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"Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837" (revised edition with new introductory essay) by Linda Colley
Yale University Press: How was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? This brilliant and seminal book examines how a more cohesive British nation was invented after 1707 and how this new national identity was nurtured through war, religion, trade, and empire.
"Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly" by Michael D. Gordin
Farrar, Straus and Giroux:On August 29, 1949, the first Soviet test bomb, dubbed First Lightning, exploded in the deserts of Kazakhstan. The startling event was not simply a technical experiment that confirmed the ability of the Soviet Union to build nuclear bombs during a period when the United States held a steadfast monopoly; it was also an international event that marked the beginning of an arms race that would ultimately lead to nuclear proliferation beyond the two superpowers.
"The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle" by Harold James
Harvard University Press: Harold James examines the vulnerability and fragility of processes of globalization, both historically and in the present. This book applies lessons from past breakdowns of globalization--above all in the Great Depression--to show how financial crises provoke backlashes against global integration: against the mobility of capital or goods, but also against flows of migration.
"Edge of Crisis: War and Trade in the Spanish Atlantic, 1789-1808" by Barbara H. Stein and Stanley J. Stein
The Johns Hopkins University Press: This authoritative study of colonialism in the Spanish empire at the end of the eighteenth century examines how the Spanish metropole attempted to preserve the links to its richest colony in the western Atlantic, New Spain (Mexico), in the face of international developments. Continuing the approach in Silver, Trade, and War and Apogee of Empire, Barbara and Stanley Stein detail Spain's ad hoc efforts to adjust metropolitan and colonial institutions, structures
"The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America" by Margot Canaday
Princeton University Press: The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship that sexual minorities still live under today.
"A Tale of Two Monasteries: Westminster and Saint-Denis in the Thirteenth Century" by William Chester Jordan
A Tale of Two Monasteries takes an unprecedented look at one of the great rivalries of the Middle Ages and offers it as a revealing lens through which to view the intertwined histories of medieval England and France. This is the first book to systematically compare Westminster Abbey and the abbey of Saint-Denis--two of the most important ecclesiastical institutions of the thirteenth century--and to do so through the lives and competing careers of the two men who ruled them, Richard de Ware of
"Passing Strange" by Martha Sandweiss
Penguin Press Front Cover Information: The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West and the woman he loved.
"Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief " by James M McPherson
Penguin Press: James McPherson, a bestselling historian of the Civil War, illuminates how Lincoln worked with - and often against - his senior commanders to defeat the Confederacy and create the role of commander in chief as we know it.
"White Flight" by Kevin Kruse
Princeton University Press: During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: "The City Too Busy Moving to Hate."
"Creating Black Americans - African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present" by Nell Irvin Painter
Here is a magnificent account of a past rich in beauty and creativity, but also in tragedy and trauma. Eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter blends a vivid narrative based on the latest research with a wonderful array of artwork by African American artists, works which add a new depth to our understanding of black history.
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Linda Colley

  • Title: Leben und Schicksale der Elizabeth Marsh: Eine Frau zwischen den Welten des 18. Jahrhunderts
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  • ISBN-10: 3861508818
  • ISBN-13: 978-3861508816