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Blacks in Bondage
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Written while enslaved or shortly after escape, the words recorded here express complexity and diversity of thought and feeling about slavery and being black. Blacks in Bondage is a landmark document in understanding the human side of history. |
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The Chosen People
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This book is the fictionalization of a true class conflict in Baltimore's textile industry at the turn of the century. A strike involved religious leaders, Christian social workers, and the local gentry. |
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Japan's Economy
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Historical periods covered:
Early Modern Japan: The Tokugawa Period
The Restoration Era
The Modern Period (1868-1945)
World War II
The Occupation
Postwar and Contemporary Japan |
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The Waters of the Nile
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"A remarkable tour de force, a definitive history of the science of hydrology as applied to the Nile, whose annual flows can produce acute drought or disastrous floods, and on whose waters the peoples of Egypt, the Sudan, and parts of Ethiopia and Uganda depend. Collins, a master in his analysis, makes clear that the decisive forces in his complex story were, and are, political. Engineers from Britain, Egypt, and the Sudan worked in a context of internal and international rivalries and of brutal civil wars.
The book is also a study in ecology and devotes a good deal of attention to the effects of great engineering schemes on people, animals, and vegetation near and far from the dams and canals. A well-documented study."
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Zarathustra's Sister
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"While Nietzsche lay dying upstairs for eleven years from syphilis-related deterioration of the brain, Elisabeth, downstairs, wrested all literary rights from her aging mother and began writing books about him. Immediately after the philosopher's death, she founded the Nietzsche Archives and began supervising the editing of his voluminous works..."
--New York Times
"It is extraordinary what she got away with -- whose eyes she pulled the wool over; and the crowning touches of Hitler's friendship and Nazi patronage of her work make the story a real tragicomedy of intellectual life. Many letters and diaries by Nietzsche contained bitter denunciations of Elisabeth. By the end of this account you feel that the life of ideas stinks of egoism and malice." --New York Times Book Review |
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