Key West in History, Paperback

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Reducere. Cultures of the West: A History, Third Edition, focuses on the ways in which the major ideas and passions of Western culture developed, internally,...

Reducere. Cultures of the West: A History, Third Edition, focuses on the ways in which the major ideas and passions of Western culture developed, internally,...

In 1935 three women are forever changed when one of the most powerful hurricanes in history barrels toward the Florida Keys. For the tourists trave...

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Contributor(s): Author: Tonio AndradeThe Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries befo...

The fertile dual evolution of design under socialism and capitalism in postwar GermanyThe cheap, colorful plastic designs of East Germany pitted ag...

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This book reinterprets the history of German-Israeli relations by examining the policies that East and West Germany implemented towards Israel in t...

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This new history of over 5, 000 years of African art reveals its true diversity for the first time. Challenging centuries of misconceptions that ha...

Abandoned Florida: Sunshine Sentinels is a stunning visual survey of Florida's historic coastal defenses--those sun-faded outposts of empire, crumb...

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Reveals the amazing story of a largely forgotten explorer and naturalist who forged his way into West Africa and its history. From his early life i...

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Reducere. From the wreck of the USS Alligator to the mystery of the marooned dolphins, It Happened in the Florida Keys looks at intriguing people and episode...

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To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and wh...

Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Wild Bill Hickok: most people could recount at least a few details of such celebrated Old West figures whose fame rests ...

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DescriptionIn late 1944 and 1945 the Panther tank played an important role in Germany's desperate efforts to stem the Allied advance on the Western...

Contributor(s): Author: Trevor PhillipsAuthor: Mike PhillipsBroadcaster Trevor Phillips and his novelist brother Mike retell the very human story o...

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China's rapid rise as a regional and global power is one of the most important political developments of the twenty-first century. Yet the West sti...

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Reducere. The animal fur trade played a key role in the development and ultimate ownership of lands and resources on the West Coast of North America. Yet it ...

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In this extraordinary book, the controversial and profoundly influential Hans K ng chronicles the Roman Catholic Church's role as a world power thr...

Reducere. When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine...

In Dark Work, Christy Clark-Pujara tells the story of one state in particular whose role was outsized: Rhode Island. Historians have written expans...

Reducere. This comprehensive look at Japanese cinema in the 1990s includes nearly four hundred reviews of individual films and a dozen interviews and profile...

The works of Virgil (70-19 BCE) define the 'golden age' of Latin poetry and have inspired a long tradition of interpretation and adaptation that st...

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DescriptionPeter C. Caldwell and Karrin Hanshew's Germany Since 1945 traces the social, political and cultural history of Germany from the end of t...

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Reducere. A gripping and sensational tale of violence, alcohol, and taxes, The Whiskey Rebellion uncovers the radical eighteenth-century people's movement, l...

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The history of how the Luftwaffe planned to knock out Holland in a surgical, lightning campaign, but instead suffered wounds against the outnumbere...

The enormous loss of life and physical destruction caused by the First World War led people to hope that there would never be another such catastro...

During the middle decade of the 16th century a new type of sailing vessel emerged, designed to carry the wealth of the Americas to Spain. This was ...

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Now What? is an innovative exploration of artworks and films that return to radical histories subject to erasure or otherwise lost or occluded over...