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Harry Turtledove - Hitler's War
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Harry Turtledove - Hitler's WarHarry Turtledove - Hitler's War

A stroke of the pen and history is changed. In 1938, British prime minister Neville Chamberlain, determined to avoid war at any cost, signed the Munich Accord, ceding part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler. But the following spring, Hitler snatched the rest of that country and pushed beyond its borders. World War II had begun, and England, after a fatal act of appeasement, was fighting a war for which it was not prepared. Now, in this thrilling, provocative, and fascinating alternate history by
 
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Night Passage by Robert B. Parker
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Night Passage by Robert B. ParkerNight Passage by Robert B. Parker

After being kicked out of the LAPD, Jesse Stone's future looks bleak, until he is given another chance as the police chief in a small New England town. However, the town turns out to be rife with homicides, maddened militiamen and crazed psychopaths.
 
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The History of England
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The History of EnglandThe History of England

Change began with the Creation, and ages of momentous development are shrouded from our eyes. The land and the people are the two foundations of English history; but before history began, the land had received the insular configuration which has largely determined its fortune; and the various peoples, who were to mould and be moulded by the land, had differentiated from the other races of the world. Several of these peoples had occupied the land before its conquest by the Anglo-Saxons, some before it was even Britain.
 
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The Drama of Coronation: Medieval Ceremony in Early Modern England
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The Drama of Coronation: Medieval Ceremony in Early Modern EnglandThe Drama of Coronation: Medieval Ceremony in Early Modern England

The coronation was, and still is, one of the most important ceremonies of an English monarch's reign. Alice Hunt's study assesses the impact of the Reformation on the period's coronation ceremonies, and examines how they were perceived and described by contemporary observers such as courtiers and playwrights.
 
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Tags: coronation, ceremonies, playwrights, courtiers, observers, Drama, coronation, Modern, England
Race in Early Modern England: A Documentary Companion
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Race in Early Modern England: A Documentary Companion

This collection makes available for the first time a rich archive of materials that illuminate the history of racial thought and practices in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. A comprehensive introduction shows how these writings on religion, skin color, sexual and marital practices, geography, and the human body are crucial for understanding the pre-Enlightenment lineages of racial categories. A terrific supplement to research and teaching on race. Assembling a range of difficult to find materials from early modern English writing and changes the conversation about early modern ideas of race.

 
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