In the nineteenth century, Ireland lost half of its population to famine, emigration to the United States and Canada, and the forced transportation of convicts to Australia. Based on unique research among little-known sources, this book...
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- Author:Keneally, ThomasSummary:
- Author:Scheidel, WalterSummary:
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today,...
- Author:Khanduri, KaminiSummary:
- Author:Robson, JenniferSummary:
Jennifer Robson takes us inside the workrooms where one of the most famous wedding gowns in history was created. Balancing behind-the-scenes details with a sweeping portrait of a society left reeling by the calamitous costs of victory,...
- Author:Stone, Tanya Lee.Summary:
Readers learn about Mattel Toys and the background behind Barbie's concept and development, how it was a solution for girls who wanted to imagine adult roles rather than just play mother, and details about inventor Ruth Handler....
- Author:Sweeney, EmmetSummary:
The Ages in Alignment series argues for a complete reconstruction of ancient chronology. The histories of the Near Eastern civilizations are now believed to have commenced around 3300 BC, about 2,000 years before those of China and the...
- Author:Colt, George HoweSummary:
From the author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist The Big House comes a story in the tradition of The Boys in the Boat about an unforgettable group of young athletes who battled in the legendary Harvard-Yale football game...
- Author:Freedman, LawrenceSummary:
In 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, wrote a short story about a war fought from underwater submersibles that included the sinking of passenger ships. At the time, it was dismissed by the British generals and...
- Author:Bray, AlanSummary:
- Author:Lester, TobySummary:
Lester spotlights Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 world map and recounts the epic tale of the mariners and scholars who facilitated this watershed of Western history.
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"A portrait of American food--before the national highway system, before chain restaurants, and before frozen food, when the nation's food was seasonal, regional, and traditional--from the lost WPA files"--Compact disc...
- Author:Hakim, Joy.Summary:
Presents the history of the Native Americans from earliest times through the arrival of the first Europeans.
- Author:Harper, KyleSummary:
A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is...
- Author:HUGHES, RobertSummary:
The author follows convict transportation from the squalor of Georgian England to the grim prison hulks. Of those who survived the first fleets, many were to suffer starvation, disease and extreme brutality in the Colonies.
- Author:Griffith, VictoriaSummary:
Profiles Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, who made great strides in the invention of flight.
- Author:Wright, RobertSummary:
In this sweeping narrative that takes us from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Robert Wright unveils a hidden pattern that the great monotheistic faiths have followed as they have evolved. Through the prisms of archaeology,...
- Author:Hautzig, Esther RudominSummary:
During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the...
- Author:Fedarko, KevinSummary:
This is the thrilling true tale of the fastest boat ride ever, down the entire length of the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon, during the legendary flood of 1983. This book at last sets forth the full story of an American...
- Author:Merasty, Joseph AugusteSummary:
- Author:Kelly, JackSummary:
At the pinnacle of the Gilded Age, a boycott of Pullman sleeping cars by hundreds of thousands of railroad employees brought commerce to a standstill across much of the country. With the country now in a New Gilded Age, this look back...