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  • A History of Macclesfield Chess Club

    by A.R. Soames ...
    Northern England's manufacturing towns had taken to Chess and Manchester (Macclesfield's giant neighbouring City) hosted the world's second international tournament in 1857. The founders of the Macclesfield Chess Club in 1886 were businessmen and civic leaders, deeply entangled in local politics – education, religion and finances. Social changes from the end of the 19th century make this more than ... Read more

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  • Dictators and Autocrats

    Securing Power across Global Politics

    Edited by Klaus Larres ...
    In order to truly understand the emergence, endurance, and legacy of autocracy, this volume of engaging essays explores how autocratic power is acquired, exercised, and transferred or abruptly ended through the careers and politics of influential figures in more than 20 countries and six regions.The book looks at both traditional "hard" dictators, such as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, and more modern ... Read more

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  • Kingdom of Dahomey: A History from Beginning to End

    by Hourly History ...
    Imagine a fervently militaristic state with a feared professional army that included some of the only all-female military units ever seen. Imagine that same state with its own unique and sophisticated culture, religion, language, art, and society. Such a state did exist—not in the ancient past but as recently as the beginning of the twentieth century.The Kingdom of Dahomey was established in the ... Read more

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  • Letters from Russia

    by Marquis de Custine ...
    The Marquis de Custine's unique perspective on a vast, fascinating country in the grip of oppressive tyrannyIn 1839, encouraged by his friend Balzac, Custine set out to explore Russia. His impressions turned into what is perhaps the greatest and most influential of all books about Russia under the Tsars.Rich in anecdotes as much about the court of Tsar Nicholas as the streets of St Petersburg, ... Read more

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  • Brunel, Barry and 'modern' Victorian architecture

    Building Passions

    by Nick von Behr ...
    Why does the history of our built environment matter?The great 19th-century engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel was voted the second greatest Briton after Churchill. This fascinating book looks at his family's connection with the equally renowned Barry family of Victorian architects and civil engineers. It shows how their shared legacy can be linked through to the construction of London's iconic ... Read more

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  • Captain Coignet

    A Soldier of Napoleon's Imperial Guard from the Italian Campaign to Waterloo

    by Jean-Roch Coignet ...
    Jean-Roch Coignet (1776-1865) was a French soldier who served in the military campaigns of the Consulate and First French Empire, up through the Battle of Waterloo.He later wrote his memoirs detailing his military service, The Notebooks of Captain Coignet, which are still being reprinted. ... Read more

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  • Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister

    Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

    by Jung Chang ...
    They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center of power, and each of them left an indelible mark on history.Red Sister, Ching-ling, married the 'Father of China', Sun Yat-sen, and rose to be Mao's vice-chair.Little Sister, May-ling, became Madame ... Read more

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  • Basic Writings of Existentialism

    Edited by Gordon Marino ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Edited and with an Introduction by Gordon MarinoBasic Writings of Existentialism, unique to the Modern Library, presents the writings of key nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers broadly united by their belief that because life has no inherent meaning humans can discover, we must determine meaning for ourselves. This anthology brings together into one volume the most influential and commonly ... Read more

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  • Shinsengumi

    The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps

    by Romulus Hillsborough ...
    Shinsengumi: The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps is the true story of the notorious samurai corps formed in 1863 to arrest or kill the enemies of the Tokugawa Shogun.The only book in English about the Shinsengumi, it focuses on the corps' two charismatic leaders, Kondo Isami and Hijikata Toshizo, both impeccable swordsmen. It is a history-in-brief of the final years of the Bakufu, which collapsed in ... Read more

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  • War of 1812: A History from Beginning to End

    by Henry Freeman ...
    The War of 1812 is often forgotten when we think about the history of the United States. Yet the effects of what seems a minor and insignificant conflict are far-reaching, even to today. The world settled into the roles it would play out for decades, and the boundaries of the United States and Canada would be set for the next two hundred years.Inside you will read about...✓ The Beginning of the ... Read more

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  • The Year Without Summer

    1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History

    by William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman ...
    Like Winchester's Krakatoa, The Year Without Summer reveals a year of dramatic global change long forgotten by historyIn the tradition of Krakatoa, The World Without Us, and Guns, Germs and Steel comes a sweeping history of the year that became known as 18-hundred-and-froze-to-death. 1816 was a remarkable year—mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption in ... Read more

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  • Decisive Battles Since Waterloo

    Enriched edition.

    by Thomas Wallace Knox, Tyler Ashford ...
    In "Decisive Battles Since Waterloo," Thomas Wallace Knox offers a comprehensive analysis of key military engagements that have shaped the course of modern history, following the landmark Battle of Waterloo in 1815. The book adopts a narrative style that blends thorough historical research with vivid descriptions, making each battle come alive through engaging storytelling. Knox meticulously ... Read more

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  • Klondike

    The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899

    by Pierre Berton ...
    With the building of the railroad and the settlement of the plains, the North West was opening up. The Klondike stampede was a wild interlude in the epic story of western development, and here are its dramatic tales of hardship, heroism, and villainy. We meet Soapy Smith, dictator of Skagway; Swiftwater Bill Gates, who bathed in champagne; Silent Sam Bonnifield, who lost and won back a hotel in a ... Read more

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  • Hornblower's Historical Shipmates

    The Young Gentlemen of Pellew's <I>Indefatigable</I>

    by Heather Noel-Smith, Lorna M. Campbell ...
    This book sets out the lives of seventeen 'young gentlemen' who were midshipmen under the famous Captain Sir Edward Pellew. Together, aboard the frigate HMS Indefatigable, they fought a celebrated action in 1797 against theFrench ship of the line Les Droits de l'Homme. C. S. Forester, the historical novelist, placed his famous hero, Horatio Hornblower, aboard Pellew's ship as a midshipman, so this ... Read more

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  • At the Roots of Italian Identity

    'Race' and 'Nation' in the Italian Risorgimento, 1796-1870

    by Edoardo Marcello Barsotti ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Italy
    This book investigates the relationship between the ideas of nation and race among the nationalist intelligentsia of the Italian Risorgimento and argues that ideas of race played a considerable role in defining Italian national identity.The author argues that the racialization of the Italians dates back to the early Napoleonic age and that naturalistic racialism—or race-thinking based on the ... Read more

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  • Japanese Medical Lives in Transformation

    Contesting Modernity in the Late Nineteenth Century

    by Dr Ellen Gardner Nakamura ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
    At the end of the 19th century, Japanese modernizers abandoned the traditional Chinese-style medicine that had dominated for centuries, and turned instead to Western medical theory and practice. In this book, Ellen Gardner Nakamura reconsiders the story of the adoption of Western medicine through the eyes of six medical practitioners.The men who took the lead in transforming Japanese medicine ... Read more

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  • 27 Thoughts About Steampunk

    by Travis I Sivart ...
    Travis I. Sivart draws on his passion of steampunk as an aesthetic and a hobby to offer his personal insights for helping others to begin to delving into this fascinating culture and genre. Each thought is a single page, keeping the ideas simple and to the point. This book offers twenty-seven thoughts on the basic questions and concepts that often crop up when someone is beginning to explore this ... Read more

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  • A History of Modern Germany

    1871 to Present

    by Dietrich Orlow ...
    Now in its ninth edition, A History of Modern Germany provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of this complex country’s history, beginning in 1871 and ending in the present day.Orlow tells the story of Germany’s troubled past—Prusso-German authoritarianism, the Nazi dictatorship, and the Holocaust—whilst also uncovering the long-standing traditions of political, cultural, and ... Read more

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  • Ulysses S. Grant et la reconstruction du Sud

    Une présidence entachée par les scandales

    by Pierre-Jean Delvoye, Christophe Maggi, 50minutes ...
    Series Book 9 - Grands Présidents
    Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Ulysses S. Grant en moins d’une heure !Aujourd’hui classé au rang des « présidents oubliables », Ulysses Simspon Grant devient le 18e président des États-Unis en 1869. À compter de ce moment, et malgré les nombreux scandales qui éclabousseront son deuxième mandat, il se consacre entièrement à reconstruire un pays ravagé par la guerre de Sécession, ... Read more

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  • L'impératif cosmique - tome 1

    L'avant-garde russe du 19e siècle

    by Rudolph Biérent ...
    Series Book 1 - L'impératif cosmique
    La volonté de l'homme d'explorer le cosmos est plus ancienne qu'on ne le pense... Une nécessité qui n'est désormais plus seulement prophétique !L’humanité doit aller dans l’espace, comme les poissons ont dû sortir hors de l’eau. Dans un passé très reculé, cet impératif fut exprimé par un discours religieux. À l’aube du XIXe siècle, alors que la connaissance scientifique et les moyens techniques ... Read more

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  • Computer

    A History of the Information Machine

    by Martin Campbell-Kelly, William F. Aspray, Jeffrey R. Yost, Honghong Tinn, Gerardo Con Díaz ...
    Computer: A History of the Information Machine traces the history of the computer and its unlimited, information-processing potential.Comprehensive and accessibly written, this fully updated fourth edition adds new chapters on the globalization of information technology, the rise of social media, fake news, and the gig economy, and the regulatory frameworks being put in place to tame the ... Read more

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  • Jane Austen's Worthing

    The Real Sandition

    by Antony Edmonds ...
    During her stay in Worthing in late 1805 Jane Austen became friends with Edward Ogle, who was the driving force behind the chaotic little town’s transformation into a well-ordered seaside resort. Then, in 1817, the year of her death, Jane Austen used Worthing as the background for her final, unfinished novel, Sanditon, one of whose main characters was based on Ogle. This book gives a detailed ... Read more

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  • Bismarck and the Creation of the Second Reich

    Edited by Friedrich Darmstaedter ...
    Chancellor Otto Bismarck's "greatness" lay in what he created, the German Reich of 1871. This Reich was the product of his genius, and in it his genius took complete shape. In less than a decade German chaos was brought to an end and in its place a homogeneous state began to arise. The structure of this state left no room for opposing political forces, but rather made ready a roof under which ... Read more

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  • The Vanishing Age of Sail

    The Illustrated Journals of Kelsick Wood, Shipbuilder

    by Simon Francis Brown ...
    Kelsick Wood was a nineteenth-century Georgian shipbuilder in Maryport, Cumberland, with a private passion for painting. He combined his two loves in his journals, where shipyard contracts and inventories share their pages with beautiful and curious watercolour pictures. The Vanishing Age of Sail revels in the rich, textured story behind these little books. It shows how each small shipyard on ... Read more

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