Books for Age of Empire

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Books for Age of Empire

Author	Title	Publisher/Date
Mason, A.E.W	*The Four Feathers*	Penguin, 2001
Hochschild, Adam	*King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terrorism, and Heroism in Colonial Africa*	Houghton Mifflin, 1998
Wilson, A. N.	The Victorians	W. W. Norton, 2003
Farwell, Bryon	*Queen Victoria's Little Wars*	W. W. Norton, 1988
Woodham-Smith, Cecil	*The Reason Why: The Story of the Charge of the Light Brigade*	Penguin, 1987
Moran, Richard	*Executioner’s Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse and the invention of the Electric Chair*	Vintage, 2003: ISBN: 037572446X
Rosen, Ruth	*Lost Sisterhood*	Johns Hopkins, 1982. ISBN: 0801826659

*These books are not required, but you can substitute one of required texts except for Hobsbawn's Age of Empire.