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|  | Look What Came from Switzerland by Miles Harvey
Description not available.Describes many things that originally came from Switzerland, including inventions, food, animals, sports, transportation, and medicine. AUTHOR: Miles Harvey
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History 
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 | Slave Songs of the United States by Charles P. Ware, Charles Pickard Ware, Lucy M. Garrison, Lucy McKim Garrison, William F. Allen
Originally published in 1867, this book is a collection of songs of African-American slaves. A few of the songs were written after the emancipation, but all were inspired by slavery. The wild, sad strains tell, as the sufferers themselves could, of crushed hopes, keen sorrow, and a dull, daily misery, which covered them as hopelessly as the fog from the rice swamps. On the other hand, the words breathe a trusting faith in the life after, to which their eyes seem constantly turned. AUTHOR: Charles P. Ware, Charles Pickard Ware, Lucy M. Garrison, Lucy McKim Garrison, William F. Allen
PUBLISHER: Applewood Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Understanding Japanese Society by Joy Hendry
With the increase in contacts between Japan and the rest of the world has come an urgent need to understand Japanese society and culture. Now in its second edition, completely revised with some of the most up-to-date information on Japanese cultural and political trends, Understanding Japanese Society contains timely information on the latest social developments, rituals, business, culture, medicine and arts. Jo Hendry also brings forth a unique collection of information on Japanese minorities and references some of the latest anthropological works on Japan. As Japan enters the 21st century with a new emperor and a highly qualified crowned princess, Understanding Japanese Society will be an indispensable guide through the often enigmatic and historical idiosynchracies of Japanese culture and politics. AUTHOR: Joy Hendry
PUBLISHER: Routledge
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Shield of Achilles by Philip Bobbitt
Following in the tradition of George Kennan and Paul Kennedy, Philip Bobbitt gives us a brilliant study of the effects of politics and war on statehood....In this elegantly reasoned and written study, he argues that the world war that began in 1914 did not actually end until 1990, when Fascism and Communism were finally vanquished, and what emerged victorious were the West and the new market state. Taking the long view--in opposition to the end of history theory popular since the last days of the cold war--Bobbitt examines six centuries of interstate conflict and the treaties that ended them and gave birth to new forms of the state. In this way he shows us the market state as the latest of these conflict-driven incarnations of the body politic. And, drawing on his dep knowledge of constitutionalism, he goes on to consider possible directions for this still emergent form. Timely and challenging, THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES is a major work of historical analysis. AUTHOR: Philip Bobbitt
PUBLISHER: Knopf, Alfred A. Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Devil That Danced on the Water by Aminatta Forna
When she was 10 years old, the author`s father was executed for treason after a government coup in Sierra Leone. As an adult, she seeks to bring him back to life in her passionate memoir. AUTHOR: Aminatta Forna
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Exterminate All Brutes by Sven Lindqvist
Written in the form of a travel diary and a historical examination of European racism over the past two hundred years, this book offer a unique study of Europe's dark history in Africa. Lindqvist argues that the harrowing racism that led to the Holocaust in the 20th century had its roots in the European colonial policies of the preceding century and raises questions uniquely appropriate to the current American debate on the depth and costs of racism today. AUTHOR: Sven Lindqvist
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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