Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America's Culture of Death, Hardcover - Mark S. Schantz

Reducere. Americans came to fight the Civil War in the midst of a wider cultural world that sent them messages about death that made it easier to kill and to...

The First Freedoms and the American Culture of Innovation is a thorough examination of the history of American innovation and how our society could...

Reducere. Sensational tales of true-life crime, the devastation of the Irish potato famine, the upheaval of the Civil War, and the turbulent emergence of the...

Reducere. In the nineteenth century, Texas's advancing western frontier was the site of one of America's longest conflicts between white settlers and native ...

Stephen R. Platt's Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom tells the dramatic and disastrous story of the Taiping Rebellion: the bloodiest civil war in hist...

Reducere. When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people--th...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the New York Times bestselling, celebrated, and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes the spellbin...

Reducere. Illusions of Empire adopts a multinational view of North American borderlands, examining the ways in which Mexico's North overlapped with the U.S. ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe two great commentaries of Julius Caesar - the Gallic War and the Civil War - are united in this superb hardcover edition. The commen...

Reducere. A compact, incisive history of one of the defining conflicts of our time Leaving almost half a million dead and displacing an estimated twelve mill...

Reducere. The only state born as a result of the Civil War, West Virginia was the most divided state in the nation. About forty thousand of its residents ser...

DescriptionWinner of the Mark Lynton History Prize Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardA New York Times Critics' Best Book of 2018 "Excellent......

Reducere. "The Commentaries on the Gallic War" is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar des...

From prominent outdoorsman and nature writer Mark Kenyon comes an engrossing reflection on the past and future battles over our most revered landsc...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens examines the political interests, relationships, and practices of two of the era's mos...

Reducere. The American Civil War, as told by General Ulysses S Grant, who led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy. Origianl maps illustrate the ...

Reducere. Stephen Atkins Swails is a forgotten American hero. A free Black in the North before the Civil War began, Swails exhibited such exemplary service i...

During the American Civil War, women on both sides of the conflict, radiating patriotic fervor equal to their male counterparts, contributed to the...

This study attempts to show how the Spanish Civil War was understood and absorbed, particularly by those who could claim themselves as 'the victors...

About the AuthorBruce L. Brager, a graduate of George Washington University, is a writer who has ghostwritten dozens of books and published numerou...

Reducere. In 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, Arthur Koestler, a German exile writing for a British newspaper, was arrested by Nationalist forces in Malaga...

Reducere. This complete edition of Caesar's Commentaries contains all eight of Caesar's books on the Gallic War as well as all three of his books on the Civi...

Reducere. DescriptionExplore the Deadliest War in American History No other war in the history of the United States has sparked as much debate and conflict a...

Reducere. The Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,...

Reducere. DescriptionWinner of the 2014 Oklahoma Book Award for nonfictionWinner of the 2014 Pate Award from the Fort Worth Civil War Round Table. When the p...

Reducere. A brilliant evocation of the post-Civil War era by the acclaimed author of Patriots and Union 1812. After Lincoln tells the story of the Reconstruc...

Reducere. An authoritative history by the preeminent scholar of the Civil War era, The Second Founding traces the arc of the three foundational Reconstructio...

Reducere. How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S...

Reducere. Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnessed. Nowhere is this truer than in the nerve-sha...

Reducere. Abraham H. Galloway (1837-1870) was a fiery young slave rebel, radical abolitionist, and Union spy who rose out of bondage to become one of the mos...

The stories behind the inequality crisis--a forty-year investigation by In These Times With heart-wrenching reporting and incisive analysis, In The...

Reducere. On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each oth...

The world was in ruin at the end of World War II: from the Blitz in London to the aftermath of the atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A ...

Reducere. Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, s...