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 The Shenandoah in Flames - The Walley Campaign of 1864 
 Author: Thomas A. Lewis The Shenandoah in Flames - The Walley Campaign of 1864 (The Civil War Series) Time-Life Books 1987 Format: PDF Pages: 184 Language: English Size: 32.7 MB This is another great Time-Life Book on the Civil War. It is written well and provides great detail of the events during the Shenandoah Campaign of 1864
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.
The Dictionary of Modern European History Since 1789
 : The Dictionary of Modern European History Since 1789 Author : Nicholas Atkin, Michael Biddiss, Frank Tallett John Wiley & Sons : 2011 ISBN: 9781405189224 Pages: 512 Format : PDF Size : 8,8 MB Language : English The Wiley-Blackwell Dictionary of Modern European History Since 1789 is an authoritative and accessible reference guide to the major people, events, and issues that have shaped the development of Europe from the French Revolution to the present day. Features almost a thousand alphabetical entries on modern European history. Offers extensive cross-references to enhance clarity and reveal historical links and connections, and a series of maps charting the evolution of modern European states. Covers the whole of continental Europe, as well as relevant aspects of the British experience.
Rise of the Bourgeoisie, Demise of Empire Ottoman Westernization and Social Change
 Author: Fatma Muge Gocek Rise of the Bourgeoisie, Demise of Empire Ottoman Westernization and Social Change Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195099257 1996 Format: PDF Size: 15,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 232 What are the causes of imperial decline? This work studies the Ottoman empire in the 18th and 19th centuries to argue that the Ottoman imperial decline resulted from a combination of Ottoman internal dynamics with external influences. Specifically, it contends that the split within the Ottoman social structure across ethno-religious lines interacted with the effects of war and commerce with the West to produce a bifurcated Ottoman bourgeoisie. This bourgeoisie, divided into disparate commercial and bureaucratic elements, was able to challenge the sultan but was ultimately unable to salvage the empire. Instead, the Ottoman empire was replaced by the Turkish nation-state and others in the Balkans and the Middle East. This work will appeal to students of sociology and Ottoman studies.
Christopher Columbus and the Age of Exploration for Kids: With 21 Activities (For Kids series)
 Author: Ronald A. Reis Christopher Columbus and the Age of Exploration for Kids: With 21 Activities (For Kids series) Chicago Review Press 2013 Format: PDF Size: 30.5 Mb Language: English Christopher Columbus is one of the most famous people in world history, yet few know the full story of the amazing, resourceful, and tragic Italian explorer. Christopher Columbus and the Age of Exploration for Kids portrays the “Admiral of the Ocean Seas” neither as hero nor heel but as a flawed and complex man whose significance is undeniably monumental. Kids will gain a fuller picture of the seafarer’s life, his impact, and the dangers and thrills of exploration as they learn about all four of Columbus’s voyages to the New World, not just his first, as well as the year that Columbus spent stranded on the island of Jamaica without hope of rescue. Students, parents, and teachers will appreciate the in-depth discussions of the indigenous peoples of the New World and of the consequences of Columbus’s voyages—the exchange of diseases, ideas, crops, and populations between the New World and the Old. Fun hands-on activities illuminate both the nautical concepts introduced and the times in which Columbus lived. Kids can: - Tie nautical knots - Conduct a blanket (silent) trade - Make a compass - Simulate a hurricane - Take nautical measurements And much more
Warfare, State and Society on the Black Sea Steppe, 1500-1700
 Warfare, State and Society on the Black Sea Steppe, 1500-1700 Author: Brian Davies Routledge 2007 Pages: 273 Language: English Format: pdf Size: 9.5 Mb This crucial period in Russia's history has, up until now, been neglected by historians, but here Brian L. Davies' study provides an essential insight into the emergence of Russia as a great power. For nearly three centuries, Russia vied with the Crimean Khanate, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire for mastery of the Ukraine and the fertile steppes above the Black Sea, a region of great strategic and economic importance – arguably the pivot of Eurasia at the time. The long campaign took a great toll upon Russia's population, economy and institutions, and repeatedly frustrated or redefined Russian military and diplomatic projects in the West. The struggle was every bit as important as Russia's wars in northern and central Europe for driving the Russian state-building process, forcing military reform and shaping Russia's visions of Empire.
Destruction of Lord Raglan: A Tragedy of the Crimean War 1854-1855
 Author: Christopher Hibbert Destruction of Lord Raglan: A Tragedy of the Crimean War 1854-1855 Little, Brown and Company 1961 Format: PDF Pages: 338 Size: 180 Mb Language: English In March 1854, a British army of 30,000 men sailed for the Crimea to defend the crumbling Turkish empire from Russia. It was led by Lord Raglan, a veteran of Waterloo. The campaign quickly degenerated into a series of military disasters caused by incompetence at the highest level, bitter personal rivalries among the divisional commanders and inadequacies of transport, clothing and military and medical supplies. To enable to the British government to survive, Raglan was made the scapegoat. This text presents the story of the tragic campaign. As usual with Christopher Hibbert's books, excellent use is made of primary sources: the letters and writings of the actors themselves.
Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492-1700
 Author: Boyd C. Shafer Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492-1700 (Europe & the World in the Age of Expansion) Univ of Minnesota Press 1984 Format: PDF (rar+3%) Size: 30,89 mb Language: English Pages: 586 The expansion of Europe since the thirteenth century has had profound in¬fluences on peoples throughout the world. Encircling the globe, the expan¬sion changed men's lives and goals and became one of the decisive movements in the history of mankind. This series of ten volumes explores the nature and impact of the expan¬sion. It attempts not so much to go over once more the familiar themes of "Gold, Glory, and the Gospel," as to describe, on the basis of new questions and interpretations, what appears to have happened insofar as modern histori¬cal scholarship can determine.
Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power 1799-1815
 Author: Philip Dwyer Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power 1799-1815 (Napoleon Vol.2) Yale University Press 2013 Format: epub/pdf Size: 11.3 Mb Language: English In this second volume of Philip Dwyer’s authoritative biography on one of history’s most enthralling leaders, Napoleon, now 30, takes his position as head of the French state after the 1799 coup. Dwyer explores the young leader’s reign, complete with mistakes, wrong turns, and pitfalls, and reveals the great lengths to which Napoleon goes in the effort to fashion his image as legitimate and patriarchal ruler of the new nation. Concealing his defeats, exaggerating his victories, never hesitating to blame others for his own failings, Napoleon is ruthless in his ambition for power. Following Napoleon from Paris to his successful campaigns in Italy and Austria, to the disastrous invasion of Russia, and finally to the war against the Sixth Coalition that would end his reign in Europe, the book looks not only at these events but at the character of the man behind them. Dwyer reveals Napoleon’s darker sides—his brooding obsessions and propensity for violence—as well as his passionate nature: his loves, his ability to inspire, and his capacity for realizing his visionary ideas. In an insightful analysis of Napoleon as one of the first truly modern politicians, the author discusses how the persuasive and forward-thinking leader skillfully fashioned the image of himself that persists in legends that surround him to this day.
Napoleon and the Struggle for Germany: The Franco-Prussian War of 1813
 Napoleon and the Struggle for Germany: The Franco-Prussian War of 1813 Author: Michael V. Leggiere Cambridge University Press 2015 Pages: 610 ISBN: 1107080541, 9781107080546 Format: PDF Size: 15 mb Language: English Cambridge Military Histories
Early Jesuit Travellers in Central Asia, 1603-1721
 Author: Bernhard Weßels Early Jesuit Travellers in Central Asia, 1603-1721 Springer 1905 Pages: 344 Format: PDF Language : English Size: 26 mb To many generations of geographers Central Asia, especially Tihet, was the land of mystery and darkness, isolated by nature and by man, in whose midst lay the sacred city of Lhasa, evenmore mysterious and unapproachab le than Mecca or Kerbela; and it is only for some decades past that it has counted among the great fields of operation of modern geography. High as Mont Blanc are the desert-like plateaux of this "Roof of the World", and as if this elevation was not enough to render them difficult of access, they are set about by almost impassable mountain ranges; an arctic climate reigns in those bleak and forlorn regions. And if a traveller be so undaunted and hardy as to brave all the obstacles of nature, and to climb his way towards those icy wastes, he will find his road barred and himself ruthlessly turned back by the sparse inhabitants, inhospitable as their mountain sides. Hardly any explorer from Prejevalsky to Sven Hedin but testifies to the jealousy with which those desolate regions are guarded, and even as late as 1923 Dr. Montgomery McGovern experienced this inveterate distrust of the foreigner.
Cambridge History of China
 Author: The Cambridge Hystory of China. The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, part 2 Cambridge University Press; First Edition, Third Impression edition 1998 Format: PDF Language: English Pages: 1109 Size: 64,19 mb Volumes Seven & Eight of The Cambridge History of China are devoted to the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), providing the largest and most detailed account in any language. Summarizing all modern research, Volume Eight offers detailed studies of governmental structure, the fiscal and legal systems, international relations, social and economic history, transportation networks, and the history of ideas and religion.
The Oxford History of the British Empire. Volume II: The Eighteenth Century
 Author:Edited by P. J. Marshall The Oxford History of the British Empire. Volume II: The Eighteenth Century Oxford University Press 1998 Format: pdf Size: 37.61 MB Language: English Volume II of the Oxford History of the British Empire examines the history of British worldwide expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a crucial phase in the creation of the modern British Empire. This is the age of General Wolfe, Clive of India, and Captain Cook. The international team of experts deploy the latest scholarly research to trace and analyse development and expansion over more than a century. They show how trade, warfare, and migration created an Empire, at first overwhelmingly in the Americas but later increasingly in Asia. Although the Empire was ruptured by the American Revolution, it survived and grew into the British Empire that was to dominate the world during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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.
The Prussian Army of the Lower Rhine 1815
 Author: Peter Hofschroer The Prussian Army of the Lower Rhine 1815 Osprey Publishing Osprey Men-at-Arms 496 ISBN: 1782006176 2014 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 51 Size: 3 Mb Language: English The Prussian Army of the Lower Rhine, led by Blücher in 1815, played a crucial part in the Allied victory at Waterloo, and was involved in intense fighting at Wavre and Ligny. Delving into original sources, including eyewitness accounts and regimental histories known only to German scholars, this book tells the story of the soldiers on the ground: how they were organised and drilled, their previous service; their march to the battlefield; and what they did when they got there.
Nineteenth Century Costume and Fashion
 Author: Herbert Norris , Oswald Curtis Nineteenth Century Costume and Fashion Dover Publications 1998 Format: PDF Language: English Size: 48.3 MB Exuberantly written reference presents a kaleidoscopic panorama of clothing styles worn in period covering the last years of George III to latter part of Victoria's reign. Charming descriptions and illustrations of such authentic outfits as a French court dress (1818), Garibaldi shirt (1861), and evening dress (1865). 200 black-and-white, 27 color illustrations.
Little Bighorn: Winning the Battle, Losing the War
 Author: Michael L. Lawson Little Bighorn: Winning the Battle, Losing the War. Chelsea House 2007 Format: Pdf Size: 37 Mb Language: English
War on the Frontier - The Trans-Mississippi West (The Civil War Series)
 Author: Alvin M. Josephy War on the Frontier - The Trans-Mississippi West (The Civil War Series) Time-Life Books 1986 Format: PDF Pages: 184 Language: English Size: 30.1 MB In this volume of the Civil War series we look at the battles in the West, a largely forgotten theater of the Civil War. The territories of New Mexico, Arizona, Kansas, the Indian Territories, Colorado and Dakota, as well as the states of Minnesota, Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana. While neither side would provide anything close to the numbers of troops seen in the East there would be a long march up and down the Rio Grande in New Mexico, Guerilla raids on both sides of the Kansas-Missouri, Indian fighting in the Dakotas and a campaign up the Red River.
Counter-Thrust: From the Peninsula to the Antietam
 Author: Benjamin Franklin Cooling Counter-Thrust: From the Peninsula to the Antietam University of Nebraska Press 2008 ISBN: 0803215150 Format: PDF Size: 12,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 385 During the summer of 1862, a Confederate resurgence threatened to turn the tide of the Civil War. When the Union’s earlier multitheater thrust into the South proved to be a strategic overreach, the Confederacy saw its chance to reverse the loss of the Upper South through counteroffensives from the Chesapeake to the Mississippi. Benjamin Franklin Cooling tells this story in Counter-Thrust, recounting in harrowing detail Robert E. Lee’s flouting of his antagonist George B. McClellan’s drive to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond and describing the Confederate hero’s long-dreamt-of offensive to reclaim central and northern Virginia before crossing the Potomac.
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