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 Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes 
 Author: Carl Waldman, Molly Braun Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes Ch.ckmark Books 2006 368 Format: Pdf Size: 5 MB Language: English A comprehensive reference work discussing more than 150 Indian tribes of all North America, as well as prehistoric peoples civilizations. Organized alphabetically by tribe, the informative but accessible text summarizes the historical record locations, migrations, contacts with whites, wars, etc. Also covers Indian lifeways, including language families, means of subsistence, houses, boats, tools, clothing, art, legends, rituals. Over 250 beautifully detailed, original color illustrations enhance the text, 11 maps show the various Indian culture areas plus tribal locations, providing a helpful frame of reference. Glossary. Bibliography.
Imagining Sex: Pornography and Bodies in Seventeenth-Century England
 Imagining Sex: Pornography and Bodies in Seventeenth-Century England Author: Sarah Toulalan Oxford University Press Inc. 2007 Pages: 334 Format: PDF Size: 6 Mb Language: English Imagining Sex is a study of pornographic writing in seventeenth-century England. It explores a wide variety of written material from the period to argue that, unlike today, pornography was not a discrete genre, nor was it one that was usually subject at this time to suppression. Pornographic writing was a widespread feature of a range of texts, including both popular literature (ballads, news-sheets, court reports, small books, and pamphlets) as well as poetry, drama and more specialised medical books.
Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire
 Author: C.A.Bayly Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire (7th edition) Cambridge University Press 2003 Format: PDF Size: 25 Mb Language: English This volume provides a synthesis of some of the most important themes to emerge from the recent proliferation of specialized scholarship on the period of India's transition to colonialism and seeks to reassess the role of Indians in the politics and economics of early colonialism. It discusses new views of the "decline of the Mughals" and the role of the Indian capitalists in the expansion of the English East India Company's trade and urban settlements. It considers the reasons for the inability of indigenous states to withstand the British, but also highlights the relative failure of the Company to transform India into a quiescent and profitable colony. Finally it deals with changes in India's ecology, social organization, and ideologies in the early nineteenth century, and the nature of Indian resistance to colonialism, including the Rebellion of 1857.
Gardens of a Chinese Emperor: Imperial Creations of the Qianlong Era, 1736-1796
 Author: Victoria M. Siu Gardens of a Chinese Emperor: Imperial Creations of the Qianlong Era, 1736-1796 Lehigh University Press 2013 Format: PDF Size: 13.6 Mb Language: English The Garden of Perfect Brightness (Yuanming Yuan) in the western suburbs of the Qing capital, Beijing, was begun by the great Kangxi (r. 1661–1722) and expanded by his son, Yongzheng (r. 1722–1735) and brought to its greatest glory by his grandson, Qianlong (r. 1736–1796). A lover of literature and art, Qinglong sought an earthly reflection of his greatness in his Yuanming Yuan. For many years he designed and directed an elaborate program of garden arrangements. Representing two generations of painstaking research, this book follows the emperor as he ruled his empire from within his garden. In a landscape of lush plants, artificial mountains and lakes, and colorful buildings, he sought to represent his wealth and power to his diverse subjects and to the world at large. Having been looted and burned in the mid-nineteenth century by western forces, it now lies mostly in ruins, but it was the world’s most elaborate garden in the eighteenth century. The garden suggested a whole set of concepts—religious, philosophical, political, artistic, and popular—represented in landscape and architecture. Just as bonsai portrays a garden in miniature, the imperial Yuanming Yuan at the height of its splendor represented the Qing Empire in microcosm.
The Navy That Beat Napoleon
 Author: Walter D. Brownlee The Navy That Beat Napoleon Lerner Publications Company/Cambridge University Press 1982 Format: PDF Pages: 58 Language: English Size: 27.6 MB Describes ships, men, and main strategies and campaigns of the British Royal Navy that defeated the French in the Napoleonic Wars.
Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America
 Author: Giles Milton Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000 Format: pdf/epub Size: 16.9 Mb Language: English In April, 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of Native Americans, "savages," had made her their weroanza-a word that meant "big chief." The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and by her favorite, Sir Walter Ralegh. His first American expedition had brought back a captive, Manteo, whose tattoed face and otter-skin cloak had caused a sensation in Elizabethan London. In 1857, Manteo was returned to his homeland as Lord and Governor, along with more than 100 English men, women and children.In 1590, a supply ship arrived at the colony to discover that the settlers had vanished. For almost twenty years the fate of Ralegh's colonists was to remain a mystery. When a new wave of settlers sailed to America to found Jamestown, their efforts to locate the lost colony were frustrated by the mighty chieftain, Powhatan, father of Pocahontas, who vowed to drive the English out of America. Only when it was too late did the settlers discover the incredible news that Ralegh's colonists had survived in the forests for almost two decades before being slaughtered in cold blood by Powhatan's henchmen. While Sir Walter Ralegh's "savage" had played a pivotal role in establishing the first English settlement in America, he had also unwittingly contributed to one of the earliest chapters in the decimation of the Native American population.
The Crimean War: A Russian Chronicle
 Author: Seaton Albert The Crimean War: A Russian Chronicle London: B.T. Batsford Ltd 1977 Format: pdf Size: 128 mb Language: English Military history is often seen from one point of view, and this is especially true of the Crimean War where the 'Charge of the Light Brigade' and Florence Nightingale are, for English speakers, the focal points. This account looks down different gunsights—Russian—and re-constructs events as they saw and expressed them in their letters, diaries, despatches, orders, and eye-witness accounts. Albert Seaton, having first set the diplomatic and political scene and having described the make-up, training and equipment of the Russian armies goes on to bring to life those ferocious battles and sieges—the Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman, Sevasatopol and Chernaia Reka—as experienced by the Russians.
Encyclopedia of Continental Army Units: Battalions, Regiments and Independent Corps
 Author: Fred Anderson Berg Encyclopedia of Continental Army Units: Battalions, Regiments and Independent Corps Stackpole Books ISBN: 0811705447 1972 Format: PDF Pages: 160 Size: 76 Mb Language: English This book gives the official and unofficial designations, organizational history, commanding officers, and ethnic composition for every unit of the Continental Army for which these facts are known. Discussed in detail are the internal organization of staff departments, infantry, light dragoons, artillery, and rangers. There is a brief organizational history of the Continental Army, estimates of its size at various times compared with British forces, bibliographies, and an index of commanding officers' names. Some notes are provided regarding the state troops.
War Elephants
 Author: John M. Kistler War Elephants Praeger 2005 Format: PDF Size: 60.5 Mb Language: English Elephants have fought in human armies for more than three thousand years. Asian powers boasted of their pachyderm power, while the Romans fielded elephants alongside their legendary legions but were, perhaps, too proud to admit that mere animals contributed to victory. Elephants have gored, stomped, and sliced their way through infantry and cavalry with great success. They have also been cut, speared, bombed, and napalmed for their efforts. This is the story of their largely forgotten role in the history of warfare. Generals throughout recorded history have used elephants as tanks, bulldozers, and cargo trucks long before such vehicles existed. Until gunpowder began to reduce the utility of elephants in battle during the 17th Century, these beasts built roads, swung swords, or simply terrified opposing forces. Although some believe that elephants were mere gimmicks of warfare, Kistler discredits that notion. His book hopes to give elephants the credit they deserve for the sacrifices they have endured. Elephants have long fought for and served human masters, but it is now the elephants themselves that must be protected.
Great Sailing Ships
 Author: Otmar Schäuffelen Great Sailing Ships Adlard Coles 1969 Format: PDF Pages: 288 Language: English Size: 44.7 MB Great Sailing ships: An illustrated encyclopaedia of 150 existing barks, barkentines, brigs, brigantines, frigates, schooners and other large sailing vessels built since 1628.
Time Frame AD 1850-1900 - The Colonial Overlords
 Author: Collective Time Frame AD 1850-1900 - The Colonial Overlords Time-Life Books 1990 Format: PDF Pages: 184 Language: English Size: 36.5 MB Reading this series will make your entire study of history much more meaningful and rewarding. It is perfect for anyone who needs an overarching understanding of how the different periods of human history developed and how each period and event relates to the context of the whole. Content: High noon of the Raj Germany's iron chancellor The scramble for Africa The shaping of Australia America divided
The Search for El Dorado
 Author: Collective The Search for El Dorado (Lost Civilizations Series) Time-Life Books 1994 Format: PDF Pages: 176 Language: English Size: 28.5 MB This exploration of the legend of El Dorado is an archaeology lover's gold mine. Progressive versions of the lore surrounding the Gilded Man are intertwined with the often destructive and brutal deeds of numerous expeditions of treasure hunters from Pizarro in 1541 to those in the 20th century. The major focus is directed at another wave of treasure seekers, however--organized archaeological projects trying to reconstruct knowledge about civilizations almost destroyed by greed. Their efforts also led to discoveries of older, pre-Columbian cultures--the Chavin, Moche, Paracas, and Nazca--previously unknown but leaving incredibly rich inheritances with their artistry in pottery making, embroidered textiles, architecture, and geoglyphs. This well-organized study of South American Indian cultures is an effective blend of history and legend--further enhanced by a remarkable collection of photographs of artifacts, ruins, and excavations, plus 16th-century engravings depicting scenes from expeditions and facets of the El Dorado legend. A brief chronology of Indian culture is included, highlighting their major artistic achievements, and an extensive bibliography will tempt the ambitious to explore further. Background knowledge of early exploration of the Americas would enhance appreciation of this fascinating book.
Shenandoah 1864: Sheridan’s Valley Campaign
 Author: Mark Lardas Shenandoah 1864: Sheridan’s Valley Campaign Osprey Publishing Osprey Campaign 274 ISBN: 147280483X 2014 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 98 Size: 10 Mb Language: English For three years of war the Union and the Confederacy had battled over the picturesque Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Nestled between the Blue Ridge Mountains to the east and the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians to the west, the valley served as the granary for the Army of Northern Virginia. It provided bread and beef to feed this shield of the Confederacy and remounts for its cavalry.
Great Ages of Man - Age of Enlightenment
 Author: Peter Gay Great Ages of Man - Age of Enlightenment Time-Life Books 1966 Format: PDF Pages: 200 Language: English Size: 37 MB Content: - Practical philosophers - Religion of rationality - In search of an ideal society - Vogue for sentimentality - Science of man - Men of music - German enlightenment - "New age begins"
The Fall of Napoleon: The Final Betrayal
 Author: David Hamilton-Williams The Fall of Napoleon: The Final Betrayal John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1994 Format: PDF Pages: 392 Language: English Size: 83.7 MB A study of the cause and effects of Napoleon's removal from power and his subsequent murder in 1821. The diplomatic intrigue between Britain, Austria, Russia and Prussia is interwoven with the military campaigns of 1813-15, and the deception which aided in Napoleon's ultimate demise.
Russia's Steppe Frontier: The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800
 Author: Michael Khodarkovsky Russia's Steppe Frontier: The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800 Indiana University Press 2002 Pages: 295 Format: PDF Size: 124 Mb Language: English Anyone familiar with the author’s first book Where Two Worlds Met (1992) must look forward to reading this new volume, which is a comprehensive study of Moscow’s relations with the steppe nomads from the emergence of a Russian empire until the closing of the frontier 300 years later. He will not be disappointed. In the author’s own words, this book is about the transformation of a dangerous frontier into a part of the empire and of its peoples into subjects. Certainly more controversial is his determination to show that Russia was no less a colonial empire than any of the other western powers.
English Costume from the Seventeenth Through the Nineteenth Centuries
 Author: Iris Brooke , James Laver English Costume from the Seventeenth Through the Nineteenth Centuries Dover Publications 2000 Format: PDF Language: English Size: 65 MB Outstanding reference spans 300 years of fashion history — from the extravagant costumes of the Stuart period to such innovations as cycling knickerbockers for late 19th century women. Over 400 illustrations (including 28 plates in full color) provide important details of hair styles, beards, hats, and cravats.
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War 1890-1914
 Author: Barbara W. Tuchman The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War 1890-1914 Random House 2011 Format: EPUB Size: 6,7 МБ Language: English Pages: 608 The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman’s classic histories of the First World War era During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was “heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate.” In The Proud Tower, Barbara W. Tuchman brings the era to vivid life: the decline of the Edwardian aristocracy; the Anarchists of Europe and America; Germany and its self-depicted hero, Richard Strauss; Diaghilev’s Russian ballet and Stravinsky’s music; the Dreyfus Affair; the Peace Conferences in The Hague; and the enthusiasm and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized by the assassination of Jean Jaurès on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close.
Warfare in the Renaissance World
 Author: Paul Brewer Warfare in the Renaissance World (History of Warfare) Raintree Steck-Vaughn Company 1999 Format: PDF Pages: 88 Language: English Size: 14.7 MB Describes the widespread changes in the conduct of war that occurred in the 200 years between the beginning of the sixteenth century and the end of the seventeenth century.
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