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What are the connections between cattle branding and Christian salvation, between livestock castration and square dancing, between cattle rustling and the making of spurs and horsehair bridles in prison, between children's coloring books and cowboy...

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Noted Canadian journalist Peter Stursberg traces his family's history in China through the Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, and the Second World War. Captain Samuel Lewis Shaw arrived in China in the 1830s. He eventually settled in the port of Foochow,...

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The extraordinary life of Thomas Cromwell and the real story of 'Wolf Hall'. Thomas Cromwell, chief architect of the English Reformation served as chief minister of Henry VIII from 1531 to 1540, the most tumultuous period in Henry's thirty-seven-year...

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From his obsession with the founding principles of the United States to his cold-blooded killings in the battle over slavery's expansion, John Brown forced his countrymen to reckon with America's violent history, its chequered progress toward racial...

This mesmerizing companion book to the award-winning film, The Butler traces the Civil Rights Movement and explores crucial moments of twentieth century American history through the eyes of Eugene Allen-a White House butler who served eight presidents...

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The first complete biography of a little-known but fascinating figure in the history of espionage and the American Revolution A man of as many names as motives, Edward Bancroft is a singular figure in the history of Revolutionary America. Born in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809083152Author David WaldstricherFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.

Clodia Metelli: The Tribune's Sister is the first full-length biography of a Roman aristocrat whose colorful life, as described by her contemporaries, has inspired numerous modern works of popular fiction, art, and poetry. Clodia, widow of the consul...

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This is the story of a Scottish soldier who became Kitchener's right arm in the Sudan and India and distinguished himself during the Boer War.Book InformationISBN 9781873376546Author Archie HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Spellmount...

The Year is 1500. Christopher Columbus, stripped of his title Admiral of the Ocean Seas, waits in chains in a Caribbean prison built under his orders, looking out at the colony that he founded, nurtured, and ruled for eight years. Less than a decade...

What we know of Buffalo Bill Cody (1846-1917) is more myth than man. Yet the stage persona that took audiences by storm was based on the very real encounters of William F. Cody with the American West. This autobiography, infused with the drama of dime...

In this major biography of the queen, Wallace MacCaffrey focuses on Elizabeth's career as a practicing politician, taking into account her testing personal experience, her temperament, her own view of her role and the constraints she frequently faced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780863275487Author Kathleen CoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Merlin PublishingPublisher Merlin Publishing

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101912225Author Allen C. GuelzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 669gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525431831Author Ron ChernowFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1055gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

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William Gladstone, 'The Grand Old Man' of nineteenth-century politics, was Prime Minister four times. Throughout his life, women, including Queen Victoria (with whom he had a somewhat strained relationship - she famously describing him as a 'half-mad...

They were the self-made men of their time. Lincoln was born dirt poor, had less than 1 year of formal schooling and became the nation's greatest President. Douglass spent his first 20 years as a slave, had no formal schooling, couldn't read or write and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684831428Author Rich BrookhiserFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education...

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Hannah Szenes grew up in a loving home filled with books, plays, and music. Unfortunately, the rise of the Nazis in her native Hungary forced Hannah to immigrate to Palestine, where she became an ardent Zionist pioneer. Haunted by the murder of the Jews...

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The Gandhi Reader collects the significant writings by and about Mahatma Gandhi, culled form 500 volumes, newspapers, and magazines. Here is Gandhi in his own words and those of his closest associates, including selections from his autobiography;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788552196Author Eugene BroderickFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd

In this compelling and crisply written biography, historian Joseph Wheelan examines the life and wars of the indomitable General Phil Sheridan, whose leadership and aggressive tactics helped win the Civil War, crush the marauding Plains Indians,and save...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143122883Author John M BarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Penguin BooksPublisher Penguin BooksWeight(grams) 381g

Edmund Burke (1730-1797) was one of the most profound, versatile, and accomplished thinkers of the eighteenth century. Born and educated in Dublin, he moved to London to study law, but remained to make a career in English politics, completing A...

Wellington is a giant because he was one of the greatest military commanders in British history, an important figure in the emergence of Britain as a great imperial power, a man who dominated British society and politics for 35 years. He was the only one...

The duc de Saint-Simon's memoirs of the last decades of Louis XIV's reign and the regency of Philippe d'Orleans are considered a masterpiece of the genre and one of the glories of French literature. His accounts of the dramatic events he witnessed have...