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They Came Only to Die: The Battle of Nashville, December 15-16, 1864The November 1864 battle of Franklin left the Army of Tennessee stunned. In only a few hours, the army lost 6,000 men and a score of generals. Rather than pause, John Bell Hood marched his army north to Nashville. He had risked everything on...
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Everyday Life in Traditional JapanEveryday Life in Traditional Japan paints a vivid portrait of Tokugawa Japan, a time when contact with the outside world was deliberately avoided, and the daily life of the different classes consolidated the traditions that shaped modern Japan. With detailed descriptions and over 100...
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The Chicago World's Fair of 1893: A Photographic RecordOriginally conceived to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America, the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 was one of the largest (633 acres) and most influential aggregations of human talent, energy, and industry ever assembled. More than 27 million visitors entered the...
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To the Last Extremity: The Battles for Charleston, 1776-1782June 1776: Just a month before America declared its independence from Great Britain, a British fleet of warships and thousands of British soldiers appeared off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina. Following a brutal day-long battle, the most powerful navy in the world was...
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Queen Victoria and the Romanovs: Sixty Years of Mutual DistrustAlexander III called Victoria 'a pampered, sentimental, selfish old woman, ' while to her he was a sovereign whom she could not regard as a gentleman. But the Queen's son and two of her granddaughters married Romanovs. Despite their frequent visits to England, Queen...
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Essential Documents of American History, Volume I: From Colonial Times to the Civil WarThis compact volume offers a broad selection of the most important documents in American history: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Emancipation Proclamation as well as presidential speeches, Supreme Court decisions, Acts and Declarations of Congress, essays, letters, and much more. The...
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Whole World in an Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression - 1955-1972How the radical music of the 1960s was birthed amid unprecedented upheaval and systemic repression. Seventy years since the radical music of the 1960s first hit the airwaves, the anthems of the era continue to resonate with our current times. Through studying these musicians...
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Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism and the Creation of IsraelIt is now more than seventy years since the creation of the state of Israel, yet its origins and the British Empire's historic responsibility for Palestine remain little known. Confusion persists too as to the distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. In Legacy of Empire,...
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Light on the Prairie: Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska's Pioneer DaysOnce President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862, which granted 160 acres of free land to anyone with the grit to farm it for five years, the rush to the Great Plains was on. Solomon D. Butcher was there to document it, amassing...
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The Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red MoscowCan a drop of perfume tell the story of the twentieth century? Can a smell bear the traces of history? What can we learn about the history of the twentieth century by examining the fate of perfumes? In this remarkable book, Karl Schlögel unravels...
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The Berlin Airlift: A New History of the Cold War's Decisive Relief OperationAcclaimed historian Barry Turner presents a new history of the Cold War's defining episode. Berlin, 1948 - a divided city in a divided country in a divided Europe. The ruined German capital lay 120 miles inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. Stalin wanted the Allies out;...
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Stay and Fight It Out: The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, Culp's Hill and the North End of the BattlefieldJuly 1, 1863, had gone poorly for the Union army's XI Corps. Shattered in battle north of the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg, the battered and embarrassed unit ended the day hunkered at the crest of a cemetery-topped hill south of the village. Reinforcements fortified...
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Doc HollidayJohn Myers Myers has written Doc's story with a skill that matches the sureness of a bullet from Doc's gun.-Dallas Times Herald. As for the general reader, he'll eat this up and beg for more.-San Francisco Chronicle.Author: John Myers MyersPublisher: Bison BooksPublished: 08/01/1973Pages: 224Binding...
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The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Making of the Modern World 1776-1914Gavin Weightman's sweeping history of the industrial revolution shows how, in less than one hundred and fifty years, an unlikely band of scientists, spies, entrepreneurs, and political refugees took a world made of wood and powered by animals, wind, and water, and made it...
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Providence Lost: The Rise & Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate'A compelling and wry narrative of one of the most intellectually thrilling eras of British history' Guardian.***************** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 England, 1651. Oliver Cromwell has defeated his royalist opponents in two civil wars, executed the Stuart king Charles I, laid...
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Cow PeopleCow People records the fading memories of a bygone Texas, the reminiscences of the cow people themselves. These are the Texans of the don't-fence-me-in era, their faces pinched by years of squinting into the desert glare, tanned by the sun and coarsened by the...
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Journal of a Trapper: In the Rocky Mountains Between 1834 and 1843; Comprising a General Description of the Country, Climate, Rivers, Lakes,This title focuses on major hazards to safety and interruption of production due to plant or processing hazards and how to balance safety concerns with plant performance. This book offers a reference for the engineer and plant or project manager to make decisions affecting...
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The Naval War of 1812: A Complete HistoryAlthough only 23 years old at the time of publication, Theodore Roosevelt made his mark as a military scholar with this detailed analysis of naval combat between the United States and Great Britain from 1812-15. Engagingly written and comprehensively researched, The Naval War of...
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Lbj's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales: political, military, economic, social, cultural. In the United States, perhaps no one was more undone by the events of 1968 than President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Kyle Longley leads his readers on a...
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The Last Outfitting Station on the Missouri River: 1864 to 1866 Wyoming, NT & the Nebraska City Cut-Off TrailBetween 1864 and 1866, thousands of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints left their homelands in Europe and South Africa for the desolate deserts of Utah Territory, which they hoped would be their Zion. Church leaders had supported gathering to...
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