Gwinnett County, Georgia, and the Transformation of the American South, 1818-2018, Paperback - David Mason

Through a compilation of essays written by professional historians with expertise in a diverse array of eras and fields, Michael Gagnon and Matthew...

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In this study Harvey Levenstein tells of the remarkable transformation in how Americans ate that took place from 1880 to 1930. It devotes special a...

Explores the history of the world's greatest elective office and the role each incumbent has played in changing the scope of its powers. Using indi...

Reducere. In this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M. Brady argues that ideas about nature and the environment were ce...

Even the most seasoned Middle East observers were taken aback by the events of early 2011. Protests born of oppression and socioeconomic frustratio...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Nancy FonerIllustration(s): 1 b/w illus. 1 table. 1 map.Number of pages: 232Publication date: 2022D...

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The Poet's Great War: Violence, Revolution and Modernism

The arc of poetry of the South, from slave songs to Confederate hymns to Civil War ballads, from Reconstruction turmoil to the Agrarian movement to...

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Reducere. Beginning with the early interactions between Native Americans and European explorers and settlers, this history traces three and a half centuries ...

Perhaps no one in the 20th century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. This title provides a biography of his life....

William F. Bristow presents an original and illuminating study of Hegel's hugely influential but notoriously difficult Phenomenology of Spirit (180...

Reducere. DescriptionDon't Blame Us traces the reorientation of modern liberalism and the Democratic Party away from their roots in labor union halls of nort...

Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. This t...

Reducere. A finalist for the 2005 Distinguished Writing Award of the Army Historical Foundation and the 2005 Thomas Fleming Book Award of the American Revolu...

Reducere. At 7: 30 a.m. on June 16, 1944, George Junius Stinney Jr. was escorted by four guards to the death chamber. Wearing socks but no shoes, the 14-year...

A sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War IIPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s...

Examines how ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese constructed a civilized sense of Self and a 'barbarian' Other, and how these notions held up in cr...

Reducere. James F. Sulzby Book AwardCombining biography with regional and national history, Dan T. Carter chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of George Wal...

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The onslaught of globalization has brought with it sweeping changes to the foreign economic policy of the last 50 years. As the international polit...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Alex KitnickIllustration(s): 56 halftonesNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...

Reducere. By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while ...

Reducere. The purpose of this book is to illustrate the magnificence of the fabless semiconductor ecosystem, and to give credit where credit is due. We trace...

Reducere. Before the massive environmental change wrought by the European colonization of the South, hundreds of species of birds filled the region's flyways...

This is the comprehensive biography of one of the least known Revolutionary War generals, Benjamin Lincoln. It explains the events that shaped Linc...

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Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Tristram HuntNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 162 x 241 x 37Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

This Element focuses on Xin Fengxia (1927-1998), a star of the regional xiqu form pingju, and her prominent role in transforming the genre from fol...

Reducere. George Mason of Gunston Hall distinguished himself as a planter, revolutionary patriot, author the Virginia Declaration of Rights, and slave owner....

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

The National Mall in Washington, D.C., is "a great public space, as essential a part of the American landscape as the Grand Canyon, " according to ...

Reducere. In Young, Black, Rich, and Famous, Todd Boyd chronicles how basketball and hip hop have gone from being reviled by the American mainstream in the 1...

Reducere. This study of the hidden side of music and its subtle effects is one of the most detailed books ever written on the subject.

Publisher: Rudolf Steiner PressAuthor(s): Van JamesIllustration(s): colour plates and over 200 b&w illustrationsNumber of pages: 288Publication dat...

DescriptionMichel Goya's Flesh and Steel during the Great War is one of the most thoughtful, stimulating and original studies of the conflict to ha...

A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transiti...