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 Essays in Social History: Volume IIThis new collection gathers together a decade's worth of essays on social history. A... |  The Cavalryman (The Roman World Series)Best Price: $68.40 As usual Peter Connolly produces an excellent little booklet to accompany "The... |  Mrs Duberly's War: Journal and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6Best Price: $30.00 Mrs Duberly's journal is one of the most vivid eye-witness accounts we have of the Crimean... |  The Letters of Richard Cobden: Volume I: 1815-1847Best Price: $30.32 The first of four volumes, this book provides a unique insight into the career of one of... |  James Joyce (Very Interesting People Series)Best Price: $4.40 Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill,... |
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 Lydia Mendoza's Life in Music: La Historia de Lydia Mendoza: Norteï¿1/2o Tejano Legacies (American Musicspheres)Best Price: $19.81 Lydia Mendoza began her legendary musical career as a child in the 1920s, singing for pennies... |  Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los AngelesBest Price: $26.09 American society has been long plagued by cycles of racial violence, most dramatically in the... |  Australian Autobiography: The Personal QuestThis pioneering work traces the personal quest of a number of twentieth-century autobiographers... | ||
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