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The Routledge History of Women in Europe since 1700
The Routledge History of Women in Europe since 1700 Routledge Author: Deborah Simonton 2006 Pages: 416 Format: PDF Size: 2 mb Language: English The Routledge History of Women in Europe since 1700 is a landmark publication that provides the most coherent overview of woman's role and place in western Europe, spanning the era from the beginning of the eighteenth century until the twentieth century. In this collection of essays, leading women's historians counter the notion of national' histories and provide the insight and perspective of a European approach. Important intellectual, political and economic developments have not respected national boundaries, nor has the story of women's past, or the interplay of gender and culture. The interaction between women, ideology and female agency, the way women engaged with patriarchal and gendered structures and systems, and the way women carved out their identities and spaces within these, informs the writing in this book. For any student of women's studies or European history, The Routledge History of Women in Europe since 1700 will prove an informative addition to their studies.
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American Badges and Insignia
Author: Evans E. Kerrigan American Badges and Insignia The Viking Press 1967 Format: PDF Pages: 310 Language: English Size: 37.6 MB Comprehensive guide covering the period 1776-1967, with over 1100 black and white illustrations by the author make this volume not only a valuable reference work for collectors and veterans, but fascinating reading for all those interested in the diverse facets of military history.
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The British Way in Warfare: Power and the International System, 1856-1956
Author: Keith Neilson The British Way in Warfare: Power and the International System, 1856-1956 Ashgate ISBN: 0754665933 2010 Format: PDF Size: 4,3 МБ Language: English Pages: 358 Adopting twin methodologies, this collection firstly addresses the broad question of Britain's relationship with other great powers and how these influenced the strategies used in warfare, before then testing these with specific case studies.
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Time Frame AD 1600-1700 - Powers of the Crown
Author: Collective Time Frame AD 1600-1700 - Powers of the Crown Time-Life Books 1990 Format: PDF Pages: 184 Language: English Size: 23.8 MB Table of Contents - Tokugawa Japan - China's Manchu overlords - The great shah of Persia - Civil war in England - The rise of the Dutch Republic - Newcomers to the New World.
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The American Story - Settling the West
Author: Collective The American Story - Settling the West Time-Life Books 1996 Format: PDF Pages: 198 Language: English Size: 42.7 MB Covering the period of westward expansion, from 1860 to 1900, an extensively illustrated history describes the settlers, miners, and others who ventured west to seek new lives, capturing the cowboys, gold-seekers, lawmen, outlaws, railroad builders, and others who transformed the American frontier.
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Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Presidents and Their Times
Author: David Rubel Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Presidents and Their Times Scholastic Inc. 1994 Format: PDF Pages: 228 Language: English Size: 48.4 MB In 1789, George Washington became the first president of the United States. More than forty others have followed him. The ninth president, William Henry Harrison, served less than a month. Franklin Roosevelt, the thirty-second president, served for twelve years. During Roosevelt's term, which spanned the Great Depression and World War II, the country changed a great deal. But the same can be said for almost any president. Each president's term in office is usually shaped by important events both inside and and outside the United States.
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Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes
Author: Christopher Hibbert Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes W.W. Norton & Company 1990 Format: PDF Pages: 424 Language: English Size: 63.8 MB The story of this war has usually been told in terms of a conflict between blundering British generals and their rigidly disciplined red-coated troops on the one side and heroic American patriots in their homespun shirts and coonskin caps on the other. In this fresh, compelling narrative, Christopher Hibbert portrays the realities of a war that raged the length of an entire continent—a war that thousands of George Washington's fellow countrymen condemned and that he came close to losing. Based on a wide variety of sources and alive with astute character sketches and eyewitness accounts, Redcoats and Rebels presents a vivid and convincing picture of the "cruel, accursed" war that changed the world forever.
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The War Against Russia, 1854-1856
Author: A. J. Barker The War Against Russia, 1854-1856 Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1971 Format: PDF Pages: 392 Language: English Size: 69.2 MB
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Early American Indian Tribes
Early American Indian Tribes Author: M. Patterson Teacher Created Materials Early America 2008 ISBN: 0743987446 Format: PDF Size: 10 MB Language: English Pages: 24 The American Indian culture consisted of specific customs and traditions that regulated everything from who would lead the tribes to who would marry within the tribes. They kept precise, detailed accounts of their tribal histories because they foresaw the importance of passing down their histories.
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The Turks in Egypt and their Cultural Legacy
Author: Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu The Turks in Egypt and their Cultural Legacy The American University in Cairo Press 2012 Format: PDF Size: 17 Mb Language: English Though Egypt was ruled by Turkish-speakers through most of the period from the ninth century until 1952, the impact of Turkish culture there remains under-studied. This book deals with the period from 1805 to 1952, during which Turkish cultural patterns, spread through reforms based on those of Istanbul, may have touched more Egyptians than ever before. An examination of the books, newspapers, and other written materials produced in Turkish, including translations, and of the presses involved, reveals the rise and decline of Turkish culture in government, the military, education, literature, music, and everyday life. The author also describes the upsurge in Turkish writing generated by Young Turk exiles from 1895 to 1909.
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The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870
Author: Hugh Thomas The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870 Simon & Schuster ISBN: 0684835657 1997 Format: EPUB Size: 40,8 МБ Language: English Pages: 912 After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, he describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures in all of history. Between 1492 and 1870, approximately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses. The Slave Trade is alive with villains and heroes and illuminated by eyewitness accounts. Hugh Thomas's achievement is not only to present a compelling history of the time but to answer as well such controversial questions as who the traders were, the extent of the profits, and why so many African rulers and peoples willingly collaborated. Thomas also movingly describes such accounts as are available from the slaves themselves.
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Mr.Lincoln's Forts: A Guide to the Civil War Defenses of Washington
Author: Benjamin Franklin Cooling III, Walton H. Owen II Mr.Lincoln's Forts: A Guide to the Civil War Defenses of Washington The Scarecrow Press 2010 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 335 Size: 22 Mb Language: English During the American Civil War, Washington, D.C. was the most heavily fortified city in North America. As President Abraham Lincoln's Capital, the city became the symbol of Union determination, as well as a target for Robert E. Lee's Confederates. As a Union army and navy logistical base, it contained a complex of hospitals, storehouses, equipment repair facilities, and animal corrals. These were in addition to other public buildings, small urban areas, and vast open space that constituted the capital on the Potomac. To protect Washington with all it contained and symbolized, the Army constructed a shield of fortifications: 68 enclosed earthen forts, 93 supplemental batteries, miles of military roads, and support structures for commissary, quartermaster, engineer, and civilian labor force, some of which still exist today.
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The American War 1812-1814
Author: Philip R.N.Katcher The American War 1812-1814 (Men-at-Arms 36) Osprey Publishing Ltd 1974 Format: Pdf Size: 13 Mb Language: English
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African Americans in the Civil War (Untold History of the Civil War)
Author: Victor Brooks African Americans in the Civil War (Untold History of the Civil War) Chelsea House Publishers 2000 Format: PDF Pages: 72 Language: English Size: 20 MB Black soldiers' combat experiences fighting in the Union and Confederate Armies were at times vastly different from those of their white counterparts.
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The Seafarers - The Atlantic Crossing
Author: Collective The Seafarers - The Atlantic Crossing Time-Life Books 1981 Format: PDF Pages: 182 Language: English Size: 32.2 MB The editors of Time-Life Books have produced another exciting series: The Seafarers. The Atlantic Crossing is brought to you in extraordinary detail through vivid photography and engaging, informative text. The story of immigration from the Old World to America, starting in the early 1700's through the beginning of the 1900's. Filled with great full color and black and white pictures and maps.
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The Trail of Tears: removal in the south
Author: John P. Bowes. The Trail of Tears: removal in the south. Chelsea House 2007 Format: Pdf Size: 25 Mb Language: English
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Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire
Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire Author: Gabor Agoston, Bruce Masters Facts on File 2008 Pages: 650 Language: English Format: pdf Size: 14.4 Mb Once stretching from Vienna in the north to Iraq and Yemen in the south, the Ottoman Empire has played an integral role in the history of Eurasia and the Middle East. The dynamics and complexity of the present-day Middle East and Balkans cannot be understood without an examination of the history of the Ottoman Empire that ruled these regions for centuries."Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire" provides a thorough overview of the history and civilization of the Ottomans, with approximately 450 A-to-Z entries focusing on major events, personalities, institutions, and terms. With signed articles by experts in the field, this comprehensive one-volume resource also includes essential information regarding imperialism and the emerging Balkan, Arab, and Turkish nationalism; the demise of the empire; and Ottoman legacy in the Balkans and the Middle East. Further readings, approximately 80 black-and-white photographs and maps, cross-references, a chronology, glossary, bibliography, and an index complement the text and give readers an in-depth understanding of the broad and fascinating history of the Ottoman Empire.
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Sino-Japanese Naval War 1894-1895
Author: Piotr Olender Sino-Japanese Naval War 1894-1895 (Maritime Series 3105) Mushroom Model Publications Maritime Series 3105 ISBN: 8363678309 2014 Format: EPUB Pages: 180 Size: 10 Mb Language: English The First Sino–Japanese War (1 August 1894 – 17 April 1895) was fought between Qing Dynasty China and Meiji Japan, primarily over control of Korea. After more than six months of continuous successes by the Japanese army and naval forces, as well as the loss of the Chinese port of Weihai, the Qing leadership sued for peace in February 1895.
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