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9780312622190 | Har/pap edition (Bedford/st Martins, October 21, 2010), cover price $51.80

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Product Description: Third in a series that began with Allison's "A Short History of Boston," this concise narrative covers four colorful centuries. Here are the key events in Cape Cod history, with over twenty personal profiles of historic figures, more than 100 black-and-white photographs, a detailed chronology, and an index...read more
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9781889833996 | Commonwealth Editions, August 1, 2010, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Third in a series that began with Allison's "A Short History of Boston," this concise narrative covers four colorful centuries.

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Product Description: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. The book discusses his time spent in slavery, serving primarily on galleys, documents his attempts at becoming an independent man through his study of the Bible, and his eventual success in gaining his own freedom and in business thereafter...read more
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9781603810197 | Createspace, October 1, 2008, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: He was born, he tells us in his Interesting Narrative of his life, in Essaka, a small village in what is today eastern Nigeria that was ruled by the powerful eighteenth century King of Benin.
9781603810258 | Createspace, September 30, 2008, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: He was born, he tells us in his Interesting Narrative of his life, in Essaka, a small village in what is today eastern Nigeria that was ruled by the powerful eighteenth century King of Benin.
9781605971001 | Lightning Source Inc, February 28, 2008, cover price $15.45 | About this edition: Compelling work traces the formidable journey of an Igbo prince from captivity to freedom and literacy and recounts his enslavement in the New World, service in the Seven Years War, voyages to the Arctic, six months among the Miskito Indians in Central America, and more.
9781604248791 | Standard Pubns Inc, January 30, 2007, cover price $14.45 | About this edition: He was born, he tells us in his Interesting Narrative of his life, in Essaka, a small village in what is today eastern Nigeria that was ruled by the powerful eighteenth century King of Benin.
9780312442033 | 2 edition (Bedford/st Martins, April 7, 2006), cover price $19.20 | About this edition: Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the first slave narrative to attract a significant readership -- reveals many aspects of the eighteenth-century Western world through the experiences of one individual.
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By Robert J. Allison (editor)
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9780312487171 | Bedford/st Martins, September 26, 2007, cover price $66.50

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Product Description: Born to an immigrant Philadelphia family in 1779, Stephen Decatur became at age twenty-five the youngest man ever to serve as a captain in the U.S. Navy. His intrepid heroism, leadership, and devotion to duty made him a perfect symbol of the aspirations of the growing nation...read more
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9781558494923 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, August 31, 2005, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Born to a prominent Philadelphia family in 1779, Stephen Decatur at age twenty-five became the youngest man ever to serve as a captain in the U.

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9781558495838 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, March 1, 2007, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Born to an immigrant Philadelphia family in 1779, Stephen Decatur became at age twenty-five the youngest man ever to serve as a captain in the U.

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Product Description: Part riot, part slaughter, the Boston Massacre of March 1770 was a political cause celebre and one of the key events leading to the American Revolution.
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9781933212104 | Commonwealth Editions, September 11, 2006, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Part riot, part slaughter, the Boston Massacre of March 1770 was a political cause celebre and one of the key events leading to the American Revolution.

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Product Description: Lizzie Borden took an axe. Or did she? Chaney looks behind the myth at one of the most grisly and controversial murders in New England history.
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9781889833811 | Commonwealth Editions, June 30, 2006, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Lizzie Borden took an axe.

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Product Description: More than just a fascinating story, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography--the first slave narrative to be widely read--reveals many aspects of the eighteenth-century Western world through the experiences of one individual. The second edition takes into consideration the latest scholarship on Atlantic history and the history of slavery...read more
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9781403971562 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, April 7, 2006), cover price $59.00 | About this edition: More than just a fascinating story, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography--the first slave narrative to be widely read--reveals many aspects of the eighteenth-century Western world through the experiences of one individual.
9780312122430 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 1, 1995, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: More than just a fascinating story, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography - the first slave narrative to be widely read - reveals many aspects of the eighteenth-century Western world through the experiences of one individual.

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Product Description: More than just a fascinating story, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the first slave narrative to be widely read -- reveals many aspects of the eighteenth-century Western world through the experiences of one individual. This edition is the first in more than twenty-five years to offer the complete text of the Life together with a comprehensive twenty-page introduction and useful editorial apparatus designed to help students get the most out of this important work...read more
By Robert J. Allison (contributor)
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9780312149925 | St Martins Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: More than just a fascinating story, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the first slave narrative to be widely read -- reveals many aspects of the eighteenth-century Western world through the experiences of one individual.

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Product Description: Color photographs of all major Revolutionary War sites in greater Boston with a short history of the events that made them famous.
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9781889833958 | Memoirs Unlimited, March 15, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Color photographs of all major Revolutionary War sites in greater Boston with a short history of the events that made them famous.

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Explores the devastating impact on the Northeastern region of the United States of the horrific hurricane of 1938, examining the human, financial, and ecological repercussions of the natural disaster. Original.
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9781889833750 | Memoirs Unlimited, December 1, 2004, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Explores the devastating impact on the Northeastern region of the United States of the horrific hurricane of 1938, examining the human, financial, and ecological repercussions of the natural disaster.

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Product Description: A brief history of Boston's Big Dig, the largest public works project in American history.
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9781889833828 | Memoirs Unlimited, August 15, 2004, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A brief history of Boston's Big Dig, the largest public works project in American history.

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Product Description: Until 2004 and the publication of "A Short History of Boston," there was no good short history of the city of Boston, not in print anyway. With economy and style, Dr. Robert Allison brings Boston history alive, from the Puritan theocracy of the seventeenth century to the Big Dig of the twenty-first...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781889833477 | Memoirs Unlimited, March 1, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Until 2004 and the publication of "A Short History of Boston," there was no good short history of the city of Boston, not in print anyway.

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