Introduction to Civil War

More than one hundred and fifty years after the Civil War began, its hold on the American imagination has not abated. This Very Short Introduction ...

Reducere. DescriptionAn introduction the civil war for young readers.This book introduces readers (Grades 3-5) to the American Civil War, detailing the war's...

Amid the many catastrophes of the twentieth century, the Spanish Civil War continues to exert a particular fascination among history buffs and the ...

A unique account of the English Civil War, seen through the eyes of those who participated in it. A superb introduction to this traumatic and fasci...

Reducere. An introduction to the history of the Civil War for kids ages 6 to 9 The United States was not always united. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina ...

Reducere. At least 8, 000 Jewish soldiers fought for the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War. A few served together in Jewish companies while most fou...

DescriptionGettysburg is widely considered to be the turning point of the Civil War and one of the most epic clashes of arms in all of military his...

Reducere. In this illustrated account of the bloodiest war fought on American soil, Brooks Simpson recounts the events of the war from the opening salvo at F...

Reducere. "These are the memoirs of a black woman who was born a slave, who had the good fortune to gain her freedom early in the war, with the education and...

DescriptionThe era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically aft...

Reducere. National Geographic presents provocative stories shedding new light on the Civil War, American history's watershed, from Union and Confederate sold...

Reducere. Wellred edition featuring a new introduction providing the historical background to the Paris Commune, as well as Engels' 1891 introduction and art...

Reducere. The Past is a strange place indeed . . . everything could have been so different so easily.Just a touch here and a tweak there . . . .MacKinlay Kan...

This anthology brings together extensive selections of poetry by the five most prolific and prominent women poets of the English Civil War period: ...

Reducere. DescriptionSince its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribu...

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...

Reducere. Thomas Jonathan Jackson is one of the most famous generals of the Civil War, but the man who earned the nickname Stonewall was killed before he had...

Reducere. With an introduction by Jean Lee Cole and a foreword by Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Freedom's Witness: The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner ...

DescriptionLucan's epic poem on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, unfinished at the time of his death, stands beside the poems of Virgil and...

Reducere. "The Confederate Nation has yet to be superseded as the standard title on the subject. " --Journal of Southern History, 2007"Incisive and insightfu...

Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln exchanged letters at the end of the Civil War. Although they were divided by far more than the Atlantic Ocean, they a...

Designed specially for undergraduate course use, this textbook is both an introduction to the study of American slavery and a reader of core texts ...

Reducere. "This is a comprehensive introduction to the conflicts that ensued between Native Americans and their European encroachers from the earliest record...

Shakespeare's Henry VI plays dramatize contemporary as much as Elizabethan issues: the struggle for power, the manoeuvres of politicians, social un...

Reducere. The American South is a distinctive place with a dramatic history, and has significance beyond its regional context in the twenty first century. Th...

Based on the reprinted Revels Plays Edition of 1964, the notes to this play have been augmented to cast futher light on Webster's dialogue. A new i...

Reducere. More than one hundred and fifty years after her dramatic death by drowning, Civil War spy and diplomat Rose Greenhow remains as polarizing and cont...

Reducere. DescriptionMartha Gellhorn was a fearless war correspondent for nearly fifty years and a leading journalistic voice of her generation. From the Spa...

Reducere. A field-tested guide to surviving a nuclear attack, written by a revered civil defense expert. This edition of Cresson H. Kearny's iconic Nuclear W...

Delany's tale of Blake, an escaped slave in the era before the US Civil War brings the harrowing detail of life under slavery and offers a call to ...

DescriptionThis fascinating book concisely tells the story of the birth of three Baltic nation states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.Immediately fo...

A comprehensive introduction to Yemen's current crises, major players, and potential solutions to an ongoing civil war. In 2014, a tribal alliance ...

The Autobiography Manuscript of Major Amos Stoddard is part biography, and part autobiography. It is the story of the life and times of Major Amos ...

In a miracle of concision, Paul S. Boyer provides a wide-ranging and authoritative history of America, capturing in a compact space the full story ...

Reducere. Muriel Rukeyser held a visionary belief in the human capacity to create social change through language. She earned an international reputation as a...

Reducere. "There is no better introduction to current thinking about Lincoln and his place in history." --Newsday "Here, in these pages, Lincoln is still ali...

Reducere. A landmark anthology of full-length works by Black American women writers of the 19th century including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Jacob...

"Humaydan writes in her introduction to this haunting anthology that 'all of the stories are somehow framed by the Lebanese civil war, which lasted...

Publisher: The Mercier Press LtdAuthor(s): John O'DonovanIllustration(s): 14 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2022Di...

Reducere. The Civil War's greatest general as you've never seen him before, in a revealing collection of letters to his wife Julia introduced by Ron Chernow....

"In Matrix Games, knowledge, imagination, and persuasiveness dominate. Both the referee and the players find their greatest success by drawing on t...

Reducere. A landmark anthology of full-length works by Black American women writers of the 19th century including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Jacob...

Reducere. This brilliant satire of the women's rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter s...

Reducere. Among the most gifted and fair-minded participants who wrote about the Civil War, Jacob Cox provides modern readers with an excellent account of th...

Cicero's The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible government written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a dialog...

DescriptionFrom early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ra...

Written in 1905, The Colonel's Dream is a compelling, bitter tale of the post-Civil War South's degeneration into a regions awash with virulent rac...

Harriet Beecher Stowe's timeless and moving novel, an incendiary work that fanned the embers of the struggle between free and slave states into the...

Shakespeare's famous historical play tells of the events leading up to the assassination of Roman leader and dictator, Julius Caesar, and its immed...

Reducere. This updated and expanded edition of The History of Spain offers an in-depth examination of Europe's fifth largest economy, providing important cov...

Reducere. Description"This book, which is both biography and memoir, is the richest source on the Civil War career of the plumed knight of the Army of Northe...

With an Introduction by Alex Dolby. Translation by W.H.G. Kingston. Jules Verne (1828-1905) is internationally famous as the author of a distinctiv...

Part autobiography, part travelogue, and wholly a tribute to the unspoilt beauty of southern Spain, Gerald Brenan's South from Granada includes an ...

DescriptionA highly illustrated study of the T-55 Main Battle Tank and its variants that formed the backbone of the Soviet Army during the years of...

Reducere. Nashville is a Big League city despite never having been home to a major league team. From the Civil War era, to star-studded exhibitions, to outst...

Reducere. As the modern celebration of Christmas took shape across the nineteenth century, American writers gave it new meaning in the pages of countless boo...

"Antigone, " the first Theban play written by Sophocles yet chronologically last in the cycle, is a masterpiece of classical antiquity which examin...

Reducere. Frederick Douglass's dramatic autobiographical account of his early life as a slave in America. Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass sec...

DescriptionFew fans are aware of the long, vibrant history of soccer in the U.S., which dates back as far as the Civil War. Many wrongly believe th...

A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original wo...

Reducere. Orwell is most well-known for his two famous novels Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, but their dystopian vision was informed by observations o...

Reducere. 'If you had asked me why I had joined the militia I should have answered: "To fight against Fascism, " and if you had asked me what I was fighting ...

Reducere. Camp Nelson, Kentucky, was designed in 1863 as a military supply depot for the Union Army. Later it became one of the country's most important recr...

Reducere. Karl Heinrich Marx (1818-1883) was a German philosopher, a political economist, and a revolutionary. Marx addressed a wide range of issues; he is m...

In The Histories Cornelius Tacitus, widely regarded as the greatest of all Roman historians, describes with cynical power the murderous year of the...

One of the greatest political novels in any language, Nostromo reenacts the establishment of modern capitalism in a remote South American province ...

DescriptionNero's reign (AD 54-68) witnessed some of the most memorable events in Roman history, such as the rebellion of Boudica and the first per...

DescriptionA comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's major later political writings in up-to-date English translations. This volume...

This richly illustrated edition of this classic American autobiography sheds new light on Douglass's famous text for a new generation of readers. F...

Reducere. Lauded after his death as 'champion of the English Commonwealth', but also derided as a 'most servile wit, and mercenary pen', the poet, dramatist ...