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 People of the Lakes 
 People of the Lakes Author:Editors of :Time-Life Books Cahners Business Information, Inc THE AMERICAM INDIANS 1994 Language:English Format:pdf Size:37 mb Pages:200 History, customs, mythology, and lore of the continent's first inhabitants are inter-woven in this rich new look at our Native American heritage. Lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs, paintings, drawings, and artifacts
American Loyalist Troops 1775-84
 Author: Rene Chartrand American Loyalist Troops 1775-84 (Men-at-arms 450) Osprey Publishinf Ltd 2008 Format: Pdf Size: 25 Mb Language: English
Victorian Life
 Author: John A. Guy Victorian Life Ticktock Publishing Ltd . 2001 Format: PDF Size: 20.27 mb Language English
The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789–1815
 The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789–1815 Author: Le Bourhis Katell Metropolitan Museum of Art 1989 Pages: 286 Format: PDF Size: 51 Mb Language: English This book was published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1989. However, it is more than simply an exhibition catalogue, and in fact there isn't even a full listing in the book of the items that were on display. However, what this book does do is explore the changes of costume in France and America that occurred during the years of Napoleon's rule in France from 1789 to 1815.
New York : a pictorial history
 New York : a pictorial history New York : Scribner Author:Davidson, Marshall B 1977 Language:English Format: pdf Size:89,3 Mb In the first comprehensive pictorial history of New York ever to be published, Marshall B. Davidson combines immense learning and a vivid writing style to show the richly varied history of the Empire State from Indian times to the present. He has chosen 750 historical pictures, some never published before, to document the story of the state that is home to almost one in every ten Americans. The illustrations show life upstate and life in the world's greatest city. They depict the development of New York's farms and factories, the building of the Erie Canal, and the phenomenal growth of the port of New York; they show the warriors—Indian, English, French, and American—who have battled over its land and waterways, and notable figures in the state's history, from Peter Stuyvesant to Fiorello LaGuardia. Above all, they convey the wonderfully varied mixture of population that makes New York a microcosm of the nation as a whole.
Frederick the Great
 Author: Nancy Mitford Frederick the Great Hamish Hamilton Ltd. 1970 Format: PDF Pages: 312 Language: English Size: 38.3 MB After her enormously successful biographical studies of The Sun King, Nancy Mitford now turns to a less familiar but no less fascinating figure,Frederick the Great. She says she has never liked a subject for biography so much, and her enthusiasm for the Prussian king and his world is evident throughout this lively, illuminating and often moving record of the life of a very remarkable man.
Handbook to life in Renaissance Europe
 Author: Sandra Sider Facts On File, Inc. 2000 1286 Format: pdf Size: 17 mb Language: englich The period covered by the Renaissance varies, depending on the geographic region or subject under discussion. The Renaissance began in northern Italy in the latter 14th century, culminating in England in the early 17th century. Consequently the present book spans two centuries, c. 1400–c. 1600, emphasizing the pervasive influence of Italian sources on the development of the Renaissance in other parts of southern Europe as well as in the north. Although the ideal of the Renaissance individual was exaggerated to the extreme by 19th-century critics and historians, there was certainly a greater awareness of an individual’s potential by the 16th century. Emphasis on the dignity of man (though not of woman) distinguished the Renaissance from the relatively humbler attitudes of the Middle Ages. In the love poetry of Petrarch and the great human scheme of Dante’s Commedia, individual thought and action were prevalent.
Ironclads and Blockades in the Civil War (Untold History of the Civil War)
 Author: Douglas Savage Ironclads and Blockades in the Civil War (Untold History of the Civil War) Chelsea House Publishers 2000 Format: PDF Pages: 72 Language: English Size: 33 MB Describes how the United States Navy was expanded and improved during the Civil War and how ironclads and other armored vessels were used in various military operations.
The Coastal War - Chesapeake Bay to Rio Grande
 Author: Peter M. Chaitin The Coastal War - Chesapeake Bay to Rio Grande (Civil War Series) Time-Life Books 1984 Format: PDF Pages: 184 Language: English Size: 34.4 MB This volume of the Civil War series looks at the Federal efforts to capture footholds in Florida, Alabama, South Carolina and North Carolina. Amphibious landings in New Orleans and New Bern, NC would contribute to the Federal victory in the War as the Confederacy was slowly strangled. The Battles of Fort Wagner, Mobile Bay, the near-comic surrender of New Orleans, Fort Fisher ,and the story of the Swamp Angel are all told here. As always in the T-L Civil War series, this volume is a very engaging. The writing is excellent and it is backed up by great photos, artwork and maps (although the reliance on contemporary maps is irritating in places). Sidebars look at torpedoes (naval mines), paintings of Fort Sumter, heavy artillery, Farragut's vessels, and Savannah.
The communards of Paris, 1871
 Author: Edwards, Stewart The communards of Paris, 1871 Cornell University Press 1973 Documents of Revolution Format: pdf Size: 29,6 mb Language: English The spirit of an event consecrated in anarchist legend is captured in these documents. Eyewitness reports, accounts of participants, and archival documents are used by Dr. Edwards to illustrate the many facets of the seventy-three-day Paris Commune of 1871, the largest urban insurrection in modern history. Each section of the book is preceded by an explanatory note, and footnotes clarify contemporary references. The introduction to the documents provides a general survey of the origins and events of the Commune
The American Indians - The European Challenge
 The European Challenge - The American Indians Time-life Books; 2nd edition Author:By the Editors of Time-life Books January 1, 1993 Language:English Format:pdf Size:42,5 Mb The European Challenge - The American Indians
"Borodino" class armored ship
 Author: Vladimir V. Arbuzov "Borodino" class armored ship (Armored ships of the world) Interpoisk, St.Petersburg 1993 Format: PDF Size: 26,8 МБ Language: English Pages: 60
Napoleon's Egyptian Campaigns 1798-1801
 Author: Michael Barthorp Napoleon's Egyptian Campaigns 1798-1801 (Men-at-Arms 79) Osprey Publishing Ltd 1978 Format: Pdf Size: 16 Mb Language: English
Chronology of American Indian History
 Author: Liz Sonneborn Chronology of American Indian History Facts on File 2007 472 Format: Pdf Size: 21 MB Language: English A fascinating, in-depth timeline of American Indian history, "Chronology of American Indian History, Updated Edition", updated and expanded with current information, describes thousands of years of events that helped shape the lives and cultures of Native Americans, as well as American society as a whole - from their ancestors' arrival in North America to the present.00AmericanIndianHistory.rar
The Second Battle of Manassas
 Author: Wilson Greene The Second Battle of Manassas Eastern National Park 1995 Format: PDF Pages: 56 Language: English Size: 33.2 MB The Second Battle of Bull Run or Second Manassas was fought August 28–30, 1862 in Prince William County, Virginia, as part of the American Civil War. It was the culmination of an offensive campaign waged by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia against Union Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia, and a battle of much larger scale and numbers than the First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) fought in 1861 on the same ground.
Annie Oakley
 Annie Oakley Author: Rachel A. Koestler-Grack Chelsea House Publications Legends of the Wild West 2010 ISBN: 1604135948 Pages: 101 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 3,4 MB Born Phoebe Ann Mosey on August 13, 1860, on the rural western border of Ohio, Annie Oakley began hunting at age 9 to support her siblings and widowed mother. She became so skilled at selling the hunted game that she was able to pay off the mortgage to her mother's farm when she was 15. In 1885, she joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West show where she became one of the top acts, along with Sitting Bull. In fact, she even traveled to Europe and performed for Queen Victoria and other crowned heads of state. At the request of the Prince of Prussia, she shot the ashes off a cigarette.
Historical Dictionary of the Ottoman Empire
 Historical Dictionary of the Ottoman Empire Author: Selcuk Aksin Somel The Scarecrow Press 2003 Pages: 399 Language: English Format: pdf Size: 27.4 Mb The Ottoman Empire was the last great Muslim political entity, emerging in the later Middle Ages and continuing its existence until the early 20th century and the creation of the modern state of Turkey. Here you will find an in-depth treatise covering the political, social, and economic history of the Ottoman Empire, the last member of the lineage of the Near Eastern and Mediterranean empires and the only one that reached the modern times both in terms of internal structure and world history. Key Features: historical maps; a detailed chronology; a list of Ottoman sultans and grand viziers; a dictionary consisting of 781 entries; an analytical bibliography; details where original Turkish documents can be located
The A to Z of the French Revolution
 Author: Paul R. Hanson The A to Z of the French Revolution (The A to Z Guide Series) Scarecrow Press 2007 Format: epub Size: 2.6 Mb Language: English The French Revolution remains the most examined event and period in world history. Most historians would argue that it was the first "modern" revolution, an event so momentous that it changed the very meaning of the word revolution to its current connotation of a political and/or social upheaval that marks a decisive break with the past, moving the society in a forward or progressive direction. No revolution has occurred since 1789 without making reference to this first revolution, and most have been measured against it. When revolution shook the foundations of the Old Regime in France, shock waves reverberated throughout the western world. The A to Z of the French Revolution examines the causes and origins; the roles of significant persons; crucial events and turning points; important institutions and organizations; and the economic, social, and intellectual factors involved in the event that gave birth to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, the introduction of universal manhood suffrage, and the Napoleonic Empire. An introductory essay, chronology, and comprehensive bibliography complement the more than 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries, making this a great resource for students and history enthusiasts alike.
Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune of 1871
 Author: John M. Merriman Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune of 1871 Yale University Press 2014 Format: epub/pdf Size: 5 Mb Language: English One of the most dramatic chapters in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, the Commune of 1871 was an eclectic revolutionary government that held power in Paris across eight weeks between 18 March and 28 May. Its brief rule ended in ‘Bloody Week’ – the brutal massacre of as many as 15,000 Parisians, and perhaps even more, who perished at the hands of the provisional government’s forces. By then, the city’s boulevards had been torched and its monuments toppled. More than 40,000 Parisians were investigated, imprisoned or forced into exile – a purging of Parisian society by a conservative national government whose supporters were considerably more horrified by a pile of rubble than the many deaths of the resisters. In this gripping narrative, John Merriman explores the radical and revolutionary roots of the Commune, painting vivid portraits of the Communards – the ordinary workers, famous artists and extraordinary fire-starting women – and their daily lives behind the barricades, and examining the ramifications of the Commune on the role of the state and sovereignty in France and modern Europe. Enthralling, evocative and deeply moving, this narrative account offers a full picture of a defining moment in the evolution of state terror and popular resistance.
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