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Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of important historical events or periods in world history. This volume focuses on the internment of Japanese Americans after the Japanese attacked the U.S. military forces stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, December 7, 1941.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of important historical events or periods in world history. This volume focuses on influenza pandemics, from the past to the present, and features quotations from sources such as diaries, public records, and contemporary chronicles.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of important historical events or periods in world history. This volume focuses on the American counterculture of the 1960s and features quotations from sources such as diaries, public records, and contemporary chronicles.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
This fascinating volume focuses on the women's movement, featuring quotations from sources such as diaries, public records, and contemporary chronicles. Author Don Nardo explains the ordeal of being an American woman in days without rights. He then details the long road to the ballot box, and the emergence of a new, powerful public woman. The gender equality struggle is richly chronicled here.
11) The Black Death
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of important historical events or periods in world history. This volume focuses on the highly contagious disease called bubonic plague, also referred to as "the black death", from the past to the present, and features quotations from sources such as diaries, public records, and contemporary chronicles.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of important historical events or periods in world history. This volume focuses on Japan's surprise bombing attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941 which brought the United States into World War II.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of important historical events or periods in world history. This volume focuses on the scientific revolution, from the past to the present, and features quotations from sources such as diaries, public records, and contemporary chronicles.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of important historical events or periods in world history. This volume focuses on the background to the Manhattan Project; how the project development took form, the people involved in building the atom bomb, and how it led to the end of World War II.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of important historical events or periods in world history. This volume tells the story of how the modern country of India came into existence. It traces the ancient political struggles, along with the more recent struggles that lead to India becoming a colony of Great Britain and eventually an independent country.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of important historical events or periods in world history. This volume focuses on the Maya Civilization and features quotations from sources such as diaries, public records, and contemporary chronicles.
17) The Vikings
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of important historical events or periods in world history. This volume focuses on the Vikings and features quotations from sources such as diaries, public records, and contemporary chronicles.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of important historical events or periods in world history. This volume focuses on the Victorian era in Great Britain, lasting from Queen Victoria's ascension to the throne in 1837 until her death in 1901.
20) The Alamo
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of important historical events or periods in world history. This volume focuses on an old Spanish Catholic mission called the Alamo and the 187 men who defended it against Mexican troops in 1835.
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