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Atlantic History: Bernard Bailyn; Bringing together elements of early modern European, African, and American history, Atlantic history embraces essentials of Western civilization, from the first contacts of Europe with the Western Hemisphere to the independence movements and the globalizing industrial revolution. Bailyn explores the origins of the subject, its rapid development, and its impact on historical study.; Hardcover 2005

British Mercantile Houses in Buenos Aires, 1810-1880: Vera Blinn Reber; British mercantile houses--privately financed commercial enterprises dealing in the import and export of goods--integrated Argentine production into the world economy between 1810 and 1880. Reber evaluates in detail business operations and decision making and analyzes the relationship between business practices and the Argentine economic and political environment.; Hardcover 1979

Dumbarton Oaks: Edited by Gudrun Bühl; Dumbarton Oaks houses the extraordinary art collection begun by Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss. In this book the museum publishes the specialist collections in Byzantine and Pre-Columbian art, along with examples from the Blisses’ superb European collection, for the first time.; Paperback 2008

The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction: Linda Gordon; In 1904, New York nuns brought 40 Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Mexican-Catholic families. The town's Anglo-Americans, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children. The church sued but the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the vigilantes. Gordon tells the gripping story of this tangled intersection of family and racial values.; Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001

Inside the Cuban Revolution: Julia E. Sweig; Sweig shatters the mythology surrounding the Cuban Revolution in a compelling revisionist history that reconsiders the revolutionary roles of Castro and Guevara and restores to a central position the leadership of the Llano. Granted unprecedented access to the classified records of Castro's 26th of July Movement's underground operatives--the only scholar inside or outside of Cuba allowed access to the complete collection in the Cuban Council of State's Office of Historic Affairs--she details the debates between Castro's mountain-based guerrilla movement and the urban revolutionaries in Havana, Santiago, and other cities.; Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004

Jefferson and the Indians: Anthony F. C. Wallace; Adding a troubled dimension to one of the most enigmatic figures of American history, Anthony Wallace takes us on a tour of discovery to unexplored regions of Jefferson's mind. There, the bookish Enlightenment scholar--chronicler of the eloquence of America's native peoples and mourner of their tragic fate--sits uncomfortably close to Jefferson the imperialist and architect of Indian removal. Impelled by the necessity of expanding his agrarian republic, he became adept at putting a philosophical gloss on his policy of encroachment, threats of war, and forced land cessions--a policy that led, eventually, to cultural genocide.; Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001

Soul by Soul: Walter Johnson; Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, priced, and sold, Walter Johnson transforms the statistics of this chilling trade into the human drama of traders, buyers, and slaves, negotiating sales that would alter the life of each. What emerges is not only the brutal economics of trading but the vast and surprising interdependencies among the actors involved.; Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001

Subject Matter: Joyce E. Chaplin; By placing the history of science and medicine at the very center of the story of early English colonization, Chaplin shows how contemporary European theories of nature and science dramatically influenced relations between the English and Indians within the formation of the British Empire.; Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003

A Thin Cosmic Rain: Michael W. Friedlander; Cosmic rays--even the name conjures up a vision of otherworldly mystery. Enigmatic for many years, they are now known to be not rays at all, but particles, the nuclei of atoms, raining down continually on the earth, where they can be detected throughout the atmosphere and sometimes even thousands of feet underground. This book tells the long-running detective story behind the discovery and study of cosmic rays, a story that stretches from the early days of subatomic particle physics in the 1890s to the frontiers of high-energy astrophysics today.; Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002