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The Book of Duels
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: Michael Garriga
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-17 - Publisher: Milkweed Editions

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Fierce, searing, and darkly comical, Garriga's debut collection of short-short fiction depicts historical and imagined duels, re-envisioning in a flash the comp
Dueling
Language: en
Pages: 283
Authors: Kevin McAleer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-14 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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The question of what it takes "to be a man" comes under scrutiny in this sharp, often playful, cultural critique of the German duel--the deadliest type of one-o
Dueling in the Old South
Language: en
Pages: 124
Authors: Jack Kenny Williams
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1980 - Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

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This history of the social custom of pistol dueling in the antebellum South documents the rules for its conduct, its causes, and its typical participants. Also
Dueling
Language: en
Pages: 34
Authors: Alix Wood
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-01 - Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

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It wasn’t that long ago that dueling was an accepted practice in many parts of the world. In fact, duels were once considered an honorable way to solve a prob
Touché
Language: en
Pages: 347
Authors: John Leigh
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-08 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Many of the West’s best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offere