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  • Modern Era (8)
  • 20th Century
  • 19th Century (1)
    • 18th Century
    • Middle Ages and Renaissance (1)

      Modern Era

      6 visitors recommend:
      How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
      Source: Amazon
      Author: Thomas Cahill
      Country: Ireland
      "In this delightful and illuminating look into a crucial but little-known 'hinge' of history, Thomas Cahill takes us to the 'island of saints and scholars,' the Ireland of St. Patrick and the Book of Kells."
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      6 visitors recommend:
      New York: An Illustrated History
      Source: Amazon
      Author: Ric Burns, James Sanders, and Lisa Ades
      City: New York, State: NY
      From its 17th-century beginnings as a small Dutch colony on the far edge of an empire to its late-20th-century status as one of the world's greatest cities, New York has been home to millions of fascinating people. PBS darling Ric Burns (brother of Ken) teamed up with James Sanders and Lisa Ades to produce this spectacular volume. Some 500 illustrations enhance the narrative. (2001)
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      5 visitors recommend:
      Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
      Source: Amazon
      Author: Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
      City: New York, State: NY
      "Like the city it celebrates, Gotham is massive and endlessly fascinating. This narrative of well over 1,000 pages ... copiously chronicles New York City from the primeval days of the Lenape Indians to the era when, with Teddy Roosevelt as police commissioner, the great American city became regarded as 'Capital of the World.'" (1998)
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      4 visitors recommend:
      How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It
      Source: Amazon
      Author: Arthur Herman
      Country: United Kingdom
      From an Amazon reader: "It neatly manages to celebrate the Scottish achievement without veering into any kind of ethnic chauvinism. The author, incidentally, is not Scottish--he's merely a historian and a storyteller, telling us something we probably haven't heard before. People of Scottish ancestry will love this book, but so will anyone who enjoys learning about how we became who we are." (2001)
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      3 visitors recommend:
      Ireland: A History from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day
      Source: Amazon
      Author: Paul Johnson
      Country: Ireland
      "An eminently readable, informative history of Ireland .... Unlike many histories, it is not a list of statistics. Nor is it an appeal to our sensibilities. It is swift, yet comprehensive."
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      2 visitors recommend:
      Wherever Green Is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora
      Source: Amazon
      Author: Tim Pat Coogan
      Country: Ireland
      Coogan "tackles a boisterous, unruly Irish subject: the diaspora. Irish emigration first began, Coogan tells us, in the 12th century, when the Normans invaded Ireland." --Publishers Weekly
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      2 visitors recommend:
      Scotch-Irish: A Social History
      Source: Amazon
      Author: James G. Leyburn
      Country: Ireland
      "This book is, without a doubt, simply the best, most comprehensive, well researched, readable history I have ever come across .... he not only covers the origins of the Scots/Irish who helped build colonial America, he also gave me a thorough education in the foundation of the "troubles" that still consume Northern Ireland ... a must read!" (1989)
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      1 visitors recommend:
      The Empire State: A History of New York
      Source: Amazon
      Author: Milton M. Klein
      City: New York, State: NY
      (November 2001)
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      1940s

      5 visitors recommend:
      The Old Chicago Neighborhood: Remembering Life in the 1940s
      Source: Chicago's Neighborhoods, Inc.
      Author: Neal Samors and Michael Williams
      City: Chicago, State: IL E-mail: kkbmfw@earthlink.net
      "Combining more than 100 duotone images with stories from over 125 Chicagoans, this volume looks back fondly at daily life, the war years, sports and recreation, and entertainment in Chicago's neighborhoods" in the 1940s.
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      19th Century

      3 visitors recommend:
      Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America
      Source: Amazon
      Author: Kerby Miller
      "Rich in human detail, penetrating in analysis, this book is social history on an epic scale. The first 'transatlantic' history of the Irish, Emigrants and Exiles offers the fullest account yet of the diverse waves of Irish emigration to North America." (1988)
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      American Founding

      7 visitors recommend:
      Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782
      Source: Amazon
      Author: Ronald Hoffman and Sally D. Mason
      State: MD
      "An eye-opening history of colonial and revolutionary Maryland ... Ronald Hoffman is an excellent historian who has brought great knowledge of Chesapeake social and cultural history to this biographical work that places three generations of the Carroll family within their colonial context."
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      Middle Ages and Renaissance

      6 visitors recommend:
      A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World, 3500 B.C. to 1603 A.D
      Source: Amazon
      Author: Simon Schama
      "What do you get when you combine the resources and ethos of the BBC with the literary panache of one of the world's best narrative historians? The answer is Simon Schama's 'A History of Britain.'" (Oct. 2000)
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