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Caitlin Blackwell Baines
How to Build a Haunted House

A cultural history of the phenomenon of the 'haunted house' as seen through art, architecture, and ghost stories.What makes a house haunted? Why do some buildings conjure up a reputation for being particu…

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Michael Blake
Indian Yell

Grounded in meticulous research and written with an uncanny understanding of the military and of American Indian culture, Blake offers soulful profiles of the participants, both Indian and cavalry. Indian…

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Richard Blakemore
Enemies of All

A masterful narrative history of the dangerous lives of pirates during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, revealing their unique impact on colonialism and empire.The pirates that exist in our imagi…

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Jacob Blanc
Searching for Memory

This biography of Brazilian journalist and activist Aluízio Palmar (b. 1943) tells the remarkable story of a revolutionary who, after surviving torture as a political prisoner during his country's militar…

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Leila Temime Blili,
The Deys and Beys of Tunis, 1666-1922

A foundational text on the early modern history of Tunis that places Tunisian history firmly within Ottoman historyThe Tunisian historiography of the modern era has broadly centered on a narrative of thre…

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Michael Bliss
Plague

In January 1885, as the people of Montreal celebrated one of the greatest winter carnivals of the century, a deadly epidemic inched its way through the city streets. When the case of a railway porter suff…

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Alexander Bloom
1968

It has been called the year that changed everything, the postwar watershed in which the forces that shaped public and private life erupted, everywhere and all at once--New York, Paris, Prague, Mexico City…

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Heather Blurton
Richard the Lionheart

A deep dive into the myth and history surrounding England's crusader king.How did Richard the Lionheart, who once said he would sell London if he found a buyer, become celebrated as the ideal of English c…

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Leonard Blussé
A Colonial Tragedy

In October 1740, a tragedy unfolded in Batavia, the Asian headquarters of the Dutch East India Company on the island of Java. Faced with a spontaneous Chinese peasant uprising, Batavia's vengeful inhabita…

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John Boardley
Remarkable Renaissance Books

A celebration of innovation in the Renaissance age told through 18 of its earliest printed books.Remarkable Renaissance Books tells the story of eighteen extraordinary early printed volumes, from the very…

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Morten Bøås
Sahel

A revealing account of Africa's ecological and historical frontier zone, now plagued by interlocking insurgencies and climate change.

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Shane Bobrycki
The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages

The importance of collective behavior in early medieval EuropeBy the fifth and sixth centuries, the bread and circuses and triumphal processions of the Roman Empire had given way to a quieter world. And y…

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Richard Bodek
Death in the Rubble

German and European Studies

In 1949, the year of the Berlin airlift and the founding of the two post-war German states, Elisabeth Kusian (nurse, black marketeer, morphine and methamphetamine addict, and pathological liar) garroted a…

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Maria R Boes
The Jewish Purging of a Small German Town

Through the analysis of 10 oral witness testimonies of local residents and a previously undocumented letter correspondence between a Jewish Holocaust survivor and her gentile friend, The Jewish Purging of…

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Douglas Boin
Clodia of Rome

A pioneering political voice, with charisma and power that rivalled many of her male contemporaries, Clodia of Rome was a pivotal figure in the late Roman Republic until a murder trial, rife with corrupti…

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Douglas Boin
Clodia of Rome

A pioneering political voice, with charisma and power that rivalled many of her male contemporaries, Clodia of Rome was a pivotal figure in the late Roman Republic until a murder trial, rife with corrupti…

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Margaret Bolton
Anne Boleyn - the big questions

Anne Boleyn is one of the most famous queens in English history and one of the most mysterious - until now. Based on almost four decades of academic research, this new volume seeks to answer the big quest…

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Andrew G Bonnell,
Revolutions in Modern German History

**Andrew G. Bonnell's innovative survey examines the history of revolution in modern Germany by focusing on key revolutionary developments in the German states.**There is coverage of Germany and the Frenc…

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Alex Boodrookas
Comrades Estranged

In 1975, Kuwaiti workers orchestrated arguably the most powerful citizen-led movement for noncitizen rights in the history of the Persian Gulf. Their efforts built on decades of wide-ranging struggle over…

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Alex Boodrookas
Comrades Estranged

In 1975, Kuwaiti workers orchestrated arguably the most powerful citizen-led movement for noncitizen rights in the history of the Persian Gulf. Their efforts built on decades of wide-ranging struggle over…

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