Historical genre books (726)
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Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Fifth Sun offers a comprehensive history of the Aztecs, spanning the period before conquest to a century after the conquest, based on rarely-used Nahuatl-language sources written by the indigenous people.
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Follow the Rabbit-proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time by Doris Pilkington EN
AustraliaDescription:
Three mixed-race Australian girls, having been taken from their Aboriginal families, escape and return home on foot, without supplies or gear, while trying to evade recapture, in an account based on a true story.
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Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco EN
MaltaDescription:
"Sacco brings the conflict down to the most human level, allowing us to imagine our way inside it, to make the desperation he discovers, in some small way, our own."—Los Angeles Times Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, has long been a notorious flashpoint in the bitter Middle East conflict. Buried deep in the archives is one bloody incident, in 1956, that left 111 Palestinians shot dead by Israeli soldiers. Seemingly a footnote to a long history of killing, that day in Rafah—cold-blooded massacre or dreadful mistake—reveals the competing truths that have come to define an i... continue
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For Rouenna by Sigrid Nunez EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
In this haunting novel, a friendship springs up between a writer and a retired army nurse who seeks her out decades after their childhood in the same housing project. "For Rouenna" is an unforgettable work about truth, memory, and unexpected heroism by one of the most gifted writers of her generation.
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Forget Kathmandu by Manjushree Thapa ES
NepalDescription:
Author's impression on the political conditions in Nepal post 2001 while travelling through the affected areas of political strife.
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Forgiveness and Reparation, the Healing Journey by Mpho Tutu van Furth EN
EnglandDescription:
Forgiveness and Reparation, the Healing Journey is about reparations. We think of reparations as a remunerative act and as a punitive one. The colonial powers must pay back a significant percentage of what they stole from the colonized. To arrive at what would be a meaningful amount, we must tally up the cost of the human lives lost, the opportunities denied, the mineral wealth ravaged, and the ecosystems destroyed. How can we even begin to calculate the worth of even one of those categories? How can we rightly price even one human life? Furthermore, this approach assumes there is only one sid... continue
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Forgotten War : New Edition by Henry Reynolds EN
Description:
'We are at war with them,' wrote a Tasmanian settler in 1831. 'What we call their crime is what in a white man we should call patriotism.' Australia is dotted with memorials to soldiers who fought in wars overseas. So why are there no official memorials or commemorations of the wars that were fought on Australian soil between Aborigines and white colonists? Why is it more controversial to talk about the frontier wars now than it was one hundred years ago? In Forgotten War, winner of the 2014 Victorian Premier's Award for non-fiction, influential historian Henry Reynolds makes it clear that the... continue
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Freedom's Mirror : Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution by Ada Ferrer EN
Country: North America / 
Cuba
Cuba
Description:
During the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, arguably the most radical revolution of the modern world, slaves and former slaves succeeded in ending slavery and establishing an independent state. Yet on the Spanish island of Cuba barely fifty miles distant, the events in Haiti helped usher in the antithesis of revolutionary emancipation. When Cuban planters and authorities saw the devastation of the neighboring colony, they rushed to fill the void left in the world market for sugar, to buttress the institutions of slavery and colonial rule, and to prevent "another Haiti" from happening in their ... continue
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From Time Immemorial : The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine by Joan Peters EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
This book is a study of the basic reasons for the Arab-Jewish feud and supports the author's thesis that the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who had lived in what became Israel in 1948 is not the reason for the conflict which has now been going on for years.
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Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega ES
SpainDescription:
b"Quien mato al comendador? b"Fuenteovejuna lo hizo.La frase que todos los habitantes de Fuenteovejuna responden, al unisono, trascendio el nombre de esa lejana aldea espanola y se convirtio en el grito de lucha de los pueblos oprimidos que hacen justicia