Conrad |
“My task... is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel - it is, before all, to make you see. That - and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there… |
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Dancing with strangers
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Inga Clendinnen ,Inga Clendinnen |
In January 1788 the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who would be their new neighbors. Dancing with Strangers tells the story of what… |
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Two monsoons
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Theon Wilkinson |
"It is my hope that these fragments from the past will give an insight into the life and death of Europeans in India in the last three centuries . . . another aim of the book has been to further . . … |
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Mamelouka
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Robert Solé |
In the early days of photography, a woman painter in 1890s Egypt marries a portrait photographer and becomes so good at his profession he gets jealous, sending her into the arms of a British officer.… |
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