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Europe : a natural history / by Flannery, Tim F.(Tim Fridtjof),1956-author.;
Subjects: Natural history;
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Cunning folk : life in the era of practical magic / by Stanmore, Tabitha,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-238) and index.This history of practitioners of "service magic" in medieval and early modern Europe reveals the central place they occupied in everyday life and how they helped soothe the anxieties of both commoners and nobles.
Subjects: Magic; Witchcraft;
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The illustrated encyclopaedia of costume and fashion : from 1066 to the present / by Cassin-Scott, Jack;
Subjects: Clothing and dress; Fashion;
© 2006., Cassell Illustrated,
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Danubia : a personal history of Habsburg Europe / by Winder, Simon,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.For centuries, much of Europe was in the hands of the peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw off a number of rivals until finally packing up in 1918. Simon Winder's account of the rule of the Habsburgs plunges the reader into a maelstrom of alchemy, skeletons, jewels, bear-moats, unfortunate marriages -- and even a guinea-pig village.
Subjects: Habsburg, House of;
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1848 : year of revolution / by Rapport, Michael.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-446) and index.LSC
Subjects: Revolutions;
© 2009, c2008., Basic Books,
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The medieval warrior : weapons, technology, and fighting techniques, AD 1000-1500 / by Dougherty, Martin J.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-217) and index.LSC
Subjects: Military art and science; Military weapons;
© c2008., Globe Pequot Press,
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Born in Blackness : Africa, Africans, and the making of the modern world, 1471 to the Second World War / by French, Howard W.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history. In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, Pulitzer Prize finalist Howard W. French retells the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, the anchoring of democracy in America, and the fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals all grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "darkest" continent. Born in Blackness dramatically retrieves the lives of major African historical figures whose stories have been repeatedly etiolated and erased over centuries, from unimaginably rich medieval African emperors who traded with Asia; to Kongo sovereigns who heroically battled seventeenth-century European powers; to ex-slaves who liberated Haitians from bondage. In doing so, French tells the story of gold, tobacco, sugar, and cotton-and the greatest "commodity" of all, the millions of people brought in chains from Africa to the New World, whose reclaimed histories fundamentally help explain our present world"--
Subjects: African diaspora; History, Modern.; Slave trade;
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To hell and back : Europe, 1914-1949 / by Kershaw, Ian,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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Sword Beach : D-Day Baptism by Fire. by Hastings, Max.;
Between 1941 and 1944, the British army contributed relatively little to WWII. On D-Day, that changed - 35,000 British infantrymen, airmen, and special service operatives were sent headfirst into the whitest heat of war, almost overnight. In 'Sword Beach', Max Hastings tells the story of a handful of British soldiers and their critical role in D-Days parachute and seaborne offensive.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: HISTORY; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century;
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Neptune's Fortune : The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire. by Sancton, Julian.;
'Neptune's Fortune' is the riveting true story of a legendary Spanish galleon that sunk off the coast of Colombia with over $1 billion in gold and silver - and one mans obsessive quest to find it. From the author of 'Madhouse at the End of the Earth' (a RADD pick).Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers; HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal; HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries;
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