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American history
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
By David Eltis
Hardback
Published 22-Oct-2010
| Our price: | £35.00 |
Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. This atlas deals with 350-year history of kidnapping and coercion. It features nearly 200 maps that explore details of the African slave traffic to the New World.
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Fruitlands
By Richard Francis
Hardback
Published 12-Nov-2010
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An account of Fruitlands, one of history's most unsuccessful, but most significant, utopian experiments. It demonstrates the dilemmas and conflicts inherent to any utopian experiment, shedding light on a period of American history.
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Fruitlands
By Richard Francis
Paperback
Published 31-Oct-2011
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An account of Fruitlands, one of history's most unsuccessful, but most significant, utopian experiments.
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Hugo!
By Bart Jones
Paperback
Published 02-Jul-2009
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Ex-paratrooper and outspoken socialist, Hugo Chavez is known for his fearless threats to the Bush administration, social reforms that have violently polarized his country, and also for providing a model for new governments and social movements across South America. This book presents the biography of Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela.
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Last Stand
By Nathaniel Philbrick
Paperback
Published 02-Jun-2011
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Tells the story of the American West. Whether it is cast as a tale of unmatched bravery in the face of impossible odds or of insane arrogance receiving its rightful comeuppance, this title continues to captivate the imagination. It reconstructs the build-up to the Battle of the Little Big Horn through to the final eruption of violence.
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United States 1917-2008
By Derrick Murphy
Paperback
Published 11-Apr-2008
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This new title offers comprehensive coverage for the new 2008 specifications, from the First World War to George W Bush. Includes historical interpretations, document source questions, explanation of difficult words and concepts, a study skills section for exam preparation and a companion website with visuals to support learning.
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Alistair Cooke's America
By Alistair Cooke
Paperback
Published 02-Oct-2008
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Beginning with the controversial discovery of America, the author deals with the explorers who put their new-found land on the map, the pioneers who tamed the Wild West, the soldier who fought for independence and the tycoons who built fortunes.
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Vietnam War Reader
By Michael Hunt
Paperback
Published 06-May-2010
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A collection of shocking lived experiences, directly from the mouths and the pens of those soldiers, politicians and citizens who lived through the days of the Vietnam War and its bloody aftermath.
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Clinton Tapes
By Taylor Branch
Paperback
Published 02-Sep-2010
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A sitting president thinks out loud about his legacy to his close friend, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, over seven sometimes turbulent years
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Hellhound on His Trail
By Hampton Sides
Paperback
Published 05-May-2011
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A story of two very different men whose lives catastrophically interweaved over the course of some nine months in the late 1960s: one was a thief and con man called James Earl Ray, the other one of the greatest American figures of the twentieth century, Martin Luther King Jr Hampton Sides follows in Ray's footsteps as he escapes from prison.
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