Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America, Paperback - Thomas J. Brown

Reducere. Provides the most comprehensive overview of the American war memorial as a cultural form and reframes the national debate over Civil War monuments ...

This sweeping new assessment of Civil War monuments unveiled in the United States between the 1860s and 1930s argues that they were pivotal to a na...

In 1964, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) made a momentous policy decision. In response to rising tensions with the United States and Soviet Union...

Description"No soldier could ask for a sweeter resting place than on the field of glory where he fell. The land he died to save vies with the one w...

Reducere. America, how well do you know your history?Who quelled a coup d'etat by putting on a pair of reading glasses? Which U.S. senator was nearly caned t...

Reducere. Respected scholar William Bennett reacquaints America with its heritage in the second volume of America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II). This engag...

* First complete general history of the English Civil War from its outbreak in 1639 to the last battle in 1659.Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupA...

Reducere. America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, Sixth Edition, is the definitive interpretive survey of the political, social, and cultural history of...

Reducere. DescriptionDig into these fact-packed crossword puzzles and word searches about the American Civil War and see how much you know about the people, ...

Reducere. Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any ...

Reducere. During his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln expressed hope that the better angels of our nature would prevail as war loomed. He was wrong. ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Lauren HirshbergIllustration(s): 17 figures, 3 mapsNumber of pages: 386Collection: American Cro...

* The first major single history of the Wars of the Roses for decades, written by renowned popular and military historian, Trevor Royle, out now in...

UPDATED AND REVISED JULY 2019The United States is coming apart at the seams. Hostilities between the parties to the national debate, substantially ...

Reducere. The American Civil War divided the United States from 1861-1865. During those years, over two million soldiers served in both the Union and Confede...

Reducere. One of the most important Confederate generals of the Civil War was Lieutenant General James Longstreet, the man Robert E. Lee called his "old war ...

DescriptionAmerica's evolution during the mid-19th century just prior to the Civil War was amazing. The six-fold increase in population from 1800 t...

DescriptionAt the crux of America's history stand two astounding events: the immediate and complete destruction of the most powerful system of slav...

Reducere. Major General J. F. C. Fuller, a pioneer of mechanized warfare in Great Britain, was one of this century's most renowned military strategists and h...

The Civilianization of War: The Changing Civil–Military Divide, 1914–2014 - Andrew Barros, Martin Thomas

In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric light...

Reducere. Thomas Paine was one of the most remarkable political writers of the modern world and the greatest radical of a radical age. Through writings like ...

Reducere. Buying and Selling Civil War Memory explores the ways in which Guilded Age manufacturers, advertisers, publishers, and others commercialized Civil ...

Reducere. The Second American Civil War Has Begun The deck is stacked against twenty-nine-year-old Ava. She's a fighter, but she's got trust issues and doesn...

Reducere. Jeffrey Glassberg's acclaimed Butterflies through Binoculars guides have revolutionized the way we view butterflies. Now there's a field guide in t...

A history of the making and printing of news.Illustrations: 20 illustrations

Reducere. With a New Afterword by the AuthorThe New York Times bestseller, praised as "hilariously funny . . . the only way to understand why so many America...

Reducere. An authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history.Bancroft Prize-winning cultural historian David S. Reynolds ...

In this book - both history and biography, informative and entertaining, meant to be read all at once or in bite-sized chunks - historian Thomas Fl...

Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially...

Reducere. The Civil War's single-shot, muzzle-loading musket revolutionized warfare-or so we've been told for years. Noted historian Earl J. Hess forcefully ...

Reducere. Latin America and the Global Cold War analyzes more than a dozen of Latin America's forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world...

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...

DescriptionAs many as 20, 000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various soc...

Publisher: becker&mayer! booksAuthor(s): becker&mayer!Illustration(s): color photosNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 203 x 255 ...

DescriptionThough few people have heard of A.D. Smith (1811-65), this nineteenth-century knight-errant left his mark on some of the key events of h...

What was it that roused left-wing sympathizers from all over the world to fight against Franco between 1936 and 1939? This title presents the objec...

From the plaintive tunes of woe sung by exiled kings and queens of Africa to the spirited work songs and "shouts" of freedmen, this title traces th...

Reducere. As William T. Sherman's Union troops began their campaign for Atlanta in the spring of 1864, they encountered Confederate forces employing field fo...

Reducere. When a Civil War substitute broker told business associates that "Men is cheep here to Day, " he exposed an unsettling contradiction at the heart o...

Reducere. DescriptionThe worst has happened. Texas has fallen. It's up to Ava to get it back.Without the support of Lone Star State, the Alliance has no hope...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the United States of America, then keep reading...Eight captivating manuscripts in one book: The...

Reducere. In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric light...

Reducere. In this riveting, character-driven history, one of our most respected historians traces the diseases in the public mind--the distortions of reality...

Reducere. The Civil War is most often described as one in which brother fought against brother. But the most devastating war fought on American soil was also...

Reducere. Thomas Aquinas and His Predecessors takes us on a voyage through the history of philosophical thought as present in the works of Thomas Aquinas. It...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): David (Lecturer, University College Cork, Ireland) FitzgeraldIllustration(s): 13 bw illusNumber of p...

Reducere. The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north t...