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By H W Brands
"Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope" (Hampton Sides), this masterfully told account of the American West from a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist sets a new standard as it sweeps from the California Gold Rush and beyond. In Dreams of El Dorado , H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West.
By Larrie D Ferreiro
An award-winning historian of science reveals the riveting and little-known story of a team of eighteenth-century European scientists that journeyed to South America to calculate the shape of the earth.
By Huw Lewis-Jones
"First published in the United Kingdom in 2019 by Thames & Hudson Ltd."--Title page verso.
By Christina Riggs
"A bold new history of the discovery of King Tut and the seismic impact it left on modern society"--
By Maha Nassar
When the state of Israel was established in 1948, not all Palestinians became refugees: some stayed behind and were soon granted citizenship.
By J?r?me Camal
In the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, the complex interplay between anticolonial resistance and accommodation resounds in its music. Guadeloupean gwoka music--a secular, drum-based tradition--captures the entangled histories of French colonization, movements against it, and the uneasy process of the island's decolonization as an overseas territory of France.
By Neil Roberts
What is the opposite of freedom. In Freedom as Marronage , Neil Roberts answers this question with definitive force: slavery, and from there he unveils powerful new insights on the human condition as it has been understood between these poles. Crucial to his investigation is the concept of marronage--a form of slave escape that was an important aspect of Caribbean and Latin American slave systems.
By Jill Stauffer
Ethical loneliness is the experience of being abandoned by humanity, compounded by the cruelty of wrongs not being acknowledged. Jill Stauffer examines the root causes of ethical loneliness and difficult truths about the desire and potential for political forgiveness, transitional justice, and political reconciliation.
By Tom Standage
From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses , an eye-opening road trip through 5,500 years of humans on the go, revealing how transportation inevitably shapes civilization.
By Roberto Calasso
"Originally published in 2016 by Adelphi Edizioni, Italy, as Il cacciatore celeste"--Copyright page.
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