Howling Storm. Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War, Hardback - ***

Traditional histories of the Civil War describe the conflict as a war between North and South. Kenneth Noe, following the lead of environmental his...

Provides incomparable insights into women's lives during America's Civil War era. Marilyn Mayer Culpepper's respect for these nineteenth-century wo...

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

The true saviour of Little Round Top at Gettysburg was a 26-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer, who paid with his life to defend that hill. This is t...

The seventh action-packed Victorian military adventure featuring hero Jack Lark: soldier, leader, imposter.Publisher: Headline Publishing GroupAuth...

Reducere. With a new introduction by Thomas L. Connelly Thomas Jonathan Jackson was the most renowned and skillful commander of Confederate troops in the Civ...

METEOROLOGY TODAY: AN INTRODUCTION TO WEATHER, CLIMATE AND THE ENVIRONMENT by meteorologists C. Donald Ahrens and Robert Henson combines the latest...

Reducere. "... a major contribution to our knowledge of the place of the Civil War in the history of warfare.... I have long hoped for a sound history of Civ...

DescriptionThe American Civil War is one of the most popular periods to wargame, and rightly so - it is a fascinating period of history. Painting M...

Reducere. In his Second Inaugural Address, delivered as the nation was in the throes of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that both sides "read the s...

Reducere. Deserve s] a place on every Civil War bookshelf.--New York Times Book Review " Trulock] brings her subject alive and escorts him through a brillian...

As 1862 dawned, the Civil War, the conflict that had started the year before and that most Americans thought would last only a few months, showed n...

As 1862 dawned, the Civil War, the conflict that had started the year before and that most Americans thought would last only a few months, showed n...

"A stunning portrayal of a tragedy endured and survived by women."--David W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass "Readers expecting hoop-skirted l...

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...

Henry Fleming dreams of the thrill of battle and performing heroic deeds in the American Civil War. But his illusions are shattered when he comes f...

DescriptionPerhaps more than all the campaigns of the Union armies, the Union naval blockade--covering all major Southern ports along 3, 500 miles ...

DescriptionThe American Civil War (1861-65) remains a searing event in the collective consciousness of the United States. It was one of the bloodie...

Reducere. The Cambridge History of the American Civil War provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of the American Civil War. With contributions from...

Reducere. Shell shock, battle fatigue, posttraumatic stress disorder, lack of moral courage: different terms for the same mental condition, formal names that...

The American Civil War: A Racial Reckoning provides a concise but comprehensive overview of the American Civil War, placing race at the center of t...

Reducere. Swashbuckling stories of the Union naval blockade of the Southern states and the blockade runners who smuggled goods to the Confederacy have long b...

At the outset of the American Civil War, the wealthy inventor and expert shot Hiram Berdan initiated the setting-up of sharpshooting units in the U...

The perfect gift for nature lovers and weather watchers. A fascinating month-by-month collection of facts, figures and explanations related to the ...

Reducere. This volume explores the political and social dimensions of the Civil War in both the North and South. Chapters explore the military leadership of ...

Focuses on works that expand the parameters of US foreign relations. This work also focuses on such areas as identity formation and projection, bor...

Drawing together leading scholars in literary studies and history, this volume offers accessible treatments of major authors and subjects. Its twen...

Reducere. What if climate change is naturally occurring and cyclical? What if trillions of dollars will be spent to accomplish nothing? What if the real agen...

This monograph explores the importance of weather and changing skies in early modern England while acknowledging the fact that traditional represen...

Publisher: Leonaur LtdAuthor(s): Charles KingNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 215 x 139 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

Reducere. Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo's ground-breaking studies have found that there are more than 84 million shy people in America today, including such "secret...

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. In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As ...

Reducere. In Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares, John H. Matsui argues that the political ideology and racial views of American Protestants during the ...

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. When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that t...

Reducere. DescriptionThe American Civil War began with a laying down of arms by Union troops at Fort Sumter, and it ended with a series of surrenders, most f...