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By Thomas Keneally. 1998
The text traces the three causes of the halving of the Irish population in the nineteenth century: the famine, the…
Irish emigrations to America and Canada, and the transportation of political activists to Australia. It is a quest for the author's Irish ancestors. 1998.By Robert Fisk. 2005
Journalist Fisk has been reporting on the Middle East for the last 30 years, covering every major event from the…
Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution, from the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the Gulf War to the ongoing war in Iraq. Reaching back into the long history of invasion, occupation and colonization in the region, he describes how a history of injustice "has condemned the Middle East to war." Some descriptions of violence. Some strong language. 2005. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.By Noel Rae. 2018
Rae exposes the commerce and culture of slavery, not only from an economic or moral standpoint but also through multitudinous…
perspectives within it: a young girl is beaten after being accused of stealing a piece of candy, a slave ship's surgeon recounts brutal treatment and squalid conditions, an Englishman visiting Haiti observes as violent uprisings break out. So many viewpoints ensure that no historical blind spot will leave the picture of an era incomplete. 2018.By Ken Cuthbertson. 2017
On December 6, 1917, the French munitions ship Mont Blanc and the Norwegian war-relief vessel Imo collided in the harbour…
at Halifax, Nova Scotia. That accident sparked a fire and an apocalyptic explosion that was the largest man-made blast prior to the 1945 dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Together with the killer tsunami that followed, the explosion devastated the entire city in the wink of an eye and instantly killed more than two thousand people. While much has been written about the disaster, there is still more to the story, including the investigation of the key figures involved, the histories of the ships that collided and the confluence of circumstances that brought these two vessels together to touch off one of the most tragic man-made disasters of the twentieth century. Bestseller. 2017.By Christopher Hibbert. 1978
By Antonia Fraser. 1996
The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 is one of the most commemorated events in English history. Yet this astonishing episode remains…
shrouded in mystery and the subject of passionate argument. The central aim of this book is to explain why there should have been a plot at all, and to understand why the courageous, idealistic, but terrifyingly misguided conspirators risked their lives for what they believed to be the cause of God and their country. 1996. Uniform title: Faith and treason: the story of the Gunpowder PlotBy A. J. P Taylor. 1948
Dissolved in 1918, the Habsburg Empire "had a unique character, out of time and out of place". A.J.P. Taylor comments…
"No other family has left so deep a mark upon Europe; the Habsburgs were the greatest dynasty of modern history, and the history of central Europe revolves around them, not they round it". 1948.In 1917 a ship laden with the most explosives ever packed on a vessel sailed out of Brooklyn's harbor for…
the battlegrounds of World War I; when it stopped in Halifax, Nova Scotia, an extraordinary disaster took place: the largest man-made detonation prior to Hiroshima. 2017.By Dirk J Barreveld. 2001
The Netherlands in the early seventeenth century was struggling for its independence from Spain and seething with economic activities. When…
a fleet of its spice ships tried sailing to the east via the Strait of Magellan instead of through the Cape of Good Hope, only one reached Japan. Its British pilot, William Adams, managed to befriend the Shogun, and only the Dutch were allowed to trade with Japan for the next 250 years. 2001.By Aldous Huxley. 1952
A reconstruction of sensational occurrences at the Ursuline Convent in Loudun during the early 1600s. After a group of nuns…
were swept into a prolonged state of frenzy, they accused Urbain Grandier, Loudun's parson, of witchcraft. Huxley includes insights of modern psychology as well as his own speculations on good and evil. 1952.By Neil Hanson. 2002
In 1666, a ten-month drought had turned London into a tinderbox, and when the spark ignited, there was no stopping…
it. Gales, dry timber and the riverside warehouses full of flammable goods ensured that five days later city was in ruins. This is the human story of that "dreadful judgement". Includes strong language. 2002.By Fouad Ajami. 1998
Examines the concepts of secular nationalism and modernity as conceived by Arab intellectuals of Beirut, Baghdad, Damascus, and Cairo. Provides…
insights into the Middle East from Arabic sources: fiction, poetry, memoirs, and political commentaries. c1998.By Alan P Lightman. 2005
Believing that "the first reports of the great discoveries of science are works of art," Lightman has selected 25 "breakthrough"…
papers in fields ranging from quantum physics to molecular biology, medicine, and cosmology. Each is introduces with an essay on the life of each scientist and the significance of their discovery, being sensitive to the suffering of Jewish German scientists under the Nazis and of women scientists in the days of institutionalized misogyny. Includes papers by Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Henrietta Leavitt, Linus Pauling, Edwin Hubble, and Barbara McClintock. 2005.By Thomas F Madden. 2008
By Iris Chang. 2005
Chang explores 150 years in the history of Chinese Americans. She traces three waves of immigration - the first during…
the 1849-era California gold rush - and explains each group’s differing motivations, reception in America, and accomplishments. Also includes experiences of individuals and their personal struggles for success. 2005.By Flavius Josephus. 1992
By Julius Caesar. 1989
By Will Cuppy, Fred Feldkamp. 1984
By Christopher Hibbert. 1980
Overview of the violent upheaval in France from the convening of the Estates General in 1789 to Napoleon's rise to…
power in 1799. Emphasis is not on ideas, but on events and the personalities of Robespierre, Louis XVI, Mirabeau, Danton, and others. 1980.By Donald Spoto. 1995
This book describes a number of intriguing incidents in the personal lives of the British Royal Family, dating back to…
the time of Queen Victoria. The family conflicts and the personal failings of a number of the royals have been magnified through the lens of the press, ever eager for fresh details with which to build the impression of scandal. 1995.