The War in the West - A New History

Reducere. The new edition of The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare, written and updated by a team of nine distinguished military historians, examines ...

This book examines the connections between the British Empire and French colonialism in war, peace and the various stages of competitive cooperatio...

Presents a social analysis of new music dissemination at the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, one of the most important ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David M. GlantzWith the defeat and destruction of German Sixth Army at Stalingrad all but certain at the end of 1942, the w...

Reducere. Plants seldom figure in the grand narratives of war, peace, or even everyday life yet they are often at the center of high intrigue. In the eightee...

Reducere. An essential reference guide to one of New Orleans's most iconic Uptown neighborhoods, New Orleans Architecture: Volume IX documents the remarkable...

By January 1943, Australia had emerged from the shadow of war in a strong position. The victories in 1942 at Kokoda, Guadalcanal, Buna, Gona and Sa...

Reducere. The exhortation to "Go West " has always sparked the American imagination. But for gays, lesbians, and transgendered people, the City of Angels pro...

Reducere. THE BOOK OF ST. CYPRIAN: THE SORCERER'S TREASURE is a translation of one of the most complete Portuguese grimoires attributed to St. Cyprian of Ant...

The new edition of The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare, written and updated by a team of nine distinguished military historians, examines ...

When people think of legendary Texas cattle ranches the images that first come to mind are iconic, open-range operations like King Ranch of South T...

Reducere. The French and Indian War was the world's first truly global conflict. When the French lost to the British in 1763, they lost their North American ...

Reducere. Award NameSpur AwardsAward categoryNonfiction-BiographyThe events of July 19, 1878, marked the beginning of what became known as the Lincoln County...

Gendering Post-1945 German History: Entanglements offers new and critical insight into the state of the research on post-war German history from a ...

Reducere. A century ago, between the uneasy aftermath of the First World War and the chaos of the Russian Revolution, an elite group of Russian intellectuals...

The Middle East is one of the world's most volatile regions. In recent years, from the optimism and then crushing disappointment of the Arab uprisi...

Reducere. Tom Rosser served in nearly every battle of the Army of Northern Virginia. The lanky officer, known as much for his temper as his fighting abilitie...

Reducere. The second volume of The Cambridge History of Communism explores the rise of Communist states and movements after World War II. Leading experts ana...

Description'A bad reputation has its commitments.' So wrote home Jochen Peiper from the fighting front in the East in 1943, characterizing his batt...

Reducere. DescriptionWest Virginia is a state of overwhelming beauty. Shared traditions, shared tragedies, and shared histories bind its people to the land a...

A sweeping and lively history of one of the most dramatic stories never told--of the greatest railroad war of all time, fought by the daring leader...

Reducere. DescriptionAs the People's Republic's seemingly inexorable rise to economic and military power continues, never has the need for a better grasp of ...

Description#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the Amer...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Elizabeth M. RixfordThis genealogy is a study in the old world as well as the new. Extensive references have been given, co...

Reducere. "Who in the west has not heard of Wetzel, the daring borderer...the Boone of North-Western Virginia." -Wills de Hass, 1851 Lewis Wetzel came of age...

Reducere. DescriptionAfter the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a fear of invasion swept North America--particularly the West Coast. Immediate steps needed t...

DescriptionIn this new study of personal relationships within the British (including Canadian) Command in 21st Army Group during the campaign in No...

DescriptionThe hallucinogenic and medicinal effects of peyote have a storied history that begins well before Europeans arrived in the Americas. Whi...

"Rebecca West's magnum opus . . . one of the great books of our time." --The New Yorker Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West's classi...

" A] fascinating and indispensable book."--Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2018--The Guardian Gold Medal for Contribution to Pu...

Reducere. When wealthy Mississippi cotton planter Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidated and the ...

Reducere. The world is still only half-made. Between the wild shores of uncreation, and the ancient lands of the East lies the vast expanse of the West---you...

Reducere. In 1631, when the Dutch tried to develop plantation agriculture in the Delaware Valley, the Lenape Indians destroyed the colony of Swanendael and k...

Reducere. This book examines the experiences of the British Army soldiers, or 'redcoats', who fought in North America and the West Indies between 1755 and 17...

Reducere. Military interventions on supposedly humanitarian grounds have become an established feature of the post-Cold War global order. Since September 11,...

No person involved in so much history received so little attention as the late Robert C. Byrd, the longest-serving U.S. senator. In The Last Great ...

Reducere. Questions about the future of war are a regular feature of political debate, strategic analysis, and popular fiction. Where should we look for new ...

Reducere. From journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a "powerful revisionist account"of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly U...

Reducere. "Masterly. . . . A triumph of vivid description, telling anecdotes, and informed analysis." --The New York Review of Books "Britain's finest contem...

Reducere. Oak Ridge is nestled in the foothills of East Tennessee, 25 miles west of Knoxville. Bordered on three sides by the Clinch River, the land first ex...

Reducere. East of the rugged Sierra Nevada in California's Owens Valley lies Manzanar. Founded in 1910 as a fruit-growing colony, it was named in Spanish for...

Reducere. Midland was a young farming and ranching community on the southern edge of the Llano Estacado when the real-photo postcard era began near the openi...

Reducere. By 1858, construction on a new railroad from Mobile, Alabama, to Cairo, Illinois, had intersected the Fulton/Pontotoc Road near an area called Gum ...

Reducere. In Wisconsin history, no single group has been on the land longer than the Menominee Indians. While other tribes were pushed west by the Europeans ...

Reducere. THE BOOK OF ST. CYPRIAN: THE SORCERER'S TREASURE is a translation of one of the most complete Portuguese grimoires attributed to St. Cyprian of Ant...

Reducere. No person involved in so much history received so little attention as the late Robert C. Byrd, the longest-serving U.S. senator. In "The Last Great...

Reducere. The Army of Northern Virginia's chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed wes...

Reducere. Disaster on the Spanish Main unveils and illuminates an overlooked yet remarkable episode of European and American military history and a land-sea ...

In early September 1943, Italy capitulated to the Allies. Australian prisoners of war, POWs, seized this watershed moment and snatched supplies bef...

A century ago, between the uneasy aftermath of the First World War and the chaos of the Russian Revolution, an elite group of Russian intellectuals...

Reducere. On 14 September 1862, four Brits encountered the procession of the nobleman Shimazu Hisamitsu at a village called Namamugi along Japan's ancient Tō...

Presbyterians from the Irish province of Ulster were among the first to push the wild frontier west and found the city of Pittsburgh. By the 1840s,...

Reducere. If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of the Byzantine Empire then keep reading...The Byzantine Empire was founded durin...

DescriptionJohn Andr was head of the British Army's Secret Service in North America as the Revolutionary War entered its most bitter and, ultimatel...

Reducere. Before his spectacular career as General of the Union forces, William Tecumseh Sherman experienced decades of failure and depression. Drifting betw...

Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bra...

Reducere. On the cold, dark night of March 9, 1916, Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa-el jaguar-and his band of marauders crossed the border and raided the ...

A small group of scientists were doggedly working in the field of antiviral treatments when the AIDS epidemic struck. Faced with one of the grand c...

Cosmopolitan Dystopia shows that rather than populists or authoritarian great powers it is cosmopolitan liberals who have done the most to subvert ...

A nineteenth-century attack by Native Americans on a Presbyterian mission in what would become the Oregon Territory proved to be a turning point in...

DescriptionThe Battle of Westport, Missouri (today, part of Kansas City) was the largest Civil War battle west of the Mississippi. Troops from as f...

Lake Forest: Estates, People, and Culture is the first book-scaled historical survey entirely focused on this notable Chicago North Shore suburb in...

Reducere. DescriptionDo not mistake this book as just another rehash of old news. What is presented within these pages is much shocking new information in th...

Huntington, West Virginia, is a city rich in cultural history. Rising from the ashes of the Civil War, this jewel city of the upper South became an...

Reducere. Niccol Machiavelli's Art of War is one of the world's great classics of military and political theory. Praised by the finest military minds in hist...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING SERIES. The ninth anthology of tales set in Eric Flint's phenomenal Ring of Fire universe--all selected and edited by F...

Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, seeking to create a strategic outpost for New France, built Fort Toulouse in Creek territory. This area would eventually be...

West Milford has always been known for its natural beauty. Its approximately eighty square miles of mountains and lakes have delighted visitors for...

Drive down almost any street in Webster Groves and one is filled with a sense of timelessness. Entire neighborhoods are in the National Register of...

Reducere. Autobiography: David Brosbell was born and raised in Toronto Canada. Although he is a proud Canadian, he is passionate about his Scandinavian ances...