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Book Review: Capital Caricatures: Drawn into history
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CAPITAL CARICATURES Edited by Sheila Szatkowski Birlinn, 216pp,
GBP 9.99
STRIP AWAY THE YELLOW NO- parking lines, sodium streetlights,
traffic and Tarmac, and a surprisingly large part of Edinburgh's
city centre would be immediately recognisable to those who lived
there just over two centuries ago.
But while the streets have survived, we know all too little about
many of their original inhabitants: not the great and the good, who
could afford to commission portraits of themse...
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; ... 1919. The victors of World War I--Britain, France, Italy, and the United States--had gathered in France's capital, along with representatives of more than two dozen nations from across the globe, to prepare the terms of ... saying the treaty was the conflict's final crime . . . whose harsh terms would ensure a second ...
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