Historical genre books (726)
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Closed Doors by Costas Montis EN
CyprusDescription:
In this heart-rending novella-chronicle, Costas Montis gives a poignant portrayal of the EOKA (Greek for National Organization of Cypriot Fighters) struggle to achieve independence for Cyprus from the British yoke in the years 1955-59. Closed Doors is intended as an answer to Bitter Lemons by Lawrence Durrell, who was a British official in Cyprus at the time. The 1955-59 years were a period filled with unparalleled courage and heroism. Amidst oppression, torture, executions, and hangings, the Greek Cypriots emerge immensely heroic, and bravely shake off the British occupation. Costas Montis su... continue
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AustraliaDescription:
From award-winning author Tim Winton comes an epic novel that regularly tops the list of best-loved novels in Australia. After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the country for the bright lights of Perth. The Lambs are industrious, united, and--until God seems to turn His back on their boy Fish--religious. The Pickleses are gamblers, boozers, fractious, and unlikely landlords. Change, hardship, and the war force them to swallow their dignity and share a great, breathing, shuddering house called Cloudstreet. Over the next twenty years, they struggle and strive, laugh ... continue
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Now in paperback: the powerful, revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award. An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all. Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep... continue
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Cold Crematorium : Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József Debreczeni EN
HungaryDescription:
One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2024 A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time—from journalist, poet and survivor József Debreczeni "As immediate a confrontation of the horrors of the camps as I’ve ever encountered. It’s also a subtle if startling meditation on what it is to attempt to confront those horrors with words...Debreczeni has preserved a panoptic depiction of hell, at once personal, communal and atmospheric." —New York Times "A treasure...Debreczeni’s memoir is a crucial contribution to Holocaust literature, a book that enlarges our... continue
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Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje EN
Sri LankaDescription:
Bringing to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era, this book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players--some say the originator of jazz--who was, in any case, the genius, the guiding spirit, and the king of that time and place. In this fictionalized meditation, Bolden, an unrecorded father of Jazz, remains throughout a tantalizingly ungraspable phantom, the central mysteries of his life, his art, and his madness remaining felt but never quite pinned down. Ondaatje's prose is at times startlingly lyrical, and as he c... continue
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Connected History : Essays and Arguments by Sanjay Subrahmanyam EN
IndiaDescription:
A collection of essays that span many regions and cultures, by an award-winning historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and Carlo Ginzburg, as the proponent of a new kind of history - in his case, not longue durée or micro-history, but 'connected history': connected cross-culturally, and spanning regions, subjects and archives that are conventionally treated alone. Not a research paradigm, he insists, it is more of an oppositionswissenschaft, a way of trying to constantly break the moulds of historical objects. The essays... continue
Rwanda118.
Cory--profile of a President by Isabelo T. Crisostomo EN
Country: Asia / 
Philippines
Philippines
Description:
Corazon Aquino's rise to president of the Philippines.
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Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World : Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade by Roquinaldo Ferreira EN
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
This book argues that Angola and Brazil were connected, not separated, by the Atlantic Ocean. Roquinaldo Ferreira focuses on the cultural, religious, and social impacts of the slave trade on Angola. Reconstructing biographies of Africans and merchants, he demonstrates how cross-cultural trade, identity formation, religious ties, and resistance to slaving were central to the formation of the Atlantic world. By adding to our knowledge of the slaving process, the book powerfully illustrates how Atlantic slaving transformed key African institutions, such as local regimes of forced labor that preda... continue
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Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips EN
Country: North America / 
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Description:
In a vastly ambitious and intensely moving novel, the author of Cambridge creates a many-tongued chorus of the African diaspora in the complex and riveting story of a desperate father who sells his three children into slavery.