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Mesoamerican Voices

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Milan Kundera: A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe

FABER & FABER, 2023

The people of Central Europe cannot be separated from European history; they cannot exist outside it; but they represent the wrong side of this history; they are its victims and outsiders.

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Navid Kermani: Entlang den Gräben: Eine Reise durch das östliche Europa bis nach Isfahan

C H BECK VERLAG, 2018

Ein immer noch fremd anmutendes, von Kriegen und Katastrophen zerklüftetes Gebiet beginnt östlich von Deutschland und erstreckt sich über Russland bis zum Orient.

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Noam Chomsky: Hegemony or Survival - America's Quest for Global Dominance

PENGUIN, 2004

Hegemony or Survival is Noam Chomsky's essential polemic on American foreign policy.'A devastating history of American foreign policy since 1945 as well as a dissection of the current "war on terror"' Tim Adams, Observer

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Noam Chomsky: Making the Future - Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance

CITY LIGHTS, 2012

Making the Future presents more than fifty concise and persuasively argued commentaries on U.S. politics and policies, written between 2007 and 2011

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Norman Stone: Hungary - A Short History

PROFILE BOOKS, 2020

The victors of the First World War created Hungary from the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but, in the centuries before, many called for its creation.

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Paul Kennedy: The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500-2000

WILLIAM COLLINS, 2017

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEPaul Kennedy’s international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.

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Paul Langford: Eighteenth-Century Britain - A Very Short Introduction

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2000

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Paul Lendvai: The Hungarians: A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat

HURST & COMPANY LONDON, 2021

This work is a blend of narrative, irony and humour; of occasional anger without taboos or prejudices. It also offers an authoritative key to understanding how and why this corner of Europe has produced such a galaxy of great scientists, artists and entr

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Peter Frankopan: The New Silk Roads The Present and Future of the World

BLOOMSBURY, 2019

The New Silk Roads takes a fresh look at the relationships being formed along the length and breadth of the ancient trade routes today. The world is changing dramatically and in an age of Brexit and Trump, the themes of isolation and fragmentation permea

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Peter Frankopan: The Silk Roads

BLOOMSBURY, 2016

For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the west – in the New World of the Americas.

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Philippa Gregory: Normal Women - 900 Years of Making History

WILLIAM COLLINS, 2023

In this ambitious and ground-breaking book, she tells the story of our nation over 900 years, but for the very first time women – some fifty per cent of the population – are no longer invisible in this history of England, but are at its beating heart.

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Raymond Ibrahim: Defenders of the West

BOMBARDIER BOOKS, 2022

In Defenders of the West, the author of Sword and Scimitar follows up with vivid and dramatic profiles of eight extraordinary warriors—some saints, some sinners—who defended the Christian West against Islamic invasions.

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Rebecca Stefoff: A Young People's History of the United States, Volume 1: Columbus to the Spanish-American War

SEVEN STORIES PRESS, 2007

A Young People's History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people.

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Rethinking Modern Polish Identities: Transnational Encounters

UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER PRESS, 2023

A critical examination of the category of "Polishness" - that is, the formation, redefinition, and performance of various kinds of Polish identities - from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives.

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Rick Atkinson: The British Are Coming - The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

HENRY HOLT, 2019

From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American Revolution.

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Robert Tombs: The English and their History

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2023

The acclaimed account of the English people, now updated with two new chapters.

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Shashi Tharoor: Inglorious Empire - What the British Did to India

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2017

In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold.

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