Moorish Spain by Richard Fletcher
In Moorish Spain Richard Fletcher achieves a significant feat. In a short book he not only chronicles the bones of nearly a millennium of history, but also offers much that adds to our understanding of the social context, both of his chosen era in particular and of history in general.
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Historical Romance Novels – A Window Into the Past
Escape into the corridors of time with first-class historical fiction spiced with passion, love and romance. Tales of political and religious intrigue, where greed and lust for power, create a cesspool of corruption and inhumanity. Blood runs so thin that families heartbreakingly betray one another, women are political pawns, and common people are subject to the savagery of rape, pillage and murder.
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A Chinaman’s Chance – The Chinese on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier Review
Some historians might argue that Chinese miners suffered because of their meager wages in both mining as well as service industries. Zhu undermines this argument by presenting statistics, which depicted Chinese immigrants living and eating a better diet than their counterparts in China.
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Thomas Jefferson and Asperger’s Syndrome
If living in today’s society, Thomas Jefferson, our third U.S. president, author of the Declaration of Independence and considered by many to be a notable intellectual would most likely be diagnosed as an individual with Asperger’s Syndrome, a neurological difference in some people. Because Norm Ledgin is a historian who writes and lectures in history and also because he has a son diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome he observed characteristics and similarities in the personal life of Jefferson that matched his own son’s life.
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Revisiting John Masters ‘Bhowani Junction’ – An Example of Anglo Indian Prose
It is an immensely readable book and certainly in its own way can be regarded as a minor classic. I for one will recommend it to get a feel of the Raj during the turbulent years approaching independence.
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