10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EMPIRE-BUILDER»
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empire-builder in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
empire-builder and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Great Northern
Empire Builder
This authoritative and richly illustrated history covers the Empire Builders through their 1970s demise. Included here are the trains, their various forms of motive power and rolling stock, and their services.
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James J. Hill:
Empire Builder of the Northwest
In this volume, Michael P. Malone provides a succinct interpretive biography of James J. Hill, the "Empire Builder"-so called for his work in developing the region of the United States between the Great Lakes and the Pacific Northwest.
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Genghis Khan: History's Greatest
Empire Builder
A new volume in the Military Profiles series
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Bess of Hardwick:
Empire Builder
Using journals, letters, inventories, and account books, Mary S. Lovell tells the passionate, colorful story of an astonishingly accomplished woman, among whose descendants are counted the dukes of Devonshire, Rutland, and Portland, and, on ...
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Empire Builder in the Texas Panhandle: William Henry Bush
In Empire Builder in the Texas Panhandle, author Paul H. Carlson tells the story of Chicago-based William Henry Bush and his role in shaping development of the Texas Panhandle from the 1880s to the 1930s.
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Bess of Hardwick:
Empire Builder
Chronicles the life of a sixteenth-century impoverished nobleman's daughter who rose to become one of England's most wealthy and powerful women, in an account that describes her four marriages, witness to four monarchies, and building of ...
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Chingiz Khan: The Life and Legacy of an
Empire Builder
This volume provides an evocative account of Temuchin Chingiz Khan (Lord of the Gobi) who knitted the warring Mongol tribes into well-trained warriors, and who went on to establish an empire that stretched from the Great Wall of China to ...
Anwarul Haque Haqqi, 2010
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John D. Rockefeller,
empire builder
A biography of the industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and later became a famous philanthropist, establishing the Rockefeller Foundation in 1913.
Ellen Greenman Coffey, Nancy Shuker, 1989
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The Eccentric Billionaire: John D. MacArthur--
Empire ...
The fascinating life of one of the most controversial and least-known billionaires in American history.
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The Sultan's Admiral: Barbarossa: Pirate and
Empire Builder
In this definitive biography, Ernle Bradford has brilliantly recreated Barbarossa’s remarkable life alongside a vivid portrayal of the Ottoman and Mediterranean worlds at this thrilling moment in history.
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EMPIRE-BUILDER»
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empire-builder is used in the context of the following news items.
Media Spotlight – Making It Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the …
He, like Mathewson, was not a banker by trade but an empire-builder intent on growing, growing, growing. And then came the crash. In October ... «Mortgage Strategy, Jun 15»
The Power Broker Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert …
And he is equally good at showing how New York's great empire-builder lost his way, his political capital slowly seeping away as the mood ... «The Sunday Times, Jun 15»
Still Cozy After All These Years
... China, seeing the United States as just another empire-builder — one that gobbled up Japan and was now turning to Japan's former victims. «Foreign Policy, Jun 15»
Naseem Hamed: Almost unnoticed at home, a worthy Prince is …
... him to world domination and great wealth, promoter Frank Warren, would in time also feel the cold blade of Hamed the empire-builder. «The Independent, Jun 15»
