Cultural Literature
Biafra: The History and Legacy of the Secessionist Republic of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War
"[A] cardinal principle of British colonial policy [is] that the interests of a large native population shall not be subject to the will...of a small minority of educated and Europeanized natives." - Lord Frederick Lugard Nigeria was the creation of...
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Biblos: Historia y legado de la más antigua ciudad fenicia
De todos los pueblos del antiguo cercano oriente, los fenicios están entre los más reconocidos, pero quizás también entre los menos comprendidos. Los fenicios nunca construyeron un imperio como los egipcios y los asirios; de hecho, los fenicios nunca crearon...
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Billie Holiday and Etta James: The Lives and Legacies of the Famous Jazz Singers
*Includes pictures*Includes the artists' quotes about their lives*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsIf Billie Holiday wanted to become a jazz singer, she chose the best of all eras in which to attempt it....
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Black Bart & Howell Davis: Mastering Piracy
*Weaves the lives and piracy of the two famous pirates into one entertaining and educational narrative.*Explains how the myths and legends of the pirates helped create the instantly recognizable pirate stereotypes today.*Includes pictures depicting the pirates and important people, places,...
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Black Hawk Down: The History of the Battle of Mogadishu
*Includes pictures *Includes an explanation of the action, what went wrong, and an analysis of who was to blame *Includes online resources, footnotes, and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “The Somalis were a curious bunch....
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Black September: The History and Legacy of the Conflict Between the Palestinians and Jordan in 1970
*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading“We had thousands of incidents of breaking the law, of attacking people. It was a very unruly state of affairs in the country and I continued to try. I went to...
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Black Tuesday: The History and Legacy of the Wall Street Crash of 1929
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the stock market crash written by newspapers and other contemporaries *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents The Roaring Twenties were an age of optimism. New technology was being invented, and...
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Blaise Pascal: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary French Mathematician and Theologian
“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.” (Blaise Pascal) Blaise Pascal’s time on earth may have been brief - no more than 39 years -...
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Blenheim Palace: The History and Legacy of the Only Non-Royal Palace in England
By the start of the 18th century, England had recovered from one of the most tumultuous periods in its history and was heading into the future with a new sense of unity. The civil wars were over, and despite some...
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Blitzkrieg: La Historia y Legado de la Guerra Relámpago de la Alemania Nazi al Comienzo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial
La guerra siempre ha sido una competencia entre defensiva y ofensiva. Por momentos ambas han estado relativamente balanceadas, pero en otros momentos, una llega a ser mucho más poderosa. Es durante esos tiempos que ocurren las más grandiosas innovaciones militares.El...
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Blitzkrieg: The History and Legacy of Nazi Germany's Lightning Warfare at the Start of World War II
*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“In this year, 1929, I became convinced that tanks working on their own or in conjunction with infantry could never achieve decisive importance. My historical studies, the...
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Blood Diamonds: The Controversial History of Mining Operations in Africa that Subsidize Conflicts across the Continent
Sometime early in November 1985, a clandestine prison escape took place at the Plymouth County Correctional Facility in Massachusetts. With the usual prop of knotted together sheets, Charles Taylor an ex-Liberian government official, alumni student of Bentley College, Massachusetts, and...
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Bloody Mary: The Life and Legacy of England's Most Notorious Queen
"When I am dead and opened, you shall find 'Calais' lying in my heart." (Mary I) Queen Mary I ruled England and its conquered territories in Wales and Ireland for only five years, from 1553 to 1558, yet she has...
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Boko Haram: The History of Africa's Most Notorious Terrorist Group
*Includes pictures*Profiles leaders of the group and explains its history of attacks*Includes footnotes for further reading*Includes a table of contents“Boko Haram are better armed and are better motivated than our own troops. Given the present state of affairs, it is...
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Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois: The Civil Rights Icons Who Became Bitter Rivals
Despite a Union victory and Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, unthinkable in the previous century, a new form of suppression and violence descended on the African American population. “Reconstruction” is employed as a generic term for the period that followed the American...
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Booker T. Washington: The Life and Legacy of the Famous Civil Rights Activist
From 1890 to 1915, the most influential Black man in America was Booker T. Washington, who less than 35 years earlier had been born into slavery. The young boy worked laboriously until emancipation before going on to seek an education,...
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Booming Brew Town: The History of Milwaukee in the 20th Century
*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents"It is true, similar things [cultural events and societies] were done in other cities where the Forty-eighters [sic] had congregated. But so far as I know, nowhere...
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Brandy Station and the March to Gettysburg: The History of the Confederate Invasion of Pennsylvania Before the Biggest Battle of the Civil War
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting written by generals and soldiers on both sides *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents Buoyed by his recent successes at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Confederate...
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Braxton Bragg vs. William Rosecrans: The Battles of Stones River (Murfreesboro) and Chickamauga
*Includes pictures of the battles' important generals.*Includes several maps of the battles.*Includes accounts of the battles written by important generals. .*Includes a Bibliography for each battle.“I know Mr. Davis thinks he can do a great many things other men would...
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British Covert Operations in World War I: The History of Britain's Espionage and Dark Arts during the Great War
*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsWorld War I, also known in its time as the “Great War” or the “War to End all Wars,” was an unprecedented holocaust in terms of its sheer scale. Fought...
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