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Aristocracy (Social class) Aristocracy (Social class) Great Britain Drama Great Britain Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901 Drama Palliser, Plantagenet (Fictitious character) Palliser, Plantagenet (Fictitious character) Drama Politics and government United States Upper class families Upper class families Great Britain DramaLapham, Lewis H.
Summary: "America's leading essayist on the frantic retreat of democracy, in the fire and smoke of the war on terror. In twenty-five years of imperial adventure, America has laid waste to its principles of democracy. The self-glorifying march of folly steps off at the end of the Cold War, in an era when delusions of omnipotence allowed the market to climb to virtual heights, while society was divided...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.4 LAPLewin, Moshe
Summary: "One hundred years after the Russian Revolution the Soviet Union remains the most extraordinary, yet tragic, attempt to create a society beyond capitalism. Yet its history was one that for a long time proved impossible to write. In The Soviet Century, Moshe Lewin follows this history in all its complexity, drawing widely upon previously unavailable archive material. Highlighting key factors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.084 LEWSummary: Set in French Indochina in the 1930s as the Vietnamese begin to rebel against French colonialism. Dramatizes the last years of French rule through the relationship between plantation owner Éliane, French by birth but born and raised in Indochina, and her adopted daughter Camille, an orphaned Annamese princess who becomes a Vietnamese revolutionary and representative at the Geneva Conference...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INDLevin, Carl
Summary: "Representing Michigan for thirty-six years in the U.S. Senate, Carl Levin, the longest-serving senator in Michigan history, was known for his dogged pursuit of the truth, his commitment to holding government accountable, and his basic decency. Getting to the Heart of the Matter: My 36 Years in the Senate is his story - from his early days in Detroit as the son of a respected lawyer to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEVIN, CARL LEVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B LEVIN LEVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI History LevinLewis, Aura
Summary: See the U.S. Constitution in a new light with this bold, modern and accessible illustrated guide to the document that helped define democracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 342.7302 LEWSummary: A sprawling BBC saga of wealth, passion, and power, set in the palatial country houses and grand Mayfair salons of mid-Victorian England. Chronicles twenty years in the life of an aristocratic dynasty moving through high society in the heyday of Queen Victoria's reign. Based on Anthony Trollope's six political novels about British Parliamentary life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by RLJ Entertainment 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PALSummary: Begins with the forced marriage of Lady Glencora to Plantagenet Palliser. The British House of Commons serves as the backdrop as we watch the coming and goings and loves and tragedies of the powerful and not so powerful. This includes the lives of the friends and children of the Palliser's.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD PALSummary: Begins with the forced marriage of Lady Glencora to Plantagenet Palliser. The British House of Commons serves as the backdrop as we watch the coming and goings and loves and tragedies of the powerful and not so powerful. This includes the lives of the friends and children of the Palliser's.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2004