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Masters of the Shoals: Tales of the Cape Fear Pilots Who Ran the Union Blockade
These are the stories of daring harbor pilots who risked their lives for the Confederacy. This volume brings to life these brave pilots of Cape Fear who saved the South from gradual starvation.
This engaging and witty cultural history traces the evolution of the mirror from antiquity to the present day, illustrating its journey from wondrous object to ordinary trinket. With its earliest invention, the mirror allowed us to gaze upon …
Black Propaganda: In the Second World War
Black propaganda appears over a fake signature, for example of a fictitious resistance organization. In this book, the author examines the 'black arts' of Britain, Poland and the Nazis during the Second World War. By 1939, Josef Goebbels had won …
More Terrible Than Death: Massacre, Drugs, and America's War in Colombia
"More Terrible Than Death" is a gripping work that maps the dramatic new relationship between the United States and Colombia in human terms, using portraits of the Colombians and Americans involved, the author's experiences in Colombia as a …
The Cuba Project: Castro, Kennedy, and the FBI's Tamale Squad
sexy, shoot-em-up telling of the CIA and FBI' s attempts to take control of Castro's Cuba before and during the Kennedy administration, Pavia' s colorful account reveals high-stakes bumbling and wishful thinking on the part of U.S. intelligence …
American Nations: Encounters in Indian Country, 1850 to the Present
This long-anticipated follow-up to the acclaimed "American Encounters" brings together the most significant recently published scholarship on Native American history. Arranged both chronologically and thematically, this volume includes …
Beauty and Business: Commerce, Gender, and Culture in Modern America
"Until recently, business historians have not yielded to beauty - at least as a subject of scholarly inquiry. But beauty is big business." — Kathy Peiss, from the Introduction Beauty seems simple; we know it when we see it. But of course our …
Jefferson's Great Gamble tells the incredible story of how four leaders of an upstart nation—Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and Livingston—risked the future of their country and their own careers; outwitted Napoleon Bonaparte, the world's most …
The Enlightenment: A Brief History with Documents
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227) and index.
An engaging and witty cultural history that traces the evolution of the mirror from antiquity to the present day, illustrating its journey from wondrous object to ordinary trinket. With its earliest invention, the mirror allowed us to gaze upon …
The Crusades: An Illustrated History
The Crusades related the dramatic history of a movement which sought to establish Christianity in place of its birth during the Middle Ages.
Outlaw Tales of Colorado: True Stories of Colorado's Notorious Robbers, Rustlers, and Bandits
The mid-1800s through the turn of the twentieth century were lawless times in young Colorado. Resident killer Jack Slade was such an enigma - both gentleman and murderer - that he charmed both Mark Twain and Buffalo Bill. Marshal Jim Clark …
Explore the lives of the pistol-packing, hell-raising, high-spirited gals who traveled with Butch Cassidy's notorious Wild Bunch gang. Wild Bunch Women tells the stories of the dynamic women who rode the outlaw trail. Learn about Kid Curry's …
Subjects of the Sultan: Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire
To date no book has explored the day-to-day life of the common people during the centuries of Ottoman rule. Suraiya Foroqhi here explores the urban world of the Ottoman lands from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century. She describes the …
A Short History of the University of Melbourne
With its early buildings erected at the same time as those of the Victorian parliament, the University of Melbourne was raised when its namesake was a frontier town and the first classes offered were attended by just 16 students. Lively, shrewd, …
fascinating new account of how and why the pyramids were built, featuring a controvesial theory that challenges popular opinions.
Journey Through the Wilderness
Daniel Brac comes to South America to restore a major painting, but he is also on a mission: he must redeem his life-long cowardice and hunt the war criminal who murdered his father. "Journey through the Wilderness" is an epic voyage across the …
On May 14-15, 1905, in the Tsushima Straits near Japan, an entire Russian fleet was annihilated, its ships sunk, scattered, or captured by the Japanese. In the deciding battle of the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese lost only three destroyers but …
A Modern History of the Kurds: Third Edition
The division of the Kurdish people among four modern nation states—Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran—and their struggle for national rights have been constant themes of recent Middle East history. The Kurdish lands have been contested territory for …
Silent Stories: A Photographic Journey Through Lebanon
In the early sixties, Marilyn Stafford spent over a year in Lebanon and became fascinated with the country and its people. She travelled extensively, journeying to the most remote villages and recording scenes of everyday life. This album is a …
How the West Was Worn: Bustles and Buckskins on the Frontier
Did you know that pioneer women sewed lead in their hems to keep their dresses from billowing on the trail? Or that hatless men had to wear bonnets to protect their eyes from the scorching sun? From old familiar Levi's to the short-lived "instant …
Born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) assumed his name in order to escape the work camps of Siberia in 1898. Born to a Russian-Jewish family in the Ukraine, he became the leading spokesman of the Russian Revolution, the founder …
The Second Bull Run Campaign: July - August 1962
fully illustrated account, replete with detailed maps, of one of Robert E. Lee's greatest Civil War successes.
This concise guide to British history not only summarizes the colorful past of a tiny yet powerful country, but also explains how the British developed their unique identity, and what the future could hold for this island nation.
Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns
Now in paperback comes the extraordinary portrait of postwar Vietnam told by a journalist who covered the war and returned 30 years later to cover the peace.
As every year goes by the number of people able to give a first hand account of day-to-day life in the early part of the last century naturally diminishes. The small but telling detail disappears. Ethel May Elvin was born in 1906; she recalls her …
Battles of the Revolutionary War: 1775-1781
The Americans did not simply outlast the British in the Revolutionary War, contends this author in a groundbreaking study, but won their independence by employing superior strategies, tactics, and leadership. Designed for the "armchair strategist"…
Boys and Their Toys?: Masculinity, Technology, and Class in America
Our second volume with the Hagley Museum and Library 's Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, "Boys and Their Toys" is a collection of essays that places masculinity and work at the core of class formation. Negotiating the …
The Monument: Art and Vulgarity in Saddam Hussein's Iraq
In Baghdad, an enormous monument nearly twice the size of the Arc de Triomphe towers over the city. Two huge forearms emerge from the ground, clutching two swords that clash overhead. Those arms are enlarged casts of those of Saddam Hussein, …
The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I
In this sweeping historical canvas, Fleming reveals how the British and French duped Wilson into thinking World War I was as good as won, and there would be no need to send an army overseas.