The Appin Murder: The Killing That Shook a Nation

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Date: 3 Sep 2021 05:07:58

On a hillside near Ballachulish in the Scottish Highlands in May 1752, a rider is assassinated by a gunman. The murdered man is Colin Campbell, a government agent traveling to nearby Duror where he’s evicting farm tenants to make way for his relatives. Campbell’s killer evades capture, but Britain’s rulers insist this challenge to their authority must result in a hanging. The sacrificial victim is James Stewart, who is organizing resistance to Campbell’s takeover of lands long held by his clan, the Appin Stewarts.

History of Ireland History of Scotland 18th Century World History World History History

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Why Food Matters (Why X Matters)

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Date: 3 Sep 2021 04:55:30

From the author of Ten Restaurants That Changed America, an exploration of food's cultural importance and its crucial role throughout human history

Cooking Food Science Gastronomy History World History History

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Operation Barbarossa: The History of a Cataclysm

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Date: 27 Aug 2021 06:39:54

Author of an acclaimed history of the Battle of the Atlantic during World War Two (OUP 2016), Jonathan Dimbleby now offers a compelling account of the largest military operation not only of World War Two but of all time–the invasion of Russia by Nazi Germany in 1941. Often seen as the turning point of the war in Europe, Operation Barbarossa turned allies into mortal enemies, triggering the atrocities that would characterize the Holocaust.

History Military World History Russian History World War II History

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Late Stalinism: The Aesthetics of Politics

Posted By: First1

Date: 25 Aug 2021 07:34:19

How the last years of Stalin's rule led to the formation ofan imperial Soviet consciousness

History Russian History World History

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The Gunpowder Plot Deceit

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Date: 21 Aug 2021 06:51:26

Most people think they know the story of the Gunpowder Plot, and of how a bloody catastrophe was averted at the eleventh hour when Guy Fawkes was caught lurking in the shadows beneath the Houses of Parliament.

History Great Britain History World History True Crime

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Lawmen of the Wild West

Posted By: First1

Date: 18 Aug 2021 16:24:14

Without doubt it was one of the toughest jobs. Faced with ruthless criminal, trigger-happy gunslingers and assorted desperados, the lawmen of the Old West tried, and sometimes died, in their efforts to bring some semblance of order to their towns and communities.

History World History

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Kuolema Syvärillä (Finnish Edition) [Repost]

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Date: 26 Jul 2021 13:17:54

Kuolema Syvärillä (Finnish Edition) [Repost]

AZW3 World History

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Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending US Poverty

Posted By: First1

Date: 25 Jul 2021 06:57:46

Water. Food. Housing. The most basic and crucial needs for survival, yet 40 percent of people in the United States don't have the resources to get them. With key policy changes, we could eradicate poverty in this country within our lifetime—but we need to get started now.

History Sociology World History

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Te Papa to Berlin: The making of two museums

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Date: 24 Jul 2021 06:55:28

Ken Gorbey is a remarkable man who for 15 years was involved with developing and realising the revolutionary cultural concept that became Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand. Then in 1999 he was headhunted by W. Michael Blumenthal to salvage the Jewish Museum Berlin, which was failing and fast becoming a national embarrassment.

Art History World History

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Nations and Nationalism in World History (Themes in World History)

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Date: 7 Jul 2021 23:58:27

Nations and Nationalism in World History (Themes in World History)

History World History Nationalism

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Cultural Translation and Knowledge Transfer on Alternative Routes of Escape from Nazi Terror

Posted By: sasha82

Date: 29 Jun 2021 07:25:19

Cultural Translation and Knowledge Transfer on Alternative Routes of Escape from Nazi Terror: Meditations Through Migrations (Studies for the International Society for Cultural History) by Susanne Korbel, Philipp Strobl
2021 | ISBN: 0367569116 | English | 278 pages | PDF | 8 MB

Social & Cultural History World History Modern World History History Sociology

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Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic Second Edition

Posted By: AlexGolova

Date: 9 Jun 2021 18:14:07

World History AZW3 Iran History Military History

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Great Sieges in World History: from Ancient Times to the 21st Century

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Date: 30 May 2021 21:51:40

This impressive collection of 100 of the most decisive and important sieges spans human history and covers conflicts in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

World History Ancient Times Military History

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