The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and its Arabs by Andrew Hussey
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Category: Popular History
Beyond the affluent centre of Paris and other French cities, in the deprived banlieues, a war is going on. This is the French Intifada, a guerrilla war between the French state and the former subjects of its Empire, for whom the mantra of 'liberty, equality, fraternity' conceals a bitter history of domi ...Show more
Mortal Secrets - Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind by Frank Tallis
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Category: Popular History | Reading Level: near fine
Like Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels, Mortal Secrets is a lively and accessible portrait of major figure - Sigmund Freud - and the unprecedented era of creativity that shaped his ideas Some cities are like stars. When the conditions are right, they ignite, and they burn ...Show more
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
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Category: Popular History
"For generations, the Book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents by various hands expressing different factional interests, with borrowings from other ancient literatures that mark the text as derivative. In other words, academic interpretation of Genesis has centered on t ...Show more
Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House by Adrian Tinniswood
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Category: Popular History
From the bestselling author of The Long Weekend- a wild, sad and sometimes hilarious tour of the English country house after the Second World War, when Swinging London collided with aristocratic values. From the bestselling author of The Long Weekend- a wild, sad and sometimes hilarious tour of the Engl ...Show more
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok
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Category: Popular History
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union--showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four-million strong, five-thousand nuclear-tipped missiles, and was t ...Show more
Cleopatra's Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen by Jane Draycott
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Category: Popular History
Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Mark Antony, was the only member of the Ptolemaic dynasty to survive after her parents were defeated by the future Roman emperor Augustus at the Battle of Actium. Paraded as a prisoner in a Roman triumph, then brought up in the household of August ...Show more
Siena: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval City by Jane Stevenson
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Category: Popular History
An authoritative, richly illustrated history, and affectionate celebration, of Siena, one of the best-loved and most-visited cities in Italy.Occupying a hilltop site in the midst of a vast, undulating landscape, Siena is as much a magnet for contemporary tourism as Florence. However, its proud republica ...Show more
The Children of Athena: Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC-AD 400 by Charles Freeman
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Category: Popular History
The remarkable story of how Greek-speaking writers and thinkers sustained and developed the intellectual legacy of Classical Greece under the rule of Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; some sixty years later, when Athens and other Greek city-states rebelled aga ...Show more
A Cold Spell: A Human History of Ice by Max Leonard
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Category: Popular History
Taking us from the beginning of our story to the present day, A Cold Spell examines how ice has shaped our thoughts, actions and societies - and what it means for us that it is rapidly disappearing from our planet. 'In a bracingly original book, Max Leonard makes something we all take for granted into ...Show more
Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History by Otto English
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Category: Popular History | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from our past, examining these previously unquestioned idols and exposing what they were trying to hide. Was Che Guevara really a revolutionary hero? Should Mother Teresa be honoured as a sai ...Show more
Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 by Robert Service
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Category: Popular History
'A terrific book about a terrifying subject by the best historian of Russia working today' - Michael Burleigh In Blood on the Snow, Robert Service returns to the subject that has formed the backbone of his long and distinguished career: the Russian Revolution. For Service, the great unanswered questio ...Show more
Rebel Island: The incredible history of Taiwan by Jonathan Clements
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Category: Popular History
The gripping history of Taiwan, from the flood myths of indigenous legend to its Asian Tiger economic miracle--and the renewed threat of invasion by China. Once dismissed by the Kangxi Emperor as nothing but a 'ball of mud', Taiwan has a modern GDP larger than that of Sweden, in a land area smaller tha ...Show more