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Lazarus Rising (Revised Edition)

By: John Howard

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Lazarus Rising (Revised Edition)

By: John Howard

Revised and updated version of the bestselling political biography of 2010. This edition contains some completely new content from Mr Howard, including his thoughts on the 2013 election campaigns. John Howard's autobiography, Lazarus Rising, is the biggest-selling political memoir Australia has seen. In it he talks about his love for his family, his rollercoaster ride to the Lodge and how - as prime minister - he managed a strongly growing Australian economy and led Australia's war on terrorism. Drawing on his deep interest in history, he paints a fascinating picture of a changing Australia. In this edition, fully updated to take into account the return of the Liberal National Party to government after the 2013 election, Howard analyses the crucial years between the 2010 election which gave rise to the minority government of Julia Gillard, and the consequent unprecedented and destabilising leadership struggles within the Labor party. He discusses the significance of tony Abbott's achievements in defeating the Labor Government in 2013, and provides a masterful summary of legacy of the Rudd/Gillard years for Australia. Lazarus Rising is essential reading for all followers of politics. PRAISE FOR LAZARUS RISING: 'John Howard has written a magisterial autobiography, compulsively readable in its way' the Weekend Australian 'Underneath Howard's plain political style lies an excellent communicator. His capacity to express his thoughts clearly, calmly and simply shines through' Sydney Morning Herald

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Harper Collins

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1460702506

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Fire under the Ashes

An Atlantic History of the English Revolution

By: John Donoghue

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Fire under the Ashes

An Atlantic History of the English Revolution

By: John Donoghue

In Fire under the Ashes, John Donoghue recovers the lasting significance of the radical ideas of the English Revolution, exploring their wider Atlantic history through a case study of Coleman Street Ward, London. Located in the crowded center of seventeenth-century London, Coleman Street Ward was a hotbed of political, social, and religious unrest. There among diverse and contentious groups of puritans a tumultuous republican underground evolved as the political means to a more perfect Protestant Reformation. But while Coleman Street has long been recognized as a crucial location of the English Revolution, its importance to events across the Atlantic has yet to be explored. Prominent merchant revolutionaries from Coleman Street led England’s imperial expansion by investing deeply in the slave trade and projects of colonial conquest. Opposing them were other Coleman Street puritans, who having crossed and re-crossed the ocean as colonists and revolutionaries, circulated new ideas about the liberty of body and soul that they defined against England’s emergent, political economy of empire. These transatlantic radicals promoted social justice as the cornerstone of a republican liberty opposed to both political tyranny and economic slavery—and their efforts, Donoghue argues, provided the ideological foundations for the abolitionist movement that swept the Atlantic more than a century later.

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University of Chicago Press

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022607286X

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History of New England

Vol. II

By: John Gorham Palfrey

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History of New England

Vol. II

By: John Gorham Palfrey

Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.

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3375103921

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The Beginning of New England

By: John Fiske

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The Beginning of New England

By: John Fiske

Reproduction of the original: The Beginning of New England by John Fiske

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3752361077

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History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty

Vol. II

By: John Gorham Palfrey

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History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty

Vol. II

By: John Gorham Palfrey

Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.

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Shotguns and Stagecoaches

The Brave Men Who Rode for Wells Fargo in the Wild West

By: John Boessenecker

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Shotguns and Stagecoaches

The Brave Men Who Rode for Wells Fargo in the Wild West

By: John Boessenecker

The true stories of the Wild West heroes who guarded the iconic Wells Fargo stagecoaches and trains, battling colorful thieves, vicious highwaymen, and robbers armed with explosives. The phrase "riding shotgun" was no teenage game to the men who guarded stagecoaches and trains the Western frontier. Armed with sawed-off, double-barreled shotguns and an occasional revolver, these express messengers guarded valuable cargo through lawless terrain. They were tough, fighting men who risked their lives every time they climbed into the front boot of a Concord coach. Boessenecker introduces soon-to-be iconic personalities like "Chips" Hodgkins, an express rider known for his white mule and his ability to outrace his competitors, and Henry Johnson, the first Wells Fargo detective. Their lives weren't just one shootout after another—their encounters with desperadoes were won just as often with quick wits and memorized-by-heart knowledge of the land. The highway robbers also get their due. It wouldn't be a book about the Wild West without Black Bart, the most infamous stagecoach robber of all time, and Butch Cassidy's gang, America's most legendary train robbers. Through the Gold Rush and the early days of delivery with horses and saddlebags, to the heyday of stagecoaches and huge shipments of gold, and finally the rise of the railroad and the robbers who concocted unheard-of schemes to loot trains, Wells Fargo always had courageous men to protect its treasure. Their unforgettable bravery and ingenuity make this book a thrilling read.

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Thomas Dunne Books

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1250184886

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The Beginnings Of New England Or The Puritan Theocracy In Its Relations To Civil And Religious Liberty

By: John Fiske

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The Beginnings Of New England Or The Puritan Theocracy In Its Relations To Civil And Religious Liberty

By: John Fiske

The Beginnings of New England" is a historical paintings penned by John Fiske, a distinguished American historian and philosopher. Published within the past due 19th century, this nonfiction narrative explores the early history of the New England colonies in North America. Fiske's meticulous scholarship delves into the roots of New England, tracing the region's settlement by means of English Puritans and Pilgrims inside the seventeenth century. The creator examines the motivations, struggles, and societal systems that formed the status quo of those colonies, presenting a comprehensive account of the cultural, non-secular, and political foundations that laid the foundation for New England's awesome identity. Through distinct historic evaluation, Fiske illuminates the interactions among the colonists and Native American communities, shedding light at the complexities of early American history. His narrative skillfully weaves together numerous threads of exploration, settlement, and cultural exchange, supplying readers a nuanced expertise of the youth of New England. "The Beginnings of New England" now not best serves as an ancient documentation of the area's origins but also reflects Fiske's broader hobby in American records and its underlying standards.

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9361156780

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Harvest Of Fear

A History Of Australia's Vietnam War

By: John Murphy

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Harvest Of Fear

A History Of Australia's Vietnam War

By: John Murphy

How did fears of the Cold War shape Australian images of Asia? What was the nature of the Vietnamese revolution, which some 50 000 Australian troops failed to reverse in the 1960s? How did a small and marginal peace movement grow into the powerful Moratorium and did it have any impact on the course of the War? Harvest of Fear is a beautifully craf

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Routledge

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0429710763

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The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649

By: John Winthrop

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The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649

By: John Winthrop

This abridged edition of Winthrop's journal, which incorporates about 40 percent of the governor's text, with his spelling and punctuation modernized, includes a lively Introduction and complete annotation. It also includes Winthrop's famous lay sermon, "A Model of Christian Charity", written in 1630. As in the fuller journal, this abridged edition contains the drama of Winthrop's life - his defeat at the hands of the freemen for governor, the banishment and flight of Roger Williams to Rhode Island, the Pequot War that exterminated his Indian opponents, and the Antinomian controversy. Here is the earliest American document on the perpetual contest between the forces of good and evil in the wilderness - Winthrop's recounting of how God's Chosen People escaped from captivity into the promised land. While he recorded all the sexual scandal - rape, fornication, adultery, sodomy, and buggery - it was only to show that even in Godly New England the Devil was continually at work, and man must be forever militant.

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Harvard University Press

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0674484266

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9780674484269

Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul

Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty

By: John M. Barry

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Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul

Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty

By: John M. Barry

A revelatory look at how Roger Williams shaped the nature of religion, political power, and individual rights in America. For four hundred years, Americans have wrestled with and fought over two concepts that define the nature of the nation: the proper relation between church and state and between a free individual and the state. These debates began with the extraordinary thought and struggles of Roger Williams, who had an unparalleled understanding of the conflict between a government that justified itself by "reason of state"-i.e. national security-and its perceived "will of God" and the "ancient rights and liberties" of individuals. This is a story of power, set against Puritan America and the English Civil War. Williams's interactions with King James, Francis Bacon, Oliver Cromwell, and his mentor Edward Coke set his course, but his fundamental ideas came to fruition in America, as Williams, though a Puritan, collided with John Winthrop's vision of his "City upon a Hill." Acclaimed historian John M. Barry explores the development of these fundamental ideas through the story of the man who was the first to link religious freedom to individual liberty, and who created in America the first government and society on earth informed by those beliefs. The story is essential to the continuing debate over how we define the role of religion and political power in modern American life.

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Penguin

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1101554266

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Mamecestre

Vol. II

By: John Harland

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Mamecestre

Vol. II

By: John Harland

Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.

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History of the United States

By: John Andrew Doyle,Francis Amasa Walker

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History of the United States

By: John Andrew Doyle,Francis Amasa Walker

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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3385509165

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9783385509160

Polysituatedness

A poetics of displacement

By: John Kinsella

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Polysituatedness

A poetics of displacement

By: John Kinsella

This book is concerned with the complexities of defining 'place', of observing and 'seeing' place, and how we might write a poetics of place. From Kathy Acker to indigenous Australian poet Jack Davis, the book touches on other writers and theorists, but in essence is a hands-on 'praxis' book of poetic practice. The work extends John Kinsella's theory of 'international regionalism' and posits new ways of reading the relationship between place and individual, between individual and the natural environment, and how place occupies the person as much as the person occupies place. It provides alternative readings of writers through place and space, especially Australian writers, but also non-Australian. Further, close consideration is given to being of 'famine-migrant' Irish heritage and the complexities of 'returning'. A close-up examination of 'belonging' and exclusion is made on a day-to-day basis. The book offers an approach to creating poems and literary texts constituted by experiencing multiple places, developing a model of polyvalent belonging known as 'polysituatedness'. It works as a companion volume to Kinsella's earlier Manchester University Press critical work, Disclosed Poetics: Beyond Landscape to Lyricism.

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Manchester University Press

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1526113376

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The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island

Comprising Three Generations of Settlers who Came Before 1690, with Many Families Carried to the Fourth Generation

By: John Osborne Austin

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The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island

Comprising Three Generations of Settlers who Came Before 1690, with Many Families Carried to the Fourth Generation

By: John Osborne Austin

This legendary work consists of alphabetically arranged genealogical tables of approximately 500 Rhode Island families, representing thousands of descendants of pre--1690 settlers, all carried to the third generation, and some--about 100 families-- carried to the fourth.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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080630006X

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Manchester

An Architectural History

By: John J. Parkinson-Bailey

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Manchester

An Architectural History

By: John J. Parkinson-Bailey

This work offers an examination of Manchester's architecture, from its origins to the present-day rebuilding of the city centre. It follows Manchester's growth from a village to what many see as England's second city.

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Manchester University Press

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0719056063

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9780719056062

One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families

By: John Osborne Austin

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One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families

By: John Osborne Austin

This work is an exhaustive study of 160 families. For each family covered, a skeletal genealogy is given, showing births, marriages, and deaths in successive generations of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. This is then followed by a narrative detailing the known facts about each person and family according to existing records. The narratives commence with the first member of the family to come to New England, identifying his place of origin and occupation, the date and place of his arrival in New England, and his residence--all information that was accumulated from the author's extensive research in wills, inventories, deeds, land records, and church records. The narratives then turn to the children of the original settler, treating them in like manner, and to their children, and so on until the genealogy is fully developed.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806307633

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9780806307633

Panic!

By: John Creasey

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Panic!

By: John Creasey

The adventure that brought two intrepid cousins into the service of the department of British intelligence known as Z . . . Desperate to escape the suffocating heat of London, cousins Mark and Mike Errol set out for Richmond for a relaxing boat ride. Little did they know their peaceful afternoon would be violently interrupted by a Department Z mission that would completely change their lives. Quickly recruited into the secret agency, the Errols embark on one of the department's most treacherous cases. The League of the Hundred-and-One are terrorizing the people of Britain and holding the country ransom. With one hundred and one reasons to panic, can Department Z defeat this elusive league before the nation crumbles?

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Ipso Books

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1504053478

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9781504053471

They Knew They Were Pilgrims

Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty

By: John G. Turner

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They Knew They Were Pilgrims

Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty

By: John G. Turner

An ambitious new history of the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony, published for the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower’s landing In 1620, separatists from the Church of England set sail across the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower. Understanding themselves as spiritual pilgrims, they left to preserve their liberty to worship God in accordance with their understanding of the Bible. There exists, however, an alternative, more dispiriting version of their story. In it, the Pilgrims are religious zealots who persecuted dissenters and decimated the Native peoples through warfare and by stealing their land. The Pilgrims’ definition of liberty was, in practice, very narrow. Drawing on original research using underutilized sources, John G. Turner moves beyond these familiar narratives in his sweeping and authoritative new history of Plymouth Colony. Instead of depicting the Pilgrims as otherworldly saints or extraordinary sinners, he tells how a variety of English settlers and Native peoples engaged in a contest for the meaning of American liberty.

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Yale University Press

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0300252307

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9780300252309

A Place Apart

The University of Melbourne : Decades of Challenge

By: John Riddoch Poynter,Carolyn Rasmussen

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A Place Apart

The University of Melbourne : Decades of Challenge

By: John Riddoch Poynter,Carolyn Rasmussen

A highly readable history of the University of Melbourne that examines its growth from a small provincial institution, educating the elite of a relatively narrow society, to a major teaching and research institution - changes of a magnitude which could never have been envisaged in 1935 when the story begins.

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Melbourne University Publish

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0522845843

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Back In Black

By: John G. Hartness

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Back In Black

By: John G. Hartness

BOOK TWO: BACK IN BLACK Vampire detectives Jimmy Black and Greg Knightwood investigate a series of assaults plaguing the alleys of Charlotte, North Carolina. The string of hate crimes becomes personal when Jimmy's just-maybe-main-squeeze Detective Sabrina Law's cousin is attacked. Helping a lady out could get the boys killed when they end up in Faerie. Before long, they're up to their butts in trolls, dark fae and a grand battle royale. The odds are against them, but to the boys, this is just another day on the night shift--if the night shift included a steel cage match of supernaturals.

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Bell Bridge Books

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1611942004

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