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Previous books on the industrialization of America have focused either on the industrial revolution in the first half of the nineteenth century or on the rise of big industry in the second. In this groundbreaking study Licht provides a new perspective by...

The first study of the role of the newspaperwoman in American literary culture at the turn of the twentieth century, this book recaptures the imaginative exchange between real-life reporters like Nellie Bly and Ida B. Wells and fictional characters like...

During the 2008 election season, the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates both aspired to be understood as foreign policy "realists" in the mold of Henry Kissinger. Kissinger, who is distrusted on the neoconservative right for his skepticism...

For centuries, Sicilian "men of honor" have fought the controls of government. Between 1820 and 1860, rebellions shook the island as these men joined with Sicily's intellectuals in the struggle for independence from the Bourbon Kingdom of Naples. This...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850254297Author John VivianFormat PaperbackImprint Tor Mark PressPublisher Tor Mark PressDimensions(mm) 210mm * 147mm * 5mm

In this history of Russia from 1917 to the present, Chubarov teases out themes developed in his previous book on tsarist Russia, "The Fragile Empire" (Continuum, 2000). One of the key factors in Russia's distinctiveness is its halfway location in the...

Emphasizing technology and its impact on the US Civil War, this text examines the evolving warfare of the time. It includes material on land and sea mines, minesweepers, hand grenades, automatic weapons, and balloons, as well as covering the evolution of...

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General George H. Thomas, the ""Rock of Chickamauga,"" was a Virginian who chose the northern side in the Civil War. While Thomas was considered a traitor by his family, his military superiors regarded him with a certain mistrust because of his southern...

Custer and the Great Controversy was the first book to focus on the origins of what has come to be called the Custer myth. The Battle of the Little Bighorn has always been wrapped in mystery and controversy because none of Custer's men survived to tell...

After a lifetime spent writing and working on his family's cattle ranch outside of Helena, Montana, Ralph Beer has gathered his best magazine essays into one collection called In These Hills. In thirty-three essays he provides a moving and elegiac...

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Dressed in black uniforms emblazoned with the SS flash, Heinrich Himmler's horsemen carried the SS banner across the German countryside and to equestrian competitions throughout Germany and Europe. They rode as the Equestrian SS, an SS cavalry force...

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As a leading member of the Moscow Popular Front, Kagarlitsky and his associates sought to extend the debate and agitation throughout society as a whole. From the striking coalfields of Siberia and the human chain protests of the Baltic republics to the...

When Fort Sumter fell in 1861, Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was an obscure clerk in Galena, Illinois, without influential friends and lacking a reputation for success. Yet within three years this man rose to command the Union armies, and just over a year...

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Full details of where to find - and how to kill - all of Britain's most historic zombies. Fact files on the undead in history, including Roman revenants, people who were buried alive and some resurrected royal corpses! High-profile targets including Jane...

Delve into this trove of anecdotes and stories to prove the core decency of humankind at a time when kindness can seem in short supply.This engaging collection demonstrates that courteous behaviour transcends all barriers, from gender and wealth to age...

Home Truths uncovers the strange and often bizarre stories behind the inventions, and inventors, that have shaped our homes. From dado rails and stencilling - which date from Roman times - noggins and newel posts to power showers, lights and lightning...

Explores 1,000 years of the history of Ross on Wye and the Wye Valley. This book covers subjects which include the war years, poverty, drink and festivities, the surrounding landscape and the church. It also includes old quotations and memories and is...

A history of Hanley.Book InformationISBN 9780752434070Author John BoothFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 8mm

The Tudor period is regarded by many as England's golden age, and still casts a spell over the public imagination. Whether it's the glittering rule of Elizabeth, the ruthless power of her father Henry VIII, or the bloody and radical reign of Mary, the...

This book is part of the Images of Wales series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in Wales, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN 9780752426662Author Andre...

A history of LondonBook InformationISBN 9780752425771Author Kenneth PantonFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 880gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm

How and why Shakespeare propelled the relatively unimportant Wars of the Roses into the history books. For historians of the Wars of the Roses William Shakespeare is both a curse and a blessing: a curse because he immortalized Tudor spin on...

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This book is part of a series, which combines the reminiscences of local people with old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in Great Britain, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN...

THROUGH the reminiscences of local people, accompanied by around 100 photographs, this volume remembers the Cardiff of yesteryear. From the town as it was in the 1920s and '30s to the city it became in 1955 and beyond, stories and memories from the local...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780752407777Author John SaddenFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press Ltd

The Cumbrian Mountains with their sixteen lakes radiating from a central point like the spokes of a wheel and their numerous smaller tarns have become today's lakeland, renowned for its great natural beauty. Until about 1650 this area was regarded as one...

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