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  • The Statue of Liberty

    A Transatlantic Story

    by Edward Berenson ...
    Series series Icons of America
    "If you think you know all there is to know about the Statue of Liberty, you'll be pleasantly surprised."— The New York TimesWhen the crated monument first arrived in New York Harbor, few could have foreseen the central place the Statue of Liberty would come to occupy in the American imagination. In this book, cultural historian and scholar of French history Edward Berenson tells the little-known ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Accusation

    Blood Libel in an American Town

    by Edward Berenson ...
    A chilling investigation of America’s only alleged case of blood libel, and what it reveals about antisemitism in the United States and Europe.On Saturday, September 22, 1928, Barbara Griffiths, age four, strayed into the woods surrounding the upstate village of Massena, New York. Hundreds of people looked everywhere for the child but could not find her. At one point, someone suggested that ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Constructing Charisma

    Celebrity, Fame, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe

    Edited by Edward Berenson, Eva Giloi ...
    Railroads, telegraphs, lithographs, photographs, and mass periodicals—the major technological advances of the 19th century seemed to diminish the space separating people from one another, creating new and apparently closer, albeit highly mediated, social relationships. Nowhere was this phenomenon more evident than in the relationship between celebrity and fan, leader and follower, the famous and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Heroes of Empire

    Five Charismatic Men and the Conquest of Africa

    by Edward Berenson ...
    During the decades of empire (1870–1914), legendary heroes and their astonishing deeds of conquest gave imperialism a recognizable human face. Henry Morton Stanley, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Charles Gordon, Jean-Baptiste Marchand, and Hubert Lyautey all braved almost unimaginable dangers among "savage" people for their nation’s greater good. This vastly readable book, the first comparative ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Trial of Madame Caillaux

    by Edward Berenson ...
    Edward Berenson recounts the trial of Henriette Caillaux, the wife of a powerful French cabinet minister, who murdered her husband's enemy Le Figaro editor Gaston Calmette, in March 1914, on the eve of World War I. In analyzing this momentous event, Berenson draws a fascinating portrait of Belle Epoque politics and culture. ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    The Accusation

    Blood Libel in an American Town

    by Edward Berenson ...
    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 25 min

    On Saturday, September 22, 1928, Barbara Griffiths, aged four, strayed into the woods surrounding the upstate village of Massena, New York. Hundreds of people looked everywhere for the child but could not find her. At one point, someone suggested that Barbara had been kidnapped and killed by Jews, and as the search continued, policemen and townspeople alike gave credence to the quickly-spreading ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    by Lawrence M. Principe ...
    Series series Synthesis
    "This elegant, readable book…covers the history of alchemy from its shadowy origins in Hellenistic Egypt to its scholarly recovery in the 20th century" (Anthony Grafton, Science).In The Secrets of Alchemy, science historian and practicing chemist Lawrence M. Principe dispels commonly held misconceptions about alchemy and sheds light on what it was, how it began, and how it influenced a range of ... Read more

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  • Dwelling Place

    A Plantation Epic

    by Erskine Clarke ...
    Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "[A] beautifully conceived and penetrating book . . . one of the finest studies of American slavery ever written."— The New RepublicPublished some thirty years ago, Robert Manson Myers's Children of Pride: The True Story of Georgia and the Civil War won the National Book Award in history and went on to become a classic reference on America's slaveholding South. That ... Read more

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  • The First Total War

    Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It

    by David A. Bell ...
    "A mesmerizing account that illuminates not just the Napoleonic wars but all of modern history . . . It reads like a novel" (Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of modern European history, UCLA).The twentieth century is usually seen as "the century of total war." But as the historian David A. Bell argues in this landmark work, the phenomenon actually began much earlier, in the era of muskets, cannons ... Read more

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  • A Hidden History of the Tower of London

    England's Most Notorious Prisoners

    by John Paul Davis ...
    "With these incredible and often heartbreaking stories, John Paul Davis clearly demonstrates how the fortress acquired its sinister reputation." — History . . . the Interesting Bits!Famed as the ultimate penalty for traitors, heretics and royalty alike, being sent to the Tower is known to have been experienced by no less than 8,000 unfortunate souls. Many of those who were imprisoned in the Tower ... Read more

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  • Reconstruction: Voices from America's First Great Struggle for Racial Equality (LOA #303)

    Edited by Brooks D. Simpson ...
    The aftermath of the Civil War comes to dramatic life in this sweeping new collection of firsthand writing from the Reconstruction era—featuring pieces by Frederick Douglass, Frances Harper, and more“Very, very good. . . . Reconstruction conveys the struggle for racial equality better than many other anthologies documenting the era.” —The Wall Street JournalFew periods in American history are more ... Read more

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  • Mary, Queen of Scots

    by Jenny Wormald, Anna Groundwater ...
    Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, has long been portrayed as one of history’s romantically tragic figures. Devious, naïve, beautiful and sexually voracious, often highly principled, she secured the Scottish throne and bolstered the position of the Catholic Church in Scotland. Her plotting, including probable involvement in the murder of her husband Lord Darnley, led to her flight from Scotland and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus