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  • Witchcraft in Early North America

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    Series series American Controversies
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  • Inventing the English Massacre

    Amboyna in History and Memory

    de Alison Games ...
    My Lai, Wounded Knee, Sandy Hook: the place names evoke grief and horror, each the site of a massacre. Massacres-the mass slaughter of people-might seem as old as time, but the word itself is not. It worked its way into the English language in the late sixteenth century, and ultimately came to signify a specific type of death, one characterized by cruelty, intimacy, and treachery. How that ... Leer más

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  • The Web of Empire

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    de Alison Games ...
    How did England go from a position of inferiority to the powerful Spanish empire to achieve global pre-eminence? In this important second book, Alison Games, a colonial American historian, explores the period from 1560 to 1660, when England challenged dominion over the American continents, established new long-distance trade routes in the eastern Mediterranean and the East Indies, and emerged in ... Leer más

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    Series series Penguin Monarchs
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  • New World, Inc.

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  • The Magna Carta

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  • Stephen (Penguin Monarchs)

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  • The Mirror of Great Britain

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