A New Force at Sea: George Dewey and the Rise of the American Navy 1682475700, 9781682475706

Churchill and the Navy: The Wartime Leader and the Battles at Sea 9781800325333, 1800325339

Soldier by instinct, sailor by fate... The relationship that defined a career – and saved a nation The Navy almost finis

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Feeding Nelson's Navy: The True Story of Food at Sea in the Georgian Era 147383516X, 9781473835160

The author of How to Cook from A-Z disproves the myth of British navy culinary misconduct in “a work of serious history

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The Rise of a Prairie Statesman: The Life and Times of George McGovern 0691142998, 9780691142999

The Rise of a Prairie Statesman is the first volume of a major biography of the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate w

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A New American Creed: The Eclipse of Citizenship and Rise of Populism 9781503609549

A new American creed has reconstructed the social contract. Generations from 1890 to 1940 took for granted that citizens

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John Dewey and the Decline of American Education 9781497648920, 1497648920

The influence of John Dewey’s undeniably pervasive ideas on the course of American education during the last half-centur

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The Rise of a Prairie Statesman: The Life and Times of George McGovern 9781400880416

The Rise of a Prairie Statesman is the first volume of a major biography of the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate w

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The Ancient Athenian Navy: The History and Legacy of Greece’s Dominant Naval Force in Antiquity

*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Include

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Royal Navy Versus the Slave Traders: Enforcing Abolition at Sea 1808-1898 9781844156337

On 16 March 1807, the British Parliament passed The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. In the following year the Royal Na

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The politics of rage: George Wallace, the origins of the new conservatism, and the transformation of American politics 9780807125977

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Disciplining the Empire: Politics, Governance, and the Rise of the British Navy 9780674985339

Sarah Kinkel shows that the rise of British naval power was neither inevitable nor unquestioned: it was the outcome of f

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