Rebel Cities: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution by Michael Rapport
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Category: REM History
London, Paris and New York in the eighteenth century, as today, were places where political authority, commerce and money, art and intellectual life intersected. They straddled an Atlantic world where ships powered by nothing more than wind, currents and human muscle criss-crossed the sea, carrying with ...Show more
Les Parisiennes by SEBBA ANNE
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Category: REM History
WINNER OF THE FRANCO-BRITISH SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2016What did it feel like to be a woman living in Paris from 1939 to 1949? These were years of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation and secrets until - finally - renewal and retribution. Even at the darkest moments of Occupation, glamour was ever ...Show more
Churchill's First WarYoung Winston at War with the Afghans by Con Coughlin
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Category: REM History
Churchill's First War by Con Coughlin is a fascinating account of Winston Churchill's early military career fighting in the 1890 Afghan campaign, offering fresh and revealing parallels into today's war in AfghanistanJust over a century ago British troops were fighting a vicious frontier war against Pash ...Show more
1946: The Making of the Modern World by Victor Sebestyen
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Category: REM History
Originally published: London: Macmillan, 2014.
The Rise of Athens - The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization by Anthony Everitt
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Category: REM History | Reading Level: very good
A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history's most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens celebrates the ci ...Show more
Silence: A Christian History by Professor of the History of the Church Diarmaid MacCulloch (Oxford University)
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Category: REM History
A provocative history of the role of silence in Christianity by the award-winning, "New York Times" bestselling author In this essential work of religious history, the "New York Times "bestselling author of "Christianity" explores the vital role of silence in the Christian story. How should one speak to ...Show more
A Nation Without Borders by Steven Hahn
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Category: REM History | Series: The\Penguin History of the United States Ser.
The era from 1830 to 1910 witnessed massive transformations in how people lived, worked, thought about themselves, and struggled to live and thrive. It also witnessed the birth of economic and political institutions that still shape our world. America's population grew more than ten-fold. The country ex ...Show more
East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity" by Professor Philippe Sands (University of London and New York University School of Law)
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Category: REM History
Winnerof the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction A monumental achievement a profoundly personal account of the origins of crimes against humanityand genocide, told with love, anger and precision. John le Carre A narrative, to my knowledge unprecedented.[It] should not be ignoredby anyone in the ...Show more
The Embrace of Unreason: France, 1914-1940 by Professor Frederick Brown
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Category: REM History
From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of "For the Soul of France" ( Masterful history Henry Kissinger), "Zola" ( Magnificent "The New Yorker"), and "Flaubert "( Impeccable James Wood, cover, "The New York Times Book Review") a brilliant reconsideration of the events and the political, ...Show more
In Miniature - How Small Things Illuminate the World by Simon Garfield
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Category: REM History
Bestselling, award-winning writer Simon Garfield returns with an enthralling investigation of humans' peculiar fascination with small things-and what small things tell us about our larger world. Simon Garfield writes books that shine a light on aspects of the everyday world in order to reveal the charm ...Show more
The Medici by Mary Hollingsworth
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Category: REM History | Reading Level: near fine
Having founded the bank that became the most powerful in Europe in the fifteenth century, the Medici gained political power in Florence, raising the city to a peak of cultural achievement and becoming its hereditary dukes. Among their number were no fewer than three popes and a powerful and influential ...Show more
Theatre of the World - The Maps That Made History by Thomas Reinertsen Berg
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Category: REM History | Reading Level: near fine
'Fascinating...sumptuously produced with lots of full-colour images, is a kind of potted treasury of cartographical history that gleams with pieces-of-eight-like snippets of information...this is an enthralling book, and joins the likes of Simon Garfield's On the Map and Jerry Brotton's A History of the ...Show more