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Author:
H.W. Brands
Reader:
Robertson Dean
Format: 19
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Tracing the rise of capitalism in the latter part of the 19th century, this chronicle focuses on how a few wealthy businessmen reshaped America from a land of small farms and small businesses into an industrial giant – in 30 years. It was a stunning and unique transformation. "Timely study... fast-paced, engrossing narrative."—Publishers Weekly
Item #: E9R7465
ISBN: 9780307737465
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Author:
Tim Jeal
Reader:
Clive Chafer
Format: 12
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Nothing obsessed mid-19th-century explorers more than the quest to discover the source of Africa's White Nile. A vivid examination of six larger-than-life men and one extraordinary woman who made the attempt – including Richard Burton, David Livingstone, and Henry Morton Stanley. Includes an examination of the tragic, unintended legacy that still casts a shadow over Uganda and Sudan.
Item #: E9M542
ISBN: 9781452605425
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Author:
John Kelly
Reader:
To Be Announced
Format: 10
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A compelling new look at one of the worst disasters to strike humankind – the Great Irish Potato Famine – conveyed as lyrical narrative history from the acclaimed author of The Great Mortality.
Item #: E9M787
ISBN: 9781452607870
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Author:
David McCullough
Reader:
Edward Herrmann
Format: 16
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The story of the American artists and scientists who studied in Paris between 1830 and 1900 – and changed America through what they learned there. The ranks of those profoundly affected by their experience in the City of Light include James Fenimore Cooper, Samuel F.B. Morse, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, and many more. From the author of John Adams and 1776.
Item #: E9P418
ISBN: 9781442344181
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Author:
Jan Morris
Reader:
Roy McMillan
Format: 16
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The first volume of the impressive Pax Britannica trilogy begins in 1837, when Queen Victoria takes the throne. Combines historical accounts, description, and biography to explain events that changed the world. Travel to Sierra Leone, Zululand, Jamaica, Fiji, and the Canadian prairies as black Jamaicans revolt against their British masters and the Boers decimate England's crack regiments in South Africa. "Dazzling... The detailed sense of place is superb."—The Economist
Item #: E9E465
ISBN: 9781843794653
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Author:
Thomas Powers
Reader:
John Pruden
Format: 17
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He was the most feared Indian of his time, earning his reputation in surprise victories against Generals Crook and Custer at the Rosebud and Little Bighorn. A Pulitzer-winning reporter and historian examines this enigmatic figure of the Great Sioux Wars, and makes clear why the few battles won by the Indians did not ultimately help them to stem the tide of settlers that flooded the Great Plains after the Civil War.
Item #: E9M8748
ISBN: 9781400118748
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Author:
Julia Flynn Siler
Reader:
Joyce Bean
Format: 9
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Royalty and rogues, sugar barons and missionaries combine into a sweeping tale of the Hawaiian Kingdom's rise and fall. Liliuokalani, last queen of Hawaii, lived through the nearly complete economic transformation of the islands into lucrative sugar plantations owned by white planters. "A well-rendered narrative of paradise and imperialism."—Kirkus Reviews
Item #: E9N9239
ISBN: 9781455849239
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Author:
Julia Flynn Siler
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Royalty and rogues, sugar barons and missionaries combine into a sweeping tale of the Hawaiian Kingdom's rise and fall. Liliuokalani, last queen of Hawaii, lived through the nearly complete economic transformation of the islands into lucrative sugar plantations owned by white planters. "A well-rendered narrative of paradise and imperialism."—Kirkus Reviews
Item #: EP0356
ISBN: 9781455870356
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Author:
Kate Summerscale
Reader:
Wanda McCaddon
Format: 8
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Kate Summerscale, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, brilliantly recreates the Victorian world, chronicling in exquisite and compelling detail the life of Isabella Robinson, wherein the longings of a frustrated wife collide with a society clinging to rigid ideas about sanity, the boundaries of privacy, the institution of marriage, and female sexuality.
Item #: E8M801
ISBN: 9781452608013
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Author:
Jan Morris
Reader:
Roy McMillan
Format: 13
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A snapshot of the British Empire at Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Learn what made up the Empire, from adventurers and politicians to communications and infrastructure, as well as eccentricities. Also examines the muddle of jumbled ideologies behind it, and how this affected its 370 million people. Second in the Pax Britannica trilogy.
Item #: E9E469
ISBN: 9781843794691
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