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 Kyoto - An Urban History of Japans Premodern Capital 
 Kyoto - An Urban History of Japans Premodern Capital Author: Matthew Stavros University of Hawai‘i Press 2014 ISBN: 0824838793 Format: pdf Pages: 258 Size: 3 mb Language: English Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital explores Kyoto’s urban landscape across eight centuries, beginning with the city's foundation in 794 and concluding at the dawn of the early modern era in about 1600. Richly illustrated with original maps and diagrams, this panoramic examination of space and architecture narrates a history of Japan’s premodern capital in a way useful to students and scholars of institutional history, material culture, art history, religion, and urban planning. Japan specialists are introduced to new ways of thinking about old historical problems while readers interested more broadly in the architecture and urban planning of East Asia will benefit from a novel approach that synthesizes textual, pictorial, and archeological sources.
The Blockade - Runners and Raiders
 Author: Collective The Blockade - Runners and Raiders (The Civil War Series) Time Life Books 1983 Format: PDF Pages: 182 Language: English Size: 28.8 MB This volume in the Time-Life Civil War series looks at the naval aspects of the conflict, When the war began the United States Navy was in poor shape and the Confederate States Navy nonexistent. The directions pursued by each sides' naval forces reflected their strengths: the North initiated and enforced the Blockade since the Union had more vessels, shipbuilding facilities and seamen than the South. The South in turn relied upon blockade runners to bring in vital supplies and employed privateers initially and commerce raiders later to seek out and sink Federal cargo ships, interfering with U.S. trade. Both sides used ironclads, the predecessors to modern battleships.
Hunters of the Northern Forest
 Hunters of the Northern Forest Author:Editors of :Time-Life Books Cahners Business Information, Inc THE AMERICAM INDIANS 1995 Language:English Format:pdf Size:34 mb Pages:184 The editors of Time-Life Books have produced another exciting series: American Indians. The Hunters of the Northern Forest are brought to you in extraordinary detail through vivid photography and engaging, informative text
Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789
 Author: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789 (Cambridge History of Europe), 2d edition Cambridge University Press 2013 Format: PDF Size: 12.9 Mb Language: English The second edition of this best-selling textbook is thoroughly updated to include expanded coverage of the late eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, and incorporates recent advances in gender history, global connections and cultural analysis. It features summaries, timelines, maps, illustrations and discussion questions to support the student. Enhanced online content and sections on sources and methodology give students the tools they need to study early modern European history. Leading historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks skilfully balances breadth and depth of coverage to create a strong narrative, paying particular attention to the global context of European developments. She integrates discussion of gender, class, regional and ethnic differences across the entirety of Europe and its overseas colonies as well as the economic, political, religious and cultural history of the period.
Great Ages of Man - Historic India
 Author: Lucille Schulberg Great Ages of Man - Historic India Time-Life Books 1968 Format: PDF Pages: 200 Language: English Size: 25.7 MB The genius of India, said Jawaharlal Nehru, consists of synthesis. This book, a broad survey of Indian history and culture from the Third Millennium B,C. to the 17th Century A.D., bears witness to the keenness of Nehru's generalization. In words and pictures, this book shows how the synthesizing process flowered into a varied and creative civilization.
Essential Modern World History: Student's Book
 Essential Modern World History: Student's Book Author: Ben Walsh Hodder Murray History in Focus 2002 ISBN: 0719577152 Pages: 240 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 137 MB Provide complete support for your GCSE Modern World History candidates with best-selling books and digital resources from an author you can really trust. An accessible textbook covering the heartland of Modern World History, including World War I, Nazi Germany, International Relations between 1919 and 1939, World War II, and the Cold War. It is suitable for pupils studying Modern World History for GCSE, IGCSE or S Grade or international syllabuses. Essential Modern World History is: - Manageable - each topic is refined to its essentials and memorable key ideas - Practical- each topic has accessible and practical activities to help students think through the key ideas - Motivating - the author uses interesting case studies of real people to bring the topics to life.
World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II
 Author: Hugh Thomas World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II Allen Lane ISBN: 1846140838 2014 Format: PDF Size: 80,9 МБ Language: English Pages: 496 Following Rivers of Gold and The Golden Age, World Without End is the conclusion of a magisterial three-volume history of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas, its foremost worldwide authority World Without End is the climax of Hugh Thomas's great history of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. It describes the conquest of Paraguay and the River Plate, of the Yucatan in Mexico, the only partial conquest of Chile, and battles with the French over Florida, and then, in the 1580s, the extraordinary projection of Spanish power across the Pacific to conquer the Philippines. More significantly, it describes how the Spanish ran the greatest empire the world had seen since Rome - as well as conquistadores, the book is people with viceroys, judges, nobles, bishops, inquisitors and administrators of many different kinds, often in conflict with one another, seeking to organise the native populations into towns, to build cathedrals, hospitals and universities. Behind them - sometimes ahead of them - came the religious orders, the Franciscans, Dominicans, Augustinians, and finally the Jesuits, builders of convents and monasteries, many of them of astonishing beauty, and reminders of the pervasiveness of religion and the self-confidence of the age. Towering above them all, though moving rarely from the palace of the Escorial outside Madrid, is the figure of King Philip II, the central figure in the book. The Venetian ambassador thought him 'the arbiter of the world'. Once the Philippines had been consolidated, Philip's advisors contemplated an invasion of China: the Jesuit Father Sanchez called it 'the greatest enterprise which has ever been proposed to any monarch in the world'. It was an enterprise never undertaken, but never explicitly abandoned. Was it a great or a terrible empire? In contrast to other empire builders, the Spaniards entered upon arguments with each other about their right to rule other peoples, and their ruthlessness was often tempered by humanity.
The American Civil War (1): The War In The East 1861-May 1863 (Essential Histories 4)
 The American Civil War (1): The War In The East 1861-May 1863 (Essential Histories 4) Author: Gary Gallagher Osprey Publishing ISBN: 1841762393 2001 Pages: 96 Format: PDF Size: 7.19МБ Language: English The United States saw long-simmering sectional tensions erupt into fighting at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, in April 1861, beginning what would become the most cataclysmic military struggle in the western world between Waterloo and the First World War. This volume focuses on events in the Virginia theater during the conflict's first two years, highlighting Union and Confederate strengths and weaknesses, leadership and strategy on each side, and the ways in which events on the battlefield influenced politics, diplomacy, and debates about emancipation. Osprey Essential Histories are complete yet concise studies of each major conflict in history.
Colonial America: A History to 1763, 4th Edition
 Author: Richard Middleton, Anne Lombard Colonial America: A History to 1763, 4th Edition Wiley Blackwell 2011 ISBN: 1405190043 Format: EPUB Size: 13,0 МБ Language: English Pages: 624 Colonial America: A History to 1763, 4th Edition provides updated and revised coverage of the background, founding, and development of the thirteen English North American colonies. Fully revised and expanded fourth edition, with updated bibliography Includes new coverage of the simultaneous development of French, Spanish, and Dutch colonies in North America, and extensively re-written and updated chapters on families and women Features enhanced coverage of the English colony of Barbados and trans-Atlantic influences on colonial development Provides a greater focus on the perspectives of Native Americans and their influences in shaping the development of the colonies
Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe
 Author: Peter Burke Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe Harpercollins College Div 1978 Pages: 365 Format: PDF Language : English Size: 40 mb Quality: Good Long neglected by historians, the concept of cultural history has in the last few decades come to the fore of historical research into early modern Europe. Due in no small part to the pioneering work of Peter Burke, the tools of the cultural historian are now routinely brought to bear on every aspect of history, and have transformed our understanding of the past.First published in 1978, this study examines the broad sweep of pre-industrial Europe's popular culture. From the world of the professional entertainer to the songs, stories, rituals and plays of ordinary people, it shows how the attitudes and values of the otherwise inarticulate shaped - and were shaped by - the shifting social, religious and political conditions of European society between 1500 and 1800.This third edition of Peter Burke's groundbreaking study has been published to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the book's publication in 1978. It provides a new introduction reflecting the growth of cultural history, and its increasing influence on 'mainstream' history, as well as an extensive supplementary bibliography which further adds to the information about new research in the area.
Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History
 Author: David Goldfield Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History Louisiana State University Press 2013 ISBN: 0807152153 Format: PDF Size: 7,2 МБ Language: English Pages: 400 This is a probing book about the hold of the past, experienced largely as heritage and memory and not as historical understanding, on a whole region and people. Goldfield treats the Lost Cause with unblinking directness. . . . its main strength: the stress on the weight of memory and its enduring links to white supremacy. David W. Blight, Southern Cultures Drawing on a wide range of sources as well as contemporary reporting, this deftly written historical analysis takes on a difficult topic with passion, sensitivity, and integrity. Publishers Weekly
The Battle of Gettysburg
 Author: Harry W. Pfanz The Battle of Gettysburg Eastern National Park 1994 Format: PDF Pages: 60 Language: English Size: 34 MB The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania between Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point. Union Maj. Gen. George Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's attempt to invade the North.
America's Black Founders: Revolutionary Heroes & Early Leaders with 21 Activities
 Author: Nancy I. Sanders America's Black Founders: Revolutionary Heroes & Early Leaders with 21 Activities (For Kids series) Chicago Review Press 2010 Format: PDF Size: 17.66 Mb Language: English Age 9 and up History books are replete with heroic stories of Washington, Jefferson, and Adams, but what of Allen, Russwurm, and Hawley? America’s Black Founders celebrates the lesser known but significant lives and contributions of our nation’s early African American leaders. Many know that the Revolutionary War’s first martyr, Crispus Attucks, a dockworker of African descent, was killed at the Boston Massacre. But far fewer know that the final conflict of the war, the Battle of Yorktown, was hastened to a conclusion by James Armistead Lafayette, a slave and spy who reported the battle plans of General Cornwallis to George Washington. Author Nancy Sanders weaves the histories of dozens of men and women—soldiers, sailors, ministers, poets, merchants, doctors, and other community leaders—who have earned proper recognition among the founders of the United States of America. To get a better sense of what these individuals accomplished and the times in which they lived, readers will celebrate Constitution Day, cook colonial foods, publish a newspaper, petition their government, and more. This valuable resource also includes a time line of significant events, a list of historic sites to visit or explore online, and Web resources for further study.
The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain
 The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain Cambridge University Press 2004 ISBN: 1542 Format: PDF Language: English Size: 35,32 mb Roderick Floud, Paul Johnson, "The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain, Volume 1: Industrialisation, 1700–1860" Roderick Floud, Paul Johnson, "The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain: Volume 2: Economic Maturity, 1860–1939" Roderick Floud, Paul Johnson, "The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain: Volume 3: Structural Change and Growth, 1939–2000"
The Sailing Navy, 1775-1854
 The Sailing Navy, 1775-1854 (The U.S. Navy Warship Series) Author: Paul Silverstone Routledge ISBN: 0415978726 2006 Pages: 122 Format: PDF Size: 5.16МБ Language: English The Sailing Navy, 1775-1854, the first volume in the definitive five-volume U.S. Navy Warship series, comprehensively details all aspects of the ships that sailed in the nascent stages of the U.S. Navy. From its beginnings as battlers of Barbary Coast pirates, to challenging the awesome might of the Royal Navy in the War of 1812, to the historic blockade that proved instrumental in winning the Mexican-American War, the sailing ships foreshadowed the daring and resolve of the later U.S. Navy. With its all-inclusive lists of data, The Sailing Navy is the most in-depth resource available on the ships that shaped the early history of the U.S. Navy.
American History
 Author: Collective American History Cowans Auctions 2014 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 184 Size: 21 Mb Language: English
Going to War in the 18th Century
 Author: Paul Cooper Going to War in the 18th Century (Armies of the Past) Franklin Watts 2001 Format: PDF Pages: 40 Language: English Size: 23.8 MB This is an excellent introductory book. It consists of twelve double-page sections, which are: 18th-century wars, Recruiting, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, Special duties, The American Revolution, Forts and sieges, Tactics, Life in camp, Life in the Navy, After the battle, with a Glossary and Index. Each section is excellently illustrated.
Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648
 Author: Mark Greengrass Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648 (Penguin History of Europe) Viking Adult 2014 Format: epub Size: 21.8 Mb Language: English A remarkable new volume in the critically acclaimed Penguin History of Europe series From peasants to princes, no one was untouched by the spiritual and intellectual upheaval of the sixteenth century. Martin Luther’s challenge to church authority forced Christians to examine their beliefs in ways that shook the foundations of their religion. The subsequent divisions, fed by dynastic rivalries and military changes, fundamentally altered the relations between ruler and ruled. Geographical and scientific discoveries challenged the unity of Christendom as a belief community. Europe, with all its divisions, emerged instead as a geographical projection. Chronicling these dramatic changes, Thomas More, Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Cervantes created works that continue to resonate with us. Spanning the years 1517 to 1648, Christendom Destroyed is Mark Greengrass’s magnum opus: a rich tapestry that fosters a deeper understanding of Europe’s identity today.
Britain's Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt
 Britain's Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt Author: Richard Gott Verso 2011 Pages: 576 Format: PDF Size: 7 Mb Language: English Magisterial history of the foundation of the British empire, and the forgotten story of resistance to its formation. This revelatory new history punctures the still widely held belief that the British Empire was an enlightened and civilizing enterprise of great benefit to its subject peoples. Instead, Britain’s Empire reveals a history of systemic repression and almost continual violence, showing how British rule was imposed as a military operation and maintained as a military dictatorship. For colonized peoples, the experience was a horrific one—of slavery, famine, battle and extermination.
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