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subject:"History / Modern / 19th Century" from books.google.com
These essays deepen our understanding of Haiti during the period from 1791 to 1815.
subject:"History / Modern / 19th Century" from books.google.com
He tells the story of the unrecognized genius who beat Darwin to the discovery of evolution; of Samuel Morse, his code and how rubber allowed the world to talk; of Alfred Wegener, the crack-pot German explorer and father of geology.
subject:"History / Modern / 19th Century" from books.google.com
Ultimately he wrote more than 150 tales. And yet, Paul Binding contends in this incisive book, Andersen cannot be confined to the category of writings for children. His work stands at the very heart of mainstream European literature.
subject:"History / Modern / 19th Century" from books.google.com
Winner, 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Short-listed for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers Weekly A Best History Book of 2017, The Guardian "Warning: She spares no detail!" ...
subject:"History / Modern / 19th Century" from books.google.com
The National Book Award–winning history of American finance by the renowned biographer and author of Hamilton: “A tour de force” (New York Times Book Review).
subject:"History / Modern / 19th Century" from books.google.com
'A Napoleonic triumph of a book, irresistibly galloping with the momentum of a cavalry charge' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Simply dynamite' Bernard Cornwell From Andrew Roberts, author of the bestsellers The Storm of War and Churchill: Walking ...
subject:"History / Modern / 19th Century" from books.google.com
Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China; and Northeastern Brazil.
subject:"History / Modern / 19th Century" from books.google.com
Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack - 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities. “For a comprehensive, readable, insightful account of the Civil War from one of ...
subject:"History / Modern / 19th Century" from books.google.com
The mayor of Casterbridge is haunted by his past when, as an unemployed farmhand, he sold his wife and daughter while in a drunken stupor.
subject:"History / Modern / 19th Century" from books.google.com
This is the story of a handful of men, led by Thomas Clarkson, who defied the slave trade and ignited the first great human rights movement.