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Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 643 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Description
"A century after the outbreak of the First World War, a powerful explanation of why the war's legacy continues to shape our world. The war would make a celebrity out of Woodrow Wilson and would ratify the emergence of the US as the dominant force in the world economy"--
2) The zealot and the emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the struggle for American freedom
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
445 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
"What do moral people do when democracy countenances evil? The question, implicit in the idea that people can govern themselves, came to a head in America at the middle of the nineteenth century, in the struggle over slavery. John Brown's answer was violence--violence of a sort some in later generations would call terrorism. Brown was a deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to do whatever was necessary...
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