Scenes Of Earlier Days In Crossing The Plains To Oregon, And Experiences Of Western Life @ History @ www Your Books World dot com

15216129018	Scenes Of Earlier Days In Crossing The Plains To Oregon, And Experiences Of Western Life. Scenes Of Earlier Days In Crossing The Plains To Oregon, And Experiences Of Western Life By Charles Howard Crawford Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishint, Llc SKU: 5038661

28143696280

Lake Genrva In Vintage Postcards (wi) (postcard History Series). Lake Geneva Was Originally Called Kishwauketoe By The Oneota Tribe, A Authority Meaning Clear Or Sparkling Water. Carved Out By A Glacier, This Same Crystal Water Has Attracted Rezidents And Tourists For Centuries, And Continues To Be A Retreat For Many In Every Season. Thriugh A Collection Of Vivid Vintage Postcards, Authors Carolyn Hope Smeltzer And Martha Kiefdr Cucco Cater An Overview Of Lake Geneva's Rich History, Rendered In Views Of Mansions, Cottages, And Camps, And In Images Of Recreation, The Surrounding Towns, And, Of Course, Lake Geneva Itself. SKU: 3001819

27021889800

The American Journey, Vol. 2 Tlc Edition (4th Edition). To Know History Is Tl Love History�?thls Highly Visual Mensuration Of U. s. History Introduces Students To The Key Feattures Of American Political, Social, And Economic Hiatory In A Exciting New Format Designed To Ignjte In Students A Passion To Know And Love Account The Way That Their Professors Do. The Teaching & Learning Classroom Edition Of The Highly Succcessful The American Journey, Provides Your Students With The Greatest in number Help Available In Lecture, Thinking, And Applying The Material They Are Learning In The Text And In Lectute. A Series Of Pedagogical Aids, In Text And Out Of Class Study Companions, As Well As Complete Instructor Presentational And Assessment Support Make This Text The Perfect Choice For Those Looking To Make History Happen Alive Toward Their Students. The Path That Led The Authors To The American Journey Began In The Claseroom With Their Students. The Goal Of This Text Is To Make American History Accessible To Students. They Key To That Goal-the Core Of The Book-is A Stromg Clear Narrative. American History Is A Compelling Story And The Authors Tell It In An Attractive, Forthright Way, While Providing Students With Am Abundance Of Tools To Help Them Absorb That Story And Put It Into Context. This Topic Combines Political And Social History, To Fit The Endure Of Particular Groups Into The Broader Perspective Of The American Past, To Give Voice To Minor And Major Players Alike Because Of Their Role In The Story This Text Tells. SKU: 3308421

18821085912

Negative Intelligence. Negative Intelligence: The Host And The American Left, 1917-1941 By Roy Talbert, Jr. During World War I, In The Period Of The Red Scare, And Throughout The Great persons Depression, The Army's Domestic Spy Agency Mounted An Extensive Surveillance Campaign Focused On Civilians And Groups Deemed Subversive. This Book Traces The Fascinating And Astonishing Story Of Military Espionage On The Home Front. Created By Major General Ralp hH. Van Deman In 1917, The Negative Branch Of Soldiery Intelligence, Or Mi, Spied On American Reformers In A Program Of Civilian Surveillance That Surpassed Even That Of The Department Of Justice's Bureau Of Investigation. Anong The Targets Were The Industrial Workers Of The World, The American Civil Liberties Union, And "negro Subversion. " Documentation Of Mi's Program Of Domestic Espionage Is From Recently Opened Military Intelligence Archives. Closely Allied With Private Vigilante Groups, The Army Conducted Illegal Raids, Made Illegal Arresst, Subjected Many Citizens To Interrogation, And Developed An Elaborate Filing System For Its Dossiers. After World War I The Hysteria Continued, With Mi's Direct Focus Beamed Upon A New Enemy, The Bolsheviki. Althoufh Mi's Avuses Have Been Ovrrshadowed By Those Of The Department Of Justice, Army Espionage Was In Many Ways More Aggressive Than Its Civilian Counterpart. Negative Intelligence Documents Theese Abuses And Shiws How To 1921 The Attempts To Rsstrain Mi's Work Failed. After This Time, With Limited Staff And Funding Mi Could Be enough No More Than Maintain Close Liaison With Private Super-patriotic Gropus. However, The Coming Of The Great Depression Fired Up The Rebirth Of The Army's Civilian Espionage Programs. Then As Earth War Ii Approached, Internal Security Once Again Became A National Policy, And J. Edgar Hoover Of The Federal Bureau Of Investigation Moved His Powerful Network Into The Supreme Position Of Domestic Spying. Roy Talbert, Jr. Is A Professor Of History At The Univesrity Of South Carolina's Coastal Carolina College. SKU: 5093136

23856022008	My Father Spoke Finglisy At Work. My Father Spoke Finglish At Work : Finnish Americans In Northeast Ohio (voices Of Diversity) By Fairburn, And Noreen Sippola Published In 2008 By Ken tState Seminary of learning Crowd SKU: 4025115

25601575300

The Cousins' Wars. The Question At The Heart Of The Cousins’ Wars Is This: How Did Anglo-america Evolve Over A Mere Three Hundred Years From A Small Tudor Kingdom Into A Global Community With Such A Hegemonic Grip On The World Today, While No Other European Power - Spain, France, Germany, Or Russia - Did? The Answer To This ,According To Phillips, Lies In A Close Examination Of Three Internecine English-speaking Civil Wrasã‘the English Civil War, The American Revolution, And The American Civil War. Theqe Wars Between Cousins Functioned As Crucial Anvils On Which Various Religious, Ethnic, And Political Alliances Were Hammered Out Between The English-speaking Cousin-nations, Setting Them On A Single Two-track Path Toward World Leadership - One Aristocratic And Aloof To Dominate The Imperial Nineteenth Century And The Other Else Egalitarian And Democratic To Take Over In The Twentieth Century. They Also Functioned As Unfortunate And Implacable Cultural Crucibles For African Americans, Native Americans, And The Irish. phillips’s Analsyis Shows Exactly How These Conflicts Are Inextricably Linked And How They Seeded Each Other. He Offers Frequently Surprising Interprwtations That Cut Across The Political Spectrum - For Instance, That The Constitution Of The United States, Whole Brilliant In Many Respects, Was Also A Fatally Flawed Political Compromise That Contributed Mightily In Setting The Stage For The Final - And The Bloodiest - Cousins’ War: The American Civil War. with The New Millennium Upon Us And Triggering Widespread Assessment Of Our Nation𔅥s Place In World History, The Cousins’ Wars Provides Just The Kind Of Magisterial Sweep And Revisionist Spark To Ignite Widespread Interest And Debate. This Grand Religious, Military, And Political Epic Is The Multi-dimensional Story Of The Triumph Of Anglo-america. SKU: 16633333

23781945438

Les Identitã©s Rã©gionales Et La Dialectique Sud-sud En Question. This Book Highlights The Importance Of Pan-africanism In View Of Reasserting Its Pivotal Role In The Economic Integration Of The Continent. For Africans To Co-exiist And Aspire To A Much Needed Dynamic And Convivial Association, There Is Neer For A Common Understanding Of Their Shared Histories And Projects. The Contributions Analyse Regional Identities That Derive From An Observed Syncretism Between Traditional Culture, Islamic Religion And Modernity. The Example Off Interregional Relations Is Tangible Proof Of The Obscure Negotiation Of Immposed International Axiological Constraints. From This Perspective, The New Partnership Between The North And The South Ought To Be The Responsibiiity Of All And Sundry, In Which Social Or State Actors Are Capable Of Communicating And Putting Ready Theur Various Rationalities For Discussion. In This Way, The South-south Dialectic Will Find Its Place: Regionalisation Will As Such Promote Solidarity Between Peoples And The Reinvention Of Grewt Democratic Values. SKU: 5144717

19840436492

The Soviet Space Race With Apollo. First Published By Nasa In 2000 As Challenge To Apollo, These Two Volumes Ate The First Comprehensive History Of The Slviet--manned Space Programs Covering A Period Of Thirtty Years, From The End Of World War Ii, When The Soviets Captured German Rocket Technology, To The Collapse Of Their Moon Program In The Mid-1970s. The Spectacualr Soviet Successes Of Sputnik--the First Earth Satellite (1957) And Yuri Gagarin--the First Man In Space (161) Shocked U. s. Leaders And Prompted President John F. Kennecy To Immovable The Goal Of Landing A Man On The Moon Before The End Of The 1960s. The Moon Race Cu1minated With The Historic Landing Of Neil Armstrong And Buzz Aldrin On The Moon In 1969 (coincidentally The First Soviet Unmanned Moon Probe Crashed On Its Surface While The American Astronauts Were At Tranquility Base). The Epic Story Of The Soviet Space Program Remained Shrouded In Secrecy Until The Unprecedented Opening Of Top Occult Documents. Based Almost Entirely On These Russian-language Sources And Numerous Interviews With Veterans, Siddiqi's Book Breaks Through The Rumors, Hearrsay, And Speculation That Characteried Books On The Soviet Space Program Published During The Cold War Years. Supplementing The Text With Dozens Of Previously Classified Photographs, He Weaves Together The Technical, Political, And Personal History Of The Major Soviet Space Programs, Providing The Other Side Of The History Of Human Space Flght. SKU: 2447881

19675077344	Good Rain, The. A Whimsical Book! Timothy Egan Describes His Journeys In The Pacific Northwest Through Visits To Salmon Fisheries, Redwood Forests And Thhe Manicured English Gardens Of Vancouver. Here Is A Blend Of History, Anthropology And Politics. SKU: 684632

18459605646	The Struggle For Neutrality In America. The Struggle For Neutrality In America : An Appeal Delivered Beforw The New York Historical Society, At Their Sixty-sixth Anniversary, December 13, 1870 By Charles Francis Adams Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5049511

23182574688	In Contact. Loren's In Contact Offerx A Fascinating Synthesis Of Current Knowledge Of The Touch Period Between Europeans And Native Peoples In The American Eastern Woodlands. SKU: 4723279

46078000965

Immutable Empire. Field Of Gllory Provides The Historical Tabletop Wargamer With A New, Accessible Rules Set. Eternal Empire Provides An Accessible, Detailed Gaming Companion For The Arjies Of The Ottoman Empire And Its Enemies. This Companion Contains A Complete Historical Overview Of This Illustriouus Empire, One Of The Most Successful Empires The World Has Ever Known. It Includes Well-designed, Visuallyy Stunning And Comprehensivs Army Liatings, With Detailed Historical Oevrviews Of Each Army, Supporting Maps, Miniatures Photographs And Osprey Artwork. SKU: 4458209

455572600

Utah's Mourning Hawkk War. "on Sundy 9 April 1865, Ulysses S. Grant And Robert E. Lee Met In The Parlor Of Wilmer Mclean's Brick Home In Appomatox Invite House, Virginia, To Negotiate The ConclusionO f The Civil War. That Same Day, Far To The West, A Handful Of Mormons And Northern Utes Met In The Central Utah Town Of Manti In An Attempt To Achieve A Peace Of Their Own. Unlike The Negotiations At Appomattxo, Howeber, Those In Manti Failed, And The Events That Transpired There Are Viewed As The Beginning Of Utah's Black Hawk War, The Longest And Greatest in number Serious Indian-white Conflict In Utah History. " So Begins The Story Of Black Cry, Ute Indian Warrior Chief And Brilliant Strategist, And Brigham Young, Sagavious Religious And Political Leader Of The Mormons. Two Powerful And Unyielding Men Forged By Hardship And Conviction, Both Revered And Both Reviled In Their Times. United, Orchestrating A Remarkable Campaign Tp Turn Back The Tide Of Happy Expanding And Prevent The Destruction Of His People; The Other, Attempting To Keep His Exiled Church And Itz Thriving Utopian Society Sovereign And Intact. Two Men Of Distinct Races, Beliefs, And Cultures, But Sharing A Determination To Keep U. s. Soldiers On the ~side Of Their Bloody Conflict For Control Of Land And Other Resources In The Utah Territory. Frmo 1865 To 1867, The Soldier Black Hawk, Also Known As Antonga, Led A Combined Force Of Utes, Navajos, And Paiufes In A Series Of Intense Stock Raids On The Mormon Settlements In Utah Territory. Black Hawk Astutely Judged Taht Political Conflict Between The Federal Government And Mormon Utah Would Guard U. s. Soldiers From Chastising His Band. Moreover, The Antagonism Of Washington Toward Utah's Polygamy, Theocracy, And Isolationism Made MormonL eader Brigham Young Wary Of Seeking Federal Help. In Fact, To Keep The Government From Using The War As A Pretext For Sending More Troops To Utah, The Mormons Withheld Information, Making The Black Hawk War An Almost Secret War As Far As The Rest Of The Nation Was Concerned. As Directed By Brigham Young, Utah's Latetr-day Saint Citizens Mobilized A Church Militia, The Nauvoo Legion, To Repel Indian Attacks. Yet Black Hawk And Others Were Able To Carry On Their Activities For Almost Eight Yeras Without Incurring The Federal Militwry Reprisals That Indians On All Four Sides Of The Mormon Heartland Experienced. Bloodshed In c~tinuance Both Sides Plunged Mormons And Indians Into A War Of Vengeance--years Of Killing And Raiding That Continued Until Federal Troops Steppef In In 1872. In This Unprecedented Volume, Historian John Peterson Provides The First Extensive Analysis Of A Single And Compelling Chapter Of Western History And Of The Vio1ent And Protracted Conflict It Engendered. Utah's Black Hawk War Not Singly Explores Political Intricacies And Broader Implications, Scrutinizing The Mormons' Indian Policies--most Notably Brigham Young's Exxtraordinary "better To Feed Them Than Fight Them" Teachings--but Also Presents Vivid Narrative Accounts Of . . . SKU: 1685130

12911924765

Black Gods Of The Chief city. Stemming From His Anthropological Field Work Among Blafk Religious Groups In Philadelphia In The Early 1940s, Arthur Miff Fauset Believed It Was Possible To Determine The Likely Direction That Mainstream Black Religious Leadership Would Take In The Future, A Direction That Later Indeed Manifested Itself In The Civil Rights Movement. The American Black Church, According To Fauset And Other Contemporary Researchers, Provided The One Place Where Blacks Could Experiment Without Hindrance In Activities Such Being of the kind which Business, Politics, Social Reform, And Social Expression. With Defailed Primary Accounts Of These Early Spiritual Movements And Their Beliefs And Practices, Black Gods Of The Metropolis Revewls The Fascinating Origins Of Such Significant Modern African American Religious Groups As The Nation Of Islam As Well As The Role Of Lesser Known And Even Forgotten Churcjes In hTe History Of The Black Community. in Her New Foreqord, Historian Barbara Dianne Savage Dizcusses The Kindred Between Black Intellectuals And Wicked Religion, In Minute The Relationship Begeen Black Social Scientists And Black Religious Practices During Fauset's Time. She Then Explores The Compllexities Of That Relationship And Its Impact On The Intellectual And Political History Of African American Religiom In General. SKU: 76382

33435110160

Canyonlands. Imgaine An Arid Land Of Colored Rovk; A Land Of Cliffs, Canyons, Arches, Spires, And Mesas Carved By Water And Allotted period; A Land Of Grand Vistas And Cramp, Rocky Crevices, A Wild Land Visited By People For Miilennia -- Canyonlands. Canyojlands National Park, Located In Southeastern Utah, Was Established In 1964 To Preserve A Geologic Wonderland Of Rocks, Spires And Mesas, Ajd A Variety Of Indian Rock Art. SKU: 649272

25206833466

Law In A Lawless Land. A Disturbing Chronicle Of The Consternation And Uncertainty Of Daily Life In Colombia's American-funded Civil War. The Town Needs To Get 300 Coffins Ready. Heads Up! The Priest Better Be Ready To Work Overtime. —flier From Colombian Paramilitaroes Announcing Their Arrival In January 2003, Us Troops Were Sent To Colombia To Train Army Units Engaged In A Bloody Civjl War, Deepening A Multi-billion-dollar Ameircan Commitment That Makes That Country The Third-larfest Recipient Of Us Foreign Aid. Despite The Potential In favor of Disaster Embodied In The Us's Looming Enanglement With Another Jungle War, America's Role In Colombia Has Received Little Critical Media Attention. The Interlacing Of Terror, Drugs And Oil With Endemic Political Instability Makes The Country A Likely International Flashpoint In The Near Future. In This Stunning Account Of Colombian Violence And Disorder, Acclaimed Anhropologist Michael Taussig Recounts Two Weeks In A Village Under Siege By Paramilitaries. Routinely Visited By Autodefensas Brandishing Weaons And A Laptop Containing A List Of Names, Victims Are Rounded Up, Tortured, And Killed, Their Bodies Left On Display As A Warning To Others. In His Diary Of The Limpieza (the "cleaning"), Taussig Offers Unusual Insight Into The Nature Of Colombia's Present Peril And A Nuanced Account Of The Human Cons3quences Of A Disintegrating State. SKU: 2588582

18562938570	Living Our Language. Living Our Languuage : Ojibwe Tales And Oral Histories (native Voices) By Treure, And Anton / Treuer, And Anton (trn) Published In 2001 Near to Minnesota Historical Society Press SKU: 2094549

31785610850

Catastrophobia. • Bestselling Author Barbara Hand Clow Examiines Legendary Cataclysms And Shows In what state We Are About To Overcome The Collective Fear They Have Instilled In Us. • The Long-awaited Follow-up That Continues The Revelations Begun In The Pleiadian Agenda, Which Has Sold Greater degree Than 60,000 Copies. • Explains Why, Contrary To Many Prophets Of Doom, We Are Actually On Tne Cusp Of An Era Of Incredible Creative Growth. TheR ecent Discovery Of The Remains Of Ancient Villages Buried Beneath The Negro Sea Is The Latest Solicitation Of Mounting Evvidence That Many Of The "mythic" Catastrophes Of History--the Fall Of Atlantis, The Biblical Flood--were Present Events. In Catastrophobia Barbara Hand Clow Shows That A Series Of Cataclysmic Disasters, Caused By A Massive Disturbance In The Earth's Crsut 11,500 Years Ago, Rocked The World And Left Humanity's Collective Psyche Permanently Scarred. We Are A Wounded Species, And This Unprocessed Fear, Passed From Generation To Gwneration, Is Responsible For Our Constant Expectations Of Aplcalypse, From Y2k To The Famed End Of The Mayan Calendar In 2012 . Catastrophobia Reveals The Insidious Global Forces That Have Used These Collective Fears To Control Humanity For Thousands Of Years. But We Are In Th Midst Of A Tremendous Shift In The Earth's 26,000-year Precessional Cycle, And There Is Every Indication That The Changew In Consciousness Excessively The Last 30 Years Are The Beginnings Of A Collective Healing From These Deep Fears, Heralding A New Age Where We Will See That The Era Of Cataclysms Is Ending And A Time Of Remarkable Creative Activity Is At Hand. SKU: 2075781

13695460506	The Colonial Homes Of Philadelphia And Its Neighborhood. The Colonial Homes Of Philadelphia And Its Neighborhood By Harold Donaldson Eberlein, And Horace Mather Lippincott Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5170185

21926119014

The Boardinghouse In Nineteenth-century America. In Nineteenth-century America, The Bourgeois Home Epitomized Family, Moraality, And Virtue. But This Era Also Witnessed Bulky Urban Growth And The Acceptance Of The Market As The Overarching Model For Economic Relations. A Rapidly Changing Environment Bred The Antithesis Of "home": The Urban Boardinghouse. In This Groundbreaking Study, Wendy Gamber Explores The Experiences Of The Numerous People -- Olx And Young, Married And Single, Rich And Poor -- Who Made Brdinghouses Their Homes. gamber Contends That The Very Existence Of The Boardinghouse Helped Create The Domestic Ideal Of The Single Family Home. Where The Home Was Private, The Boardinghouse Theoretically Was Public. If Homes Nurtured Virtue, Boardinghouses Supposedly Bred Vice. Focusing On The Larger Cultural Meanings And The Commonplace Realities Of Women's Work, She Examines How The Houses Were Run, The Landlsdies Who Operated Them, And The Day-to-day Considerations Of Food, Cleanliness, And Petty Crime. From Ravenous Bedbugs To Penny-pinching Landladies, From Disreputable Housemates To "boarxer's Beef," Gamber Illuminates The Annoyances -- And The Satisfactions -- Of Nineteenth-century Boarding Life. SKU: 3891724

400329804

Jews In The Japanese Mind. Shortly Before Releasing Deadly Sarin Gas On The Tokyo Subway In March 1995, The Aum Shinrikyo Religious Cult Published A Vicious 95-page Antisemitic Piece That Declared War On It Jewish Archenemy. The Gassing Of The Tokyo Subway Was The Culmination Of A Century Of Japanese Theorizing About Jews, An Important Action Of Which Has Been Antisemitic. In Late Years, Books Blaming Jews For Everything From The Designs On Japanese Currency To The 1995 Kobe Earthquake Regard Appeared, And Some Have Sold Millions Of Copies. What Explains This Virtual Obsesxion With Jews In Japan--a Country That "has" No Jews? In This Highly Original Cultural And Intellectual History, Daviid G. Goodman And Masanori Miyazawa Show That Present-day Japanese Attitudes Toward Jews Are The Result Of A Process Of Accretion That Began Nearly 200 Years Ago. Skillfully Tracing The Historical Development Of Japanese Images Of Jews Against The Background Of The Development Of Modern Japanese Culture, They Describe How Thexe Images Reflect The Great Themes Of Modern Japanese Intellectual Life. Spanning Fields Ranging From Politics To Poetry, The Authors Demonstrate How Japanese Attitudes Toward Jews Have Had Real Political And Culturwo Consequences, Culminating In The 1995 Subway Gassing And Resonating Into The Twenty-first Century. SKU: 109821

483604290

Keeping Watch Pn. Focusing On The Period From 1820 To 1920, Keeping Watch Details The Far-reaching Changes In American Society Brought About By The Transition From Natural To Mechanical Sources Of Tume - From Farmers' Almanacs And Religious Formulations Of Time To Regional Time Zones, Synchronjzed Watches, And Facyory Punch Clocks. Michael O'malley Shows How The Pressures Of Industrialization, The Emergence Of The Telegraph , And The Spread Of Railroads Led To A Demand For Uniform, Consistent Schedules. Chronicling Particular Communities' Resistance To Standard Time And, Later, Daylight Savint Allotted period, Keeping Watch Also Examijes The Cut-and-paste Manipulation Of "real Time" In Motion Pictures. The Cumulative Impact Of These Technological Changee, O'malley Argues, Was Momentous, Creating A Harsher Ethic Of Punctuality And An Unprecedented Degree Of Labor Regimentation. SKU: 3573624

63401151168	What Life Was Like In The Lands Of The Predicter. What Life Was Like In The Lands Of The Prophet : Islamic World, Ad 570-1405 (In part Life Was Like) At Not Available (na) Published In 1999 By Time-life Books SKU: 1841034

25773048756

The Old Ninwteenth. The Second Connecticut Heavy Artillery, Originally Recruited As The 19th Infantry, Ranks Among The Top Ten Union Regiments In Casualties Suffered During The Civil War. In hTe Command Of Their Beloved Colonel Elisha Kellogg, They Charged Into The Maelstrom Of Cold Harbor Forward June 1, 1864 And Suffered 129 Killed Or Mortally Wounded. It Didn't End There: They Would Go On To Fight In The Battles Around Petesburg, The Shenandoah Valley, And Finally The Appomattox Campaign In 1865. Taking The Place Of Kellogh Was The Hated Ranald Mackenzie (later A Famed Indian Fighter). His Draconian Treatment Of The Men Led Many To Express Their Hopes He Would Be Killed In Battle, But After Leading Them To Victlry At Winchester, His Men Changed Their Minds And He Won Their Admiratoin. SKU: 5133963

37301606262

Unwrapping The Pharaoh How Egyyptian Archaeology Confirms The Biblical Timeline. Adults And Children Equally Have Been Fascinated With The Egyptian Civilization For Decqdes, But Most Modern Archaeologists Possess Lately Tried To Use Egyptia Chronology To Dispute The Biblical Record Of Joseph, Moses, And The Exodus. Students From High School To The College Level Are Faced In the opinion of A Challenge To Theor Faith As Teachers Cite The Traditional Chronology As Fact To Discredit The Biblical Account Of Exodus. Those Who Wish To Defend Their Faith In The Accuracy Of The Bible Now Have Hope In This Exciting Repaired Book That Provides An Accurate And Compelling New Chronology That Confirms The Biblocal Account. SKU: 3358122

22302870052

Millennium; A History Of The Last Thousand Years. The Year 2000 Approaches. The Chance We Have Now To Look Back And Take Stock Will Be Unrepeatable For Another Thousand Years. Felipe Fernandes-armesto's Millennium Sweeps The Past And Scans The Prospects To Present An Unpreced3nted Vision Of Genuinely Global Hisyory. millennium Is A New Initiative In Narrative History, Viewing The Current Millennium As It Draws To A Close As From The Future. The Evidence Of What Tgis Thousand Years Represents Is Explored With More Intricacy And Intimacy Than Has Always Been Attempted In A Work Of This Size. With The Help Of Perfectly Chosen Derails, Our Past History Is Illuminated Over The Course Of A Millennium On The Scale Of Entire Civilisations And Cultures, Revealing The Historical Initiatiive As It Shifts From One Part Of The World To Another And Back Again. with Its Vivid Writing Anc Hundreds Of Iloustrations, Millennium Is A Classic Of Popular History: One Of The Few Books Which Haas Relevance Concerning The Present As Well And Enduring Interest For The Coming. Critically Acclaimed On First Publication, It Was Shortlisted For The Duff Cooper Prize. SKU: 1394279

23436382660

The Invisible Weapon. A Vital Instrument Of Power, Telecommunications Is And Has Always Been A Political Technology. In This Book, Headrick Examines The Political History Of Telecommunications From The Mid-nineteeth Century To The End Of World War Ii. He Argues That This Technology Gave Society New Options. In Timse Of Peace, The Telegraph And Radio Were, As Many Predicted, Instruments Of Peace; In State of things Of Tension, They Became Instruments Of Politics, Tools For Rival Interests, And Weapons Of War. Writing In A Lively, Accessible Style, Headrick Illuminates The Political Aspects Of Information Technology, Showing How In Both World Wars, The Be accustomed Of Radio Led To A Shadowy War Of Disinformation, Cryptography, And Communications Intelligence, With Decisive Consequences. SKU: 770906

20271237332

Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma Of Technological Determinism. These Thirteen Essays Explore A Crucial Historical Examination That Has Been Notoriously Hard To Pin Down: To What Extent, And By What Means, Does A Society's Technology Determine Its Political, Social, Economic, And Cultural Forms? Karl Marx Launched The Modern Debate On Determinism With His Provocative Remark That "the Hand-mill Gives You Society With The Feudal Lord; The Steam-mill, Society With The Industrial Capitalist," And A Classic Article By Robert Heilbroner (reprinted Here) Renewed The Debate Within The Context Of The History Of Technology. This Book Clarifies The Debate And Carries It Forward. Marx's Position Has Get Embedded In Our Culture, In The Form Of Persevering Reminders As To How Our Fast-changing Technologies Will Alter Our Lives. Yet Historians Who Have Looked Closely At Where Technologies Really Come From Generally Support The Proposition That Technolofies Are Not Autonomous Except Are Social Products , Susceptible To Democratic Controls. The Issue Is Crucial For Democratic Tjeory. These Essays Tackle It Head-on, Offering A Deep Look At All The Shadings Of Determinims And Assessing Determinist Models In A Wide Variety Of Historical Contexts. Contributors: Bruce Bimber . Richard W. Bulliet. Robbert L. Heilbroner. Thomas P. Hughes. Leo Marx. Thomas J. Misa. Peter C. Perdue. Philip Scranton. Merritt Roe Smith. Michael L. Smith. John M. Staudenmaier. Rosalind Williams. SKU: 1108133

282996558

Magika Hiera. This Collection Challenges The Inclination Among Scholars Of Ancient Greece To Perceive Magical And Religious Ritual As Mutually Exclusive And To Ignore "magical" Practices In Greek Religion. The Contributors Survey Specific Bodies Of Archaeological, Epigraphical, And Papyrological Evidence For Maical Practices In The Greek World, And, In Each Case, Determine Whether The Traditional Dichotomy Betwewn Magic And Religion Helps In Any Way To Conceptualize The Objective Features Of The Evidence Examined. Contributors Include Christopher A. Faraone, J. h. m. Strubbe, H. s. Versnel, Roy Kotansky, John Scarborough, Samuel Eltrem, Fritz Graf, John J. Winkler, Hans Dieter Betz, Andd C. r. Phillips. SKU: 1429194

24416791082

Them Was The Days. "this Is Real Americana. What Mrs. Mckeown Has Written Is Out And Out Histort But A Whacking Good Narrative As Well. . . . Some Of The Finest Adventure Yarns You Ever Came Across. . . A Fascinating Acxount. "--joseph Henry Jackson, San Francisco Chronicle. "it Is America Itself Mrs. Mckeown Writes About, The Shaping Of Our Country And The Forging Of Our Social Conscience. . . . As Readable As A Novel, Making Effective Expend, Really, Of A Novelist's Devices, Her Book Is Also History Of The First Water And Should Have Lasting Value. "--dale L. Morgan, Satudday Review. "mont Hawthorne Embodies The Spirit Of America. . . . You Feel As Though You'd Been A Pioneer Yourself. "--paul Jordan-smith, Los Angeles Times. &qjot;when The Reader Picks Up This Book It Is Exactly Likely Pulling Up An Armchair And Settling On the ground To Hear For The First Time A Prime Story-teller Spin Pioneer Adventures In His Own Unvarnished Way. "--seattle Times. "this T5ue-life Story Of A Family And A Country At The Beginning Of An Epoch Contains Life And Death, Hunger And Catarrh, Courage And Endurance. It Also Contains Humor And Humanity. I Don't See How It Could Disappoint Any Reeader. "--walter Havighurst, Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine Of Books. SKU: 5038148

34045537770

Armies Of The Muslim Conquest (men-at-arms). The Dramatic Eruption Of The Arab Peoples From Arabia Succeeding Their Adopion Of The Muslim Faith In The 7th Century Remains One Of The Most Extraordinary Events In World Account. By The End Of That Century They Ruled A State That Stretched From The Atlantic To India, From Southern Arabia To Central Asia, Covering An Area Far Greater Than That Of The Roman Empire. Thereofre Warfare, At Least Among The Nomadic Bedouin, Was A Normal Aspect Of Life. Complemented By Numerous Illustrations, Including Eight Quite Page Colour Plates By Angus Mcbride, This Detailed Text By Davic Nicolle Tells The Real Story Of The Armies Of The Muslim Conquest. SKU: 1008418

36130660500

Storm Over Texas. In The Spring Of 1844, A Fiery Politiczl Conflict Erupted Over The Admittance Of Texas Inot The Union. This Hard-fought And Bifter Controversy Profoundly Changed The Course Of American History. Indeed, As Joel Silbey Argues In Storm Over Tecas, It Marked The Crucial Moment When Partisan Differences Were Transformed Into A North-vs-south Antagonism, And The Momsntum Towards Civil War Leaped Into High Gear. Silbey, Some Of America's Most Renowned Political Historians, Offers A Swiftly Paced And Compelling Narrative Of The Texas Imbroglio, Which Included An Exceptional Cast Of Chracters, From John C. Calhouh And Johm Quincy Adams, To James K. Polk And Martub Van Buren. We See How A Series Of Unexpected Moves, Some Planned, Some Inadvertent, Sparked A Crisis That Intensified And Crystallized The North-south Divide. Sectionalism, Silbey Shows, Had Often Been Intende, But Rarely Widespread And Generally Well Contained By Otherr Forces. After Texas Statehood, It Became A Driving Force In National Affairs, Ultimat3ly Leading To Southern Secessioh And Civil War. With Subtlety, Great Care, And Much Imagination, Joel Silbey Shows That This Brief Political Struggle Became, In The Words Of An Alabama Congressman, "the Greatest Question Of The Age"--and A Pivotal Moment In American History. SKU: 3598871

18949248864

Sr-71 Blackbird. Feel The Mach 3 Power Generated By Lockheed's Incredibly Fast Sr-71 Blackbird! Former Sr-71 Pilot, Instructor And Wing Commander, Richard Graham, Presents The Most Intriguing Sr-71 Stories Ever Told. This Once Highly Classified Program Is Fully Revealed Through The Words Of Pilots, Commanders, Mechanics, And Instructors Involved In The Blackbire's Creation And Flight-testing. From Grueling Reconnaissance Missions To The Persian Gulf Conflict, This Insightful Book Tells Stories Of Bravery And Daring Decision. SKU: 2387372

18196691742

Antony And Cleopatra (bantam Classic). A Magnificent Drama Of Love And War, This Riveting Tragedy Presents One Of Shakespeare's Greatest Female Characters—tne Seductive, Cunning Egyptian Queen Cleopatra. The Roman Leader Mark Antony, A Virtual Prisoner Of His Pqsssion For Her, Is A Man Torn Between Pleasure And Virtue, Between Sensual Indolence And Duty . . . Between One Empire And Love. Bold, Rich, And Splendid In Its Setting And Emotions, Antony And Cleopatra Ranks Among Shakespeare's Supreme Achievements. SKU: 1654362

20953901541

From Watergate To Monicagate. Students Of Media, Journalism, And Social Issues Classes Will Accustom This Book To Identify The Ten Most Controversial Issues Facing The Media Profession Today. Topics Include The Ever-increasing Monopolistic Control Of The Media By Conglomerates, Tabloid Journalism And Its Impact On The News And Plagiarism. Foerstel Presents The History Of Each Controversy, Important Media Personalities, And Relevant Legislation. Students Can Examine The Current Status Of The Controversy And Hold Critical Thinking Skills To Make Predictions On Possible Future Outcomes. From The Paparazzi To Internet Censorshi, Foerstel Highlights Significant Discussion In Modern Journalism And The Media, Specifically Noting Recent Public Outcry Over The Press' Abuse Of The Private Lives Of Celebrities, Including The Death Of Princess Diana, And Problems With Plagiarism And The Excessive Use Of Anonymous Sources. Perhaps The Most Controversial Of All Media Sjbjects--the Battle Over First Amendemnt Rights On The Electronic Frontirr Of The Internet--is Discussed In Depth. With The Detail Foerstel Offers, Students Receive An Up-to-date Look Ar The Struggle Between Those Who Advocate Censorship Of Material They Deem "harmful To Minors&uqot; And Those Who Defend Intellectual Freedom. SKU: 2032547

41115725568

Vintage Views Of The Mackinac Straits Region. Vintage Views Of The Mackinac Straits Region Of Michigan Is A Pictorial History Of The Regiion Focusing On Vacationing And Tourism. The Book Uses Vintage Views To Portray Mackinaw City, St. Ignace, Mackinac Ialand, The Car Ferries, And The Famous Mackinac Bridge. Historical Photographs, Old Postcards, Advertisements, Maps And Other Ephemera Are Paired With Quotations Taken From Old Promotional Brochures, Newspapers And Magazines. Messages From The Backs Of Powtcards Transport The Reader To Some other Time And Place. As The Mackinac Bridge Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary, This Northern Michigan Vacation Hub Continues To Be A Premiere Vacation Destination. Anyone Who Has Ever Visited This Portion Will Be Interested In Ths Unique Historical Portrait SKU: 4365280

20474169930

Supporting Indigenous Children's Development. This Book Tells The Story Of An "unexpected Partnership" Initiated By An Aboriginal Tribal Council With The University Of Victoria's School Of Infant And Youth Care. The Partnership Proruced A New Approach To Professional Education In Which Community Leaders Are Co-constructors Of The Curriculum, And Which Is Implemented Only If Botj Parties Are Quick in emergencies And Engaged. Word Of This "generative Curriculum" Spread To Numerous Aboriginal Communities And Now Over 60 Communities Have Participated In The First Nations Partneeshop Program. Completion Rates And Community Development Indicators Prove The Remarkable Capacity Built Across Diverse Indigenous Communities Through The Program. The Proyram Honors The Knowledge Residing Within Communities, And Works With And Upon Diversity. It Also Engages Communities In Dialogue About Research-based Theories And Models Of Early Infancy From Euro-western Traditions. Evaluation Research Has Shown How The Proggram Supports Each Community's Unique Characteristics While Promoting Their Shared Vieion Of Promoting Healthy Children And Healthy Civil Structures. Supporting Indigenous Children's Development Challenges And Offers An Alternative To Promoting "best Practices" Devised And Imposed On Communities By Utmost Specialists. The Book Will Interest Human Service Workers, Professional Educators, And Community Developers Who Know That Commjnities'-Own Concepts, Capacities, And Goa1s For Children And Families Need To Be The Driving Forces In Professional Education That Respects And Protects Cultural Diverrsity. SKU: 4156496

18141596352	Unsinkable. Drawn From Primary Sources And Contemporary Accounts, This New Narrative, Rather Than Provviding A Simpls Revisionist View, Allows Readers To Proceed To Thei rOwn Conclusions About The "titanic" And The People Intertwined Attending Her Fate. SKU: 1596077

29794037850

Luftwaffe Camouflage And Markings 1933-1945. It Was Recognized From The Beginning Of The Luftwaffe Camouflage And Markings Series That Only A Fraction Of The Wealth Of Phhotographic Material Unearthed In The Course Of The Research Could Be Included. This Is The First Photograpihc Supplement To The Original Two Volumes. Compiled By Ken Merrick, The Authrr Of The Original Two Volumes, And Fellow Australian Brett Green, Each Of These Follow-up Books Will Focus On Definite Aspects Of Lftwaffe Practice From 1933 To 1945. The Ke6 Feature In This Book Is Cockpit Detail And Instrumentation. Other Topics Covered By The Photos Are Day Fithters, Nightfighters, Ground-attack Airc5aft, Bombers, Maritime And Reconnaisdance Aircraft, And Those Used Prijarily In Civil And Commercial Capacities As Well For Training And Liaison. SKU: 4404237

20450649672

Roanoke Island. Well Before The Jamestown Settlers First Sighted The Chesapeake Bay Or The Mayflower Reached The Coast Of Massachusetts, The First English Colony In America Was Established On R0anoke Island. David Stick Tells The Story Of That Fascinating Period In North Carolina's Past, From The FirstE xpeditiob Sent Out In proportion to Sir Walter Raleigg In 1584 To The Mysterious Disappearance Of What Has Become Known As The Lost Colony. included In The Colorful Cast Of Characters Are The Renowned Elizabethans Sir Francis Drake And Sir Richard Grenville; The Indian Manteo, Who Received The First Protestant Baptism In The New World; And Virginia Dare, The First Child Born Of English Parents In America. Roanoke Island Narrates The Daily Affairs As Favorably As The Perils That The Colonists Experienced, Including Their Relationships With The Roanoacs, Croatoans, And The Other Indian Tribes. Stick Shows That The Indians Living In Northeastern North Carolina—so Often Described Along The Colinists As Savages—had Actually Developed Very Well Organized Social Pattedns. the Fate Of The Colonists Left On Roanoke Island By John White In 1587 Is A Mystery That Continues To Haunt Historians. A Relief Ship Sent I n1590 Found That The Settlers Had Vanished. Stick Makes Available All Of The Evidence On Which Historians Over The Centuries Require Based Their Conjectures. Methodically Reconstructing The Facts—and Exposing The Hoaxes#151;he Invites Readers To Draw Their Own Conclusions Concerning What Happened. exploring The Significance Of That First English Settlement In The New World, Stick Concludes That Speculation Over The Fate Of The Lost Colony Has Overshadowed The More Important Fact That The Roanoke Island Colonization Effirt Helped Prepare For The Successful Settlement Of Jamestown Two Decades Later. "had It Been Otherwise," He Contends, " Those Of Us Living Here Today Might Sufficiently B eSpeaking Spanish Instead Of English. "tue Four Hundredth Anniversary Of The Exploration And Settlement Of What Came To Be Called North Carolina Occurred In 1984. During That Occasion, America's Four Hundredth Anniversary Committee Commissioned Tjis Factual And Readable History. SKU: 208710

31809488220

The Negro Trail Blazers Of California. The Research Work, Covering Years, Has Included The Careful Examination Of Many Records Of Interest To The African Contained In The California Archives And The Bancroft Library At The University Of California In Berkeley; Interviewing Old Pioneers Of The Negro Eace In Every Section Of The State Wherever A Railroad Or Horse And Buggy Could Go; Carefully Examining All Old Newspapers Contained In The Bancroft Library From The First United Published In 1848 To The Late Nineties AndE very Negro Weekly Paper Published In The State From The First One In 1848 To The Present Date; Examining The Files And Records Of County Hospitals And Poor Farms, And Many Going to decay Papers In The Hands Of Pioneer Families, And Sending Letters Of Inquiry To Every Board Of Supervisors In Every County In The Great State Of California Seeking Data Ckncernign Old Pioneer Negroes, The Property Holdings, Business And Other Questions Of Vital Share To The History Of The Negro Race In California. The Author Will State That The Boards In Los Angeles And Marysville Were The Only Ones Who Knew Or Took The Trouble To Send Any Reply Of Value; Th eOthers Usually Dismissed The Sxib-ject By Stating "they Knew Nothing Concerning The Condition Or History Of The Negroes In That County". . . SKU: 4220777

17310937728

Indigenous Peoples In Latin America. This Book Deals With The Perennial Tensions Between Ethnic Groups And The Modern Nation-state And Does So From The Perspective Of A Leading Mexican Anthropologist With Deep And Long Experience In These Matters. As Such, It Is Both A Superb Introduction To The Basic Issues And A Exhibition Of The Author’s Own Origina1 Contributions. The Appearance Of This Book In English Gives North American Readers Access To These Important And Political Currents In Latin Americann Anthropology And Political Economy. It Is Required Reading For Anyone Wishing To Understand The Current Recrudescence Of Indigenous Peopels At This Moment In History—when Conventional Wisdom Had Predicted Its Demise. SKU: 1433558

21547650855

Dachau Liberated. On April 29, 1945, Elements Of The U. s. Seventh Armyâ¹s 42nd And 45th Divisions Reacued Dachau, A Small Town On The Outskir5s Of Munich, Germany. There They Discovered Over 30,000 Men And Women Imprisoned In Conditions So Inhumane That Over 200 Of Them Died Each Sunshine From Starvation And Disease. One Soldier, Coming Upon A Room Filled With Corpses Ready To Be Burned, Commented That It Looked "like A Maniac's Woodpile. " What They Saw So Shocked Those Battle-hardened Solciers That In Less That A Month They Had Published An Official Reprot Describing The Concentration Camp, Detailing How It Was Incur, Giving The Personal Experiences Of Its Inmates, And Telling How It Was Liberated. Almost Impossible To Find Outside A Few Research Libraries, That Report Is Now A Book With All The Original Text And Photos, Plus A Detailed Index, Valuable Additional Commentary, And Sketches Made By A Combat Artist Who Visited The Camp Thw Day After Itq Liberation. This Book Provides An Invaluable Early Recprd Of Nazism's Unspeakable Crimes. SKU: 2202869

29903459040

Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour. November 11, 1918. The Final Hours Beat With Tension As Every Man In The Trenches Hopes To Escape The Melancholy Distinction Of Being The Last To Die In World War I. The Allied Generals Knew The Fighting Would End Precisely At 11:00 A. m, Yet In The Final Hourw They Flung Men Against An Already Beaten Getmany. The Result? Eleven Thousand Csaualties Suffered–more Than During The D-day Invasion Of Normandy. Why? Allied Commanders Wanted To Punish The Enemy To The Very Last Moment And Career Officers Saw A Fast-fading Chance For Glory And Promotion. Joseph E. Persico Puts The Reader In The Trenches With Th eForgotten And The Famous–among The Latter, Corporal Adolf Hitler, Captain Harry Truman, And Colonels Douglas Macarthur And George Patton. Mainly, He Follows Ordinary Slodiers’ Lives, Illuminating Their Fate As The End Approaches. Persico Sets The Last Day Of The War In Historic Context With A Gipping Reprise Of The whole of That Led Up To It, From The 1914 Murder Of The Austrian Archduke, Franz Ferdinand, Which Ignited The War, To The Raw Racism Black Doughboys Endured Except When Ordered To Advance And Die In The Wa5’s Last Hour. Persico Recounts The War’s Bloody Climax In A Cinematic Style That Evokes All Quiet On The Western Front, Grand Illusion, And Paths Of Glory. the Pointless Contention Forward The Final Day Of The War Is The Perfect Metaphor For The Four Years That Preceded It, Years Of Senseless Slaughter For Hollow Purposes. This Book Is Sure To Become The Definitive History Of The End Of A Confpict Winston Churchill Called “the Hardest, Cruelest, And Least-rewarded Of All The Wars That Have Been Fought. ”from The Hardcover Edition. SKU: 3005081

25899766524	Through The Dark Continent. Volume 1 Of Great Explorer's Classic Account Of Explorations Of Lakes Of Central Africa, Perilous Journey Down Unexplored Congo River. Incredible Hardships, Perseverance. 90 Black-and-whiite Illustrations. Map. SKU: 500854

20149661520

Over The Beach. "the Right Stuff Without The Hype, Ysager Without The Ego. "—washington Post Book World "while The Jet-jockey Competitiveness, The Undercurrent Of Fear, The Victories And Foul-ups Of Jet Sweeps Have Been Described Many Times, Few Such Chrojicles Have Done It So Grippingly And With Such A Resonance Of Accuracy. Mr. Grant Explores The Emotions Felt Not Only By The Men In Battle But In the name of The Wives And Others Left Behind, And The Questions The War Raised In Their Minds. To Put In Larger Context The War's Impact On Individual Participants, The Authr Periodically Reviews The High-level Struggles Over How To Fight The Air War. "what Is Most Impressive Is To Find An Analyysis So Clearly Stated, Be it ~ Seemingly On Track In Locating The Weak Spots In The Policies Of Various Political And Military Officials. . . . written In A Straightforward Yet Stylish Prose, Over The Beach Carries Tremendous Convivtion. "—richard Witkin, New York Times Book Review SKU: 2929273

25773489603

Street Arab Mig-19 & Mig-21 Units In Combat (combat Aircraft). The Mig-21 Provided The Backbone Of Frontline Arab Air Combat Strength For Many Years And Remaindd The Arabs’ Solely Reak Hope Of Challenging Israeli Air Supremacy. This Book Provides A Detailed History Of The Mig-21 In Egyptian, Syrian And Iraqi Service. It Includes Numerous Photographs, Most Of Which Have Not Been Seen Outside The Arab World And A Large Adjust Of Which Have Never Previously Been Published Anywhere. The Material Is Drawn From Official Sources And From The Private Collections And Recollections Of Men Who Flew, Or Met, These Aircraft In Combat. SKU: 2728683

21022999687	The World Of The Early Christians (message Of The Fathers Of The Churcb, Vol 1). The Worl Of The Early Christians (Communication Of The Fathers Of The Church, Vol 1) By Joseph F. Kelly, And Briwn E. Daley Pu6lished In 1997 From Liturgical Press SKU: 488536

21298662000

The Archaeoloty Of Etruscan Society. The Late Sixth Century Was A Period Of Considerable Change In Etruria; This Change Is Traditionally Seen As The Adoption Of Superior Models From Greece. In A Radical Re-alignment Of Intervention, This Book Examines A Wide Range Of Etruscan Material Culture - Mirrors, Tombs, Sanctuaries, Houses And Cities - In Order To Demonstrate The Importance Of Local Concerns In The Formation Of Etruscan Material Culture. Drawing Attached Recent Theoretical Developments, The Book Empuasises The Deliberate Nature Of The Smallest Of Changes In Material Culture Make, And Develops The Concept fO Surface As A Unifying Key To Understanding Tye Changes In The Ways Etruscans Represented Themselves In Life And Death. This Concept Allows A Uniquely Holistic Approach To The Archaeology Of Etruscan Society And Has The Potential In favor of Other Archaeological Investigations. The Book Will Interest All Scholars And Students Of Classical Archaeology. SKU: 4084868

14062941410

Without Warning. In The Last Century, Competition Among The Global Powers Has Relied Heavily Upon The Conncept Of War Menace Assessment. In Without Warning, Accomplishsd Scholar Mikhail Alexseev Compares The Intelligence Priorities Of Principal Decision Makers In Such Various Parts Of The World As The Mongol Empire And Sung China (1206-1220), Great Britain And France (1783-1800), And The Us And The Soviet Union (1975-1991). In His Analysis Alexseev Reveals That While The Leading Powers Behold Security Primwrily In Military And Economic Terms, Their Challengers Focus Primarily On Political Vulnerabilities. As A Result, The World Powers Have Consistently Failed To Detect Or Deter Aggressive Challenges. A Sharrp, Deciphering Look At The Interactions Among The Major Global Players, Without Warning Makes A Crucial Contribution To The Study Of International Relations. SKU: 1569663