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Language: en
Pages: 217
Authors: Mark Michael Smith
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnessed. Nowhere is this truer than in the nerve-shattering chaos
Sensing the Past
Language: en
Pages: 198
Authors: Mark Michael Smith
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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"Smith's history of the sensate is destined to precipitate a revolution in our understanding of the sensibilities that underpinned the mentalities of past epoch
North Over South
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Susan-Mary Grant
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher:

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This text argues that the Civil War truly formed the American nation and that the antebellum period was the crucial phase of American national construction. Gra
Empires of the Senses
Language: en
Pages: 393
Authors: Andrew J. Rotter
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-21 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Road of Bones
Language: en
Pages: 578
Authors: Fergal Keane
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: HarperCollins UK

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Winner of the British Army Military Book of the Year 2011The story of one of the most brutal battles in modern history - fought at a major turning point of the