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| Shocking Bodies: Life, Death and Electricity in Victorian England
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Iwan Rhys Morus.
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| Publisher: History Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780752458007. Daedalus Item Code: 30446 |
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| Although electricity was known to the ancient Egyptians, it was not until the Victorian era that its potential truly began to be realized and embraced as a science of spectacle and of wonder. Luigi ... (Read More)
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| The Siege of Derry, 1689: The Military History
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Richard Doherty.
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| Publisher: History Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780752455365. Daedalus Item Code: 31343 |
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| "No Surrender," the Irish Unionist war cry, was first used in 1689 by the Protestant defenders of Londonderry as James II's army laid siege to the city for 105 days. There were astonishing acts of ... (Read More)
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| Sieges: From the Siege of Jerusalem to the Gulf War
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Bruce Allen Watson.
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| Publisher: Stackpole. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780811736015. Daedalus Item Code: 12955 |
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| In this provocative study, Bruce Allen Watson examines seven historic sieges in detail: Jerusalem at the end of the First Crusade in 1099, Malta in 1565, Sebastopol during the Crimean War, ... (Read More)
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| The Significance of the Frontier in American History
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Frederick Jackson Turner.
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| Publisher: Penguin. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780141042572. Daedalus Item Code: 31126 |
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| When historian Frederick Jackson Turner presented his landmark paper, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" to the American Historical Association in 1893, it marked a turning point ... (Read More)
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| Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea
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Frank Delaney.
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| Publisher: Random House. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780812975956. Daedalus Item Code: 31290 |
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| Here the author of Ireland relates an amazing saga of bravery and endurance at sea. In December 1951, laden with passengers and thousands of tons of cargo, the SS Flying Enterprise was ... (Read More)
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| Sisters of Fortune: America's Caton Sisters at Home and Abroad
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Jehanne Wake.
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| Publisher: Touchstone. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781451607611. Daedalus Item Code: 23939 |
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| As gripping as any great historical novel, this is the true story of Marianne, Bess, Louisa, and Emily Caton, the exuberant American sisters who enthralled English Regency society. Descended from ... (Read More)
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| Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War
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Jeffrey A. Lockwood.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780199733538. Daedalus Item Code: 30766 |
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| The author of Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier, Pushcart Prize and John Burroughs Award winner Jeffrey Lockwood here ... (Read More)
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| A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons
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Elizabeth Dowling Taylor. Foreword by Annette Gordon-Reed.
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| Publisher: Palgrave. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780230108936. Daedalus Item Code: 31998 |
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| Paul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia, and became part of the Madison household staff at the White House. After he was finally emancipated by ... (Read More)
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| Smoot's Ear: The Measure of Humanity
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Robert Tavernor.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780300143348. Daedalus Item Code: 01792 |
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| Measures are the subject of this unusual book, in which Robert Tavernor offers a fascinating account of the various measuring systems human beings have devised over two millennia. Tavernor urges us ... (Read More)
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| The Specter of Munich: Reconsidering the Lessons of Appeasing Hitler
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Jeffrey Record.
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| Publisher: Potomac. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781597970396. Daedalus Item Code: 01444 |
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| No historical event has exerted more undue influence on America's post–World War II use of military force than the Anglo-French appeasement of Nazi Germany at Munich in 1938, posits defense analyst ... (Read More)
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