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| For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus
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Frederick Brown.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307266316. Daedalus Item Code: 30048 |
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| "Nobody outside France writes better about French history and culture in the late 19th century than Frederick Brown.... It is a period of artistic triumph and of political turmoil, the latter ... (Read More)
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| The Fox and the Flies: The Secret Life of a Grotesque Master Criminal
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Charles Van Onselen.
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| Publisher: Walker & Company. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780802716415. Daedalus Item Code: 03045 |
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| "Award-winning South African historian [Charles] Van Onselen has crafted a riveting narrative portraying the life and crimes of Joseph Silver (1868–1918), a violent man whose story is almost too ... (Read More)
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| General Sherman's Christmas: Savannah, 1864
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Stanley Weintraub.
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| Publisher: Harper. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780061702983. Daedalus Item Code: 21762 |
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| From the author of Silent Night: The Story of the 1914 Christmas Truce and General Washington's Christmas Farewell comes this close look at the embattled holiday season of 1864, when ... (Read More)
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| Germaine de Stael and Benjamin Constant: A Dual Biography
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Renee Winegarten.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300119251. Daedalus Item Code: 12775 |
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| When they first met in 1794, shortly after the Reign of Terror, Germaine de Staël and Benjamin Constant were both in their 20s, both married, and both outsiders. Their passionate and productive ... (Read More)
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| Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
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John Stauffer.
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| Publisher: Twelve. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780446580090. Daedalus Item Code: 30050 |
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| The author of The Black Hearts of Men, a co-winner of the 2002 Frederick Douglass Book Prize and runner-up for the Lincoln prize, Harvard literature professor John Stauffer offers this ... (Read More)
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| The Great Oom: The Improbable Birth of Yoga in America
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Robert Love.
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| Publisher: Viking. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780670021758. Daedalus Item Code: 30329 |
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| Stumbling upon the forgotten origins of yoga in America when he moved to the former grounds of the Clarkstown Country Club in Nyack, New York, former Rolling Stone managing editor Robert Love ... (Read More)
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| The Imperial Capitals of China: A Dynastic History of the Celestial Empire
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Arthur Cotterell.
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| Publisher: Overlook. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781590200070. Daedalus Item Code: 22294 |
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| From the Shang Emperor's obsessive attempts to engage the Immortals with cosmologically pleasing urban planning in the 3rd century BC, Chinese emperors have designed their various imperial capitals ... (Read More)
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| The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War
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James Bradley.
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| Publisher: Little, Brown. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780316008952. Daedalus Item Code: 23346 |
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| In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Howard Taft on the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in history to Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. Roosevelt's ... (Read More)
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| In Defense of Thomas Jefferson: The Sally Hemings Sex Scandal
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William G. Hyland Jr.
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| Publisher: Thomas Dunne. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780312561000. Daedalus Item Code: 30053 |
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| The belief that Thomas Jefferson had an affair and fathered one or more children with his slave Sally Hemings—and that such an allegation was proven by DNA testing—has become so pervasive in American ... (Read More)
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| The Insurgent Barricade
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Mark Traugott.
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| Publisher: California. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780520266322. Daedalus Item Code: 24084 |
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| "To the barricades!" The cry conjures images of angry citizens, turmoil in the streets, and skirmishes fought behind hastily improvised cover. History and sociology professor Mark Traugott charts the ... (Read More)
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