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Description not available.A journalist chronicles the peak of the civil rights movement, focusing on the African-American freedom fighters who stood firm on issues of civil rights and segregation during the movement's eventful climax in Birmingham and the white establishment that opposed them. Reprint. 35,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Diane McWhorter
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History 
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 | Pig Tails 'n Breadfruit by Austin Clarke
The author's memoir (with food) of growing up in Barbados in the 1930s and '40s celebrates the women who cooked the traditional dishes he loved. Parts of the book are in dialect. AUTHOR: Austin Clarke
PUBLISHER: New Press, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Age of Empire by Eric J. Hobsbawm
The third volume in Hobsbawm's history of the 19th century covers the last years of the century up to the First World War. The book, often used as a textbook, has been written with the non-expert in mind. With illustrations and maps, Hobsbawm illuminates a period of European domination that led to a surge of revolution in previously peaceful and stable nations. Particular attention is paid to the rise of the middle classes and the labor movements characteristic of the era. AUTHOR: Eric J. Hobsbawm
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Endless Steppe by Alyssa Bresnahan, Esther R. Hautzig
Hautzig tells how she was wrenched from her life in a wealthy Jewish family in Poland and deported to a Siberian village. In 1941, when she was ten, she, her mother, and grandmother were captured by the Russians and shipped by cattle-car to a forced-labor camp. There, the three of them manage to stay together and for four years survive the cruelties of starvation and the arctic winters. AUTHOR: Alyssa Bresnahan, Esther R. Hautzig
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Pacific Destiny by Walker
Description not available.A fascinating chronicle of the exploration and settlement of the Pacific Northwest describes the battle for control of the territory among Spain, England, and the United States; the explorers and tycoons who built massive fur-trading empires; and the settlers whose dreams led them on a perilous trek to the Oregon Territory. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Walker
PUBLISHER: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Coming of the French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre, Robert R. Palmer
'This present book was written long enough ago to have become a classic. It concerns only the beginning of the French Revolution. Its author, Georges Lefebvre, published it early in 1939 in honor of the sesquicentennial of the Revolution of 1789. A few months later the Second World War began. AUTHOR: Georges Lefebvre, Robert R. Palmer
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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