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A Short History of the Civil War
Author: James L. Stokesbury A Short History of the Civil War William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1995 Format: PDF Pages: 376 Language: English Size: 53.8 MB Written with the same comprehensiveness and in the same eminently readable style as the author's previous short history books, this lucid, objective account of America's Civil War takes readers from Lincoln's election in 1860 and the secession of the Southern states to the ultimate surrender of the Confederate Army at Appomattox in 1865.
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The North American Indians in early photographs
The North American Indians in early photographs Author:Fleming, Paula Richardson and Judith Luskey Dorset 1988 Language:English Format:pdf Size:56 mb Pages:266 Beautiful book full of extraordinary photographs. The three hundred magnificent photographs in this book, taken from the collection at the Smithsonian Institution, offer a unique record of the Indians of North America.
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Naturalists at Sea: Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin
Author: Glyn Williams Naturalists at Sea: Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin Yale University Press 2013 Format: PDF Size: 10.6 Mb Language: English On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the “long eighteenth century,” naturalists for the first time were commonly found aboard ships sailing forth from European ports. Lured by intoxicating opportunities to discover exotic and perhaps lucrative flora and fauna unknown at home, these men set out eagerly to collect and catalogue, study and document an uncharted natural world. This enthralling book is the first to describe the adventures and misadventures, discoveries and dangers of this devoted and sometimes eccentric band of explorer-scholars. Their individual experiences are uniquely their own, but together their stories offer a new perspective on the extraordinary era of Pacific exploration and the achievements of an audacious generation of naturalists. Historian Glyn Williams illuminates the naturalist’s lot aboard ship, where danger alternated with boredom and quarrels with the ship’s commander were the norm. Nor did the naturalist’s difficulties end upon returning home, where recognition for years of work often proved elusive. Peopled with wonderful characters and major figures of Enlightenment science—among them Louis Antoine de Bouganville, Joseph Banks, John Reinhold Forster, Captain Cook, and Charles Darwin—this book is a gripping account of a small group of scientific travelers whose voyages of discovery were to change perceptions of the natural world.
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The Image of Peter the Great in Russian History and Thought
Author: Nicholas V. Riasanovsky The Image of Peter the Great in Russian History and Thought Oxford University Press, USA 1992 352 Format: Pdf Size: 21 MB Language: English he image of Peter the Great casts a long shadow in modern Russian thought and culture. As important to modern Russia as the French Revolution is to France and the Reformation is to Germany, the image of this militaristic ruler, founder of St Petersburg, and czar of all Russia from 1689-1725 has been central to Russian history, literature, and art since the early 1700s. Riasanovsky, one of the foremost historians of Russia, traces the development of this image from 1700 to the present.
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The Picture Gallery of Canadian History Volume 1-3
Author: C. W. Jeffreys The Picture Gallery of Canadian History Volume 1-3 The Ryerson Press 1970 Format: PDF Size: 147.8 Mb Яык: English Dr. C. W. Jefferys was one of Canada's foremost historical artists and his three-volume Picture Gallery of Canadian History is probably his best-known achievement. His hundreds of carefully researched pictures of artifacts, people, places and episodes from Canadian history provide a "treasure house of information about this country's past" Vol.1 - Discovery to 1900 Vol.2 - 1763 to 1830 Vol.3 - 1839 to 1900
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Yorkshire Sieges of the Civil Wars
Author: David Cooke Yorkshire Sieges of the Civil Wars Pen & Sword Military 2011 ISBN: 1844159175 Format: EPUB Size: 18,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 192 Throughout recorded history Yorkshire has been a setting for warfare of all kinds - marches, skirmishes and raids, pitched battles and sieges. And it is the sieges of the Civil War period - which often receive less attention than other forms of combat - that are the focus of David Cooke's new history. Hull, York, Pontefract, Knaresborough, Sandal, Scarborough, Helmsley, Bolton, Skipton - all witnessed notable sieges during the bloody uncertain years of the Civil Wars. His vivid reconstructions allow the reader to visit the castles and towns where sieges took place and stand on the ground where blood was spilt for the cause - for king or Parliament. Using contemporary accounts and a wealth of maps and illustrations, his book allows the reader to follow the course of each siege and sets each operation in the context of the Civil Wars in the North.
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Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico
Author: Hugh Thomas Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico Simon & Schuster ISBN: 0671511041 1995 Format: EPUB Size: 24,8 МБ Language: English Pages: 832 Drawing on newly discovered sources and writing with brilliance, drama, and profound historical insight, Hugh Thomas presents an engrossing narrative of one of the most significant events of Western history. Ringing with the fury of two great empires locked in an epic battle, Conquest captures in extraordinary detail the Mexican and Spanish civilizations and offers unprecedented in-depth portraits of the legendary opponents, Montezuma and Cortés. Conquest is an essential work of history from one of our most gifted historians.
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Wellington and Waterloo: The Duke, The Battle and Posterity, 1815-2015
Author:Foster R.E. Wellington and Waterloo: The Duke, The Battle and Posterity, 1815-2015 Spellmount 2014 Format: pdf Pages: 240 Size: 4 Mb Language: English, English The Battle of Waterloo is a defining moment in European history that has been immortalised in literature and art for generations. This is the first book to trace how perceptions and commemorations of it have changed over two centuries. However, what of the man behind the victory? Depictions of Wellington, the victor of Waterloo, have varied over the years. Though in the battle's immediate aftermath the most feted man in Europe, the Iron Duke's life was lived in the shadows: that of his brother in India, of Napoleon on the battlefield, and of Lord Liverpool and Sir Robert Peel in the post-1815 Tory Party. And in later life, in opposing reform, the hero became reviled. Neither conventional military history nor a biography, this book traces the restoration of the Duke's reputation and argues that the man is as important to history today as the battle he is remembered for.
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Pursuit to Appomattox: The Last Battles (The Civil War Series)
Author: Jerry Korn Pursuit to Appomattox: The Last Battles (The Civil War Series) Time-Life Books 1987 Format: PDF Pages: 184 Language: English Size: 31.4 MB For the casual Civil War enthusiast it's hard to beat the Time Life Series. Well researched with lots of excellent photographs (photography was in it's infancy at the time) and illustrations. This particular book does an excellent job of wrapping up the last days of the civil war.
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Nazi Prisoners of War in America
Author: Arnold Krammer Nazi Prisoners of War in America Stein and Day 1979 Format: PDF Pages: 360 Language: English Size: 50.3 MB The only book available that tells the full story of how the U.S. government detained nearly half a million Nazi prisoners of war in 511 camps across the country.
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The Age of the Battleship 1890-1922
Author: Brayton Harris The Age of the Battleship 1890-1922 Franklin Watts, Inc. 1965 Format: PDF Pages: 256 Language: English Size: 29 MB In the years following the Civil War, ignorance, indifference, and corruption left such a mark on the U. S. Navy that the entire fleet of the 1880s could have been defeated by any single modern warship of the day. It was to take years of often-acrimonious wrangling to re-build the sorry fleet-but despite factional disputes and political bumbling, the Navy rose in strength and efficiency until, by 1922, it was second to none in the world. The Age of the Battleship tells the tale and, along the way, reminds us: that the United States Navy helped introduce submarines and airplanes to naval warfare; that a racially integrated Navy became segregated-and then integrated, again; that too many Members of the Congress are more interested in pork than progress . . . and includes stories of the Navy's success in two wars-the largely naval war against Spain, 1898, and the sea, air, and land war (with the Navy's Marine Corps at the front) against Germany, 1918. It also tells the tale . . . more than any other . . . of the Navy's frequent wars against itself.
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Germany: A Modern History
Author: Marshall Dill Jr Germany: A Modern History University of Michigan Press 1961 Format: PDF (rar+3%) Size: 25,52 mb Language: English Pages: 528 Studies modern Germany, from its formation to the 1960s
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The Ashgate Research Companion to Imperial Germany
втор: Matthew Jefferies The Ashgate Research Companion to Imperial Germany Ashgate ISBN: 1409435512 2015 Format: PDF Size: 3,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 576 Germany's imperial era (1871-1918) continues to attract both scholars and the general public alike. The American historian Roger Chickering has referred to the historiography on the Kaiserreich as an 'extraordinary body of historical scholarship', whose quality and diversity stands comparison with that of any other episode in European history. This companion is a significant addition to this body of scholarship with the emphasis very much on the present and future. Questions of continuity remain a vital and necessary line of historical enquiry and while it may have been short-lived, the Kaiserreich remains central to modern German and European history. The volume allows 25 experts, from across the globe, to write at length about the state of research in their own specialist fields, offering original insights as well as historiographical reflections, and rounded off with extensive suggestions for further reading. The chapters are grouped into five thematic sections, chosen to reflect the full range of research being undertaken on imperial German history today and together offer a comprehensive and authoritative reference resource. Overall this collection will provide scholars and students with a lively take on this fascinating period of German history, from the nationa (TM)s unification in 1871 right up until the end of World War I.
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Cambridge History of China
Author: The Cambridge Hystory of China. The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, part 1 Cambridge University Press; First Edition, Third Impression edition 1988 Format: PDF Language: English Pages: 885 Size: 50,21 mb This volume in The Cambridge History of China is devoted to the history of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), with some account of the three decades before the dynasty's formal establishment, and for the Ming courts that survived in South China for a generation after 1644.
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Frederick the Great - A Life in Deed and Letters
Author: Giles MacDonogh Frederick the Great - A Life in Deed and Letters St. Martin's Press 2000 Format: PDF Pages: 470 Language: English Size: 45.6 MB Free thinker, Misanthrope, poet, philosopher, lawmaker, and soldier, Frederick the Great was a contradictory, almost unfathomable, man. His conquests made him one of the most formidable and feared leaders of his era. But the king's other—often ignored— accomplishments rank him among the ablest statesmen in modern European history. A patron of artists and intellectuals, Frederick re-created Berlin as one of the continent's great capital cities, reformed Prussia's legal system, and strove to match his state's reputation for military ferocity with one for cultural achievement.
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Ottoman Wars, 1700-1870: An Empire Besieged
Author: Virginia H. Aksan Ottoman Wars, 1700-1870: An Empire Besieged Routledge 2007 Format: PDF Size: 8.4 Mb Language: English The Ottoman Empire had reached the peak of its power, presenting a very real threat to Western Christendom when in 1683 it suffered its first major defeat, at the Siege of Vienna. Tracing the empire’s conflicts of the next two centuries, The Ottoman Wars: An Empire Besieged examines the social transformation of the Ottoman military system in an era of global imperialism Spanning more than a century of conflict, the book considers challenges the Ottoman government faced from both neighbouring Catholic Habsburg Austria and Orthodox Romanov Russia, as well as - arguably more importantly – from military, intellectual and religious groups within the empire. Using close analysis of select campaigns, Virginia Aksan first discusses the Ottoman Empire’s changing internal military context, before addressing the modernized regimental organisation under Sultan Mahmud II after 1826. Featuring illustrations and maps, many of which have never been published before, The Ottoman Wars draws on previously untapped source material to provide an original and compelling account of an empire near financial and societal collapse, and the successes and failures of a military system under siege. The book is a fascinating study of the decline of an international power, raising questions about the influence of culture on warfare.
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The Road to Shiloh - Early Battles in the West
Author: David Nevin The Road to Shiloh - Early Battles in the West (The Civil War Series) Time Life Books 1983 Format: PDF Pages: 184 Language: English Size: 37.8 MB Although the battles of the Army of the Potomac in the Eastern Theater garner most of the historical interest, the battles in the West were arguably more significant. In "The Road to Shiloh: Early Battles in the West," David Nevin and the Editors of Time-Life Books cover General Ulysses Grant's campaign in Tennessee in 1861-62. Chapter 1, "The Struggle for Missouri," covers the Battle of Wilson's Creek that proved pivotal for the control of this border state. Chapter 2, "The Go-ahead General," details the path by which Grant came to command the Union Army in the West (including that infamous photo of Grant with a fully cultivated square-cut beard). Chapter 3, "Clash at Fort Donelson," relates how Grant followed up his successfully attack on Fort Henry with an attack that would give the Federals control of the Cumberland River. Chapter 4, "The Devil's Own Day," covers the first day of the Battle of Shiloh, in which the Union army was almost routed one of the bloodiest days of the war; this chapter includes Theophile Poilpot's 400 foot long panoramic painting of the battle for the Hornet's Nest. Chapter 5, "An Incomplete Victory," tells how Grant and Sherman defeated Johnston's Confederate Army. Like all of the volumes in the Time-Life Civil War series, "The Road to Shiloh" provides dozens of contemporary illustrations, photographs, paintings, and the like. My one complaint is that if you read these volumes a lot, and it is hard not to, they tend to fall apart. The cover ends up being a nice gray folder. The rest of Grant's Western Campaign including the siege of Vicksburg is covered in the volume "War on the Mississippi."
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Master Index - An Illustrated Guide
Author: Collective Master Index - An Illustrated Guide (The Civil War Series) Time-Life Books 1987 Format: PDF Pages: 184 Language: English Size: 36.8 MB This reference book is filled with important facts about the Civil War and allows you to look up information throughout the whole set. This book is an essential tool that completes the Civil War book collection.
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The Annotated Treasure Island
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson, Simon Barker-Benfield, Louis Rhead The Annotated Treasure Island Fine & Kahn 2014 Format: PDF Size: 66.9 Mb Language: English First published as a serialized children’s story in 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island has become an enduring classic. It has all the elements of a great adventure story: a plot full of twists and turns, an escalating sense of treachery and impending disaster, and a quintessential villain. Teenager Jim Hawkins finds a map titled “Treasure Island” in the belongings of a stricken lodger at the Admiral Benbow Inn in 1750s England. He soon finds himself aboard the schooner Hispaniola with a crew of disguised pirates headed to the Caribbean on a quest to find buried treasure. Long John Silver, the peg-legged cook, is the leader of this wretched crew. He is both engaging and ruthless, feared by even his barbarous accomplices, and a shape-shifter, pretending to be Jim’s good friend and enemy, secretly plotting a mutiny. When mutiny begins, Jim must save the day. This beloved adventure story is pure fiction—but fiction well grounded in historical and geographical reality. In The Annotated Treasure Island, editor and researcher Simon Barker-Benfield meticulously and lovingly annotates this voyage, offering crucial factual information, a sociopolitical context, and clear technical explanations that bring you closer to the action. Lavishly illustrated with pictures of nautical equipment, parts of ships, and period maps, The Annotated Treasure Island brings the seafaring vernacular to life. You’ll learn about “blocks,” “backstays,” and “shrouds.” And you’ll see Jim and the crew handle the Hispaniola, whether it’s the “simple” chore of raising the anchor—which in a similar, real vessel could require three hours’-worth of hauling in a very slimy cable six inches at a time—or the difficulty and meaning of “warping” and “putting a man in the chains” in order to take depth soundings. The story illustrations by Louis Rhead (1857-1926) deftly draw out the escalating dramatic tension. Would all the risk and hardship have been worth it? Just how much treasure was the crew after? What could one have bought with 700,000 pounds sterling in the 1700s? Even that question is answered in this newly annotated edition: it would have been enough to buy and outfit a fleet of eleven 104-gun battleships of the period. Seven hundred thousand pounds sterling was serious money, enough money that some men would do almost anything to get it.
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