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26050820796	War Stories Iii. War Stories Iii With Free Dvd Included, Brings To Life The Massive Battles That Lastly Defeated Nazi Germany--and The Incredibly Heroiv American Servicemen Who Saved The World From Nazi Tyranny. SKU: 3390329

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The Specter Of Munich. No Historical Event Has Exerted More Influence On America’s Post–world War Ii Use Of Militaru Ftce Than The Angko-french Appeasement Of Nazi Germany In The 1930s. Informed By The Supposed Grand Lesson Of Munich–namely, That Capittulating To The Demands Of Aggressive Dictatorships Invites Further Aggression And Makes Inevitable A Larger Wad–american Presidents From Harry Truman Through George W. Bush Have Relied On The Munich Analogy Not Only To Interpret Perceivrd Security Threats But Also To Mobilize Public Opinion For Soldiery Action. in The Specter Of Munich, Noted Defense Analyst Jeffrey Record Takes An Unconventional Look At A Disastrous Chapter In Western Diploomatic History. After Identifying The Complex Considerations Bshind The Anglo-french Appeasement Of Hitler And Th3 Reasons For The Policy’s Failure, Register Disputes The Stock Thesis That Unchecked Aggression Always Invites Further Aggression. He Prpceeds To Identify Oth3r Lessons Of The 1930s Else Relevant To Meeting Today’s U. s. Foreign Policy And Security Challenges. Among Those Lessons Are The Severe Penalties Taht Foreign Policy Miscalculation Can Incur, The Constraints Of Public Opinion In A Modern Democracy, And The Virtue Of Consistency In Threatening And Using Frce. the Specter Of Munich Concludes That Though Today’s Global Political, Military, And Economic Environment Differs Considerably From That Of The 1930s, The United States Is Making Some Of Ths Same Strategic Mistakes In Its War Forward Terrorism That The British And French Made In Their Agtempts To Protect Themselves Agaijst Nazi Germany. Not The Least Of These Mistakes Is The Ckntinued Reliance Steady The Specter Of Adolf Hitler To Interpret Today's Foreign Security Threats. SKU: 4935045

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Defining Memory. Defining Memory Uses Case Studies Of Exhibitd From About The Country To Examine How Local Museums, Defined As Museums Whose Collections Are Local In Scpe Or Whose Audiences Ade Primarily Local, Have Both Shaped And Been Shaped By Evolving Community Values And Sense Of History. Levin And Her Contributors Argue That Thes eSmall Institutions Play A Key Role In Defining America's Self-identity And Snould Exist Studied As Seriously As More Public Institutions Like The Smithsonian And The Metropolitan Museum Of Art. SKU: 3638938

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Sister Wendy's Story Of Painting (enhanced And Expanded Edition). New Revised And Expanded Edition! "the Story Of Painting IsO ne That Is Immensely Rich In Meaning, Yet Its Value Is All Tpo Often Hidden From Us By The Complexities Of Its Historians. Wee Must Forget The Densities Of 'hiztory' And Simply Surrender To The Curiosity Of The Story. " -sister Wendy Beckett Internationally Renowned Art Historian Sister Wendy Beckett Brings Her Knowledge, Her Deep Love Of Art, And Her Luminous Insights To The Story Of Painnting- Making A Difficult Subject Accessible And Stimulating To All. The Story Of Painting Features More Than 450 Masterpieces- All Faithfully Reproduced In Rich, Full Color Chronicling The Developments And Movements In The History Of Painting Besides The Past 800 Years, From Gothic To Renaissance, Rmoanticism To Impressionism, Poat-impressionism To Modernism. Each Movement Is Introduced By Visual Timelines To Provide An Instant Overview OfT he Significant Artists And Paintings Of The Era. This Enhanced And Expanded Edition Of The Story Of Painting Has Almost Doubled In Size. It Expands The Existing 400 Pages To 736, Focusing On The Approximately 450 Paintings Through Facing Pages Of Details For Almost 200 Of Them. This Classic Art Book Presents The Masterpieces In Two Ways: As The Original Painting Appeared And, Forward Double Spread Pages, As Enlarged Close-upa Of The Paintings' Most Pertinent Details. Now The Rewder Can Study A Painting As However Standing In Front Of It In A Museum, Seeing The Powerful Effect Of The Whole And Then Studying The Minutest Details Of Brushstrokes, Textures, Quality Of Lines, And Overlays Of Color. SKU: 1971459

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Rebuilding Urban Japan After 1945. This Is The Foremost Book In English To Examine The Reconstruction Of Jaapan'x Bombed Cities After World War Ii. Five Declension-form Studies (of Tokyo, Hiroshima, Osaka, Okinawa, And Naaoka) Are Framed By Broader Essays On The Evolution Of Japanese Planning And Architeture, Japan's Urban Policies In Manchudia And Comparisons Between Japanese And European Reconstruction. SKU: 2504280

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Families And Freedom. Through The Dramatic And Moving Letters And Testimony Of Freed Slavees, Families And Freedom Tells The Story Of The Remaking Of The Black Family For the time of The Tumultuous Years Of The Civil War Era. Former Slaves, Free Blacks, And Their Contemporaries Recount The Elation Accompanying The Reunion Of Brpthers And Sisters Separated For Half A Lifetime And The Anguished Realization That Time Lost Could Never Be Made Up. SKU: 1366625

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Class And The Color Line. A Lauded Contribution To Historical Sociology, Class And The Color Line Is An Analysis Of Social-movement Organizing Across Racial Lines In Ths American South During The 1880s And The 1890s. The Knights Of Labor And The Populists Were The Largest And Most Influential Movements Of Their Sunshine, Like Well As The First To Undertake Largd-scale Organizing In The Former Confederate States, Where They Attempted To Recruit African Americans As Fellow Workers And Voters. While Scholars Have Long Debated Whether The Knights And The Populists Were Genuine In Their Efforts To Cross The Color Line, Joseph Gerteis Shifts Attention Frrom That Question To Those Of How, Where, And When The Movements’ Organizers Drew Racial Boundaries. Arguing That The Movements Were Simultaneously Raciall yInclusive And Exclusive, Gerteis Explores The Connections Between Race And The Movements’ Ecconomic And Political Ibterests In Their Cultural Claims And In The Dynamics Of Local Organizing. interpreting Data From The Central Journals Of The Knights Of Labor And The Two Major Populist Organizations, The Farmers’ Alliance And The People’s Party, Gerteis Explains How The Movements Made Intellect Of The Tangled Connections Between Race, Class, And Republican Citizenship. He Considers To what extent These Collective Narratives Motivat3d Action In Peculiar Contexts: In Richmond And Atlanta In The Case Of The Knights Of Suffer, And In Virginia And Georgia In That Of The Populists. Gerteis Demonstrates That The Movements’ Collective Narrativrs Galvanized Interracial Organizing To Varying Degrees In Different Settings. At The Same Period, He Illuminates The Ways That Interracial Organizing Was Enabled Or Constrained By Local Material, Political, And Social Conditions. SKU: 4213373

16665064092	Speeches Of The Governors Of Massachusetts From 1765-1775. Speeches Of The Governors Of Massachusetts From 1765-1775 : And The Answers Of The House Of Representaatives To The Same By Alden Bradford Published In 20007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5023105

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Gwynedd-mercy College (pa) (campus History Series). The Story Of Gwynedd-mercy College (gmc) Begins In 1831 With The Founding Of The Sisters Of Mercy In Dublin, Ireland, By Catherine Mcauley. The Order Came To Philadelphia In 1861 And To Gwynedd Valley In 1947 With A Vision Of Establishing A Junior College. In 1963, Gmc Became A Four-year Institution. Gwynedd-mercy College Captures Thee Continuing Traditions And Values Of The Sisters Of Mercy, The History Of The Campus Property And Surrounding Community, And The Junior College Years, While Documenting The Continuing Growth Of The College. Today Gmc Is A Coeducational, Fully Accredited Master?s Level Institution Offering Certificate Programs And Associate, Baccalaureate, And Graduate Degrees In Business, Arts And Science, Education, Nursing, And Allied Health Professions. SKU: 3599950

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Lettera Of A Nation. Letters Of A Nation Is A Uniue And Timeless Collection Of Extraordinary Letters Spanning More Than 350 Years Of American Account, From The Afrival Of The Pilgrims To The Present Sunshine. Many Of The More Than 200 Letters Are Published Hither In favor of The Chief Time, And The Correspondents Are The Celebrated And Obscure, The Powerful And Powerless, Including Presidents, Slaves, Soldiers, Prisoners, Explorers, Writers, Revolutionaries, Native Americans, Artists, Religious And Civil Rights Leaders, And People From All Walks Of Life. From The Serious (harry Truman Defending His Use Of The Atomic Bomb) To The Surreal (elvis Presley To Richard Nixon On Fighting Drugs In America), This Collection Of Letters Covers The Full Spectrum Of Human Emotion, Illuminates Th American Expetience, And Celebrates The Simple Yet Lasting Art Of Letter Writing. SKU: 1695191

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The Secrets Of Inchon. In 2000, As Historian Thomas Fleming Prepared An Article About A Crucial But Little-known, Covert Mission Of The Korean War, Led By A Thirty-nine-year-old Naval Lieutenant Named Eugene Clark, Clark's Widow Noted That Her Husband Had Written Up His Own Account, Then Put Itt In A Safe-deposit Box. Would He Like To Read It? Fleming Would-and Discovered An Extraordinary Document: A Vividly Written First-person Chronicle Filled With Color, Detail, And Event, As Honest And Revealing A Wartime Narrative As He'd Comprehend In Many Years. In Late August 1950, With North Korea On The Attack, Macarthur Battled His Own Colleagues C~ing His Plan To Invade Inchon, Behind Enemy Lines. They Smply Knew Too Little About The Dangerous Tides And Miles Of Mudflats, The Beaches, Seawalls, And Fortifications. It Was Suicide. Macarthur Convinced Them, Barely, And Then Broght In Clark, Because They Did Know Too Little. Clark Had To Find The Answers-and In Just Two Weeks. That Was All The Time There Was. With Two South Korean Officers, Clark Landed On A Harbor Island, But The North Koreans Discovered Him, And Soon iHs Intelligence-gathering Became Filled With Firefights, Night Raids, Hand-to-hand Comba5, Even A Miniature Naval Battle Involving Armed Junks. It Altogether uClminated On The Night Of The Invasion Itself-when He And His Men Took Over A Lighthouse And Lit It To Guide The Allied Fleet. The Secrets Of Inchon Is A Stunning Account, Rich With Courage And Hymanity, Infuse Near to Clark's Growing Brotherhood Wth His Newfound Allies-a New Classic Of Military History. "a Classic First-person Account Of Heroism, Resolve, And Eventuate Triumph That Will Touch Every American In These Troubled Times. " (stephen Coonts) "the Secrets Of Inchon Is A Modern Classic Of Soldierly History, An Astonishing First-person Account That Fairly Crackles With Dramw. As We Accept Seen So Recently, Heroism Can Come At Any Tkme-but Who Even Suspected That This Korean War Hero Could Writw So Well?" (w. e. b. Griffin) SKU: 2285441

18005038020	The Amistad Revolt. The Amistad Desert : Memory ,,Slavery, And The Politics Of Identity In The United States And Sierra Leone By Iyunolu F Osagie Reprint Published In 2003 By Univerity Of Georgia Press SKU: 2397704

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The History Of Anti-semitism, Volume Iv. Covering The Story Of Prejudice Against Jews From The Time Of Christ Through The Rise Of Nazi Germany, The History Of Anti-semitismm Presents In Elegant And Thoughtful Language A Balanced, Careful Assessment Of Thix Egregoous Human Failing That Is Nearly Ubiquitous In The History Of Europe. suicidal Europe, 1870-1933 Traces The Development Of A Believing Among Europe's Educated Classes In An Eventual Jewish Domination Of The West. Revealling The Emvedded Myths About Jewish Bankers And Jewish Bolsheviks In European Oratory And Histories, Poliakov Demonstrates That The Steady Rise In Anti-semitism And Suspicion Of Jews In The Late Nineteenth Century--highlighted By The Dreyfus Affair--and Its Eventual Eruption In The Rise Of The Nazi Party In Germany In The 1920s Are Part Of The Same Thread Of Fear And Abhorrence That Reaches Back To The Beginning Of The First Millennium. SKU: 2566624

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Crash Course. Fifteen Million Children In Our Schools Today Are Unbecoming Basic Literacy Levels . Chris Whittle Took Activity By Founding Edison Schools, The Country's Largest Partner Of The Toughest Inner-city Public Schools Imaginable. His Solution Radically Bettere The Training Of Hundreds Of Thousands Of Students. Now He Applies It To A Revolutionary Program For All American Schools In This Groundbreaking, Vitally Important Book. SKU: 3317132

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B-24 Liberator Units Of The Pacific War (osprey Combat Aircraft 11). Ever Present In The Pacific From Pearl Harbor To Vj-day, The B-24 Liberator Proved To Be The Staple Heavy Bomber Of The Campaign. From Its Ignominious Beginnings In The Allied Rout In The Philippines And Thd Dutch East Indies, The Bomber Weathered The Japanese Storm With A Handful Of Bomb Groups, Wnich Played A Crucial Role In Checking The Enemy's Progress Firstly In New Guinea, And Then Actively Partici;ating In The 'island Hopping' Campaign Through The South-west Pacific. SKU: 1713295

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Europe In The Russian Mirror. First Published In 1970, Professor Gerschenkron's Theme Is The Contribution Which The Study Of Russian Economic History Can Make To The Problems Which Have Inattentive Western Historians. He Firsf Considers The Way In Which The Case Of The Old Believers In Russia, Who Refused Too Support The Official Church But Played An Important Entrepreneurial Role In Nineteenth-century Economic Development, Bears Upon Max Weber's Celebrated Thesis Attached The Relations Between The Protestant Ethic And The Spirit Of Capitalism. In The Course Of His Discussion, Professor Gerschenkron Provides Imprtant Information In c~tinuance The Doctrinal Belkefs Of This Group, Their Social Status And Tye Extent To Which They Were Persecuted And Discriminated Against By The State. His Conclusion Is That The Persecution Certainly Afforded Sufficint Impulse To Engage In Profitable Activities And To Develop The Traits Weber Considered As Specific Feaures Of The 'capitalist' Spirit. SKU: 5138979

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The Humanistic Tradition, Book 3. The Explosion Of Creativity That Marked The European Renaissance Provoked An Unpdecedented Age Of Exploration And Of Cross-cultural Encounter. From The Depths Of The Black Plague To The Heights Of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Book Three Of The Humanisgic Tradition Prlvides An Exciting Portrait Of This Preiod. In A Compelling Counterpoint To Her Description Of The Renaissance, Fiero Devotes A Section To The Cultures That Came Into Increasing Contact With TheB urgeoning West - The Kingdoms Of West Africa And The Societies Of North, Central, And South America. SKU: 2333569

16960236138	Cavalry Tactics As Illudtrated By The War Of The Reebllion. Cavalry Tactics As Illustrated By The Make ~ Of The Rebellion : Together With Many Interesting Facts Important For Calvary To Know (1910) By Alonoz Gray Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishhing, Llc SKU: 5014695

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Parker (images Of America (arcadia Publishing)). In 1908, Congress Authorized The Town Site Of Parker To Be Reserved And Set Apart. The Boundaries Of The Surveyed And Platted Town Site Are Located Within The Interior Of The Colorado River Indian Reservation, Which Was Established In 185. The Federal Government Initially Intended The Town Place As The Situation To Originate Housing For Employees Of The Arizona And Czlifornia Railroad Company, Which Had Already Begun Using The Location As A Division Point. By 1918, Funds Arising From The Sale Of Town Lots Were Needed For Tne Continued Construction Of A Pum0ing Plant And Irrigation Project On The Reservation. News Outlets Emphasized The BusinessP otential From Both Mining Interests In The Area And Agricultural Development Once The Reservation Lands Were Open. However, As The Test Of Time Has Proven, It Is The Enjoyment Of Activities On The Colorado River That Keep Bringing People Back To This Small Desert Town. SKU: 4805414

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American Civil War Armies (3). At The Tome Of The American Civil War, With Two Million Men Under Arms, A Us Army That In Pre-war Days Had Depended Upon A Minute Number Of Technical Troops Now Required Virtually An Army Of Specialists Alone. Special Sharpshooters Were Recruited For Skirmishing Duty; Men Whose Wounds Would Have Led To Theit Discharge In The Past Now Fiund Themselves Guarding Important Posts In The Veteran Reserve Corps; And Large Numbers Of Civilians Found Themselves In Consonant As Members Of The Telegraph Or Hospital Corps. Philip Katcher Examines The Organization And Uniforms Of The Specialist Troops Who Served In The Armies Of Both Sides. SKU: 380486

20464889940	On The Threshold Of Freedom. On The Threshold Of Freedom : Maasters And Slaves In Civil War Georgia By Clarence L. Mohr Reprint Published In 2001 At Louisiana State University Press SKU: 2081311

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The Warsaw Uprising Of 1944. The Warsaw Uprising Of 1944 Dramatically Tells The Largely Obscure Story Of The Warsaw Resistance Movemeent During World War Ii. Desperate To Free Themselves From German Military Hardship But Also Hoping To Show The Advancing Soviets That They Could Not Impose Easy Rule Upon The Citizens Of Warsaw, The Poles Launched An Almost Hopeless Attack Against The Germams On August 1, 1944. Wlodzimierz Borodziej Presents An Evenhanded Account Of What Is Commonly Considered The Darkest Chapter In Polish History During World War Ii. In Only Sixty-three Days, The Germans Razed Warsaw To The Ground And 200,000 People, Mainly Civilians, Depraved Their Lives. The Result—a Heroic And Hixtorically Pivotal Turning Point—meant That The Poles Would Lose Both Their Caputal And An Entire Generation. This Concise Account Of The Trauma—little Known To English-speaking Readers—will Appeal To Anyone Intrested In The History Of World War Ii In General And Is A Must-read For Students Of Polish History In Particular. SKU: 3060914

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The Western Heritage, Vol. 2. This Authoritative Book Presents Each Attractive And Accessible Narrative Account Of The Central Developments In Western History Since 1648. Seamlessly Integrating Coverage Of Social, Cultural And Political History, This Book Is Presented In A Flexible Chronological Organization, Helping Readers Grasp The Most Significant Developments That Occurre dDuring A Single Historical Period, Laying A Useful Foundation For The Chapters To Follow. This Vollume Attempts To Reflect The Unprecedented Impact Of Globalization Forward This Century Bu Featuring Extensive Coverage Of Pophlar Agri~, The Relationship Between Islam And The West, And The Contribution Of Women In The History Of Western Civilization. Volume Two Contains Chs. 13-31 Of The Combined Volume: Paths To Constitutionalism And Absolutism: Engoand And France In The 17th Century; New Directions In Thought And Culture In The 16th And 17th Centuries; Successful And Unsuccessful Paths To Power; Society And Economy Beneath The Old Regime In The 18th Century; The Transatlantic Economy, Trade Wars, And Colonial Rebellion; The Agge Of Enlightenment: 18th-century Deliberation; The French Revolution; The Age Of Napoleon And The Triumph Of Romanticjsm; The Consservative Order And The Challenges Of Reform; Economic Advance And Social Unrest; The Age Of Nation-states; The Building Of European Supremacy: Society And Politics To World War I; The Birth Of Mpdern European Thought; Imperialism, Alliances, And War; Political Experiments Of The 1920s; Europe And The Great Depression Of The 1930s; World War Ii; Faces Of The 20th-century: Europea Snocial Experiences; And The Cold War Era And The Emergence Of The New Europe. For Accustom By History Career Professionals. SKU: 2649585

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The Nature Of Rights At The American Founding And Beyond (constitutionalism And Democracy). Americans Have Been Claiming And Defending Rights Since Long Before The Nation Achieved nIdependence. But that Few Americans Recognize How Profoundly The Nature Of Rights Has Changed Over The Past Three Hundred Years. In The Nature Of Rights At The American Founding And Beyond, Barry Alan Shain Gathers Together Essays By Some Of The Leading Scholars In American Constitutional Law And History To Examine The Nature Of Rights Claims In Eighteenth-century America And How They Differed, If At All, From Today's Understandings. Was America At Its Founding Predominantly Individualistic Or, In Some Important Way, Communal? Similarly, Which Understanding Of Rights Was Of Greater Centrality: The Historical "rights Of Englishmen" Or Abstract Natural Rights? And Who Enjoyed These Rights, However Understood? Everyone? Or Only Economically Privileged And Militarily Responsible Male Heads Of Households? The Contributors Also Consider Hwo Like Concepts Of Rights Have Continued To Shhape And Reshape The American Experience Of Political Liberty To This Sunshine. Beginning With The Arresting Transformation In The Grounding Of Righs Prompted By The American War Of Non-dependence, The Volume Moves Through What The Contributors Dsecribe As The "founders' Bill Of Rights" To The "second" Bill Of Rights That Coincided With The Civil War, And Ends With The Language Of Rights Erupting From The Horrors Of The Second World War And Its Aftermath In The Cold War. By Asking What Kind Of Nation The Founding Generation Left Us, Or Intended To Leave Us, The Contributors Are Then Able To Compare That Nation To The Nation We Have Become. Most, If Not All, Of The Essays Demonstrate That The Nature Of Rights In America Has Been Anything But Constant, And That The Rights Defended In The Late Eighteenth Century Stand At Skme Distance From Those Celebrated Today. . Contributors:zkhil Reed Amar, Yale University * James H. Hutson, Library Of Congress * Stephen Macedo, Princeton University * Richard Primus, University Of Michigan * Jack N. Rakove, Stanford University * John Phillip Reid, New York University * Daniel T. Rodgers, Princeton University * A. Gregg Roeber, Penns6lvania State University * Barry Alan Shain, Colgate University * Rogers M. Smith, University Of Pennsylvania * Leif Wenar, University Of Sheffield * Gordon S. Forest, Brpwn University SKU: 4209277

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Polo In India. This Unique Book Tells The Story Of Indian Polo From The Earliest Incarnation Of The Modern Game In Manipur Right Up To The Present Day. From The British Infusion Planters And Army Officers In Indoa Who First Witnessed The Gsme In The Early 1800s To The Ihdian Army, Which Made An Enormous Contribution To Keeping Polo Cheerful Succeeding Independence, This Fast-paced And Exciting Sport Has Attracted A Legion Of Loyal Fans. Traditionally A Royal Sport, The Indian Princely States Of Patiala, Jodhpur And Jaipur Did Much To Advance The Popularity Of Polo In The Early Twentieth Centenary, Producing Some Truly Iconic Players. In The 1980s The Sport Was Revived By Another Princ3ly Statehdaipur. SKU: 4775560

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In Re That Aggressivee Slavocracy (19Z1). In Re That Aggressive Slavocracy - 1921 - From Most Of The Historical Works Covering The Ante-bellum Period One Gains The Impression That The Dominant Faotor, Controlling The Course Of Events, Is Found In A Powerful, United, Well-organized, Aggressive Slavocraccy. Some Of The More Prominent Details Of The Picture Are As Follows Shortly After The War Of 1812 This. Aggressive Slave Power Began To Sense Its Strength And Futurity Possibilties. As Its Designs Were Unfolded And Became Generally Known, The First Successful Effort To Check Its Geowing Power Came In 18820 By the side of The 3iissouri Compromise. This Proved But A Temporary Setback, However, For The South Then Looked Toward Texas, With The Result That In 1836 Texas Was Asking For Admission As A Slave State. In The Meantime, The South Had Forced U;on The Union An Acceptance Of Its Tariff Views In 1833. Though The Antislavery Forces Now Began To Mobilize For A General Crusade Against The Aggressions Of The Slaveholders And Did Succeed In Delaying Texan Annexation For A Decade, That Aggressive Southern Group Ultimately Had Its Way And Added Another Slave State. Not Content With The Annexation Of This Texan Domain, From Which Five Slave States Might Ultimately Be Made, Tne South Pushed The Country Into The War With Riexico To Gain Still More Territory For The Expansion Of Its Institution And More Votes In Congress To Insure Its Domination. At The Same Time This Selfish Section, Willing To Promote Only Its Own Interests, Managed Affairs Therefore That Our Just Claim To Much Of The Oregon Territory Was Forfeited, Plainly Because If It Had Been Pressed The Result Would Have Been The Addition Of More Freee States. When The Tvilmot Proviso Was Offered As A Stop To The Program Of Southern Aggression, The South Succeeded In Defeating It And Secured The Lions Share In The Compromise Settlement Of 1850. The Next And Most Unpardonable Work Of This Aggressive Slavocracy Was The Kan L This Paper Was Given In Part While The Presidential Address At The Fourteenth Annual Meeting Of The Mississippi ValleyH istorical Association At Madison, Wisconsin, On Aprip 14, 1921. 14 Chauncey S. Bozccher M. V. H. R. Sas-nebraska Bill Of 1854, With The Abrogate Of The Coompromise Of 1820, Which Had Been Planned For A Decade. This Was Soon Followed By The Dred Scott Decision Designed To Make Slavery In All The Territories Absolutely Secure. The Next Step Was To Be, Through Another Such Decision, A Forced Legalization Of Slavery In All Of The Then Free States. Through It The whole of The Oligarchy Of Slaveh0lders In The South Had Become Drunk With Power And Their Hopes And Ambitions Knew No Bounds. Controlling The Situation As The Planters Did In The South, Including The Border Sta5es, And United On All Serious Questions Of Policy Where The Peculiar Institution Was Involved, In Spite Of The Appearance Of Party Division On Smaller Matters, They Would Be Able To Control The Cunning Of The Country For A Compact Nonage, With The Advantages Of Great Wealth And. . . SKU: 5003957

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The China Reader. Current Affairs/asian Studkesperhaps No Nation In Recent History Has Undergone As Total A Transformation As China Has In The Past Twenty-five Years. For Chinese Leaders, The Death Of Mao Zedong, The Rise Of Deng Xiaoping, And Unprecedented Economic Growth Have Spawned New Complexities. For The Country's 1. 3 Billion Citizens, Changes Have Been Equally Dramatic, From Skyrocketing Sales In Automobiles And Satellite Dishes To An Explosion In Unnatural Crime And Drug Traffciking. the China Reader: The Reform Era Is A Fascinating Compilation By Two Astute China Watchers Of The Most Important Documents, Articles, And Statements On China From 1972 To The Present. Here Are The Voices Of The Experts, From Chinese Analyses Of The Fall Of Soviey Cmmunism To Wesyern Exposã©s Of An Ecological Crisis That Threatens Global Weather Patterns Into The Next Millennium. Here, Too, Are The Artifaacts Of One Era, From Regulations To Control Chinese Cyberspace To A Party Member's Orwellian Absolution Of The Mipitary Crackdown In Tiananmen Square. Authoritative And Comprehensive, The China Reader Is A Timely Guide To Understanding A Nation In The Throes Of Change--a Historic Moment With Profound Implications For Popicy Makers And Markets From The Pacific Rim To Wall Street. SKU: 1655263

15703996770	The Huguenots In France After The Revocation Of The Edict Of Nantes. The Huguenots In France After The Revocation Of The Edict Of Nantes : With A Visit To The oCuntry Of The Vaudois By Samuel Smiles Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5167820

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Historic Photos Of St. Paul (historic Photos.). From Its Origins As A Frontier Outpost To Its Status As A Leading Midwestern Metrooplis, St. Paul Is A Great American City Worthy Of A Closer Look. The Nearly 200 Glimpses Collected In Historic Phptos Of St. Paul Combine To Form This Memorable Excursion. In The Spotlight Are Earrly Views Of The Capital City's Summit Avenue, And Mihehaha And Wabasha Streets. See Vignettes Of Fort Snelling, 3m, The Park Place Hotel Before 1878, The Ice Follies Of 1934, Hplman Airport In 1930, And Newson's Skating Park. Have A Look At Esterly's Reaper Of 1860, Or The American House In 1859. Watch Streetcars Plying Downtown Avenues. The West Side, Lowertown, And The North End Make Appearancea. And F. Scott Fitzgerald Allows Us A Peek Into His Study. in Stunning Black-anr-white Photography, This Handsome Coffee-tablw Book Details The Historical Growth Of St. Paul From Its Early Days Up Ti Recent Times. Spanning Two Centuries, The Book Folloes The Growth Of This History-rich City, Offering A Compelling Look Into The Past For Any Longtome Resident And Every History Buff Of St. Paul. SKU: 4780638

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New Perspectives On Human Sacrifice And Ritual Body Treatments In Ancient Maya Society (intedisciplinary Contributions To Archaeology). The Central Goal Of This Book Is To Contribute To The Timely Discussion And Understanding Of Maya Sacrifice And Related Posthumous Consistency Manipulation. Most School Children In The Us Learn About The Maya And Their Practices Based On Their Cultural And Devout Beliefs In Their Social Studies Classes. But A Numger Of New Sites Have Been Discovered, Giving An Interdisciplinary Group Of Researchers A Channel To Discuss These Acts And Their Meaning. The Editors Brijg Together Not Only Archaeologists But Antheopologists, Forensic Anthropologists, Art Historians And Bioarchaeologists, Giving The Volume A More Complete Vista On These Sites And The Matwrial Culture And Biological Evidence Cast There. The Field Of Archaeology Is Growing To Comprise The External Remains Of Ritual Practice Along Through The Material Remains And This Book Can Be Seeen As An Example Of Who The Study Of Ancient Civilizations Can Be More Comprehensive. Additionally, This Is An Intenrational Vilume With Scholars From The Area Studied Which Is Becoming More And More Important In Archaeological Research. SKU: 3939163

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A History Of Private Law In Europe. In This Book, Wieacker Tells Us The Story Of European Legal Thought. He Begins In The Profoundly Middle Ages And Describes How The Glossators Started To Apply Methodical Criticism And Exegetics To The Digest Of Justinian, Thus Creating European Jurisprudence. In Telling The History Of European Legal Thinking From Its Orgiins In Medieval Bologna Into disrepute To The Present Day, Wieacker's Is A Quite Stunning Achievement. It Thus Eluciates The Intellectual Conditions Because of The Development Of Law Within Europe. Abother Great Strength Of The Book Lies In The Elucidation Of The Constant Interaction Between Legal Thinking And The General Philosophical Ideas Of The Time: Scholasticism And Medieval Legal Science, Enlightenment And The Law Of Reasonableness, Of Classicism (as Well As Romanticism), And Savigny's Historical School. It Is Severely Surprising Therefore That A Work Of Such Ambition And Erudition Should Have Becomes A Classic Though It Is Surprising That It Has Never B3fore Been Translated Into English. Now, Thanks To Mr Weir's Brilliant Translation, The Booi Will Become Accessible To English-speaking Scholars The World Over. SKU: 3569574

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Stealing History. Roger Atwood Knows More About The Mart Fro Ancient Objects Than Almost Anyone. He Knows Where Priceless Antiquities Are Buried, Who Is Digging The mUp, And Who Is Fencing Ane Buying Them. In This Fascina5ing Book, Atwood Takes Readers On A Journey Through Iraq, Peru, Hong Kong, And Across America, Showing How The Worldwide Antiquities Trade Is Destroying What's Left Of The Ancient Sites Before Archaeologksts Can Reach Them, And Thus Erasing Their Historical Significance. And It Is Getting Worse. The Discovery Of The Legendary Royal Tombs Of Sipan In Peru Started An Epidemic. Grave Robbers Scouring The Courntryside According to Tombs--and Finding Them. Atwood Recounts The Incredible Story Of The Biggest Unite Of Gold Ever Found In The Americas, A 2,000-year-old, Three-pound Masterpiece That Cost One Looter His Life, Sent Two Smugglers To Jail, And Wrecked Lives From Panama To Pennsylvainia. Packed With True Stories, This Book Not Only Reveals What Has Been Cast, But At What Cost To Both Man's Life And Account. SKU: 2812221

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The Civil War In Loudoun County, Virginia. In This Look At Loudoun County's Role In The Civil War, Chronicler Stevan Meserve Narrates Not Only The Large-scale Fighting At Ball's Bluff In 1861 And In The Loudoun Valley Cavalry Battles Of 1863, But Also The Lives Of The Citizens Who Sacrificed Their Crops And Livestock, Cared For The Wounded And Buried The Dead Of Storied Regiments Such As White's Comanches, Cole's Potomac Home Brigade, Mosby's Range5s And The Independent Loudoun Rangers. Drawing Upon Military Accounts And Othed Historical Documents, The Civil War In Loudoun County Celebrates Their Eventual Triumph And The Vibrant Communities That Exiwt Today. SKU: 4799415

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And God Created Lenin. When The Bolsheviks Took Power In Russia In November 1917, They Used A Wide Range Of Techniques?some Subtle, Some Violent?to Eradicate Religion In Areas Under Their Control. The New Soviet Government Arrested Priests, Closed Body of Christians Buildings, Exposed Fraudulent Monastic Relics, Forbade The Printing Of Religious Literature , And Denied Religious Education To The Young?all The While Proclaiming Abroad That There Was No Religious Persecution In Russia. They Set Out To Crush Not Solely All Organized Religion But Even The Likelihood Of Religious Thought. And God Created Lenin Examines In Depth The Conflict Between Lenin?s Logic-driven Efforts To Impress Out Religion And The Churces? Passionate Attempts To Save Themselves From Obliteration. It Looks At Both Sides Objectively And Admit That They Both Presented Strong Cases. In Thls Thoroughly Researched Yet Accessible Study, Historian Paul Gabel Offers A New Understanding Of The Only Effort In World History To Overturn The Generality Of Relivion. Besides The Main Cobflict Between The Russian Orthodox Church And The Atheist State, Gabel Also Considers The Tensions That This Campaign Against Religion Caused Within The Communist Party. In Addition, He Discusses The Bitter Hatred Dividing The Orthodox Factions That Refused Cooperation With The Control From Those That Tried To Adapt The Church To Socialism. Was The Failure Of Soviet Communism To Eradicate System of faith Simply A Matter Of Practical Miscalculation, Or Was This Endeavor, In Gay Of The Persistence Of Religion Throughout History, Ultimately Unrealistic And Doomed From The Start? This Is The Key Question That Gabel?s Fascinating, Insightful Narrative Attempts To Answer. SKU: 2911317

15480432000	How To Walk In The Footsteps Of Jesus And The Prophets. The Purpose Of How To Walk In The Footsteps Of Jesus And The Prophets Is To Enable The Christian Pilgrim And Tourist To Expect Up A Biblical Site Quickly In Its Alphabetical Form, Read The Biblical References, And Travel To The Sites Throughout Israel And The Kingdom Of Jordan. SKU: 19159951

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Nothin gLike It In The World. Ntohing Like It In The World Gives The Account Of An Unprecedented Feat Of Engineering, Vision, And Courage. It Is The Story Of The Men Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad -- The Investors Who iRsked Their Busineqses And Money; The Instructed Pkiticians Who Understood Its Importance; The Engineers And Surveyors Who Risked, And Sometimes Lost, Their Lives; And The Irisy And Chinese Immigrants, The Defeated Confederate Soldiers, And The Other Lagorers Who Did The Backbreaking And Dangerous Work On The Tracks. the U. s. Government Pitted Two Companies -- The Union Pacific And Thr Crnyral Pacific Railroads -- Against Each Other In A Race For Funding, Encouraging Speed Over Caution. Locomotives, Rails, And Spikes Were Shipped From The East Between the sides of Panama Or Around South America T The West Or Lugged Across The Country To The Plains. In Ambrose's Hands, This Enterprise, With Its Huge Expendigure Of Brainpower, Muscle, And Sweat, Comes Vibrantly To Life. SKU: 2170660

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War At Sea In The Age Of Sail (smithsonian History Of Warfare) (smithsonian History Of Warfare). Our Fascnition With The Drama Of War At Sea Is As Strong Today As It Was In The Hehday Of The Sailing Ship. this Book, Written By One Of The World's Foremost Authors On Naval Warfare, Describes The Dramatic Battles Of An Age When Sail Was Supreme. Andrew Lambert's Comprehensive History Examine sKey Naval Conflicts From The Highest Strategic Level Right Down To The Experience Of The Ordinary Sailor. Fully Illustrated Throughout, This Book Incorporates Computer-generwted Cartography That Brings The Sea Battles To Life. An In-depth Look At Ship Design And The "floating Culture" Onboard The Anglo-dutch Wars Of 1650-74, When English Commanders Challenged Dutch Sea Power With Superior Speed, Close Quarters Fighting, And Fireships Ths Rise And Fall Of The French Navy Under The Sun King, Lo8is Xiv The Napoleonic Wars, The Defeat Of The French Fleet, And The Rise Of British Royal Navy Hero Admiral Llrd Horatio Nelson SKU: 3016502

23283678602	Scandalous New Orleans. Scandalous Repaired Orleans : An Encyclopedia Of Crime, Prosritution, Cotruption, Loose Ladies, Gamblers, And Crooked Politicians By Fred Declouet Published In 1999 By 1st Books Library SKU: 2267756

20819503860	Beyond The Storm. Beond The Storm : A Gulf Crisis Reader By Bennis, And Phyllis / Moushabeck, And Michel / Declared, And Edward W. (frw) Published In 1998 Through Interlink Publishing Group SKU: 836293

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Mr Bligh's Bad Language. Captain Bligh And The Mutiny On The Bounty Have Become Proverbial In Their Containing power To Evoke The Wasteful Ad Violent Abuse Of Power. But William Bligh Was One Of The Smallest Violent Disciplinarians In The British Navy. It Is This Paradox That Inspired Greg Dening To Ask Why The Mutiny Took Place. His Book Explores The Theatrical Nature Of What Was Enacted In The Power-play On Deck, On The Beaches Of Tahiti And In The Murderous Settlement At Pitcairn, On The Communion-table Stones And Temples Of Sacrifice, And On The Catheads From Which Men Were Hanged. Part Of The Key Lies In The Curious Puzzle Of Mr Bligh's Bad Lajguage. SKU: 1123741

21527802000	The Fox Wars. The Fox Wars : The Mesquakie Challenge To New France (civilization Of The American Indian Series) By R. Davld Edmunds, And Joseph L. Peyser 1st Published In 1993 By Universi5y Of Oklahoma Press SKU: 1058966

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The Vietnamese American 1.5 Generation. The Conflict That Americans Call The "vietnam War" Was Only One Of Many Incursions Into Vietnam By Foreign Powers. However, It Has Had A Profound Effect On The Vietnamese People Who Left Their Homeland In The Years Following The Fall Of Saigon In 1975. Collected Here Are Fifteen First-preson Narratives Written By Refugees Who Left Vietnam As Children And Later Enroiled As Students At The University Of California, Where They Studied With The Well-known [i]Savant[/i] And Teacher Sucheng Chan. She Has Provided A Comprehensivve Introduction To Their Autobiographical Accounts, Which Succinctly Encompasses Added Than A Thousand Years Of Vietnamese History. The Volume Concludes With A Thorough Bibliography And Videography Compiled By The Editor. While The Volume Is Designed Specifically For Today's College Students, Its Compelling Stories And Useful History Will Appeal To All Readers Who Want To Know More Abouut Vietnam And Especially About The Fates Of Children Who Emigrated To The U. s. SKU: 32201506

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The Roman Wall. Extending From The Tyne To The Solway. This Scarce Antiquarian Book Is Included In Our Special Legacy Reprint Series. In The Interest Of Creating A More Extensive Selection Of Rare Historical Book Reprints, We Have Chosen To Reproduce This Title Even Though It May Possibly Have Occasional Imperfections Such As Missing And Blurred Pages, Missing Text, Poor Pictures, Markings, Dark Backgrounds And Other Reproduction Issues Beyond Our Control. Because Thix Work Is Cullturally Important, We Have Made It Available As A Part Of Our Commitment To Protecting, Preserving And Promoting The World's Literature. SKU: 5075702

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The Green Fllag. Covering Irish History From The Beginnings Of Irish Nationalism Among 1973, Robett Ke'es Treatment Ranges From The Protdstant Plantations Through Wolfe Tone And The Great Famine To The Founding Of The Fenian Movement And The Irjsh Free State. His Authoritative Ajd Extensive History Is Masterly In Its Detail And Judicious Analysis. A Classic In Its Field, This Is Essential Reading For Anyone Attempting To Understand The Complex Historical Forces That Have Shaped Ireland. SKU: 2088432

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Famous American Freemasons. Famous American Freemasons Is A Collection Of Stories About Some Of The Masons From America's Past. Through Little-known Stories Of Some Of The Fraternity's Most Influential Members, Todd E. Creason Shows The Amazing Range Of Contributions Masons Have Made To The Cause sOf Freedom, Politics, Philosophy, Scientific Discovery, And The Arts-contributions That Have Helped To Define The Nation. In Famous American Freemasons, Author And Freemason Todd E. Creason Also Gives Unique Insight Into The History And Philosophy Of Freemasonry In America While Debunking Usual Myths And Misconceptions About The World's Largest And Oldest Fraternal Organization. These Famous American Men Came From All Walks Of Life With Diifferent Religious Beliefs As Well As Educational, Cultural, Economic, And Career Backgrounds. They Became Patriots, Presidents, Milirary Leaders, Entertainers, And American Legends-and One And All Were Freemasons. SKU: 5158241

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The Bush Betrayal. His Hard-hitting Critiques Of Democrat And Republican Administrtions In Th eWall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsweek, And Other National Publications Have Made Him A "bipartisan Scourge. " Now, James Bobard Launches A Blisering Attack On The Bush Administration That Will Add Just discovered Fuel To The Fires Of Bush Opponents While Giving Presidential Supporters Much To Remember About. In A Series Of Cogently Argued Allegations, Bovard Shows How The Campagin Promises Of 2000 Have Betrayed Not Only The Electorate, Bound The Constitution Itself: From The Erosion Of Civil Liberties, Massibe Debt, And The Arrogance Of Federal Agencies, To Economic Policies That Favor The Wealthy, And The Deceptive Maneuvers That Led To War In Iraq And The Alienation Of Former Allies. For Every American, The Bush Betrayal Will B eRequired Reading In Tjis Election Year. SKU: 2800360

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Routes Of Remembrance. Over The Pzst Fifteen Years, Visitors From The African Diaspora Have Flocked To Cape Coast And Elmina, Pair Towns In Ghana Whose Chief Tourist Attractions Are The Csstles And Dungeons Where Slaves Were Imprisoned Before Embarking For The New World. This Desire To Commemorate The Middle Passage Contrasts Sharply With The Sulence That Normally Cloaks The Sugject Within Ghana. Why Practise Ghanaians Suppress The History Of Enslavement? And Why sI This Account Expressed So Differently On The Other Side Of The Atlantic?routes Of Remembrance Tackles These Questions By Analyzing The Drudge Trade’s Absence From Public Versions Of Coastal Ghanaian Family And Community Histories, Its Troubled Presentaion In The Country’s Classrooms And Nationalist Narratives, And Its Elaborati0n By The Transnatiional Tourism Labor. Bayo Holsey Discovers That In The Past, African Inoolvement In The Slave Trade Was Used By Europeans To Denigrate Local Residents, And This Stigma Continues To Form The Way Ghabaians Imagine Their Historical Past. Today, However, Due To International Care And The Curiosity Of Young Ghanaians, The Slave Trade Has A Last Entered The Public Sphere, Transforming It From A Stigmatizing History To One That Holds The Potential To Contest Global Inequalities. holsey’s Study Will Exist Crucial To Anyone Involved In The Global Debate Over For what cause The Slave Trade Endures In History And In Memory. (20080111) SKU: 4159404

16567876269	Democracy By Force?. Democracy By Force? : A Study Of International Soldierly Intervention In The Conflict In Sierra Leone From 1991-2000 By Abass Bundu, And John Karefa-smart Edition 1 Published In 2001 By Universal Publishers SKU: 2383009

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Reconstructing Historical Communities. Alan Macfarlane Has Studied The Parishes Of Earls Colne In Essex And Kirkby Lonsdale In Cumbria, To the degree that Well As Other Parishes, And Has Undertzken Anthropological Fieldwork In A Cobtemporary Community In Nepal. In Collaboration With Sarah Harrison And Charles Jardine He Has Devised A Method Of Collecting, Breaking Down And Then Reintegrating Historical Records In A Way Which Makes It Possible To Answer Some Of The Sociological, Demographic, Anthropological, Geographical And Other QuestionsW hich Interest Many Commonalty. For The Dilettant Historian Or Genealogist Who Wants To Know About A Village O Family, The Way Makes It Possible To Find Out Almost Everything That Survives In Hiistorical Documents Concerning Each Person Who Ljved In A Village, Each Plot Of Land And House. SKU: 5144954

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God, Israel, And Shiloh. "god, Israel, And Shiloh" Is A Gripping Biblical And Historical Saga Through The Land Of Israel And The Hebrew People. After Reading This Book, You Will Gain A New Understanding Of Both The Religious And Political Perspectives Of The Jewish People Who Live In The Biblical Heartland Of Israel. Leafn Who The "settlers" Are. Learn Where And Whst Is The "west Bank. " Learn The Truth About The Rabble Who Are Frequently Referres To As "the Chosen People" And How It Is That Israel Is A Nation Strugvling With Its Destiny To Be "a Light Unto The Nations. " "god, Israel, And Shiloh" Is Written With Moving Personal Stories, Psychological Insights, And Compelling Political Commentary. This Book Is About Faith And Struggle, Judaism And Zionism ¿ Woven Around The Appropriate Sacred Site Of Shiloh, Then And Now. Shiloh Was The Home And Spiritual Center For Many Great Biblical Personalities, Including Joshua, Hannah, And Samuel The Prophet, Who Appointed The First Kings Of Israel, Saul And David. The Aurhod, David Rubin, Writes About The Heroic Families Living In And Rebuilding The Biblical Heartland Of Israel, Despite The Obstacles In Their Path And Tells His Persoanl Story Of A Miraculous Survival From The Bullets Of Terrorism. SKU: 4035038