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Do-Gooders

Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians

by Gertrude Himmelfarb


In Which We Serve

Master and Commander

Post Captain

HMS Surprise

The Mauritius Command

Desolation Island

The Fortune of War

The Surgeon's Mate

The Ionian Mission

Treason's Harbour

The Far Side of the World

The Reverse of the Medal

The Letter of Marque

The Thirteen-Gun Salute

The Nutmeg of Consolation

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How Noble Was Robert E. Lee?

Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History

by Alan T. Nolan

Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861–1868

by Brooks D. Simpson

The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans

by Charles Royster


The Enigma of Georges Seurat

“He was so intensely secretive that until just a few days before his death even his family and closest friends did not know that he had set up a household with one of his models and that they had a year-old son.”

Seurat: 1859–1891 24, 1991–January 12, 1992

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York September

Seurat: 1859–1891

catalog of the exhibition by Robert L. Herbert, with contributions by Françoise Cachin and Anne Distel and Susan Alyson Stein and Gary Tinterow

Seurat

by Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat, translated by Jean-Marie Clarke

Seurat at Gravelines: The Last Landscapes

by Ellen Wardwell Lee

Paul Signac and Color in Neo-Impressionism, including the first English edition of 'From Eugène Delacroix to Neo-Impressionism' by Paul Signac

by Floyd Ratliff, Signac text translated by Willa Silverman


The Big Apfel

German Encounters with Modernity: Novels of Imperial Berlin

by Katherine Roper

Berlin: Culture and Metropolis

edited by Charles W. Haxthausen, edited by Heidrun Suhr

Berlin: The Politics of Order, 1737–1989

by Alan Balfour

Battleground Berlin: Diaries, 1945–1948

by Ruth Andreas-Friedrich, translated by Anna Boerresen

Berlin Before the Wall: A Foreign Student's Diary with Sketches

by Hsi-Huey Liang

Up Against It: Photographs of the Berlin Wall

by Leland Rice

Berlin Journal, 1989–1990

by Robert Darnton

After the Wall: East Meets West in the New Berlin

by John Borneman

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Idealists Against the Jews

Revolutionary Antisemitism In Germany From Kant to Wagner

by Paul Lawrence Rose


The Romance with Mexico

The New North American Order: A Win-Win Strategy for US-Mexico Trade

by Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr. and Robert B. Cohen, with Peter A. Morici and Alan Tonelson

The Low-Wage Challenge to Global Growth: The Labor Cost-Productivity Imbalance in Newly Industrialized Countries

by Walter Russell Mead

US Jobs and the Mexico Trade Proposal

by Jeff Faux and William Spriggs

Fast Track, Fast Shuffle: The Economic Consequences of the Administration's Proposed Trade Agreement with Mexico

by Jeff Faux and Richard Rothstein

The End of Laissez-Faire: National Purpose and the Global Economy after the Cold War

by Robert Kuttner


Tricks of Memory

The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944

by Henry Rousso, translated by Arthur Goldhammer


The End of the Empire

The Awakening of the Soviet Union

by Geoffrey Hosking

The USSR's Emerging Multiparty System

by Vera Tolz, foreword by S. Frederick Starr

Glasnost in Jeopardy: Human Rights in the USSR

by Helsinki Watch/Human Rights Watch

Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin

by Dusko Doder and Louise Branson

Why Gorbachev Happened: His Triumphs and His Failure

by Robert G. Kaiser

The Second Russian Revolution Channel by Brian Lapping Associates

a documentary series made for BBC Television and the Discovery, produced by Norma Percy

Gorbachev's Struggle for Economic Reform

by Anders Aslund

What Went Wrong with Perestroika.

by Marshall I. Goldman

Steeltown, USSR: Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era

by Stephen Kotkin

Comrade Lawyer: Inside Soviet Justice in an Era of Reform

by Robert Rand

Gorbachev, Glasnost & the Gospel

by Michael Bourdeaux

Inside the KGB: My Life in Soviet Espionage

by Vladimir Kuzichkin, translated by Thomas B. Beattie

'Gorbachev's Endgame'

by Jerry F. Hough

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