The Chalmers race : Ty Cobb, Napoleon Lajoie, and the controversial 1910 batting title that became a national obsession / by Huhn, Rick, 1944-

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Arthur W. Upfield : life and times of Bony's man / by Milnor, A. J.

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Russia in Britain, 1880-1940 : from melodrama to modernism /

Table of Contents: “…"For God, for Czar, for fatherland" : Russians on the British stage from Napoleon to the Great War /…”
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A sea for encounters : essays towards a postcolonial commonwealth /

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Churchill : the unexpected hero / by Addison, Paul, 1943-2020

Table of Contents: “…The youngest man in Europe, 1874-1901 -- The renegade, 1901-1911 -- The Lilliput Napoleon, 1911-1915 -- The Winstonburg line, 1915-1924 -- Respectability won and lost, 1924-1939 -- The making of a hero, 1939-1945 -- Climbing Olympus, 1945-1965 -- Churchill past and present.…”
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Passport not required : U.S. volunteers in the Royal Navy, 1939-1941 / by Dietrich-Berryman, Eric

Table of Contents: “…-- Come to England, passport not required -- Battle of the Atlantic -- The air war -- Action in other theaters -- Normandy : the end draws near -- Epilogue -- Appendix I: Reflections by Kapitan zur See Otto von Bulow -- Appendix II: Biographical notes -- Appendix III: Napoleon to Kaiser : Americans in British and other service -- Appendix IV: How the story came to be told.…”
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Working : researching, interviewing, writing / by Caro, Robert A.

Table of Contents: “…LBJA ; "Why can't you do a biography of Napoleon?" ; INTERVIEWING. "I lied under oath": Luis Salas ; "Hell, no, he's not dead": Vernon Whiteside ; "It's all there in black and white": Ella So Relle ; "I wanted to be a citizen": Margaret and David Frost ; "My eyes were just out on stems": Lady Bird Johnson ; Tricks of the trade -- A sense of place -- Two songs -- The Paris Review interview.…”

Chesterton and the romance of Orthodoxy : the making of GKC, 1874-1908 / by Oddie, William

Table of Contents: “…The Man of Letters as Defender of the Faith, 1903-4: Robert Browning; Blatchford I; The Napoleon of Notting Hill; 7. The Critic as Polemicist, 1904-6: G.F. …”
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The bourbon king : the life and crimes of George Remus, Prohibition's evil genius / by Batchelor, Bob

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: Awash in red -- Part one: Birth of a bootlegger. Napoleon of the bar ; Illicit relations ; Birth of a bootlegger -- Part two: King of the bootleggers. …”

Martin Luther King Jr., man of ideas and nonviolent social action / by Burrow, Rufus, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…A Preacher and Some Women Pave the Way -- Vernon Napoleon Johns : "God's Bad Boy" -- Black Women Trailblazers -- Part 4. …”
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Extremist for love : Martin Luther King Jr., man of ideas and nonviolent social action / by Burrow, Rufus, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…A Preacher and Some Women Pave the Way -- Vernon Napoleon Johns : "God's Bad Boy" -- Black Women Trailblazers -- Part 4. …”
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Tales from the deadball era : Ty Cobb, home run Baker, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and the wildest times in baseball history / by Halfon, Mark S.

Table of Contents: “…Rowdyism; PART 2: DEADBALL ERA STANDOUTS; 6. Little Napoleon; 7. The Georgia Peach; 8. The Big Train; 9. …”
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A Time of Paradox : America Since 1890. by Jeansonne, Glen

Table of Contents: “…House: The Quiet Campaigner; Jeannette Rankin: Warrior for Peace; Chapter 6 From World War to Lost Peace; Bibliographic Essay; PART II An Era of Trial and Triumph, 1920-1945; Prologue; Time Line; Chapter 7 The 1920s: Decade of Fear, Decade of Excess; Chapter 8 Republicanism from Prosperity to the Great Depression Samuel Insult: Napoleon Abdicates; Samuel Insult: Napoleon Abdicates; Chapter 9 Franklin D. …”
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Schoenberg and Hollywood modernism by Marcus, Kenneth H.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of maps -- List of music examples -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Modernism in Southern California, 1913-1944 -- 1 Early Modernism in Southern California, 1913-1933 -- 2 Hollywood and exile -- 3 The road to Westwood: from USC to UCLA -- Part II: The private and public spheres, 1936-1951 -- 4 The private world of Schoenberg -- 5 Judaism revisited: Schoenberg's Jewish works -- 6 War, nationalism, and anticommunism -- 7 Troubles in paradise: the final years -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- 1 List of works in exile, 1934-1950 -- 2 Text to Arnold Schoenberg, Kol Nidre, Op. 39 -- 3 Text to Arnold Schoenberg, A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46 -- 4 Text to Arnold Schoenberg, Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, Op. 41, by Lord Byron -- 5 Bertolt Brecht, Letter and poem, "Und in eurem Lande?…”
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The long march of French universities / by Musselin, Christine, 1958-

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Der Wiener Kongress und seine Folgen- The Congress of Vienna and its Aftermaths : Großbritannien, Europa und der Friede im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert/ Great Britain, Europe and Peace...

Table of Contents: “…Towards a Geographical Analysis of Napoleonic Imperialism: Survival and Rupture within the Napoleonic Legacy -- An Empire of Mind and Matter -- Macro-Regions: the Inner and Outer Empires:the Ciceronian Empire or the Limits of the Polis? …”
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Conscription, family, and the modern state : a comparative study of France and the United States / by Geva, Dorit, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Tracing Similarities and Differences -- PART I CONSCRIPTION, FAMILIAL AUTHORITY, AND STATE MODERNITY IN MODERN FRANCE -- 1 Nationalized Coercion, Familial Authority, and the Père de Famille in Nineteenth-Century France -- Patriarchal Power and Familial Sovereignty in the Revolutionary Era -- Napoleonic Reforms and Intensification of Paternal Power -- Napoleonic Reform, Conscription, and the Contradictions between State and Paternal Authority -- Nineteenth Century Continuities -- 2 Conscription, Pronatalism, and Decline of Familial Sovereignty in the Early Third Republic -- The French Third Republic: A Laboratory for French Republicanism -- Gender in the Early Third Republic: Republicanism, Depopulation, and the Père de Famille -- The Père de Famille -- The Third Republic and the Nation in Arms -- The 1905 Recruitment Law: Military Service Is "Equal for All" -- The Depopulation Crisis and the Challenge to Familial Authority -- Wartime Mobilization and Demobilization -- 3 The Famille Nombreuse versus the Security State in Interwar France -- Depopulation, Gender Backlash, and Familial Authority -- The Familles Nombreuses in Postwar Army Reform -- Depopulation Is War: The 1928 Recruitment Bill -- The Années Creuses and the Road to Total War -- Familial Authority and the Specter of Total War -- PART II THE DRAFT, FAMILIAL AUTHORITY, AND STATE MODERNITY IN THE UNITED STATES -- 4 Breadwinning, Selective Service, and the World War I Draft.…”
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Fighting the Cold War : a soldier's memoir / by Galvin, John R., 1929-2015

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Must close Saturday : the decline and fall of the British musical flop / by Wright, Adrian, 1947 July 1-

Table of Contents: “…-- 1993: Robin, Prince of Sherwood Leonardo Lust -- 1994: Out of the Blue -- 1995: Prisoner Cell Block H -- 1996: The Fields of Ambrosia Disgracefully Yours Voyeurz -- 1997: Always Maddie Stepping Out -- 1998: Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens -- 1999: A Saint She Ain't Tess of the d'Urbervilles -- 2000-2005 -- 2000: Lautrec Hard Times Napoleon -- 2002: Romeo and Juliet -- 2003: Money To Burn -- 2004: Beautiful and Damned Murderous Instincts Oscar Wilde -- 2005: Acorn Antiques The Far Pavilions Behind the Iron Mask -- 2006-2016 -- 2007: Bad Girls -- 2008: Gone With the Wind Marguerite Imagine This -- 2009: Too Close To the Sun -- 2010: Wolf Boy Love Story -- 2011: Betty Blue Eyes Lend Me a Tenor -- 2013: From Here To Eternity Stephen Ward -- 2014: I Can't Sing Made in Dagenham -- 2016: Mrs Henderson Presents The Go-Between -- Appendix: British Musical Flops in London 1960-2016 -- Notes to the Text -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Musical Works -- General Index.…”
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