Old Is Gold
-
The New Knights: The Development of Cavalry in Western Europe, 1562-1700From the middle of the 16th century to the early years of the 18th century, cavalry experienced significant changes in doctrine, deployment, and the equipment it used. The Men-at-Arms, carrying lances and arranged in large formations, were replaced by more lightly-armed cavalrymen fighting with...
- $135.78 AUD
- $135.78 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Like a Brazen Wall: The Battle of Minden, 1759, and Its Place in the Seven Years WarThe Battle of Minden is justifiably celebrated by the British infantry and artillery regiments involved, but it was a close-run affair. Like a Brazen Wall echoes that celebration, but also sets a fresh balance: appropriately applauding, where due, the dash and élan of the...
- $135.78 AUD
- $135.78 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
We Came, We Saw, God Conquered: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth's Military Effort in the Relief of Vienna, 1683Previous Polish experience from the war against Ottoman Turks in 1672-1676 made their contribution vital for coalition war effort in 1683. No surprise then, that Sobieski was chosen as commander of joint forces and that Poles deployed on ancient place of honor in army...
- $135.78 AUD
- $135.78 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
For God and King: A History of the Damas Legion (1793-1798): A Case Study of the Military Emigration During the French RevolutionThe émigrés who left, or were driven from, Revolutionary France included a large part of the officer corps of the former royal army. Joined by others who wished to fight for the restitution of the monarchy in their homeland, these officers soon served this...
- $135.78 AUD
- $135.78 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Army of the Kingdom of Italy, 1805-1814: Uniforms, Organization, CampaignsAs well as being Emperor of the French it is often forgotten, or simply overlooked, that Napoleon was also King of Italy - a state that essentially comprised all Italy north of the Kingdom of Naples. The Army of the Kingdom of Italy fought...
- $135.78 AUD
- $135.78 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Spanish Navy in the War of 1898The Spanish American War of 1898 is a significant conflict. It marked a milestone in the development of the United States as a global power. It had long lasting effects for the peoples of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, as they moved from...
- $135.78 AUD
- $135.78 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751Writers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries--a period of vast economic change--recognized that the global trade in alcohol and tobacco promised a brighter financial future for England, even as overindulgence at home posed serious moral pitfalls. This engaging and original study explores...
- $135.73 AUD
- $135.73 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Print CulturesThe study of nineteenth-century American literature has long been tied up with the study of American democracy. Just as some regions in the United States are elevated to stand in for the whole nation--New England is a good example--D. Berton Emerson argues the same...
- $135.73 AUD
- $135.73 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Black Culture and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt EraIn the 1930s, the Roosevelt administration--unwilling to antagonize a powerful southern congressional bloc--refused to endorse legislation that openly sought to improve political, economic, and social conditions for African Americans. Instead, as historian Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff shows, the administration recognized and celebrated African Americans by...
- $135.73 AUD
- $135.73 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Charm Offensive: Commodifying Femininity in Postwar FranceThis book examines the many forces that shaped postwar French femininity as a desirable commodity, both within France and around the world.Author: Kelly Ricciardi ColvinPublisher: University of Toronto PressPublished: 03/27/2023Pages: 242Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.71dISBN: 9781487525828
- $135.73 AUD
- $135.73 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Space, Drama, and Empire: Mapping the Past in Lope de Vega's ComediaSpanish poet, playwright, and novelist Félix Lope de Vega (1562-1635) was a key figure of Golden Age Spanish literature, second only in stature to Cervantes, and is considered the founder of Spain's classical theater. In this rich and informative study, Javier Lorenzo investigates the...
- $135.73 AUD
- $135.73 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Aint Got No Home: America's Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial LeftMost scholarship on the mass migrations of African Americans and southern whites during and after the Great Depression treats those migrations as separate phenomena, strictly divided along racial lines. In this engaging interdisciplinary work, Erin Royston Battat argues instead that we should understand these...
- $135.73 AUD
- $135.73 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Framing Chief Leschi: Narratives and the Politics of Historical JusticeIn 1855 in the South Puget Sound, war broke out between Washington settlers and Nisqually Indians. A party of militiamen traveling through Nisqually country was ambushed, and two men were shot from behind and fatally wounded. After the war, Chief Leschi, a Nisqually leader,...
- $135.73 AUD
- $135.73 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Richmond Theater Fire: Early America's First Great DisasterOn the day after Christmas in 1811, the state of Virginia lost its governor and almost one hundred citizens in a devastating nighttime fire that consumed a Richmond playhouse. During the second act of a melodramatic tale of bandits, ghosts, and murder, a small...
- $135.73 AUD
- $135.73 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth CenturyThe Aesthetics of Kinship intervenes critically into rigidified discourses about the emergence of the nuclear family and the corresponding interior subject in the eighteenth century. By focusing on kinship constellations instead of "family plots" in seminal literary works of the period, this book presents...
- $135.73 AUD
- $135.73 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Cuban Revolution in America: Havana and the Making of a United States Left, 1968-1992Cuba's grassroots revolution prevailed on America's doorstep in 1959, fueling intense interest within the multiracial American Left even as it provoked a backlash from the U.S. political establishment. In this groundbreaking book, historian Teishan A. Latner contends that in the era of decolonization, the...
- $135.73 AUD
- $135.73 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940In this classic study of the relationship between technology and culture, Miles Orvell demonstrates that the roots of contemporary popular culture reach back to the Victorian era, when mechanical replications of familiar objects reigned supreme and realism dominated artistic representation. Reacting against this genteel...
- $135.73 AUD
- $135.73 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Cords of Affection: Constructing Constitutional Union in Early American HistoryIn Cords of Affection: Constructing Constitutional Union in Early American History Emily Pears investigates efforts by the founding generation's leadership to construct and strengthen political attachments in and among the citizens of the new republic. These emotional connections between citizens and their institutions were...
- $135.73 AUD
- $135.73 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
From Presidio to the Pecos River: Surveying the United States-Mexico Boundary Along the Rio Grande, 1852 and 1853The 1848 treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican-American War described a boundary between the two countries that was to be ascertained by a joint boundary commission effort. The section of the boundary along the Rio Grande from Presidio to the mouth of...
- $135.73 AUD
- $135.73 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980sIn this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens our understanding of historical transformations in African American class and labor formation. Built on the goals, organization, and momentum of earlier struggles for...
- $135.73 AUD
- $135.73 AUD
- Unit price
- per