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Showing how and why Grant became such a successful general, Smith presents a reexamination of the commander and the campaign. His fresh analysis of Grant's decision-making process during the Vicksburg siege and battle details the process of campaigning...

At Sea Against the Soviet Fleet is a history of the evolution of the United States Navy's Operational Intelligence culture that informs great power competition with China today.At Sea Against the Soviet Fleet examines the critical transformation of naval...

Photographing Hellenism explores a collection of photographs assembled between the late 19th century and the 1960s by the London-based Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. The collection functioned as a repository of photographs from the...

Traces the birth, plunder, and scavenging of Rosemont, a Black middle-class neighborhood in Baltimore. In the mid-1950s Baltimore's Rosemont neighborhood was alive and vibrant with smart rowhouses, a sprawling park, corner grocery stores, and doctor's...

Concerted government efforts to assist in the rehabilitation of wounded veterans started with the Civil War era artificial-limbs programs. This book is the first to examine the evolution of these programs for military amputees during and after the Civil...

A new edition of the most important free speech book of the past halfcentury, with a new essay by the author on the ensuing fifty years of First Amendment controversies When Nazis wanted to express their right to free speech in 1977 by marching through...

The First World War hardly ended with the formal Armistice in Europe on November 11, 1918, amid the continuing violence of blockades and epidemics, amid numerous forms of reconstruction and revolution. Its legacies, in fact, resonate deeply in our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915969323Author Hilary DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Panzer TractsPublisher Panzerwrecks LimitedWeight(grams) 500g

This book explores the affective dimension of Scottish Protestant public worship in early modern Scotland. It examines how the intensely emotional character of Scottish Puritan or godly piety was reflective of the emotional norms many Scots had to...

In The Profligate Colonial, Lisandro E. Claudio reveals how austerity, long before it became a buzzword of modern technocracy, was a tool of US empire. Austerity is often praised as prudence in hard times, a responsible response to crisis. In the...

Relief on the Hoof is about the thousands of horses and cattle that the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) shipped as humanitarian aid in the immediate aftermath of WWII and about the "seagoing cowboys" who cared for the...

Relief on the Hoof is about the thousands of horses and cattle that the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) shipped as humanitarian aid in the immediate aftermath of WWII and about the "seagoing cowboys" who cared for the...

Following the discovery of gold in 1862 at Auburn and Canyon City, new communities and prospects were established in eastern Oregon. Just as the lure of free land attracted homesteaders and livestock raisers in search of new opportunities, so did the...

In Clandestinas, Carollee Bengelsdorf challenges the silences surrounding women's participation in the insurrection in Havana during the Cuban Revolution. The official narrative of the revolution emphasizes virtually exclusively the role of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914477881Author Guilherme FiansFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

Early twentieth-century Arizona was a life-threatening place for new and expectant mothers. Towns were small and very far apart, and the weather and harsh landscape often delayed midwives. It was not uncommon for a woman to give birth without medical...

The humble goat has played a surprising and important role throughout the history of the United States. Despite this, goats are often overlooked by many Americans, who tend to have strong opinions about this complex creature. In Goats in America Tami...

A detailed guide to the tanks and armored vehicles of Russia and Soviet Union, including hundreds of historical images along with color profiles. This is a remarkably comprehensive illustrated history of the Soviet and Russian armored...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857253954Author Kunstmuseum LuzernFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint SkiraPublisher Skira

For around 150 years, the richly illustrated Wigalois manuscript from Amelungsborn Abbey in Germany has rested largely unnoticed in the collections of Leiden University Library. Only recently has this unique codex, known as LTK 537, begun to attract the...

The nineteenth century in the United States witnessed the end of slavery and the expansion of another form of confinement: the asylum. How did enslaved and free Black people encounter psychiatric institutions? How were notions of mental disability used...

British Militarism, Sport, Remembrance: "Support the Troops" critically explores the complex and evolving relationship between sport and militarism in the UK, offering an in-depth analysis of how political power and ideological narratives are constructed...

The nineteenth century in the United States witnessed the end of slavery and the expansion of another form of confinement: the asylum. How did enslaved and free Black people encounter psychiatric institutions? How were notions of mental disability used...

Secrets and maps are a match made in heaven. A Second World War military plan of a cave system covered with red stamps, a tatty hand-drawn treasure map marked with an 'X', or even your personal phone screen showing a precise 'blue dot' location. These...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476699066Author Gerald H AnkenyFormat PaperbackPage Count 323Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co Inc

Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empire's many incursions into Europe. Yet how did the forms of violence...

Epistemic Impressions advances a new history of image-making and art-text relations in classical antiquity. Moving away from a focus on imitation (mimēsis), it looks instead to the concept of the seal-impression (typos), which played a vital role in...

Six Red Months in Russia conveys Bryant's understanding of the revolution, and reminds us of the utter enthusiasm that many Russians, and Americans, felt for socialism and its yet-untainted, utopian ideals. This new edition of Bryant's book is annotated...

Numbers: A Cultural History provides students with a compelling interdisciplinary view of the development of mathematics and its relationship to world cultures over 4,500 years of human history.Mathematics is often referred to as a "universal language,"...

Six Red Months in Russia conveys Bryant's understanding of the revolution, and reminds us of the utter enthusiasm that many Russians, and Americans, felt for socialism and its yet-untainted, utopian ideals. This new edition of Bryant's book is annotated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802164841Author Paul GillinghamFormat HardbackPage Count 752Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Following the death in 1789 of Abbe de l'Epee, the first teacher of deaf pupils renowned in France and beyond, revolutionaries committed to founding national institutes for the education of deaf pupils. There was little doubt about their ability to...

Women's songs of the grind mill are among the oldest oral traditions in South Asia. They have been sung to accompany a daily household labor, making flour using a stone hand mill, for many centuries. Even today, grind mill songs are still well known in...

Women's songs of the grind mill are among the oldest oral traditions in South Asia. They have been sung to accompany a daily household labor, making flour using a stone hand mill, for many centuries. Even today, grind mill songs are still well known in...

Solidarity and Pressure is the first full-length study of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM). Founded in April 1964, the IAAM spearheaded fundraising efforts, organized events, lobbied Irish politicians, and actively promoted the struggle against...

Through the Russian Revolution by Albert Rhys-Williams, a Congregationalist pastor turned labor organiser and journalist, offers readers a first-hand account of the exciting and confusing events of the Russian revolution from June 1917 to August 1918...

First published in 1986, Tunisia: Crossroads of the Islamic and European Worlds presents a comprehensive overview of Tunisian history along with its political and governmental structures and the role of Habib Bourguiba and other nationalist leaders in...

Through the Russian Revolution by Albert Rhys-Williams, a Congregationalist pastor turned labor organiser and journalist, offers readers a first-hand account of the exciting and confusing events of the Russian revolution from June 1917 to August 1918...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948803786Author Joseph P. FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited Press