Author: Patrick McGuinness
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0099587033
Category : Belgium
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Winner of the 2014 Duff Cooper Prize Winner of the 2015 Welsh Book of the Year Award Shortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Memorial Prize Shortlisted for the 2015 PEN Ackerley prize Longlisted for the 2014 Thwaites Wainwright Prize Let me take you down the thin cobblestoned streets of the Belgian border town of Bouillon. Let me take you down the alleys that lead into its past. To a town peopled with eccentrics, full of charm, menace and wonder. To the days before television, to Marie Bodard's sweetshop, to the Nazi occupation and unexpected collaborators. To a place where one neighbour murders another over the misfortune of pigs and potatoes. To the hotel where the French poet Verlaine his lover Rimbaud, holed up whilst on the run from family, creditors and the law. This exquisite meditation on place, time and memory is an illicit peek into other people's countries, into the spaces they have populated with their memories, and might just make you revisit your own in a new and surprising way.
Author: Joseph Russell Smith
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Author: Joseph Russell Smith
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Author: William Morrison Bell
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368168754
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
Author: United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910)
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Category : Emigration and immigration
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Author: United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910)
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Category : Emigration and immigration
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Author: United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910)
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Category : Emigration and immigration
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe
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Category : Baltic States
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Considers seventy House Concurrent Resolutions relating to the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states, including the political and cultural repression of ethnic minorities.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs
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Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Author: Colin Woodard
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143122029
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
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• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who during presidential elections, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America According to award-winning journalist and historian Colin Woodard, North America is made up of eleven distinct nations, each with its own unique historical roots. In American Nations he takes readers on a journey through the history of our fractured continent, offering a revolutionary and revelatory take on American identity, and how the conflicts between them have shaped our past and continue to mold our future. From the Deep South to the Far West, to Yankeedom to El Norte, Woodard (author of American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good) reveals how each region continues to uphold its distinguishing ideals and identities today, with results that can be seen in the composition of the U.S. Congress or on the county-by-county election maps of any hotly contested election in our history.
