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Tulipomania: the story of the world's most coveted flower and the extraordinary passions it aroused
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ISBN: 0575067233 9780575067233 Year: 1999 Publisher: London: Gollancz,

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Batavia's graveyard
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ISBN: 0575070242 Year: 2002 Publisher: London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson,

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Tulpengekte : over de speculatiegolf die de tulp in 17e-eeuws Nederland veroorzaakte
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ISBN: 9027467323 Year: 1999 Publisher: Utrecht Spectrum

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Batavia's graveyard
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ISBN: 0609607669 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York Crown

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Batavia's graveyard
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ISBN: 0609807161 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Three Rivers Press

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Tulipomania : the story of the world's most coveted flower and the extraordinary passions it aroused
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ISBN: 9780753827994 Year: 1999 Publisher: London Orion

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A history of the tulip, from its origins in central Asia, to its place as the most coveted commodity in Europe; telling the story of the flower and some of the colorful characters whose lives were entwined with it.

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The first family : terror, extortion, revenge, murder, and the birth of the American mafia
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ISBN: 1588368637 Year: 2009 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Random House

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Using previously untapped Secret Service archives, prison records, and interviews with surviving family members, Dash presents the gripping story of the birth of the Italian Mafia in America, and brings to life the remarkable villains and unusual heroes of the Mafia's early years.

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Mafia --- Mafia --- Criminals --- Organized crime --- History


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Satan's circus : murder, vice, police corruption, and New York's trial of the century
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ISBN: 0307395227 1299017355 Year: 2007 Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers,

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They called it Satan's Circus--a square mile of Midtown Manhattan where vice ruled, sin flourished, and depravity danced in every doorway. At the turn of the 20th century, murder was so common there that few people were surprised when the loudmouthed owner of a shabby casino was gunned down on the steps of its best hotel. But when, two weeks later, an ambitious district attorney charged young policeman Charley Becker with ordering the murder, even the denizens of Satan's Circus were surprised. The handsome lieutenant was a decorated hero, the renowned leader of New York's vice-busting Special Squad. Was he a bad cop leading a double life, or a pawn felled by the sinister rogues who ran Manhattan's underworld? This tale brings to life an almost-forgotten Gotham.--From publisher description.


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The First Family : Terror, Extortion and the Birth of the American Mafia.
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ISBN: 1849835861 Year: 2010 Publisher: London : Simon & Schuster, Limited,

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Before Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, there was the one-fingered, cunning Giuseppe Morello and his murderous coterie of brothers. Had it not been for Morello, the world may never have heard of 'men of honour', the code of omertaor Mafia wars. This explosive book tells the story of the first family of New York, and how this extended close-knit clan of racketeers and murderers left the backwaters of Sicily to successfully establish themselves as the founding godfathers of the New World.First Family will explain in thrilling, characterful detail how the American Mafia established itself so successfully. Combining strong narrative and raw violence - set against the raucous bustle of early twentieth-century New York, and the impoverished rural life of nineteenth-century Sicily - this impeccably researched, groundbreaking study of a crucial period of American history is a compelling portrait of the early years of organised crime.

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Mafia --- United States --- True Crime --- Reference

L'archipel des hérétiques : la terrifiante histoire des naufragés du Batavia
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ISBN: 2709623552 Year: 2002 Publisher: Paris Lattès

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