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Drawing on eye-witness accounts from Beatlemaniacs, journalists, broadcasters and TV producers, this captivating book recounts the Beatles' musical transformation throughout the pivotal year of 1963 and its far-reaching cultural impact as the world watched them go from the bottom of the bill to the biggest band on the planet.
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A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time. War can settle disputes, topple tyrants, and bend the trajectory of civilization--sometimes to the breaking point. From Troy to Hiroshima, moments when war has ended in utter annihilation have reverberated through the centuries, signaling...
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"Christina Crawford's book was an immediate bestseller, combining the infrequently discussed topic of child abuse with the draw of Hollywood drama. But when Paramount Pictures released the film version, starring Faye Dunaway as Crawford, it was panned, and it remains one of the most legendary critical bombs in film history. The lavish, big-screen adaptation drew unexpected laughter for its over the top the scenes depicting life in the Crawford household....
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St Giles-in-the-Fields: History of a London Parish resurrects a neglected area of Central London, rich in history and incident. St Giles is at the centre of one of the greatest cities in the world - but you've probably never heard of it. But it is an area with a dense and tangled history that tells us a great deal about the experience of living in London across the span of time from the twelfth century to today. This history has rarely been glamorous,...
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Hemos escuchado, a los estadistas mundiales, hablar de como se cuentan los grandes acontecimientos; el desarrollo de un pais, una plaga, una enfermedad, etc. No se alarme, el sufrimiento del pueblo de Cuba se cuenta en numeros de muertos; por mas de 65 anos. Este pequeno pais es una isla, situada en el caribe, su poblacion ha sido sometida, a la mas terrible de las torturas, solo comparable al exterminio de la poblacion camboyana, por el regimen comunista...
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Marking the centenary of the Titanic disaster, 'Titanic Lives' is an utterly compelling exploration of the lives of the passengers and crew on board the most famous ship in history. The RMS Titanic was built as one of the world's largest and most luxurious liners. A marine Ritz, it was a 45,000-tonne hotel of thin steel plates, travelling at a speed of 21 knots across the North Atlantic. On the night of 14 April 1912, midway through her maiden voyage,...
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Today, America's most dangerous enemies are not the terrorists or those wanting to kill us. They are the unseen evil forces that have been slowly depleting us of morality, decency and value in God. Evil has taken a seat not only in our movies, media, music and schools, but in our White House. The Evilution of America has been eroding what our Forefathers fought and suffered to create and is turning the United States into a country void of everything...
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Money is so vital to us it is almost impossible to imagine a way of life that doesn't include it, yet for most of human history there was no such thing as money and even when it appeared, it rarely crossed the paths of ordinary people. Bartering surpluses can only get a society so far; if it is to become complex, productive and diverse it needs to take the next step and choose an item - perhaps fish-hooks, perhaps flint - to use as a 'medium of exchange'...
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Published in 1974, Marshall Hodgson's The Venture of Islam was a watershed moment in the study of Islam. By locating the history of Islamic societies in a global perspective, Hodgson challenged the orientalist paradigms that had stunted the development of Islamic studies and provided an alternative approach to world history. Edited by Edmund Burke III and Robert Mankin, Islam and World History explores the complexity of Hodgson's thought, the daring...
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In “Why the Nineties Matter”, Terry Anderson provides a broad-ranging history of America in that decade. Not simply a chronological account, the book focuses on key trends that either began or gained steam then and which have had lasting effects until this day. Threading together politics, economic transformations, and sociocultural trends, he focuses on what mattered most in retrospect. Violent and extremist white nationalism intensified greatly...
11) Discovery
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Discovery is a work of historical fiction examining the collapse of French colonialism in the Western Hemisphere, and the frenzy of the French Revolution as the fledgling United States of America begins to aspire toward its Manifest Destiny. A forward thinking Thomas Jefferson recognizes the importance of the great Mississippi River drainage and tasks his most trusted man, Meriwether Lewis, to explore its most important tributary, the mighty Missouri...
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Si hay un fenómeno de la historia de los Estados Unidos que se ha explotado hasta la saciedad en la cultura popular occidental, este ha sido la conquista del Oeste y el conflicto con las tribus de nativos que lo habitaban, denominado como las Guerras Indias. De una demonización del indio o nativo norteamericano, el péndulo basculó a partir de la década de 1970 a su santificación, y a menudo se echan en falta visiones más ecuánimes, capaces...
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In this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this up-to-date third edition narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with compelling sections on postmodernism, deconstructionism, African-American history, women's history, microhistory,...
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Tras sus muros carmesí, la Ciudad Prohibida de Pekín esconde mil secretos. Vedada al público (de ahí su nombre), este increíble recinto medieval, diez veces más grande que el palacio de Versalles, fue la residencia de los veinticinco emperadores de las últimas dinastías chinas, Ming (1368-1644) y Qing (1644-1912). Como sus familias y cortes sólo salían de esta «ciudad dentro de la ciudad» en contadas ocasiones, todas las decisiones políticas...
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This book of 300 columns examines all kinds of historical events, boiled down to a few words. More importantly than just explaining the details of each event, I try to analyze why these events occurred. Of course, my take on any event is just one of many. You will read other sources that disagree with my conclusions. That's great. Read them. I hope you have some fun reading these columns and they encourage you to look deeper into what you are interested...
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Founded by Angles in the sixth century and recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, Great Haywood, with its manor that included the adjacent estate of Shugborough and the ancient Forest of Cank, became an important political, religious and commercial centre in the Middle Ages. It was involved in the tumultuous events surrounding the overthrow of Richard II in the 14th century, the Wars of the Roses of the 15th century, Tudor intrigues in the 16th century,...
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A partir de una firma que figura en el Acta de Independencia mexicana, y de la curiosidad que dio origen a una larga investigación, surge este libro que pretende reconstruir a un personaje apenas conocido; de entre todos los firmantes de dicha Acta, Isidro Ignacio Icaza Iraeta fue referido por la historia simplemente como el que había sido jesuita, y aunque fue prácticamente ágrafo -lo cual ha dificultado especialmente conocer sus inquietudes...
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Wars are kinder to men, for they are given a chance, in the battlefield,
to showcase their prowess at weapons and strategy-making - either to
emerge victorious or to die valorously. The very act of fighting a battle
washes them off their earthly sins, securing their position in the heavens.
But what about the women? Burning silently inside, anxious and
afraid, guilty and grieved, passive and powerless, they remain silent
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En el escenario geopolítico actual, la presencia de armas nucleares en manos de regímenes dictatoriales plantea uno de los retos más apremiantes para la seguridad internacional. La combinación de un liderazgo autocrático, la opacidad gubernamental y la falta de rendición de cuentas, crea un entorno propicio para la proliferación nuclear y, para la inestabilidad regional y global. Ante esta amenaza, la comunidad internacional se enfrenta al...
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En esta obra se estudia el proceso de insurgencia social que las élites esclavistas del valle del río Cauca y de Popayán-en sur de Colombia. Identificaron como "guerra racial", y que se desarrolló durante la primera mitad del Siglo XIX. SU propósito es mostrar que se calificaron de esta manera los comportamientos políticos de los habitantes pobres de la zona en su lucha contra los dominadores, en momentos en que éstos intentaban construir la...