Lynne Rossetto Kasper
For more than twenty years, James Beard Award winner LYNNE ROSSETTO KASPER has been recognized as one of America's leading food authorities, commentators, and cultural historians. The national radio show she co-created and hosts, The Splendid ... [... more]
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Sandra Benjamin
Tourists, armchair travelers, and historians will all delight in this fluid narrative that can be read straight through, dipped into over time, or used as a reference guide to each period in Sicily's fascinating tale. Emigration of people from ... [... more]
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Michael Kammen
Michael Kammen, the Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture at Cornell University, is a past president of the Organization of American Historians. He is the author or editor of numerous works, including People of Paradox: An ... [... more]
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J.D.A. Widdowson
As long ago as the 1720s, Daniel Defoe wrote about the eccentricities of English dialects. To historians the dialects used in the Yorkshire Dales and rural East Anglia are as important in understanding the living heritage of Britain as the study ... [... more]
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Mary Beth Norton
In this pioneering study of the ways in which the first settlers defined the power, prerogatives, and responsibilities of the sexes, one of our most incisive historians opens a window onto the world of Colonial America. Drawing on a wealth of ... [... more]
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Gary Nash / AUTHOR CATALOG
Since 1966 Gary B. Nash has taught American history at UCLA, where he has received a Distinguished Teaching Award and a Faculty Research Lecturer Award. During 1994-95 he served as President of the Organization of American Historians. In 1997 he ... [... more]
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Patrick Collinson
The religious reformations of the sixteenth century were the crucible of modern Western civilization, profoundly reshaping the identity of Europe's emerging nation-states. In The Reformation, one of the preeminent historians of the period, ... [... more]
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Hugh Thomas
Hugh Thomas is the author of numerous works of history, including From one of the greatest historians of the Spanish world, here is a fresh and fascinating account of Spain's early conquests in the Americas. Hugh Thomas's magisterial narrative of ... [... more]
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Christina Hardyment
Christina Hardyment read history at Newnham College, Cambridge, and has twice held the Alistair Horne Historians' Writing Fellowship at St. Antony's College, Oxford. She is a writer and broadcaster with wide interests, and lives in Oxford, England. [... more]
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