Born Fighting. How the Scots-Irish Shaped America, Paperback - James Webb

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

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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. 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...

Originally published in 1896, James Webb's "Cape Cod Cranberries" is a little nostalgic treasure on cultivating Cape Cod's most renowned crop. With...

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 ...

Taking the reader on a journey through North East Scotland, Merseyside, South Wales, the Thames Estuary and London, this is the story of Britain's ...

Reducere. Just when it seemed that Science and Reason had scored their greatest triumphs, the mid-nineteenth century witnessed an astonishing rebirth of occu...

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...

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

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

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Reducere. Tubbs' connection to these women is palpable on the page -- as both a mother and a scholar of the impact Black motherhood has had on America. Throu...

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...

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Anna Malaika TubbsNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 20Cover type: Pap...

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 ...

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...

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...

Is there still a distinct Irish identity in America? This highly original survey says yes, though it's often an indirect one. Opening a new window ...

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

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

Reducere. Hailed as the most important novel to emerge from the Vietnam War when first published in 1978, this book launched a spectacular writing career for...

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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. A Technique For Producing Ideas: (A Technique For Getting Ideas) This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the...

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

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...

Published to mark the 60th birthday of one of Britain's leading composers, this is a unique insight into Sir James MacMillan's thoughts on music, f...

Landmark political confrontations between sitting presidents and powerful senators have occurred throughout American history - some have shaped the...

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

Reducere. Raising a gifted child is both a joy and a challenge, yet parents of gifted children have few resources for reliable parenting information. The aut...

In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true stor...

Reducere. Paddington Bear, the friendly bear from Peru--with his old hat, battered suitcase (complete with secret compartment), duffel coat, and love of marm...

For thousands of years, humans have exploited the planet without counting the cost. Now Gaia, the living Earth, is fighting back. As the polar icec...

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In recent decades, Tokyo, London, and New York have been the sites of credit bubbles of historically unprecedented magnitude. Central bankers have ...

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

Reducere. About the AuthorAttorney James A. Cosby is a regular contributor on pop culture matters for PopMatters.com and other outlets. He lives in Philadelp...

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

College Football America is the only preseason yearbook that includes information about EVERY COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAM IN AMERICA and CANADA That incl...

Description"A wonderful introduction to history's most influential scribblers."--Steven PinkerWhat is truly at stake in politics? Nothing less than...

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

Whistleblower Mark Klein tells the story of the illegal government spying apparatus installed at an AT&T office by the National Security Agency, an...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James N. GregoryBetween 1900 and the 1970s, twenty million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together for the fi...

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...

How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive Beat America to the Moon. "Fascinating . . . packed with technical and historical detail for the space ex...