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Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Arias's debut opens with a blaze at an American Fruit Company's banana plantation in 1968 Costa Rica that has long-term consequences for Teresa Cepeda Valverde's family. Nearly three decades later, Teresa is dealing with an estranged daughter who wants to know about the fire, even as she must face her husband's ongoing absence and the imprecations of her mother's furious ghost.
83) Legacy of war
Author
Series
Courtney novels volume 18
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
459 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The war is over, Hitler is dead, and yet his evil legacy lives on. Saffron Courtney and her beloved husband Gerhard only just survived the brutal conflict, but Gerhard's Nazi-supporting brother, Konrad, is still free and determined to regain power. As a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse develops, a plot against the couple begins to stir. One that will have ramifications throughout Europe. Further afield in Kenya, the last outcrop of the colonial empire...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 625 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Spanning two and a half millennia, historian Pagden delves deep into the roots of the "clash of civilizations" between East and West that has always been a battle over ideas, and whose issues have never been more urgent. He begins in the ancient world, where Greece saw its fight against the Persian Empire as one between freedom and slavery, between monarchy and democracy. From there the story sweeps to Rome, which created the modern concepts of citizenship...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xv, 375 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad, his turbulent age of globalization and our own, from one of the most exciting young historians writing today. Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, and a communications revolution: these forces shaped Joseph Conrad's destiny at the dawn of the twentieth century. In this brilliant new interpretation of one of the great voices in modern literature,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
7 CDs (approximately 8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (80 pages : illustrations).
Language
English
Description
This course will examine the development of the British Empire from the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, via its greatest terretorial extent in 1919 to its eventual decline and end in the years after World War II, and its final transformation in the Commonwealth of independent nations.
Author
Series
Imperium novels (Jody Lynn Nye) volume 1
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
566 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ensign Thomas Innes Loche Kinago, fresh from the Academy is given his first command. A crumb from the upper crust, he's eager to uphold the traditions of his family, and in particular, his mother, a distinguished Admiral of the Imperium. Of course, he's aware of the importance of always having simply smashing tailored uniforms on hand, and having his camera ready to record memorable moments for his scrapbook. In the meantime, a charismatic leader...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xviii, 238 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores the historical development of American culture and how elements of what has made the United States a leading player in world affairs, including economic liberalism and free enterprise, have ultimately contributed to its decline.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history. For many Britons, it epitomized their nation's cultural superiority, but what legacy did the island nation deliver to the world? Covering more than two hundred years of history, Caroline Elkins reveals an evolutionary and racialized doctrine that espoused an unrelenting deployment...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
587 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Drawing from new archival research, prize-winning historian Michael Burleigh gives new meaning to the seminal decades of 1945 to 1965 by examining the many, largely forgotten, "hot" wars fought around the world.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Economic hit men are the shock troops of what Perkins calls the corporatocracy, a vast network of corporations, banks, colluding governments, and the rich and powerful people tied to them. Perkins shares new details about the ways he and others cheated countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. He reveals how EHM have become the dominant system of business, government, and society today. And he gives an insider view with specific actions...
100) Les carabiniers
Publisher
Fox Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"Centers on two peasants who join the King's army. Seduced by the promise of riches, the two leave their wives and embark into the war sending postcards home that detail their conquests. Upon their return, they learn that a peace treaty has been signed and in turn, are betrayed by the king for their overzealousness."--Container.
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