Beckert, Sven.

Summary: "The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality in the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Sven Beckert's rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry combining imperial expansion and slave labor with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Ehret, Christopher

Summary: In providing a deep history of Africa, from 70,000 BCE to 300 CE, Ehret traces how the continent played an important role in the technological, agricultural, and economic transitions of world civilization. A framing chapter introduces the historical goals and issues of the book, recounting the terrible histories of recent centuries that led to Africa being wrongly treated as a peripheral other...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2023

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Symonds, Craig L.

Summary: "Craig L. Symonds has established himself as one of the finest naval historians at work today. World War II at Sea represents his crowning achievement: a complete narrative of the naval war and all of its belligerents, on all of the world's oceans and seas, between 1939 and 1945. Opening with the 1930 London Conference, Symonds shows how any limitations on naval warfare would become irrelevant...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2018

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Townsend, Elisabeth

Summary: This is the first culinary history of a truly remarkable fish. Elisabeth Townsend follows cod around the globe, showing how its pursuit began with the Vikings, and exploring its influence on human affairs ever since. The book looks at the different ways cod has been caught, cooked, and eaten, often by the descendants of explorers, enslaved people, and traders. Cod examines the fish in the myths...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Reaktion Books 2022

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Gerges, Fawaz A.

Summary: "The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. What explains the rise of ISIS and what does it portend for the future of the Middle East? In this book, one of the world's leading authorities on political Islam and jihadism sheds new light on these questions as he provides a unique history of the rise and growth of ISIS. Moving...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016

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Plokhy, Serhii

Summary: "A chilling account of seventy years of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the "definitive" (Economist) Cold War history, Nuclear Folly. Nuclear energy was embraced across the globe at the height of the nuclear industry in the 1960s and 1970s; today,there are 440 nuclear reactors operating throughout the world, with nuclear power providing 10 percent of world electricity. Yet as the world...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022

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McGreevy, John T.

Summary: "A magisterial history of the centuries-long conflict between 'progress' and 'tradition' in the world's largest international institution. The story of Roman Catholicism has never followed a singular path. In no time period has this been more true than over the last two centuries. Beginning with the French Revolution, extending to the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, and concluding with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Independent publishers since 1923 2022

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Summary: Join Bob the Builder as he and his friends locate missing pets. Bob, Wendy, and his machine friends work together to make new homes for the pets once they are found.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HIT Entertainment 2003

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Ritchie, Donald A.

Summary: "Doing Oral History has become one of the premier resources in the field of oral history. It explores all aspects of oral history, from starting an oral history project--including funding, staffing, and equipment--to conducting interviews, publishing, videotaping, preserving materials, teaching oral history, and using oral history in museums and on the radio. In this second edition, the author...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2003

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Wills, John E. (John Elliot)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2001

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Vine, David

Summary: "The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: the US has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. In The United States of War, David Vine traces this pattern of bloody, near-permanent conflict from Columbus's 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2020

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Rosen, Aaron

Summary: A Journey Through Art is a global history of art with a time- travel twist, taking young readers on a expedition from the Paleolithic period to the present day, voyaging to thirty locations around the world. As readers travel from one incredible destination to the next, they discover the amazing network of caves carved into the rock in AD 500 at Ajanta, India; Cambodia s Angkor Wat as it stood...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2018

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Siegel, Mona L.

Summary: "Peace on Our Terms follows dozens of remarkable women from Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Asia as they crossed oceans and continents; commanded meeting halls in Paris, Zurich, and Washington; and marched in the streets of Cairo and Beijing. Mona L. Siegel's sweeping global account of international organizing highlights how Egyptian and Chinese nationalists, Western and Japanese...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2020

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Marty, Martin E.

Summary: Marty outlines the life and teachings of Christ and details how his followers spread the gospel to the world.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008

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Committee for a New England Bibliography

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Publisher / Publication Date: G. K. Hall 1976

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Committee for a New England Bibliography

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Publisher / Publication Date: G. K. Hall 1979

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Speregen, Devra Newberger

Summary: "Series continuation, biographies of women in history"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023

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Eaton, Gale

Summary: What do the Trojan Horse, Piltdown Man, Keely Motor Company, and Ponzi Scheme have in common? They were all famous hoaxes, carefully designed and bolstered with false evidence.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2016

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