Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America

More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the...

Reducere. The Book of Facts for the Scots, Irish, and other Celts is certainly a book that will educate and inspire anyone who has Celtic ancestry or wishes ...

Reducere. The Scots Irish were one of early Pennsylvania's largest non-English immigrant groups. They were stereotyped as frontier ruffians and Indian haters...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Shillelagh has become synonymous with stereotypes about the "Fighting Irish." The truth is that shillelagh fighting was originally a...

"This is micro-historical writing at its best."--Walden Bello, author of Dilemmas of Domination"Brilliant."--Ken LoachThe stories in this book come...

Reducere. The Fighting Scots of Edinboro is a behind-the-scenes look at how a small Division II university in northwestern Pennsylvania broke into the world ...

Globalisation has created a whole new working class - and they are reliving stories that were first played out a century ago. This title tells the ...

An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing forgotten story of America's internal slave trade--and its role in the making of America. Slave tr...

Everyone's heard of Mary, Queen of Scots. She is horribly famous for having terrible taste in husbands, rotting away in Liz I's prison and, totally...

Reducere. Bruce Feiler's New York Times bestsellers Abraham, Walking the Bible, and Where God Was Born brilliantly explored the roots of faith. With America'...

Reducere. Bourbon whiskey has made a surprising contribution to American legal history. Tracking the history of bourbon and bourbon law illuminates the devel...

DescriptionBourbon whiskey has made a surprising contribution to American legal history. Tracking the history of bourbon and bourbon law illuminate...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionHow silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis is the story of silver's transformation from soft...

Reducere. In 1924, two uniquely American institutions clashed in northern Indiana: the University of Notre Dame and the Ku Klux Klan. Todd Tucker's book, pub...

Explores W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound's relationship as played out against the backdrop of Mussolini's Italy in the 1920s and 1930s and shows how Yeat...

Reducere. Ulster, in the north of the Kingdom of Ireland underwent resettlement in 1609. Defeated by the British Army in the Nine Years War, Gaelic chieftain...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Polly J. PriceNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 235 x 30Cover type: HardbackRedescopera...

Reducere. According to some estimates as many as 100, 000 Scotsmen were re-settled by the British government in the Irish Plantation of Ulster during the 17t...

Reducere. New York Times bestselling author and star of A&E's Duck Dynasty, Willie Robertson, teams up with William Doyle, the bestselling coauthor of Americ...

An examination of the Scottish kingdom's historic links with Ireland, and the beginnings of a Scottish national identity from c. 1290.Publisher: Bo...

Publisher: Royal Irish AcademyNumber of pages: 344Collection: Irish Lives - Dictionary of Irish BiographyPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 130 x 18...

DescriptionSome events that transform a nation are frozen in time. Others pass with little public awareness, and we only appreciate their momentous...

Reducere. What is Domer Dishes you ask? It's a hybrid of recipes and storytelling. Each ND "chef" in the cookbook has submitted his favorite recipe. Some of ...

Owners of estates and titles in the peerages of England, Scotland and Ireland were more, rather than less, likely than ordinary people to experienc...

Reducere. Thomas C. Foster, acclaimed author of the phenomenal bestseller How to Read Literature Like a Professor, returns with a hugely entertaining appreci...

Reducere. They left Ireland by the boatload to head for America before the Revolution, and settled on the rugged western frontiers of the colonies. The desce...

From notable mixed martial artist and UFC fighter Justin Wren comes a personal account of faith, redemption, empowerment, and overwhelming love as ...

Reducere. Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Ar...

Reducere. For centuries the Irish have been associated with a stick weapon called the Shillelagh. And for generations of Irishmen, the Shillelagh was a badge...

Publisher: Skyhorse PublishingAuthor(s): Niall O'DowdNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 236 x 26Cover type: HardbackRedesc...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. At the dawn of a new century, a newly elected U.S. president was forced to confront an escalating series of unprovoked attacks on Americans by Musl...