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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Half a life	V. S. Naipaul	One of the finest living writers in the English language, V. S. Naipaul gives us a tale as wholly un-expected as it is affecting, his first novel since the exultantly acclaimed A Way in the World, pu…	OL103096W
The heart of the matter	Graham Greene	Focusing on a British police officer in an unnamed West African colony, this novel attempts to show, along with the socially restricted lives of colonists in Africa, the effects of sin on a devout ca…	OL106077W
The beauty prescription	Debra Luftman	Best friends since they met at medical school twenty-five years ago, Dr. Debra, a Beverly Hills dermatologist, and Dr. Eva, a South Beach psychiatrist, join their expertise to take a unique look at b…	OL11777007W
Convicts and orphans	Timothy J. Coates	"This book examines how the early modern Portuguese state used convicts and orphans to populate its global empire over a period of two hundred years. In a country with as small a population base and …	OL12020230W
El primer liberalismo español y los procesos de emancipación de América, 1808-1824	Roberto Breña	580 pages ; 22 cm	OL12301801W
The Aztecs under Spanish rule	Charles Gibson	Outlines the influence that Spanish rule had upon all aspects of Aztec life during the three hundred years after their conquest.	OL1247032W
Onaedo, the blacksmith's daughter	Ngozi Achebe	A tale of two women separated by 400 years but linked by history. Maxine a modern American woman who is half white and half African comes across a set of diaries written by a slave in the 16th centur…	OL24202019W
Empire's children	Anton Gill	'Empire's Children' - a tie-in edition to a six part TV series for Channel 4 - which follows the personal journeys of six British celebrities as they retrace their steps through their multicultural p…	OL24262996W
What Lot's Wife Saw	Ionna Bourazopoulou	It's been twenty-five years since the Overflow flooded Southern Europe, drowning Rome, Vienna and Istanbul, and turning Paris into a major port. At the Dead Sea, the earth has opened up to reveal a s…	OL24307849W
In search of empire	James S. Pritchard,James Pritchard,James S. Pritchard,Pritchard, James S	The decades between 1670 and 1730 were the most formative in the history of the French colonies in the Americas. A sufficient number of migrants arrived from France and Africa to create settlements, …	OL2444174W
Barmy British empire	Terry Deary	Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Barmy British Empire, including how a war started when a Brit was sitting on a stool, who wore a necklace made of 50 human skulls and why a British s…	OL24686197W
A Fighting Retreat	Robin Neillands	From Indian independence to the return of Hong Kong to China, British military specialist Neillands thoroughly chronicles Britain's retreat from empire. He offers a paean to the empire and its soldie…	OL2527273W
The name of war	Jill Lepore	Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in …	OL2625554W
What's the deal?	Rhoda Blumberg	Discusses the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and the political maneuverings of Napoleon and Jefferson that made it possible.	OL2736058W
From colonies to country, 1735-1791	Joy Hakim	The teaching guides developed for Middle/High schools were created to support 8th grade American history content standards and learning frameworks. They present concise menus of ideas for teachers wo…	OL27734880W
Dark princess	W. E. B. Du Bois	29, 311 p. 24 cm	OL28596W
Plus jamais esclaves!	Aline Helg	La 4e de couv. indique : "Longtemps, l'émancipation des esclaves fut considérée comme l'oeuvre des abolitionnistes, libéraux et blancs. Dans cet ouvrage, qui fait pour la première fois le grand récit…	OL28960924W
The long recessional	Gilmour, David	"Rudyard Kipling was a unique figure in British history, a great writer and a great imperial icon. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature, he added more phrases to the language than any man since Shak…	OL3084519W
La Marina en el gobierno y administración de Indias	Bibiano Torres Ramírez	"Brief account of the exploratory, economic, and technical functions of Spanish shipping followed by a lengthy biographical listing of the officers who also served in high government positions. Lacks…	OL3184166W
The long shadow of the 19th century	Farish A. Noor	"Stamford Raffles, James Brooke, John Crawfurd and Anna Leonowens were some of those who came from Europe or the United States to Southeast Asia in the nineteeth century - and then wrote about what t…	OL31849552W