Category: History

A Yankee Scholar in Coastal South Carolina: William Francis Allen's Civil War Journals

Price: $49.95

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press : July 2015

Seller ID: 66418

ISBN-13: 9781611174960

Condition: New

New Englander William Allen (1830-1889) is mostly known today as the lead editor of the 1867 anthology Slave Songs of the United States, the earliest published collection of Negro spirituals, and as a distinguished history professor at the University of Wisconsin. During the Civil War, he served from late 1863 through mid-1864 as a member of the Gideonite band of businessmen, missionaries, and teachers who migrated to the South Carolina Sea Islands as part of the Port Royal Experiment. After the war, he served as assistant superintendent of schools in Charleston from April through July 1865. ...
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Addicted to War: Why the U.S. Can't Kick Militarism

Price: $5.00

Publisher: AK Press : September 2004

Seller ID: 35459

ISBN-13: 9781904859017

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Addicted to War" takes on the most active, powerful and destructive military in the world. Hard-hitting, carefully documented and heavily illustrated, it reveals why the United States has been involved in more wars in recent years than any other country. Read "Addicted to War" to find out who benefits from these military adventures, who paysand who dies. Over 120,000 copies of the previous edition are in print. This new edition is substantially reworked and fully updated through the War in Iraq. A witty and devastating portrait of U.S. military policy. Howard ZinnJoel Andreas wrote and illust...
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Africa, Fourth Edition

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Indiana University Press : April 2014

Seller ID: 179119

ISBN-13: 9780253012920

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Since the publication of the first edition in 1977, Africa has established itself as a leading resource for teaching, business, and scholarship. This fourth edition has been completely revised and focuses on the dynamism and diversity of contemporary Africa. The volume emphasizes contemporary culture-civil and social issues, art, religion, and the political scene-and provides an overview of significant themes that bear on Africa's place in the world. Historically grounded, Africa provides a comprehensive view of the ways that African women and men have constructed their lives and engaged in co...
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Alfred Von Schlieffen's Military Writings (Military History and Policy)

Price: $99.00

Publisher: Routledge : October 2002

Seller ID: 113582

ISBN-13: 9780714649993

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A collection of some of the writings of Generalfeldmarschall Alfred Graf von Schlieffen, one of the more intriguing of Imperial Germany's military figures. Schlieffens 15 years as Chief of the General staff left a stamp upon both military and political institutions of Wilhelmine Germany.
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America's Founding Fathers

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Great Courses

Seller ID: 190622

ISBN-13: 9781629973913

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - Good

An Introduction to Saudi Arabian Antiquities

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Department of Antiquities and Museums : January 1975

Seller ID: 97991

ISBN: B0000EE8VT

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Art and History of Pompeii

Price: $11.25

Publisher: Book Representation & Dist Ltd : December 1989

Seller ID: 195935

ISBN-13: 9788870094541

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A beautifully illustrated guided tour to the buildings, monuments, the remains of victims, mosaics and wall-paintings of Pompeii. Designed with the visitor in mind, the photographs are accompanied by short descriptions and thematic background discussions, plans and reconstruction drawings of buildings and streets which recreate the city, its life and its destruction. Includes a large olded map of the ruins.
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Book of Imperial and Commonwealth Obituaries (The Daily Telegraph Book of Obituaries)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Frontline Books : July 2009

Seller ID: 102546

ISBN-13: 9781848325241

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

For this new collection, David Twiston-Davies has selected the most fascinating Imperial and Commonwealth obituaries published in The Daily Telegraph over the last twenty years. Many senior representatives of the imperial high noon had passed on by the mid-1980s but there were still some remarkable figures who would have been recognizable to Queen Victoria, such as Sir Rex Niven of Nigeria. There are a host of colorful diplomats such as Sir Michael Weir, the British ambassador in Egypt, who started out as a resident in Arab states and was responsible for escorting a sheik to the Queen's Corona...
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Building the Myth: Selected Speeches Memorializing Abraham Lincoln

Price: $17.48

Publisher: University of Illinois Press : December 1990

Seller ID: 191712

ISBN-13: 9780252017346

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Civil War, The : Yorktown to Cedar Mountain (vol 3)

Price: $12.48

Publisher: Editors of Time Life Books : January 1999

Seller ID: 28914

ISBN-13: 9780783501024

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Death in England: An Illustrated History

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Rutgers University Press : February 2000

Seller ID: 163207

ISBN-13: 9780813527895

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Death in England provides the first ever social history of death-from the earliest times to Diana, Princess of Wales. As we discard the taboos surrounding death, this book charts the fascinating story of how people have coped with this fundamental aspect of their daily lives.Peter C. Jupp and Clare Gittings reveal how attitudes, practices, and beliefs about death have undergone constant change, as well as how, why, and at what ages people died. Examining how death touches all aspects of society, they cover topics such as plagues and violence; wills and deathbeds; funerals and memorials; and be...
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Eros in Pompeii: The Town of Venus

Price: $7.77

Publisher: : 2012

Seller ID: 140693

ISBN-13: 9788888226255

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Price: $32.00

Publisher: One World : February 2021

Seller ID: 156500

ISBN-13: 9780593134047

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present--edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire. "A vital addition to the] curriculum on race in America . . . a gateway to the solo works of all the voices in Kendi and Blain's impressive choir."--The Washington Post "From journalist Hannah P. Jones on Jamestown's first slaves to historian Annette Gordon-Reed's portrait of Sally Hemings to the seductive cadences o...
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Guns in America: A Historical Reader

Price: $14.50

Publisher: NYU Press : April 1999

Seller ID: 179215

ISBN-13: 9780814718797

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Documents and analyzes the history of firearms in America Firearms have long been at the core of our national narratives. From the Puritans' embrace of guns to beat back the devilish Indian to our guilty delight in the extralegal exploits of Dirty Harry, Americans have relied on the gun to right wrongs, both real and imagined. The extent to which guns have been woven into our nation's mythology suggests that the current debate is only partly about guns themselves and equally about conflicting cultural values and competing national identities. Belying the gun debate are a host of related issue...
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Handbook of Medieval Sexuality (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Routledge : March 1996

Seller ID: 186426

ISBN-13: 9780815312871

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Like specialists in other fields in humanities and social sciences, medievalists have begun to investigate and write about sex and related topics such as courtship, concubinage, divorce, marriage, prostitution, and child rearing. The scholarship in this significant volume asserts that sexual conduct formed a crucial role in the lives, thoughts, hopes and fears both of individuals and of the institutions that they created in the middle ages.The absorbing subject of sexuality in the Middle Ages is examined in 19 original articles written specifically for this "Handbook" by the major authorities ...
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Image and Representation: Stories of Muslim Lives in India

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : January 2001

Seller ID: 166077

ISBN-13: 9780195651416

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Bringing together short stories that have Muslims and intercommunity relationships in the Indian subcontinent as their subject, this anthology includes India's most sensitive and thought-provoking writers from across various Indian languages and eras: from the prolific and compassionate Saratchandra to the social realist Prem Chand; from the bold and controversial Ismat Chughtai to contemporary writers like Shama Futehally. Including a variety of writers with distinctive styles, all of whom are widely read and have made significant contributions, this collection is an important work both in te...
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Imperial Rome to the Present Day: Transparent Overlays of Archaeological Sites

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Lozzi Roma : December 2000

Seller ID: 95782

ISBN-13: 9788886843799

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In Search of the Balkan Recovery: The Political and Economic Reemergence of South Eastern Europe (Columbia/Hurst)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Columbia University Press : September 2010

Seller ID: 37808

ISBN-13: 9780231701709

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In Search of the Balkan Recovery tracks Yugoslavia's political evolution from conflict to cooperation and how growing investment and trade opportunities facilitated this recovery. A history of Yugoslavia's violent disintegration is read against similar events in Bulgaria, Romania, and Albania. The involvement of the international community is critically examined and contrasted against the procrastination of European leaders and the more constructive soft power approach of the European Union and other institutions. The authors also trace the recovery of Balkan economic prospects in recent years...
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Jack Burd's Civil War Source Book: 1999-2000

Price: $7.48

Publisher: Rockbridge Pub. : October 1998

Seller ID: 105238

ISBN-13: 9781574270877

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

If you want to find Civil War artwork, weapons, archives, and reenactments as well as organizations and Internet links, this book is indispensable. Almost 3,000 entries cover antiques, autographs, battlefields, coins and currency, flags, genealogy, monuments, museums, period clothing, stamps, and more
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Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Stacey International : September 1977

Seller ID: 97990

ISBN-13: 9780905743042

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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Category: History