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Sunday, November 3, 2019

Review: Russia's Women Snipers

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I have lately read two compelling books on two very different, and yet very similar, women who voluntarily entered into military service f...

Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie by Jeff Fynn-Paul

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The Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie is one of the first long-term studies in English of an Iberian town during the late medieval...

Medieval Lucca by M. E. Bratchel

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Although there are many books in English on the city and state of Lucca, this is the first scholarly study to cover the history of the enti...

The Forgotten Women Who Shaped China in the 20th Century

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In her new book, Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China , Jung Chang gets to the heart ...

Atmospheric Pressure: The Big Sleep at Eighty

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CrimeReads :  If an octogenarian Big Sleep is a shocking thought, consider that Chandler was already fifty-one when his vanguard mystery sa...
Saturday, November 2, 2019

Review: the Caribbean Irish by Miki Garcia

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Synopsis: The Caribbean Irish explores the little known fact that the Irish were amongst the earliest settlers in the Caribbean. They beca...

Child Emperor Rule in the Late Roman West, AD 367-455 by Meaghan A. McEvoy

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In this book, McEvoy explodes the myth that the remarkable phenomenon of the late Roman child-emperor reflected mere dynastic sentiment or h...

Marriage In Ireland 1660-1925 by Maria Luddy & Mary O;Dowd

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What were the laws on marriage in Ireland, and did church and state differ in their interpretation? How did men and women meet and arrange t...
Thursday, October 31, 2019

The Leopard and the Lily by Marjorie Bowen

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In the year 1444, Francois II reigned in Brittany. Son of the great Duke, Jean V, he came to the throne in a time of peace. There was perfec...