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History - February, 2013

A labyrinth of kingdoms : 10 000 miles through Islamic Africa / Steve Kemper
New York : W W Norton & Co, c2012

A pioneer in Yokohama : a Dutchman's adventures in the new treaty port ; from Ontmoetingen ter zee and te land / C.T. Assendelft de Coningh ; edited and translated, with an introduction, by Martha Chaiklin
Indianapolis : Hackett Pub. Co., c2012

A time of gifts : on foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube / Patrick Leigh Fermor introduction by Jan Morris
New York : New York Review Books, c2005

All we know : three lives / Lisa Cohen
New York : Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2012

An archaeology of the cosmos : rethinking agency and religion in ancient america / Timothy R Pauketat
New York : Routledge, c2012

Britain, Ireland and the Second World War / Ian S. Wood
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2010

Heroes and Romans in twelfth-century Byzantium : the Material for history of Nikephoros Bryennios / Leonora Neville
Cambridge, Uk New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2012

Making Ireland English : the Irish aristocracy in the seventeenth century / Jane Ohlmeyer
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012

New Hampshire / Craig A. Doherty, Katherine M. Doherty
New York : Facts On File, c2005

Paul Robeson / by Martin Bauml Duberman
New York : Knopf, 1988

Portraits and propaganda : faces of Rome : an exhibition held at the David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, January 21-March 5, 1989
Providence, R.I. : Brown University, 1989

Private Osborne, Massachusetts 23rd volunteers : Burnside expedition, Roanoke Island, second front against Richmond / Frederick M. Osborne ; edited by Frank B. Marcotte
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1999

Race in the age of Obama / edited by Donald Cunnigen, Marino A. Bruce
Bingley : Emerald, 2010

Sister citizen : shame stereotypes and Black women in America / Melissa V Harris-Perry
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2011

Special issue on the 2010 Haiti earthquake / guest editors, Mary Comerio and Reginald DesRoches
Oakland, Calif. : Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, 2011

The barbarous years : the peopling of British North America the conflict of civilizations 1600-1675 / Bernard Bailyn
New York : Alfred A Knopf, 2012

The great shark hunt : strange tales from a strange time / Hunter S Thompson
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2003

The lion sleeps tonight : and other stories of Africa / Rian Malan
New York : Grove Press, c2012

The noir forties : the American people from victory to Cold War / Richard Lingeman
New York NY : Nation Books, 2012

The old ways : a journey on foot / Robert Macfarlane
New York N Y : Viking, 2012

The world until yesterday : what can we learn from traditional societies? / Jared Diamond
New York : Viking, c2012