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  • - The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division
    av Michael Cohen
    194,-

    A thrilling account of the 1968 presidential election and its impact on the next four decades of American politics

  • - Latin America's Struggle for Independence
    av John Charles (Patterson Distinguished Term Professor of History Chasteen
    336,-

    A premier volume in Oxford's Pivotal Moments in World History series, Americanos offers an engagingly written, compact history of the Latin American wars of independence. Proceeding almost cinematically, scene by vivid scene, John Charles Chasteen introduces the reader to lead players, basic concepts, key events, and dominant trends, braided together in a single, taut narrative. He vividly depicts the individuals and events of those tumultuous years, capturing thegathering forces for independence, the clashes of troops and decisions of leaders, and the rich, elaborate tapestry of Latin American societies as they embraced nationhood.

  • - The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom
    av Mark Gregory (Associate Professor of History Pegg
    230,-

    Pegg's narrative of the massacres of the crusades - a fervour of 'cleansing' the world of heresy, and a fear that Christendom was being eaten away by heretics - is gripping. Innocent III's holy genocidal war fundamentally changed how Western civilization dealt with individuals accused of corrupting society, and led to the creation of the inquisition.

  • - The Rivonia Trial and the Fate of South Africa
    av University of North Carolina Law School) Broun & Kenneth S. (Henry Brandis Professor of Law
    236 - 286,-

    The dramatic story of the 1964 Rivonia trial and its impact on Nelson Mandela, South Africa, and global history

  • - The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division
    av Michael A. (National politics columnist Cohen
    312,-

    American Maelstrom captures the full drama of the 1968 watershed election, taking us to the source of the politics of division.

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