When the Cuban Revolution succeeded in overthrowing dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959, rebel commander Fidel Castro declared, "The Revolution begins now." Over the next five decades, Castro remade Cuba into a one-party sociali.
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The Dream of the North: a Cultural History to 1920
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Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Finding a Footing: The North before 1700 -- Preparing for Take-Off : The Early Eighteenth Century -- The Great Watershed: 1750-1790 -- Fastening the Grip: 1790-1830 -- The Northern Heyday: 1830-1880 -- The Cl…
The dream of the north: a cultural history to 1920
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The dream of the north: a cultural history to 1920
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Type: Book
The Dream of the North: a Cultural History to 1920
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Type: Book
Northern Europe and North America have dominated the world stage for more than two centuries. Using a wide range of sources, this book provides the first coherent account from a multi-national perspective of the ideas and perceptions that, from the Renaissance onwards, fuelled t…
The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries to the myths and fabrications about their presence there that have developed in recent centuries. Tracking t…
The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries to the myths and fabrications about their presence there that have developed in recent centuries. Tracking t…
The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries to the myths and fabrications about their presence there that have developed in recent centuries.
"The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries to the myths and fabrications about their presence there that have developed in recent centuries--and what …
"The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, gives us a different creation story in this magiste…
And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of America as seen through the bottom of a drinking glass. With a chapter for each of ten cocktails - from the grog sailors drank on the high seas in the 1700s to the mojitos of modern club hoppers - Wayne Curtis reveals…
And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of America as seen through the bottom of a drinking glass. With a chapter for each of ten cocktails - from the grog sailors drank on the high seas in the 1700s to the mojitos of modern club hoppers - Wayne Curtis reveals…
Traces the history of America from the perspective of ten different cocktails, discussing the role of rum in the New World, from the colonial period to the present day, in a study that blends pop culture, historical trivia, and libation lore.