Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities
Andrew N. Weintraub, Bart Barendregt, Christine Reiko Yano and Yifen Tsau Beus
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The emergence of modernity has typically focused on Western male actors and privileged politics and...
Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi
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The definitive and first non-partisan biography of one of the most formidable political figures of...
Chains and Chainmaking
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The area of England known as the Black Country has a rich heritage in the chain trade due to its...
Becoming a Romanov. Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and Her World (1807-1873)
Marina Soroka and Charles A. Ruud
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The Russian Great Reforms of the 1860s were the last major modernizing effort by the Romanov...
Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era
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In this comprehensive history, Ashley D. Farmer examines black women's political, social, and...
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Young Women
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A vivid, bold and compelling new novel of female friendship and what it means to be a young woman,...
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Seven Women: And the Secret of Their Greatness
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In his eagerly anticipated follow-up to the enormously successful Seven Men, New York Times...
Victorian Convicts: 100 Criminal Lives
Helen Johnston, Barry Godfrey and David J. Cox
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What was life like in the Victorian underworld - who were the criminals, what crimes did they...
The Chronicles of Melanie (2016)
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In the early morning of June 14, 1941, under Stalin's orders, over 40 000 people from Latvia,...
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An Improbable Friendship: The Story of Yasser Arafat's Mother-in-Law, the Wife of Israel's Top General and Their 40-Year Mission of Peace
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An Improbable Friendshipis the dual biography of Israeli Ruth Dayan, now ninety-seven, who was Moshe...