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Using psychological trauma as its guiding metaphor, Echoes of Combat is the first book to explore the parallels between the healing of Vietnam veterans and Americans' collective recovery from the war. Drawing on such diverse sources as films, novels,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780752415802Author William Fyfe HendrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press Ltd

Manchester was originally a small market town bounded by rivers on three sides, but when the borough was created in 1838 the town broke free of these constraints, and began to spread to the north, south and east of the original settlement. Throughout the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034944539Author Robert Michael BallantyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 327g

Florida's contribution to aviation history cannot be underestimated. Wings over Florida chronicles the story of flying in the "Sunshine State," from the early pioneers in gliders and balloons, to the recent developments in the space program...

The son of Pompey the Great casts a long shadow. Acclaimed by the Roman populace in his lifetime, his traditional virtues and military successes put to shame his civil-war rival Octavian. After his death, he was passionately and safely abused by Octavian...

Where is the "common ground of womanhood"? In a unique and highly nuanced study of previously unexplored cross-class alliances, Priscilla Murolo charts the shifting points of consensus and conflict between working women and their genteel club...

"Robert A. Slayton's Back of the Yards is one of the finest accounts I have ever read on an urban, working-class neighborhood in twentieth-century America. Its focus on family, politics, and worklife is penetrating and its conclusions reinforce an...

Regionally distinct yet influenced by national trends, women's progressive culture in Texas offers a valuable opportunity to analyze the evolution of women's voluntary associations, their challenges to southern conventions of race and class, and their...

An indispensable companion to any of the other volumes of Ancient Records of Egypt, the Supplementary Bibliographies and Indices facilitates direct access to specific information on the people, places, and inscriptions catalogued by James Henry Breasted...

Along with most of the rest of Western culture, has crime itself become more "civilized"? This book exposes as myths the beliefs that society has become more violent than it has been in the past and that violence is more likely to...

This welcome collection encapsulates the evolving thought of one of American labor history's most prominent scholars. Melvyn Dubofsky's accessible style and historical reach mark his work as required reading for students and scholars alike.Hard Work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780231024723Author Dwight D. EisenhowerFormat HardbackPage Count 273Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press

Volume 3 of Ancient Records of Egypt opens on the chaotic aftermath of King Akhenaten's religious revolution. Breasted chronicles the precarious reigns of Akhenaten's successors and the political and legal reforms of King Horemheb, who succeeded to the...

With a major port on the Great Lakes, an extensive network of railroads and canals, and a river system including the Mississippi, the Illinois, and the Ohio, Illinois has long played a critical role in linking East Coast industrial cities, the...

A perennial choice for courses on antebellum America, Jacksonian America continues to be a popular classroom text with scholars of the period, even among those who bridle at Pessen's iconoclastic views of Old Hickory and his "inegalitarian society." ...

Born into a male-dominated society, southern women often chose to support patriarchy and their own celebrated roles as mothers, wives, and guardians of the home and humane values. George C. Rable uncovers the details of how women fit into the South's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorCHERYL A. RUBENBERG, associate professor of international relations in the political science department at Florida International University in Miami, is the...

Known as the Forgotten War, the "police action" in Korea resulted in almost as many American combat deaths in three years as the Vietnam War did in ten. Yet for many Americans today, the Korean War brings to mind nothing more than the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252065873Author Judith OlmsteadFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois Press

Americans have persistently expressed fascination with the nation's most famous battlefields through patriotic rhetoric, monument building, physical preservation, and battle reenactment. But each site is also a place where ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781314476002Author Tarbell Ida M 1857-1944Format PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HardPress PublishingPublisher HardPress LtdWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781006118715Author XenophonFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 345g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999245217Author Sandy DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Sandy DavisPublisher Sandy DavisWeight(grams) 930g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034973102Author 淼焱Format PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034813255Author Mrs OliphantFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 640g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034729310Author Sir Horace PlunkettFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034643623Author John S C AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034628941Author James BoswellFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034446804Author James Russell LowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034383871Author William M ThayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983756606Author Addie L GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Emerge Publishing Group, LLCPublisher Emerge Publishing Group, LLCWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982425589Author Johari AdeFormat HardbackPage Count 308Imprint Sakhu Schule PublicationsPublisher Sakhu Schule PublicationsWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780920911587Author Patricia O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Breakwater Books Ltd.Publisher Breakwater Books Ltd.Weight(grams) 549g

First published in the famous American Guide Series of the Work Projects Administration in 1941, Wyoming: A Guide remains a distinguished survey of the state, its centers of interest, and its history. Now issued in paperback for the first time, it can...

In his introduction to this edition of Daniel Boone: Master of the Wilderness, Michael A. Lofaro, a professor of English at the University of Tennessee and the author of The Life and Adventures of Daniel Boone, assesses John Bakeless's achievement:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615932965Author Helen Katherine HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Drop Cap PublishingPublisher Drop Cap PublishingWeight(grams) 812g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615955292Author Frank OberleFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Engenthal PressPublisher Engenthal PressWeight(grams) 435g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062002495Author Author and Historian Simon WinchesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 677Imprint HarperLuxePublisher HarperLuxeWeight(grams) 757g

"Alice and Eleanor: A Contrast in Style"" and Purpose" explores the lifelong personal struggles, political involvement, and private relationship of Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Eleanor Roosevelt.Book InformationISBN...