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| Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography, and Life History
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David Arnold & Stuart Blackburn, eds.
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| Publisher: Indiana. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780253217271. Daedalus Item Code: 31953 |
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| Life histories have a wide, if not universal, appeal, but what does it mean to narrate the story of a life—whether one's own or someone else's? Which lives are worth telling, and who should be ... (Read More)
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| Thank You Very Much, Captain Ericsson
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Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge. Andrew Glass, illus.
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| Publisher: Holiday House. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780823416264. Daedalus Item Code: 83904 |
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| This illustrated biography of the inventor and captain of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor depicts Swedish immigrant John Ericsson as a visionary inventor. The only thing keeping him from ... (Read More)
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| Thucydides: The Reinvention of History
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Donald Kagan.
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| Publisher: Viking. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780670021291. Daedalus Item Code: 21766 |
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| "Yale professor of classics [Donald] Kagan thoroughly examines Thucydides' life and work to successfully demonstrate that the Athenian historian was the first to utilize a truly professional (i.e., ... (Read More)
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| Time: D-Day: 24 Hours That Saved the World
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Editors of Time.
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| Publisher: Time Inc. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781932273229. Daedalus Item Code: 21244 |
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| This stirring visual history of the D-Day landing at Normandy in World War II uses images, quotes, and sidebars along with a running commentary to trace the Allied invasion of Hitler's "Fortress ... (Read More)
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| To Wake the Dead: A Renaissance Merchant and the Birth of Archaeology
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Marina Belozerskaya.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393065541. Daedalus Item Code: 11101 |
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| "Most medieval Europeans cared not a whit for the vestiges of antiquity. Back then, a stone arch was just a stone arch, regardless of its provenance, and in cities such as Siena and Rome thousands of ... (Read More)
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| Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After
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Peter Sahlins.
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| Publisher: Cornell. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780801488399. Daedalus Item Code: 91913 |
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| Rather than date the establishment of modern political citizenship from the French Revolution of 1789, Peter Sahlins argues that the transformations began in the "citizenship revolution" of the 18th ... (Read More)
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| Voices from the Gathering Storm: The Coming of the American Civil War
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Glenn M. Linden.
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| Publisher: SR Books. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780842029995. Daedalus Item Code: 21975 |
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| Collecting writings from 17 Northerners and Southerners who lived through the years prior to the Civil War, this book explores the dramatic changes in thinking about the nature and value of the ... (Read More)
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| W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography
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David Levering Lewis.
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| Publisher: Henry Holt. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780805087697. Daedalus Item Code: 10438 |
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| William Edward Burghardt Du Bois—the premier architect of the civil rights movement in America—was a towering and controversial personality, a fiercely proud individual blessed with the language of ... (Read More)
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| The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898
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Evan Thomas.
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| Publisher: Little, Brown. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780316004091. Daedalus Item Code: 23354 |
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| On February 15th, 1898, the USS Maine mysteriously exploded in the Havana Harbor. News of the blast quickly reached U.S. shores, where it was met by some not with alarm but great enthusiasm. ... (Read More)
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| Warriors from the Deep: The Extraordinary History of the Combat Swimmers
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Eric Micheletti.
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| Publisher: Histoire & Collections. Format: laminated cover.
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| ISBN: 9782913903845. Daedalus Item Code: 20358 |
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| With a wealth of dramatic photographs and previously unpublished documents, this book offers a visual survey of three waterborne assault forces: the Italian Decima Mas, the German Kampfschwimmers, ... (Read More)
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