War in the West - A New History, Paperback

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

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

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

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...

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,...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and wh...

Contributor(s): Author: Tonio AndradeThe Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries befo...

Reducere. The Buffalo Soldiers were African Americans who served in the Regular Army between the Civil War and World War I and fought in some of the most dif...

Reducere. The West Indian bases are desperate: post vessels--a vital communications link between England and the West Indies in the war against France--are m...

Reducere. The Cherokee Nation is one of the largest and most important of all the American Indian tribes. The first history of the Cherokees to appear in ove...

Reducere. DescriptionCrosby, Stills & Nash created some of the most indelible songs and beautiful harmonies of the late 1960s and early 1970s: "Suite: Judy B...

Makiya first gives us the stories of Khalil, Abu Haydar, Omar, Mustafa, and Taimour--the Arab and Kurdish heroes of this book. Their testimony, rev...

Reducere. DescriptionA history of Oregon without Jesse Applegate would be like Exodus without Moses. Like Moses, Jesse led pioneers through the wilderness ac...

Reducere. DescriptionThrough dramatic incidents tells for the first time the full story of the development of Cold War naval intelligence from the end of WWI...

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. DescriptionAs the Cold War gripped the world with fear of espionage and nuclear winter, everyday Wisconsinites found themselves embroiled in the st...

Louisiana's Sacred Places blurs the lines between the sacred and the profane. Author Deborah Burst combines her love for art, history and architect...

Reducere. For two hundred years, the Terror has haunted the imagination of the West. The descent of the French Revolution from rapturous liberation into an o...

Reducere. "Fascinating, shrewd . . . The book deftly traces the rhythms and patterns of Chinese history." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In this sweepi...

Reducere. The Second World War is one of the most significant conflicts in history, but for seven decades our understanding of the war has remained mostly fi...

Reducere. Description2019 Spur Awards Finalist, Best Western Historical Nonfiction THE NEW DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF THE PONY EXPRESS"A groundbreaking work. ... ...

Reducere. A newly revised version of a classic in American historyWhen The American Revolution was first published in 1985, it was praised as the first synth...

Reducere. The #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's...

Reducere. The dark and bloody ground of the frontier during the years of the American Revolution created much that we associate with the idea of America. Bet...

Reducere. DescriptionA fascinating analysis of the first famous American to erase the boundary between real history and entertainmentCanada, and Europe. Crow...

Reducere. A uniquely comprehensive and rich account of the Soviet intelligence services, Jonathan Haslam's Near and Distant Neighbors charts the labyrinthine...

Reducere. "The lively story of the Civil War's most unlikely--and most uncelebrated--genius" (The Wall Street Journal)--General Montgomery C. Meigs, who buil...

Reducere. Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp by Ann Kirschner is the definitive biography of a Jewish girl from New York who wo...

Reducere. Don Cusic presents gospel music as part of the history of contemporary Christianity. From the psalms of the early Puritans through the hymns of Isa...

Reducere. A concise history of an uprising that took down a three-hundred-year-old dynasty and united the great powersThe year is 1900, and Western empires a...

Reducere. "They'd never kill a reporter...." On the morning of April 29, 1948, a West Side pier hiring boss was shot on his way to work. The murder reminded ...

Reducere. Juan Patrón lived through one of the bloodiest chapters of the American West: the 1878 feud known as the Lincoln County War in New Mexico. Reputed ...

Reducere. Winner of the Best Book Award by the Wild West History AssociationA ripsnortin' ramble across the bloodstained Arizona desert with Wyatt Earp and c...

Reducere. A guide to the history that informs the world of Star Trek--just in time for the next JJ Abrams Star Trek movieFor a series set in our future, Star...

Reducere. In 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order creating the Federal Writers' Project (FWP). Out-of-wo...

Reducere. "One of Ten Best History Books of 2021." --Smithsonian Magazine For fans of The Boys in the Boat and The Storm on Our Shores, this impeccably resea...

Reducere. How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world order What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the firs...

Reducere. From romance and robberies to cowboys and Indians, the Old West is filled with phenomenal happenings, mysteries, and ghosts thatare sire tosend a c...

This is the most authoritative account of life in Medieval Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire and the coming of the Renaissance. Full cove...

DescriptionNow publishing in paperback, this is vivid narrative history of the final stages of the Pacific War, as the US Navy began to slowly appr...

In April 1945, the Allies are charging toward Berlin from the west, the Russians from the east. For Hitler, the situation is hopeless. But at this ...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!History called on Harry Truman to unite the Western world against Soviet communism, but first he had to rally Republicans...

Reducere. Haunted by scandal and secrets, Lillian Baptiste fled Dominica when she was fourteen after discovering she was the daughter of Iris, the half-crazy...