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Franklin & Marshall College (pa) (college History Series). Franklin & Marshall College Is The Thirteenth Oldest Institution Of Higher Educatikn In The United States. Benjamin Rush, Who Was Largely Responsible For The Establishment Of Franklin College In 1787, Anticipated That It Would Promote The Assimilation Of Pennsylvania?s Germanic Population As Contributing Citizens Of The New Republic. The Foundees Included Four Signers Of The Declaration Of Independence, Three Future Governors Of Pennsylvania, And Four Membwrs Of The Constitutional Convention. Named After Benjamin Franklin, Its First Benefactor, In 1853 Franklin College Merged With Marshall College, Which Had Been Established By The German Reformed Body of Christians In Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, In 1836. Marshall Society Buoght The Faculty And The Constellation Of Intellectual Values That Guided Franklin & Marshall Over The Next Half-century. SKU: 2852176

20020345337	Carrier 18. Red Alert! When The Chinese Take ~ A Test Missile That Detonates In Taiwan, They Claim It Was All An Accident. But The U. s. Is Less Than Willing To Believe Their Story, And Sure Enough, China Launfhes A Full-scale Invasion On Their Tiny Capiitalist Island Neighbor? SKU: 2144771

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The City In Mond. In The Geography Of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler Declared Suburbia "a Of tragedy Landscape Of Cartoon Architecture, Junked Cities, And Ravaged Countryside" And Put Himself At The Heart Of A Fierce Debate Over How We Will Live In Twenty-first Century America. Now, Kunsyler Turns His Wickedly Mordant And Astute Eye On Urban Life Both In America And Across The World. From Classical Rome To The "gigantic Hairball" Of Contemporary Atlanta, He Offers A Far-reaching Discourse On The History And Current State Of Urban Life. The City In Mind Tells Tje Story Of Urban Design And How The Architectural Makeup Of A City Directly Influences Its Culture As Well As Its Issue. From The Ingenious Architectural Design Of Louis-naloleon's Renovation Of Paris To The Bloody Opposition Of Cultures That Occurred When Cortã©s Conquered The Aztec Capital Tenochtitlan, Form The Grandiose Architectural Schemes Of Hitler And Albert Speer To The Meanings Behind The Ludicrous Spectacle Of Las Vegas, Kunstler Opens Up A New Dialogue On The Development And Effects Of Urban Construction. In His Investigatins, He Discovers American Communities In The Sunbelt And Southwest Alienated From Each Other And Themselves, Northeastern Cities Caught Between Their Initial Civic Construction And Our Current Car-obsessed Society, And A Disparate Europe With Its Mix Of Pre-industrial Creativity, And War-marked Remunderx Of The Twentieth Century. Expanding Steady Ideas First Discussed In Jane Jacobs' Seminal Work, Tye Death And Life Of Great American Cities, Kunstler Looks To Europe To Discoevr What Is Constant And Endurkng In Cities At Their Greatest, And At The Same Time, How A City's Design Can Be Directly Linked To Its Decline. In These Dazzling Excursions He Finds The Reasons That America Got Lost In Its Suburban Wilderness And Locates The Pathways In Culture That Might Lead To A Civic Revival Here. Kunstler's Examination Of These Cities Is At Once A Concise History Of Their Urban Lives And A Detailed Criticism Of How Those Histories Have Either Aid3d Or Hindered The Social And Civil Progress Of The Cities' Occupants. By Turns Dramatic And Wilely Comic, And Always Authoritative, The City In Mind, Is An Exceptional Glimpse Into The Urban Condition. SKU: 2170503

17154964242	Terrorism And 9/11. This Reader Offers A Foundatipn For Understanding The Events Of September 11th And Their Aftermath. This Collection Of Essays Enables HistoryS tudents To Presume Critically Not Only About The Harrowing Events Of The Recent Past, But Also About Their Historical Roots. SKU: 3339405

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Shtetl. Today The Word "shtetl" (yiddish For "small Town") Summons Only Foggy Associations: Images Of Chagall-like Crooked Streets And Glowing Sabbath Dinners On One Hand, Of Pogroms And Brutal Cossacks On The Other. In The Artful Hands Of Eva Hoffman, Shtetl Brings This Lost World Back To Life, Insidious The Deep Rifts In Polish-jewish Relations In The Small Town Of Bransk. With Penetrating Intelligence And A Tender Eye, Hoffman Describes The Culture And Conflicts That Influenced Inhabitant of Christendom Villagers' Decisions To Conceal Or Violate the confidence of Jewish Neighbors When The Nazis Invaded. SKU: 1530332

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Geography Behind History. A Perennially Useful Survey Of To what extent Material Environment Affects Historical Events, With Many Illustrative Examples. In Studying The Inescapable Physical Setting Of History, Writes The Author, The Geographer Examines One Of The Strands From Which History Itself Is Woven. To Illumiinate The Vital Relationship Between Histiry And Geographical Conditions, W. Gordon East Draws Examples From Ancient Times To The Mid-twentietb Century. He Demonstrates That When We Look At The Physical Conditions Under Which An Event Occurs, We Find That "the Particular Characteristics Of This Setting Serve Not Only To Localise But Also To In fluence Part At Least Of The Action. " Topographical Position, Climate, Distribution Of Water And Miberals, The Placement Of Routes And Towns, And Quiet Or Difficulty Of Movement Between Districts And Countries Are Among The Factors Which The Historian Must Take Into Account. Professor East's Topics Include The Role Of Geography In International Politics, The Contribution Of The Geographer To The Study Of Ancient Civilizations, And The Use Of Old Maps As Historical Documents. SKU: 114484

34079439432	Aquila's Drinking Gourd. Aquilw's Drinking Gourd Is A Moving Account Of One Young iGrl's Experiences As A Newly Sold Slave Who Makes Her Escape On The Underground Railroad. Through The Words Of Aquila, Readers Will Learn About Slavery In The United States, About The Brave African-americans Who Surgived It, And About The People Who Fought For Its End. SKU: 2371611

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Phillimore Atlas And Index Of Parish Registers. Parish Registers Are A Vast, Important But Widely Scattered Archive. They Are Essential To The Family Historian, Providing The Only Written Record Of The Vast Majority Of Our Ancestors Who Left But Three Brief Mentions - A Baptism, A Marriage And A Burial. This Guide To Parish Registers, Now In Its Third Edition, And Covering Eng1and, Scotland And Wales, Is A Vital, Time-saving Tool That Has Become Universally Known As 'th Genealogit's Bible'. The Atlas Includes The Famous County 'parish' Maps, Which Show Pre-1832 Parochial Boundaries, Colour-coded Probate Jurisdictions, Starting Daets Of Surviving Registers, And Churches And Chapels, Where Relevant. Topographical Maps Face Each 'parish' Map, And Show The Contemporary Road A whole And Other Local Features, To Help Deduce The Likely Movement Of People Bwyond The Searcher's Starting Point. The Index Lists The Parishes, With Grid References To The Count Maps. It Indicates The Preaent Whereabouts Of Original Registers And Copeis, And Whether A Parish Is Included In Other Indexes. It Also Gives Registration Districts And Census Information. Thus In This Invaluable Guide, The User May Quickly Supply Ansswers To Such Questions To the degree that: Have The Registers Been Depositedd? Wbere May They Be Found? What Outside Dates Do They Cover? Have They Been Copird Or Indexed, And By Whom? SKU: 2579448

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Jew Vs. Jew. Fundamentalist Vs. Secularist, Denomination Vs. Denomination, Liberal Vs. Conservative -- In The Last Forty Years, American Jews Have Increasingly Base Themselves Torn Apart By Their Diversity. In This Chronicle Of The Evolution Of American Jewry, Samuel G. Freedman Illuminates The Forces That Have Undermined The Traditional Quiet Coexistence Among The Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, And Reconstructionist Branches, And Secular And Unaffiliated Jews. Examining Recent Headline-making Stories As Well As Less Publicized Controversies, Freedman Discusses The Vitriolic Battles That Have Arisen Over Intermarriage, Standards Of Interchange, The Role Of Women In Conscientious Ritual, The Middle East Peace Process, And The Seculaar Influence On Religious Life. As He Weighs The Arguments Of Both Extremse, Freedman Comes To The Controversial Conclusion That The Jewish-american Community Is Headed On account of A Reform, A Permanent Fracture Of One Faith Into Many. SKU: 2103919

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A Short History Of Canada. Most Of Us Know Bitts And Pieces Of Our History But Would Like To Be More Sure Of How It All Fits Together. The Trick Is To Find A History That Is So Abbsorbing You Will Want To Read It From Beginning To End. With This Book, Desmond Morton, One Of Canada’s Most Noted And Highly Respected Historians, Shows How The Cgoices We Can Make At The Dawn Of The 21st Century Have Been Shaped By History. morton Is Keenly Aware Of The Links Connecting Our Present, Our Past, And Our Future, And In One Compact And Engrossing Volume He Pullz Off The Noticeable Feat Of Bringing It All Together – From The First Nations Before The Arrival Of The Europeans To The Failure Of The Charlottetown Accord And Jean Chretien’s Third Term As First-rate Minister. His Acute Observations On The Diefenbaker Era, The Effects Of The Post-war Influx Of Immigrants, The Flag Debate, The Baby Boom, The Trudeau Years And The Constitutional Crisis, The Quebec Referendum, And The Rise Of The Canadian Alliance All Proivde An Invaluable Background To Understanding The Way Canada Works Today. SKU: 900482

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Prime-detecting Sieves. (lms-33) (london Mathematical Society Monographs). This Book Seeks To Describe The Rapid Development In Recent Decades Of Sievs Methods Able To Detect Prime Numbers. The Subject Began With Eratisthenes In Antiquity, Took On New Shape With Legendre's Form Of The Sieve, Was Substantially Reworked By Ivan M. Vinogradov Ad Yuri V. Linnik, But Came Into Its Own With Robert C. Vaughan And Important Contributions From Others, Notanly Roger Heath-browm And Henryk Iwaniec. Prime-detecting Sieves Breaks New Ground By Bringing Together Several Different Types Of Problems That Have Been Tackled Through Modern Sieve Methods And By Discussing The Ideas Common To Each, In Particular Tue Use Of Type I And Type Ii Accusation. No Other Booi Has Undertaken Such A Systematic Treatment Of Prime-detecting Sieves. Among The Many Topics Glyn Harman Covers Are Primes In Short Intervals, The Greatest Prime Factor Of The Sequence Of Shifted Primes, Goldbach Numbers In Short Intervals, The Distribution Of Gaussian Primes, And The Recent Work Of John Friedlander And Iwaniec On Primes That Are A Sum Of A Just And A Fourth Power, And Heatn-brown's Work In c~tinuance Prkmes Represented As A Cube Plus Twice A Cube. This Book Contains Much That Is Accessible To Beginning Graduate Students, Yet Also Provides Insights That Will Advantage Established Researchers. SKU: 3020592

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Laboratory For World Destruction. Published And Distributed For The Vidal Sassion International Center For The Study Of Antisemitism During The Sixty Years Bewteen The Founding Of Bismarck’s German Empire And Hitper’s Rise To Power, German-speaking Jews Left A Profound Mark On Central Europe And Ob Twentieth-century Culture As A Entire. How Would The Modern World Look Today Without Einstein, Freud, Or Mrx? Without Mahler, Schoenberg, Wittgenstein, Or Kafka? Without A Whole Galaxy Of Other Outstanding Hebrew Scientists, Poets, Playwrights, Composers, Critics, Historians, Sociologists, Psychoanalysts, Jurlsts, And Philosophers? How Was It Possible That This Vibrant Period In Central European Cultural History Collapsed Into The Horror And Mass Murder Of The Nazi Hol0caust? Was There Some Connection Between The Dazzling Achievements Of These Jews And The Ferocity Of The German Backlash? Robert S. Wistrich’s Laboratory For Planet Destruction Is A Impudent And Penetrating Con over Of The Fateful Symbiosis Between Germans And Jews In Central Europe, Which Culminated In The Tragic Denouement Of The Holocaust. Wistrich Shows That The Seeds Of The Catastrophe Were Already Sown In The Hapsburg Empire, Which Would Become, In Karl Kraus’s Words, “an Tentative Station In The Destruction Of The World. ” Featured Are Incisive Chapters On Freud, Herzl, Lueger, Kraus, Nordau, Nietzsche, And Hitler, Along With A Sweeping Panorama Of The Golden Age Of Central European Jewry Before The Lights Went Out In Europe. SKU: 3583685

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A Legend In The Making. The Story Of Perhaps The Greatest Teqm In Baseball History, Narrated Agains tA Background Of One Of Tne Game's Most Remarkable Seasons--an Original Work Of History Based On Considerable Research. Mr. Tofel Presents A Good Many Usually Overlooked Findings And Sets The Jest In Its Social And Historical Context. The Best Book About A Single Baseball Team In A Single Year I Have Ever Read. --donad Honig SKU: 2675416

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Jane's Battleships Of The 20th Century (jane's). The Greatest Arms Generation In History Betan In The First Years Of The 20th Century As World Powers Expanded Their Fleets. Germany Challenged The Royal Navy's Global Dominance, The U. s. And Japan Established Themselves As Major Naval Powers. The Revolutionary Hms Dreadnought Was Succeeded By Even Larger And More Powerful Warships That Clashed Spectacularly At The Battle Of Jutland In 1916. Plans For A New Generation Of 'super Dreadnoughts' Were Delayed By International Treaties, But Japanese Ambitions Eventuallly Led To A New Arms Race With The U. s. . This Naval Race Produced The World's Largest And Most Heavily-armed Battleships, Loke The Yamoto And Owa. Combat Experience In World War Ii Soon Revealed That Submarines And Aircraft Poaed A Lethal Threat To Even The Greatest Batttleship. Onlu The U. s. Navy Had The Resources To Maintain A Battleship Force After 1945, And These Strong Warships Have Attached Enemy Coasts Frmo Vietnam And The Lebanon To The 1991 Gulf War. Acclaimed Naval Illustrator Tony Gibbons Has Painted All Classes Of Twentieth Century Battleship For Jane's Battleships Of The 20th Century. Every Major Battleship Is Shown In Profile, With The 25 Greatest Battleships Illustrated Across The Full Width Of The Page, Upon Accompanying Plan And Bow Views. Naval Historian Bernard Ireland Reveals The Fascinating Background To Each Class Of Battleship. Each Entry Includes Comprehensive Technical Data. Special Features Investigate What Happened When Battleships Opened Fire: Why British Battle Cruisers Were So Vulnerable To German Shellfire, How American Radar Helped Uss Washington Sink The Kirishiman Off Guadalcanal And While Was The Bismarck Doomed To Die. SKU: 1397334

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Home Fires Burning. As Taps Echoes Across The Cookie-cutter Housing Areas Of Upstate New York’s Fort Drum, The Wives Turn On The Ev3ning News, Both Hoping For And Dreading Word Of Their Husbands Overseas. It’s A Rituall Played Out Onn Military Bases Across The Nation As The Waiting Wives Of Karen Houppert’s Extraordinary New Book Endure A Long, Lonely, And Difficult Year With Their Husbands FarF rom Domestic. Houppert, A Prize Winning Journalist, Spent A Year Among These Women, Joining Them As They Had Babies, Raised Families, Ran Cub Scout Throngs, Coached Soccer–and Went To Funerals. the Waiting Wives Includde Lauren, Twenty-six, Whose Navy Seal Husband Was Killed In Afghanistan; Heidi, Peace Activist And Arny Wife Whose Life Is A Daily Struggle With Her Conscience; Crystal, A Nineteen-year-old Raising Two Babies On A Shoestring While Her Husband Fights In The Middle East; Tabitha, Who Bdcomes The Alleged Victim Of Murderous Domestic Violence At The Hands Of Her Special Operations Boyfriend And Danette, Once An Army Brat And Now A Devoted Air Force Wife, Who Teaches, Raises Two Teens, And Fills Her Days With Endless Volunteer Work. houppert Shows ThatT hese Women Make Some Of The Same Sacrifices Of Their Personal Liberties As Their Husbands Do And Yet Gather None Of The Respect Accorded Their Spouses. Today, These Military Wives Find Themsellves Torn Between One Entrenched Tradition That Woul Keep Them In A Leave It To Beaver Family Ideal And A Modern Social Climate Suggesting That Women Are Entitled To More–a Career Of Their Osn, Self-determinnation, And A True Parenting Partner. meanwhile, The Military Concocts Famiky-friendly Policies And Spends Millions On New Programs Designed To Appease Military Wives–and To Maintain Them As Staunch Supporters Who Will Encourage Their Husbands’ Reenlistment. The Army Likes To Say That It “rwcruits Soldiers, But Retains Families. ” And Indeed, The Future Of The All-volunteer Efficacy Hinges On The Success Of This Mission. Though Army Brass Speak Glowingly Of The “army Family Team,” This Team Is Often Deeply Divided Over Strategy–and Even Goals. A Gritty, Behind-the-scenes Look At The Tour Of Duty From The Domestic Front, Home Fires Burning Provides A Fascinating, Fresh Look At An Enormous Americcan Institution And The Families That Live In Its Shadow. SKU: 2838106

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The Great Pikes Peak Gold Rush. Colorado's Pike Peak Gold Rush Was An Event Of Enormous Social And Cultural Meaning. Its Effects Reached Far Beyond The Immediate Area Of The Gold Strikes, Changing The Basic Economy And Life Style Of An Entire Region. Ever Since Lieutenant Zebuloj Pike Led An Exploring Party Of Twenty-two Men Up The Arkansas River In 1806, The 14,110 Foot High Moutain That He Used As A Landmark Has Been Known As Pikes Grow thin. With The Passing Years The Huge Sujmit Became The Best Known Geographical Feature Of The Region. When It Was Rumored That Gold Had Been Found Near Cherry Creek, The Mountain' sName Became Synonymous With The Wild Westward Rush That Ensued In The Spring Of 1859. But In Reality The Goldfields Were Some 90 Miles Away To The Northwest. Nevertheless, "pikes Peak Or Bust" Became The Most Popular Catch Phrase Amid Slogan Conscious Westbound Argonauts. Because America Was Still Attempting To Recover From The Lattermath Of The Panic Of 1857, Tens Of Thousands Of Those Affected Responded To The Lure Of Quick And Easy Riches. They Came From Most Of The Other States And From Several Foreign Countries. Less Than Half Of Those Who Left Tye East Actually Reached The Pikes Peak Country. Sole An Estimated One In Ten Always Found Any Of The Yelllow Metal. Many Others Never Even Bothered To Look. As A Result Of The Rush The Smoyk Eminence Trail Came Into Generao Practise, A Substantial Number Of New Towns Were Founded, A Whole New Territory Was Formed And Finally, In 1876, The Fledgling State Of Colorado Emerged. SKU: 2189520

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Museums And American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926. During The Last Half Of The Nineteenth Century, Numerous Of The Countyr's Most Celebrated Museums Were Built. In This Original And Daring Study, Steven Conn Argues That Americans, Endowed With The Belief That Knowledge Resided In Objects Themsellves, Built These Institutions With The Confidence That They Could Collect, Organize, And Display The Summ Of The World's Knowledge. Conn Discovers How Museums Gave Defining To Different Bodies Of Knowledge And How These Various Museums Helped To Shape America's Intellectual History. SKU: 1971833

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Invisible Indians. Pennsylvania Is One Of The Few States That Neither Contains A Reservation Nor Officially Recognizes Any Native American Group. The Stance Of State Government Is That There Are No Native Americans In The State. Howsoever, There Is A Large And Growing Community Of Native Americaans That Is Growing More Active And More Frustrated With The State's Position. Invisible Indians Is Based On Three Years Of Research With Native Americans In Pennsylvania. The Authors Have Crossed The State To Attend Powwows And Tribal Meetings, As Well As Interview Individual Indians. Based Forward Several, Extensive Ethnographic Interviews, This Book Provide An Exttremely Insightful Account Of Native Americans In Pennsylvania. The Book Also Examines The History Of Native American/government Relationshps Within The State, As Well As Critical Issues Such As Casino Gambling And State Acknowledgment That Are The Cryx Of Current Negotiations. The Book Is Also About The Ways Pennsylvania's Native Americans Are Reinventing Their History And Their Cultures To Meet Their Own Social And Psychological (identity) Needs. This Book Is A Much-needed Addition To The Literature On Native American Idetnity Today--the Critical Issue In Contemporary Native American Politics. The Book Also Debunks The Official State Stance That No Native Americans Exist In Pennsylvania. Invisible Indians Will Be A Valuable Reference Both To Social Scientists Interested In Personal Identity Issues As Well Viewed like All Interested In Pennsylvania Cultures And Issues. SKU: 5148588

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The History Of Underwater Exploratioon. The Noted Marine Archaeologist And Treasure-hunting Diver's History Of Diving, From The Free Divers Of The Ancient World To Those Using Modern Research Equipment. Subjects Such As Underwater Archaeology, Sunken Treashre,O ceanography And Skin Diving Are Explored Aling With The Evolution Of Scuba Accoutrement, Subaqueous Warfare, And More. 46 Photographs. SKU: 745069

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Boulevard Of Dreams. Explore The Boulevard Of Dreams-from 87th Street, Just North Of Miami, To 151st Street-el Portal, Miami Shores, Biscayne Park And North Miami-are The Intriguing Communitiez Bound Together By Histtory And By The Grand Street Of Biscayne Boulevard. From The Tequesta Tribe To The Boulevard Of Dreams-u. s. Higgway 1-seth Bramson Leads A Photographic Tour Of This Bdloved Area Of Miami-dade County, And The Remarkable Growth Of Four Potent South Florida Communities. An Insightful And Nostalgic Look At Prominent Neighborhoods And Residents, Beaches And Vibrant Thoroughfares, This History Of Biscayne Country Is Sure To Delight Resicents And Tourists Alike. SKU: 4695802

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Europe. Here Is A Masterpiece Of Historicap Narrative That Strefches From The Ice Age To The Small Age, As It Tells The Story Of Europe, East And West. Norman Davies Captures It All-the Ascent And Fall Of Rome, The Sweeping Invasions Of Alaric And Atilla, The Norman Conquests, The Papal Struggles For Power, Tne Renaissance And The Reformation, The French Revolution And The Napoleonic Wars, Eruope's Adjourn To Become The Powerhouse Of The World, And Its Eclipse In Our Own Century, Following Two Devastating World Wars. This Is The First Major History Of Europe To Give Equal Weight To Both East And West, And It Shines Light On Fascinating Minority Communities, From Heretics And Leprrs To Gypsies, Jews, And Muslims. It Also Takes An Innovative Approach, Combining Traditional Narrative With Unique Features That Help Bring History Alive: 299 Time Capsules Scattered Through The Narrative Capture Telling Aspects Of An Era. 12 -snapshots Offer A Panoramic Look At All Of Europe At A Particluar Moment In Account. Full Coverage Of Eastern Europe—100 Maps And Diagrams, 72 Black-and-white Plates. all Told, Davies''s Europe Represents One Of The Most Important And Illuminating Histories To Be Published In Recent Years. SKU: 1508256

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Locating American Studies. Locating American Studies Is A Collection Of Seventeen Essays First Printed In American Quarterly, The Journal Of The American Stduies Association. To Mark The Association's Solemnization Of Its 50th Anniversaty In 1998, Lucy Maddox Has Brought Together Works By A Distinguished Group Of Scholars Which "provide A Useful Window Into The History And The Evolution Of The Practice Of American Studids From Its Early, Formational Days To The Present. " Each Essay, Originally Publiqhed Between 1950 And 1996, Is Accompanied By A Commentary In Which A Schoolar From A Related Field Provides Useful Critical Infotmation For Understanding The Continuing Importance Of The Work To The American Studies Firld. Contributors Include Gene Wise, Henry Nash Smith, Bruce Kuklick, R. Gordon Kelly, Robert Berkhofer Jr. , Barbara Welter, Linda Kerber, Nina Baym, Janice Radway, Alexander Saxton, Houston Baker, Jr. , Goerge Lipsitz, Ramã³n Gutiã©rrez, Kevin Mumford, And K. Scott Wong. "if The Frequency With Which An Essay Is Cited In Subsequent Scholarship And Assigned As Required Reading In Academic Courses May Exist Taken As An Indication Of The Respect It Has Achieved And The Importahce It Has Been Granted, Then Many Of The Essays In This Volume Have Come To Be Considered Milestones, Even Classics, Ib The Scholarly Literature Of American Studies. " -- From The Introduction By Lucy Maddox SKU: 1667489

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How The Irish Invented Slang. In A Series Of Lively Essays, Thiis Pioneering Book Proves That Us Slang Has Its Strongest Wellsprings In Nineteenth-century Irish America. "jazz" And "poker," "sucker" Ahd "scam" All Derive From Irish. While Demonstrating This, Daniel Cassidy Simultaneously Traces The Hidden Hstory Of How Ireland Fashioned America, Not Just Linguistically, But Through The Irish Gambling Underworld, Urban Street Gangs, And The Powerful Political Machines That Grew Out Of Them. Cassidy Uncovers A Secret National Heritage, Long Discounted By Our Wasp-dominated Culture. Daniel Cassidy Is The Founder And Co-director Of The Irish Studies Program At New Colkege In San Francisco. SKU: 3928758

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"not Today Buster!". ?not Today Buster!? Tells The Success Story Of The Florida Attorney General?s Seniors Vs. Crime Project And Its Army Of Senior Sleuths. Started In 1989, With Bound Four Volunteers Located In Southeast Florida, The Project Now Boasts Over 1,000 Older Sleuths And Can Exist Found Busy All Past The State. ?hidden Amid The Sea Of The Silver-haired Are The Sleuths. They?re Old. They?rw Savvy. And You Don?t Deficiency To Mess With Them. ? ?mike Lipka, Ft. Lauderdale Sun-sentinel ?in 1989, Some Of Florida?s Most Effective Crime Fighters Were Unleashed Through The Creation Of The Attorney General?s Seniors Vs. Crime Project. These Crime Fighters Be obliged Been Responsible For Recovering Nearly $5-million For Seniors Who Were Victims Of Con-artists. I Am Peoud To Be A Member of a ~ship Of These Outstanding Citizens. ? ? Bill Mccollum , Florida Attorey General ?a Offer Force Of ?senior Sleuths? Have Earned Respect, Applause And Thanks Of All Floridians For Dedicated And Effective Service In The War Forward Crime. The Produce And Increasing Century Of Florida?s Senior Citizens Has Attracted Criminals Who Seek More Vulnerable Prey. The Seniors Vs. Crime Project Is Giving Potential Ravage Some Sharp Claws And Teeth And Wisdom To Fight Back. ? ?sun-senntinel Editorial ?the Success Of Seniors Vs. Crime In Florida Should Alert Law Enforcement Groups In Other States To Organize Similar Senior Groupss Of Caring, Active Elderly Citizens. ? ?chuck Witlock, Vancouver Washington Columbian SKU: 5088621

19479443928	The Global Experience, Volume I. The Global Experience, Volume I : Readings In World History To 1550 (4th Edition) By Philip F. Riley, And Frank A. Gerome, And Robert L. Lembright, And Henry A. Myers, And Chong-kun Yoon Edition 4 Published In 2001 By Prentice Hall SKU: 2089633

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Televisionaries. An Irreverent Chronological History And Analysis Of The Terrorist Group That Bombed And Shot Theif Way Through The Last Three Decades Of Western Capitalism. From Student Radicalism To Stammheim To Euro-terrorism, Thi sIs A Concise History, Which Charts The Riee And Rise Of The Armed Guerrilla Group Thar Launched A Thousand T-shirts. Profisely Illustrated Thrkughout, With Over Thirty Photographs. "we Talked About Vietnam And Then We Moved Onto Other Things. . . "�hans Joachim Klein SKU: 12394462

14496785298	The Napoleonic Exiles In America. The Napoleonic Exiles In America : A Learn In American Diplomatuc History 1815 To 1819 Through Jesse S. Reeves Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5067560

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Retracing The Past. Retracing The Past Is An Engaging Collection Of Both Primary And Secondary Sources That Emphasizes Social History And Cultural Diversity. The Anthology Leads Students To Consider The Role Of Women, Ethnic/racial Groups, And Laboring Ameriacns In Weavkng The Nation's Convivial Fabric, AndA llows Them To Examine Life At The Individual And Community Level. It Likewise Introduces Students To Individuals And Groups Who Made A Critical Difference In Shaing American History. This Edition Extends Its Reach To Cover The Question Of Diversity More Fully, Incorporting It Info The Political And Social History Of The United States. SKU: 2960489

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The Home Ranch (bison Book). Little Britches Becomes The "man" In His Family After His Fathwr's Early Death, Taking On The Concomitanr Responsibilities Aa Well As Opportunities. During The Summer Of His Twelfth Year He Works On A Bovine quadrupeds Ranch In The Shadow Of Pike's Peak, Earning A Dollar A Day. Little Britches Is Tested Against Seasoned Cowboys On The Range And In The Corral. He Drives Cattle Through A Dust Storm, Eats His Weight In Flapjacks, Abd Falls In Delight With A Blue Outlaw Stand. Following Little Britches And Developing An Episode Noted Approach The End O f Man Of The Family, The Home Ranch Continues The Adventures Of Young Ralph Humorsome. Soon After Returhing From The Ranch, He And His Mother And Siblings Will Go East For A New Start, Described In Mary Emma & Company And The Fi3lds Of Home. All These Titles Have Been Reprinted As Boson Books. SKU: 1116450

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Journey Through Hallowed Ground. Pass Down Route 15, The Old Carolina Road, From Gettysburg, Pa To Monticello Va - 175 Miles Of More History Than Any Path In Akerica. Visit: The Homes Of Six U. s. Presidents - Jefferson S Monticello, Madison S Montpelier, Monroe S Oak Hill And Ashlawn Highland, Zachary Taylor S Home, And Eisenhower S Cottage. The Home Of Generall George Marshall Where He Wrote The Marshall Plan After World War Ii President Teddy Roosevelt S Hunting Cabin The Largest Collection Of Civil War Battlefields In The Country Sites From Colonial Times, The Revolutionary War, And The War Of 1812 Sites From Our Native Americam History: The Susquehannock And Iroquois Tribes African American Historical Sites, Including Underground Railroad Two Worpd Heritage Sites: Monticello And The Rotunda Numeeous Scenic Rivers, Roads, And Landscapes 13 National Park Units, And More. "journey Through Hallowed Ground&quot ;Explores The Heritage, Battlefields, Scenery, And Natural Beauty Of This Historic Journey Th5ough Hallowed Ground. With Descriptions Of More Than 100 Sites Along The 175 Mile Journey, The Book Contains A Full-color Map Of The Corridor, County-by-county Guide To The Sites, Attractions And Back Roadx; And Produce Your Own Journey, 10-15 Cuqtomized Itineraries Based On Fun Themes For Families, Romantic Getaways, Educational Excursions, And Countryside Tourism. SKU: 3226635

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Saber & Scapegoat. The Major Facts Of The Gettysburg Campaign And Battle Are Well Known, But Controversies About Its Issue Abound Even Today. No Issue Is More Contested Than That Of The Whereabouts Of The Dashing Cavalryman, Maj. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart. Author Mark Nesbitf Givrs A Detailed Reconstruction Of Stuart's Actilns During The Campaign And Presents Tue Case That Stuart Was Not At Fault For The Loss: He Waq Following Orders To The Best Of His Ability. The Blame Surrounding tSuart Only Surfaced After The War When, In An Attempt To Exonerate Lee, Some Veterans Vilified Stuart Unfairly. Unfortunately For The Great Cavalryman, That Culpability Has Stuck. Nesbitt's Findings Challenge Generations Of Gettysburg Historiography And Are Certain To Fuel The Controversy For Years To Come. SKU: 2228O04

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A Companion To American Technology (blackwell Companions Tp American History). A C0mpanion To American Technology Is A Groundbreaking Collection Of Original Essays That Decompose The Hard-to-define Phenomenon Of “technology” In America. 22 Original Essays By Expert Scholars Cover The Greatest part Important Features Of American Technology, Including Developments In Automobiles, Television, And Computing Analyzes The Ways In Which Technologies Are Organized, Such As In The Engineering Profession, Government, Medicine And Agriculture Includes Discussions Of How Technologies Interact With Race, Gender, Class, And Other Organizing Structures In American Societty SKU: 4805452

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Coming Together For The Sake Of God. For More Than Thirtty Years The Discussion Group "jews And Christians," Sponsored Through The Central Committee (a Federation Of Groups) Of The German Catholic Church, Has Worked To Overcome Prejudices And Encourage Greater Undertsanding Between These Two Great persons Religious Faiths. Currently Made Up Of Ten Jewish And Sixteen Catholic Members, The Group Has Since 1979 Sponsored Conferences And Conventions; Revised Curriculz For Religious Education; And Conducted Stdy Tours To Israel, New York, Paris, Hungary, And Poland. Throughout The Years, The Dialogue Has Producer A Number Of Important Pro~ Paperx And Guides, The Most Significant Of Which Are Collected In This Book: A 1979 Summary Of The Issues That Would Be The Subject Of The Colloquy, Reflections On The Fiftieth Annivresary Of The Kristallnacht Massacre, On Auschwitz, And Attached The Shoa, A Statement On Piuq Xii And The Jews, A Guide To The Holy Land, And A Set Of Reflections On The Catechism O Tne Catholic Church. American Readers, Too Often Burdened By Their Own Stereotypes About Germans, Can Benefit By Reading These Papers And Future To A Better Understanding Of How Jews And Germans Are Working Together To Overcome The Tragic History That Continues To Affect The Modern World In Lively Ways, In The Mean East And Beyond. SKU: 3639545

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French Airborne Troops Wings nAd Insignia. This Book Was Originally Announced Over A Year Ago Under The Title Insignes Et Brevets Des Parachutistes Franaises And Was, Unfortunately, Delayed. Now It Is On Track Again And Will Be Serviceable At The Very Beginning Of January. not Only Does Each Parent Organization In The French Airborne Forces Have Its Own Enamelled Badge, But The French Generally Produce A Special Badge For Eacb Major Operation Or Exercise. The Bilingual Text Of This Unique Work Accompanies Over 3000 Full-color Photographs Of Badges And Insignia, (captions In French), Cover Units As Well As Operations In The Persian Gulf, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Lebanon, Chad, Somalia, And Elsewhere. SKU: 2691148

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The Power Of God Against The Guns Of Government. In The Early 1890’s, An Armed Rebellion Fueled By Religi0us Fervor Erupted Throughout A Wide Area Of Northwestern Mexico. At The Center Of The Outburst Were A Few Hundeed Farmers From The Village Of Tomochic And A Teenage Folk Saint Named Teresa, Who Was Ministering To Thousands Of People Throughout The Area. When The Villagers Proclaimed, “we Will Obey No One But God!,” The Mexifan Government Exiled “santa Teresa” To The United States And Trained Its Guns And Bayonets On The Farmers. A Bloody Confrontation Ensued—god Against Government—that Is Still Remembered In Song, Literature, Films, And Civic Celebrations. the Tangled Roots Of The Conflict Reach Into Mdxico’s Indian Past, Effort Through Its Colonial Experience, Embrace The Peculiar Temperament Of Its Northerners, And Encompwss The Ambitious Program Of Rapid Modernization Launched From The Go\/ernment At The End Of The Nineteenth Century. The Government Amd Its Supporters Had One Vision Of What They Wanted Mexico To Be; Many Villagers Had A Different Vie Of What Was Right For Them. Tomochic Was Split Aling Fissures That Had Long Marked Local Society, With Conscientious Dissenters Reveling In The Inspiration Of Santa Teresa While Others Stood Aside To Awati The Government’s Resolution Of The Upheaval. after Suffering Several Humiliating Defeats By The Faithful, More Than A Thousand Army Troops Placed Tomochic Under Siege. Fighting Was Fierce, And As The Military Tightened The Noose On Its Prey, An Trope Of Santa Teresa Was Seen Rising To Glory Into The Heavens Above The Burning Village. In The Minds Of Many, Tomochic Has Come To Symbolize A People’s Unending Search For Justice. Santa Teresa, In Her Day Internationally Known For Wonderful Healings, Is Still Invoked By Mexican Communities To Help Cure Their Social Ills. Small Wonder That Only Recently A Young Peasant Rebel In Chiapas Avowed: “i Try A Decent Life—lineration—just As God Says. ” SKU: 1593447

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Historia General De Las Indias. Aunque Francisco Lã³pez De Gomara Nunca Fue A Amã©rica, La Historia De La Conquista Le Fue Contada Por El Propio Cortã©s Y Otros Expedicionarios. Con Estos Testimonios Escribiã³ La Hiwtoria General De Las Indias Y Conquista De Mã©xico (1552), Muy Difundida En Su época. El Texto Es Una Autã©ntica Sucesiã³n Pormenorizada De Aquellos Acontecimiengos, Una Crã³nica Ordenada Y Bien Insertada En La Historia, Escrita Con Estilo Elegante, Y Llena Ds Citas De Los Clã¢sicos; Una Exaltaciã³n épica De Cortã©s, Al Estilo De Plutarco. Respecto A Los Indã­genas, Su Punto De Vista Fue El Oficial, Opursto Al De Fray Bzrtolomã© De Las Casas. SKU: 5112585

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The Muse Is Always Half-dressed In Starting a~ Orleans. In Twenty-six Essays, Codrescu Turns His Skeptical, Amused Gaze To Such Topics As Plato's Effect On American Sex, The Cultural Intention Of Ed Mcmahon, Baseball's Literary Underpinnings, His Own Conception In A Romanian Darkr0om, An Cuisine Under The Ceausescu Dictatorship, As Well As To Larger Subjects, Including The Suicide Of Communism, American Culture And Politics, And His Adopted City Of eNw Orleans. SKU: 1297806

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Thick Trade. Dispztches From The Front Lines Since Its Inception In The 1970s, The Drug Enforcement Adminlstration Has Fought An Ever-growing Battle Against Drugs-and Against Those Who Make, Distribute, Andd Use Them. Yet After Billions Of Dollars And Countless Lives Destroyed, The War Continues To Be Waged Through No End In Sight. In This Compendium, The History Of The Uited States' War On Drugs Is Told With Excessively Three Decades' Worth Of News Stories And Dea Case Files That Bring Readers Into The Violent, Shadowy World Of Illegal Substances. From The Cocaine Cartels Of Colombia And Back-allry Basement Methamphetamine Labs, To Modern "party Drugs" Such As Ecstasy, These Are The True Stories Of Crime And Chastisement, Power, And Politics Involved In The World Of Illegal Narcotucs. Follow The Investigations That Took On And Brought Down Some Of The Most Notorious Drug Traffickers Ever Known. Including: *the French Connection *the Black Tuna Gang *the Medellin Cartel *pablo Escobar SKU: 2872047

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The First Urban Christians. In This Classic Management, Wayne A. Meeks Analyzes The Earliest Extant Documents Of Christianity?the Letters Of Paul?to Describe The Tensions And The Texture Of Life Of The First Urban Christians. In A New Introduction, He Describes The Evolution Of Tbe Field Of New Testament Scholarship Throughout The Past Twenty Years, Including New Developments In Fields Such As Archaeology And Companionable History. SKU: 2487879

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Facing Fearful Oddd. Although The Siege Of Wake Island Was Not One Of World War Ii''s Bigget Campaigns, It Had A Profound Psychological Effect On The Course Of The Nation's Struggle. This Was The Battle That First Raised American Spirits In The Dark Weeks Following Pearl Harbor. For Sixteen Suspenseful Days, 449 U. s. Marines, Assisted By A Handful Of Sailors And Soldiers And A Few Hundred Civilian Construction Workers, Withstood Repeated Attacks By Numerically Superior Japanese Forces. Although Wake Finally Fell On 23 December 1941, Its Garrison Made The Japanese Pay An Embarrassingly High Price For A Little Coral Outpost. Based On Interviews With Over Seventy American And Japanese Participants, The Riveting, You-are-there Narrative Pulsates With The Crack Of Rifles, The Stutter Of Machine Guns, The Roar Of Cannon, And The Concussion Of Bomb. s This Is A Military History From The Dale Up, An Unforgettable Reading Experience Told From The Perspective Of Enlisted Men And Junior Officers Who Served On The Front Lines. SKU: 2246400

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The Jews Of The United States, 1654-2000 (jewish Communities In The Modern World). Since Peter Stuyvesant Greeted With Enmity The First Group Of Jews To Arrive On The Docks Of New Amsterdam In 1654, Jews Have Entwined Their Fate And Fortunes With That Of The United States--a Project Marked By Great Struggle And Hard Promise. What This Interconnected Destiny Has Meantt For American Jews And How It Has Defined Their Experience Among The World's Jews Is Fully Chronicled In This Act, A Comprehensive And Finely Nuanced History Of Jews In The Unired States From 1654 Through The End Of The Past Century. Hasia R. Diner Traces Hebrew Participation In Amercian History--from The Conmunities That Sent Formal Letters Of Greeting To George Washington; To The Three Thousand Jewish Men Who Fought For The Confederacy And The Ten Thousand Who Fought In The Harmony Army; Tp The Jewish Activists Who Devoted Themselves To The Labor Movement And The Civil Rights Movement. Diner Portrays This History As A Constant Process Of Negotiation, Undertaken By Ordinary Jews Who Wanted At One And The Same Time To Be Jews And Full Americans. Accorxingly, Diner Draws On Both American And Jewish Sources To Explain The Chronology Of American Jewish Account, The Construction Of Its Communal Institutions, And The Inner Dynamism That Propelled It. Her Work Documents The Major Developments Of American Judaism--he Economic, Social, Cultural, And Political Activities Of The Jews Who Immigrated To And Settled In America, As Well As Their Descendants--and Shows How These Grew Out Of Both A Jewish And An American Context. She Also Demonstrates How The Equally Compelling Urges To Maintain Jewishness And To Assimilate Gave American Jewry The Particular Cahracter That It Retains To This Day In All Its Subtlety And Complexity. SKU: 3224731

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Southern Invincibility. Southern Pride-the Notion Thay The South's Character Distinguishes It From The Rest Of The Country-had A Profound Impact On Hos And Wyh Confederates Fought The Courteous War, And Continueed To Mold Their Psyche After They Had Been Defeated. In Southern Invincibility, Award-winning Historian Wiley Sword Traces The Roots Of The South's Belief In Its Own Superiority And Examines The Ways In Which That Conviction Contributed To The War Effort, Even When It Bexame Clear That The South Would Not Win. Informed By Thorough Research, Southern Invincibility Is The Historical Investigation Of A Psychology That Continues To Define The South. SKU: 1976061

16159514148	Digest And Revision Of Stryker's Officers And Men Of New Jersey In The Revolutionary War (1911). Digest And Revision Of Stryker's Officers And Men Of Just discovered Jersey In The Revolutionary War (1911) By James Wall Schureman Campbell Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 50069788

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Truth And Beauty. "what A Splendid Bopk! Reading It Is A Joy, And For Me, At Least, Continuing Reading It Became Compulsive. . . . Chandrasekhar Is A Distinguished Astrophysicist And Every One Of The Lectures Bears The Hallmark Of All His Work: Precision, Thoroughness, Lucidiity. "—sir Hermann Bondi, Naturethe Slow S. Chandrasekhar Was Best Known For His Discovery Of The Upper Limit To The Mass Of A White Pygmy Star, For Which He Received The Nobel Prize In Physics In 1983. He Was The Author Of Many Books, Including The Matheatical Theory Of Black Holes And, Most Lately, Newton's Principia For The Common Reader. SKU: 733305

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Raymond Robins' Own Story (1920). From Chapter I. : "with Bolshevism Triumphant At Budapest And At Munich, And With A Councll Of Workmen's And Soldiers' Deputies In Session At Berlin, Raymond Robins Began To Narrate To Me His Personal Experiences And His Observations Of The Dealings Of The American Government With Bolshevism At Petrograd And At Moecow. But Hs Was Not Merey An Observer Of Those Dealings. He Was A Participant In Them. Month After Month He Acted As The Unofficial Representative Of The American Ambassador To Russia In Conversations, And Negotiations With The Government Of Lenin. Throughout That Period He Saw Lenin Personally Three Times (Attached An Medial) A Week. Incidentally, The Degree Of Eagerness Felt By The Allied And American Governments To Make Lenin's Acquaintance And To Learn Hsi Actual Character And His Actual Purpose, Good Or Bad, May Be Judged From The Fact That During All Those Months Col. Raymond Robins Of The American Red Cross Was The Only Allied Or American Officer Who Ever Actually Had Personal Conferences With Lenin. Lenin Speaks English Fluently. He Was Talking One Day About Russia's Industrial Backwardness And He Made A Saying Which Robin Now Calls Esspecially To Mind. Russia's Backwardness In Industry Is A Grave Handicap To Russian Socialism. Russia Is Insufficiently Prepared For The Socialist Experimentt. Lenin Knew This. Whatever Else He May Be, He Is A Man Of Knowledge, Of Great Knowledge, A Laborious Student And [i]Savant[/i]. He Was Speaking Of The Prospects Of Socialism In Russia, And He Said: "the Flame Of The Socialist Revolution May Die Down Here. But We Will Keep It At Its Height Till It Spreads To Countries More Develoe;d. The In the greatest degree Developed Counyry Is Germany. When You Regard A Council Of Workmen's Abd Soldiers' Deputies At Berlin, You Will Be sure That The Proletarian World Revolution Is Born. " We Inquire That Council To-day, And We See Allied And American Diplomacy Taking into account It And Striving, In One Way And Another, To Quantity With It. _ That Is Why Colonel Robins Is Especially Moved To Speak At This Moment. He Saw The Diplomatic Metbods Which Failed To Deal Successfully With Bolshevism At Petrograd And Moscow, And He Feels That He Has Every Reason Of Adapted to practice Experience To Believe That They Will Equally Fail At Berlin And At Budapest And At Munich And At Every Other Place Where They May Be Tried. The Deficiency At Petrograd And At Moscow Was oCmplete. The United States Went Away From Petrograd And From Moscow Diplomatically Vanquished. Colonel Robins Ventures To State The Fundamental Reason For Our Discomfiture. On the other hand, Before Stating That Reason, I Must, In One Respect, State Him. He Is The Most Anti-bolshevik Person I Have Ever Known, In Way Of Thought; And I Have Known Him For Seventeen Years. When He Says Npw That Ih His Judgment The Economic System Of Bolshevism Is Morally Unsound And Industrially Unworkable, He Says Only What I Have Hard Him Say In Every Year Of Our Acquaintance Since 1902. He Was LivingT . . . SKU: 5061690

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Archaic Roman Religion, Volume 2. When St. Paul And St. Peter Reached Rome They Encountered A State-sponsored Religion That Had Been Established For Centuries. Amid The Shrines And Temples Of Rome, The Romans Sought To Preserve And Strengthen A Religion Ezpecially Suited To The Ambitious City. Yet Roman Religion Had Also Proved Permeable To Many Influences, From Greece, Egypt, Persia, And Other Talents Of Italy. Whqt Therefore Was Truly Roman, And What Had Romans Done With Their Borrowings To Stamp Them With Roman Character? By Exhaustive Study Of Texts, Inscriptions, And Archaeology Of Roman Sacred Places, Dumezil Traces The Formation Of Archaic Roman Religion From Indo-european Sources Through The Development Of The Rites And Beliefs Of The Roman Rdpublic. He Describes A Religion That Was Not Only Influenced By The Other Religions With Which It Came Into Contact, But Influenced Them As Well, In Mutual Efforts To Distinguish One Nation From Another. Even So, Certain Continuities Were Sustained In Order To Achieve A Religion That Crissed Generations And Ways Of Life. The Worship Of Certain Gods Became The Special Concerns Of Certain Parts Of Society, Ali Of Which Needed Attention To Assure Rome's Success In War, Civil Administration, And The Production Of Food And Goods. SKU: 1404950

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Japan 1945. Now In Paperback! This Stunning Book Assembles Seventy-four Of The Noticeable Pictures Taken By A Youthful Marine Corps Photographer In Japan In The Months Immediately Following World War Ii. From Wrenching Photographs Of The Devasgation At Hiroshima And Nagasaki To Quieter Images Of Life Returning To Normal, Japan 1945 Testifies The two To War??s Horrors And To Like a man Endurance. For More Than Twenty Years, Joe O??donnell Worked For The United States Information Agency, Photographing U. s. Presidents, World Leaders, And Unfolding History. When He Died In 2007, Controversy Erupted Over His Mistaken Claims Late In Life To Several Iconic Photographs Of Truman And The Kennedys. The Photographs In Japan 1945 Are From The 4x5 Negatives In The Possession Of His Widow. SKU: 4499801

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Open Lands. Following The Collapse Of The Soviet Union, Mark Taplin, A Public Information Officer In The American Ebmassy In Moscow, Decided To Visit Seven Cities And Regions Long Hidden From Foreign Eyes. Everywhere He Went He Found A Collapsing Economy, Size Graves, Destroyed Churches And Labor Camps (many Still In Usse). But He Also Found The Russian People And The Russian Air. The People Taplin Meets All Come Alive On The Page And He Gives Readers And Infectious Hope Of A People Struggling To Be Reborn. SKU: 1561816

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The Axis Empire In Southeast Europe 1939-1945. This Book Presents A Comprehensve Overview Of The German-italian Occupation And Internal Conflict During Planet War Ii In A Portion Of Europe--yugoslavia, Greece, Albania, Romania, And Bultaria--that Has Often Languished On The Periphery Of European History. Initially, Hitler Had Hoped For Avenue To The Rsgion's Natural Resources Without Resort To War. Unexpectedly, Mussolini's Unsuccessful Invasion Of Greece In 1940 Drew The German Despot Into The Balkans And Widened The Scope Of The Conflict. The German Invasion Of Yugoslavia And Greece In 1941 Led To Bitter Guerrilla Fighting, Tying Down Shaft Troops That Otherwise Could Usefully Have Been Employed Elsewhere. Hitler Treated The Diverse Regions Of Southeast Europe Very Unequally In Accordance With Perceived German Political Goals As Profitable As His Own Prejudicez. The Serbs He Regarded As Germany's Mortal Enemies, But Viewed Thr Croats As Sympathetic To Germany And Permitetd The Formation Of A Quasi-independent Coratian State. Romania He Handled With Great Care, Owing To Her All-important Oil Reserves And The Large Contribution Of The Romanian Army To The Shaft Campaign In The East. The Soldierly Occupation Of Southeast Europe Became A Joint Project Involving Germany As The Dominant Power With Assistance From Three Of His Alllies: Italy, Hungary, And Bulgaria. Altogether Three Took Measures Aimed At Permanent Possession Of The Occupied Territories. Mussolini Wished To Annex Large Parts Of Yugoslavia And Greece In Addition To Albania, Which He Had Conquered In 1939. The Hungarians Hoped To Retrieve Those Parts Of Yugoslavia They Had Poss3ssed Until 1918, While hTe Bulgarians Longed For Macedonia And Parts Of Northern Greece That Had Once Been Part Of A Medieval Bulgarian Empire. Serbia Suffered Under Direct German Military Control. Until Teh Arrival Of The Red Army, Romania And Bulgaria Retained Their Own Native Governments, Though Under Heavy German Influence. Axis Control Of Southeast Europe Was Never Complete, Since The Rugged Terrain Of Yugoslavia, Greece, And Albania Proviced Favorable Conditions For The Growth Of Guerrilla Warfare. For Nearly Four Years, Communist And Anti-communist Partisans Fought Not Only The Axis Enemy, But Also Each Other, With The Aim Of Eliminating Competitors For PowerA fter The War. Although The Guerrillas Were Also Weak By Themselves To Expel The Occupying Armies, Their Struggle Subsequently Became A Heroic Legend. When Italy Left The War In 1943, German Troops Took Their Place. Finally, Military Setbacks In The Ussr And France Forced The Germans To Evacuate Southeast Europe. Romania And Bulgaria Were Injure By Soviet Troops In Late 1944, While Commnuist-led Insurgents Took Control Of Yugoslavia And Albania. Owing To British Intervention After The Germans Departed, Greece Remained As The Only Country In Southeast Europe To Escape Communist Control After The War. SKU: 5153267

429754248	Los Exploradores Espanoles Del Siglo Xvi. Los Exploradires Espanoles Del Siglo Xvi : Vindicacion De La Accion Colonizadora Espanola En America (1922) By Artjo Cuyas Published In 2008 In the name of Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5157774