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| March of Death: Sir John Moore's Retreat to Corunna, 1808–1809
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Christopher Summerville.
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| Publisher: Greenhill. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781853675645. Daedalus Item Code: 22803 |
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| Few episodes of British military history have been as dramatic as John Moore's retreat to Corunna in the bitter winter of 1808, when his small British force was outnumbered and outmaneuvered by ... (Read More)
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| Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan Privateer
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James McDermott.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300083804. Daedalus Item Code: 31847 |
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| (2001 Keith Matthews Prize Winner)Sponsored by the Canadian Nautical Research Society, James McDermott’s biography of the swashbuckling Martin Frobisher is a highly entertaining account of the ... (Read More)
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| Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris
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Asti Hustvedt.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393025606. Daedalus Item Code: 23885 |
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| Blanche, Augustine, and Geneviève were each admitted to the hysteria ward of the Salpêtrière Hospital in 1870s Paris, where their care was directed by the prominent neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot. ... (Read More)
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| Medicine Women: A Pictorial History of Women Healers
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Elisabeth Brooke.
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| Publisher: Quest. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780835607513. Daedalus Item Code: 31357 |
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| From Egyptian priestess-healers in the temples of Isis to the hedge-witches and herbalists of medieval Europe, from the midwives and nurses of later centuries to the physicians, researchers, and ... (Read More)
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| Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
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Dorothy Wickenden.
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| Publisher: Scribner. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781439176580. Daedalus Item Code: 32016 |
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| In the summer of 1916, Smith College graduates and best friends Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood left their Auburn, New York, hometown to embark on the adventure of a lifetime, taking teaching ... (Read More)
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| Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War
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Robert Roper.
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| Publisher: Walker. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780802715531. Daedalus Item Code: 30059 |
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| Walt Whitman's work as a nurse to the wounded soldiers of the Civil War profoundly affected his worldview as well as his poetry. Much less well known is the extraordinary war record of his younger ... (Read More)
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| Nueva York 1613–1945
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Edward J. Sullivan, ed.
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| Publisher: New York Historical Society. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781857596397. Daedalus Item Code: 30850 |
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| The population of New York City is now nearly one-third Hispanic, marking a demographic transformation that will have a huge impact on the city's culture, daily life, and its future, notes art ... (Read More)
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| Old World, New World: Great Britain and America from the Beginning
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Kathleen Burk.
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| Publisher: Atlantic Monthly. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780871139719. Daedalus Item Code: 13919 |
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| America's close bond with Great Britain seems inevitable, given our shared language and heritage. But as Berkeley- and Oxford-educated historian Kathleen Burk shows in this groundbreaking history, ... (Read More)
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| The Olmsted National Historic Site and the Growth of Historic Landscape Preservation
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David Grayson Allen.
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| Publisher: Northeastern University Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781555536794. Daedalus Item Code: 30158 |
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| "Whether it's the Emerald Necklace in Boston, Central Park in New York City, the Capitol Grounds in Washington, D.C., or countless other beautiful urban parks in cities across America, we have ... (Read More)
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| Operation Albion: The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands
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Michael B. Barrett.
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| Publisher: Indiana. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780253349699. Daedalus Item Code: 31951 |
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| In October 1917, a German invasion force of some 25,000 soldiers, backed by 10 dreadnoughts, 350 other vessels, 80 aircraft, and a half-dozen zeppelins, attacked the Russian-held Baltic islands of ... (Read More)
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