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East Bay: Then and Now
Dennis Evanosky & Eric J. Kos.
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781592233502.  Daedalus Item Code: 21754
 
From Fremont in the south to Richmond in the north, the East Bay of San Francisco is a vibrant, energetic region of business and technological concerns, student populations, and residential ... (Read More)
 
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The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters
Richard Bernstein.
Publisher: Knopf.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780375414091.  Daedalus Item Code: 13680
 
In this rich and seductive narrative of the powerful erotic pull the East has always had for the West—a pervasive yet often ignored aspect of their long historical relationship—Richard Bernstein ... (Read More)
 
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Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting in the East 1750–1850
Maya Jasanoff.
Publisher: Harper Perennial.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780007180110.  Daedalus Item Code: 31039
 
(Winner of the 2005 Duff Cooper Prize and a Book of the Year in the Economist, the Guardian and the Sunday Times) The talented historian who also wrote 2011 Samuel Johnson ... (Read More)
 
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The Edwardian Country House: A Social and Architectural History
Clive Aslet.
Publisher: Frances Lincoln.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780711233393.  Daedalus Item Code: 29760
 
The magnificent country houses built in Britain between 1890 and 1939 turned out to be the last monuments to a vanishing age, popularly depicted in Downton Abbey. Some of the most remarkable ... (Read More)
 
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Egypt: A Short History
Robert L Tignor.
Publisher: Princeton.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780691147635.  Daedalus Item Code: 31824
 
A cradle of civilization, ancient Egypt developed a unique and influential culture that featured a centralized monarchy, sophisticated art and technology, and monumental architecture in the form of ... (Read More)
 
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Emilie du Chatelet: Daring Genius of the Enlightenment
Judith P. Zinsser.
Publisher: Penguin.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780143112686.  Daedalus Item Code: 02064
 
Portrayed in David Bodanis's Passionate Minds as the lover and intellectual equal of Voltaire, involved in an emotional affair that inspired and facilitated his career, Gabrielle Émilie le ... (Read More)
 
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Emissary of the Doomed: Bargaining for Lives in the Holocaust
Ronald Florence.
Publisher: Viking.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780670020720.  Daedalus Item Code: 30328
 
This gripping history of a little-known and desperate attempt to save Hungary's Jewish population in World War II tells how Joel Brand and the Jewish rescue committee in Budapest bargained with Adolf ... (Read More)
 
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Emissary of the Doomed: Bargaining for Lives in the Holocaust
Ronald Florence.
Publisher: Viking.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780670020720.  Daedalus Item Code: 20197
 
This gripping history of a little-known and desperate attempt to save Hungary's Jewish population in World War II tells how Joel Brand and the Jewish rescue committee in Budapest bargained with Adolf ... (Read More)
 
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Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815
Gordon S. Wood.
Publisher: Oxford.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780195039146.  Daedalus Item Code: 30720
 
(Pulitzer Prize Finalist; Winner of the New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize; New York Times Notable Book) In this brilliant account of the early American Republic, ... (Read More)
 
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Empires Apart: A History of American and Russian Imperialism
Brian Landers.
Publisher: Pegasus.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781605981062.  Daedalus Item Code: 21594
 
The American road to empire started when the first English settlers landed in Virginia, posits business and public policy advisor Brian Landers. Simultaneously, the first Russians crossed the Urals ... (Read More)
 
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Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World
Roger Crowley.
Publisher: Random House.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780812977646.  Daedalus Item Code: 31268
 
In 1521 Suleiman the Magnificent, ruling the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, dispatched an invasion fleet to the Christian island of Rhodes—the opening shot in an epic struggle between ... (Read More)
 
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Empires of Food: Feast, Famine and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Evan D.G. Faser & Andrew Rimas.
Publisher: Counterpoint.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781582437934.  Daedalus Item Code: 38722
 
Using the colorful diaries of a 16th-century merchant as a narrative guide, this book vividly chronicles the fate of people and societies for the past 12,000 years through the foods they grew, ... (Read More)
 
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