Publication date: 1999-04-08
Dewey code: 941.073092
List Price: $252.00
Price: $179.99
Review Edmund Burke: Volume I: 1730-1784 (Edmund Burke) / Oxford University Press, USA:This is the first full, scholarly biography of Burke for over a generation, to be completed in two volumes. The first volume covers the years between 1730-1784, and describes his Irish upbringing and education, early writing, and his parliamentary career throughout the momentous years of the American War of Independence.
Creator: H. M. Scott
Publication date: 1999-09
Dewey code: 943.053092
Price: $79.95
Review Frederick the Great / Longman Publishing Group:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1996-08
Dewey code: 941.084092
List Price: $67.50
Price: $219.95
Review The Private World of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor / Abbeville Press:Featuring recently discovered photographs from the private collection of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, this remarkable book provides a fresh view of this intriguing couple whose story is perhaps the most romantic one of the 20th century. 400 full-color illustrations.
Publication date: 2004-01
Dewey code: 871.03
List Price: $166.00
Price: $163.13
Review Alcuin: Achievement and Reputation (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 16) / Brill Academic Publishers:In this major intellectual biography of Alcuin (d. 804), the most prominent Anglo-Saxon scholar at the court of Charlemagne, Donald Bullough deploys a lifetime's expertise in the study of early medieval manuscripts. Concentrating on Alcuin's early years in Northumbria and then his time at the Carolingian court, Bullough reassesses the chronology of Alcuin's career and writings, assesses his use of patristic and insular writings, and explores the contemporary significance of his large output. At the core of this book lies a fundamental reassessment of the dating of Alcuin's letters: in so doing, it reveals the patterns of intellectual exchange and textual community that characterised the first phase of the Carolingian Renaissance. It thus offers a uniquely detailed and nuanced exploration of the life and ideas of the most influential early medieval scholar.
Publication date: 2001-03-01
Review William Chapman Waller (1850-1917): Loughton's Historian / Loughton & District Historical Society:
Publication date: 2000-08
Dewey code: 920
Price: $37.50
Review The Princess from St. Petersburg: The Life of Princess Catherine Radzwill / Book Guild Publishing:From the courts of Europe at the dawn of the 20th Century to the South Africa of Cecil Rhodes and the rooming houses of 1920s New York, this book covers a century of wars and revolutions and Catherine's personal story as she is married against her will, separated from her children and imprisoned in South Africa on dubious charges. Leda Farrant does full justice to the fascinating aristocrat who went everywhere, met everyone, did almost everything - and wrote it all down.
Publication date: 2002-08
Dewey code: 920
Price: $26.99
Review Memoirs of Louis XV & XVI / IndyPublish.com:
Publication date: 1997-02
Dewey code: 956.95043
Price: $65.00
Review King Abdallah and Palestine: A Territorial Ambition (St. Antony's Series) / Palgrave Macmillan:
Publication date: 2004-05-15
List Price: $161.50
Price: $161.50
Review A Paladin of Arabia / Kegan Paul:
Publication date: 1958-06
Dewey code: 818.403
Price: $10.95
Review Life on the Mississippi / HarperCollins Publishers:It's Time to Rediscover the Wonderful Books We All Cherish. "The Mississippi is well worth reading about. It is not a commonplace river but on the contrary is in all ways remarkable. "- Mark Twain0riginally published in 1883, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's memoir of his youthful years as a cub pilot on a steamboat paddling up and down the Mississippi River. Twain used his childhood experiences growing up along the Mississippi in a number of works, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but nowhere is the river and the pilot's life more thoroughly described than in this work. Told with insight, humor, and candor, Life on the Mississippi is an American classic.
Publication date: 1993-12
Dewey code: 956.048
Price: $40.00
Review OCTOBER WAR (H) / AUC Press:
Creator: Joanna Moody
Publication date: 1998-07
Dewey code: 942.055092
Price: $35.95
Review The Private Life of an Elizabethan Lady: The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby 1599-1605 / Alan Sutton Publishing,:Lady Margaret was the only daughter and heiress of a wealthy landowner. She was married first to Walter Devereus, brother of Robert, Earl of Essex (favourite of Elizabeth I) then to Thomas Sidney, brother of the great Renaissance poet and courtier Sir Philip Sidney, and finally to the Puritan Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby. This diary covers the period 1599-1605, when she lived on her estate in North Yorkshire, and records Lady Margaret's spiritual endeavours, the life of her househould and such great events as the legal case in Star Chamber which took the Hobys to London. Lady Margaret's diary is thought to be the earliest of its kind, and it is one of the most significant in what became a dominant genre for women in the 17th century, the meditative autobiographical journal. The appeal of the diary is on the one hand the account of Lady Margaret's spiritual life and on the other its picture of her domestic affairs and daily routine. In her introduction, Joanna Moody presents the personal history of a gentlewoman of wide talents, interests and acquaintance.
Publication date: 2000-04-15
Price: $20.00
Review Gateway : Dr. Thomas Walker and the Opening of Kentucky / Bell County (Kentucky) Historical Society:Daniel Boone did not discover Cumberland Gap, nor was he the first explorer of Kentucky, then an unknown "Wilderness" on the Western frontier of the Colony of Virginia. In 1750, Dr. Thomas Walker, Agent of the Loyal Company, and 5 others, discovered Cumberland Gap, discovered and named the Cumberland River, discovered Pine Mountain Gap ("The Narrows"), Cumberland Ford - the only place where the river could be easily crossed by people, horses and wagons - and he built the first cabin in Kentucky. Walker's Jounral, maps, and surveys led to The Wilderness Road, over which 300,000 pioneer settlers entered Kentucky. The book has 90 illustrations - photographs, maps, holographs pages from Walker's Journal, and through words and images makes the period come alive. Walker was a physician, surveyor, entrepreneur, explorer, high official of Virginia, a negotiator of Indian treaties, and a supremely successful speculator in frontier land. This is the ONLY book-length work on an important (through unfairly obscure) leading member of Virginia's 18th Century "landed gentry. " The book provides interesting insights into the French and Indian War, and the Amereican Revolution, including the role of George Rogers Clark. Walker was a close friend of Peter Jefferson, and was for a time, the guardian of his young son Thomas, the future President. He was also connected by marriage, friendship and shared business interests with George Washington, James Madison, Joshua Fry, and with every leading Virginian of his time.
Edition: Limited
Publication date: 1996-11
Dewey code: 355
Price: $165.00
Review My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue / Texas State Historical Association:Samuel Chamberlain's My Confession is a classic, ribald tale of nineteenth-century life. Perhaps the best written account of a soldier's adventures and misadventures in the Mexican War and its aftermath, this unexpurgated edition is now available for the first time, complete with over 150 of Chamberlain's wonderful textual illustrations reproduced in full color. Chamberlain's remarkable story is pure melodrama; but Goetzmann has proven by his painstaking research that much of it is true.
Creator: Bradley Lockner
Publication date: 1989-12
Dewey code: 550.92
Price: $45.00
Review The Jornals of George M. Dawson British Columbia, 1875-1878 (The Pioneers of British Columbia) / Univ of British Columbia Pr:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1989-12-07
Review The Caged Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1932-40 / Abacus:
Publication date: 1961-01
Dewey code: 920
Price: $7.50
Review Great Hanging at Gainesville / Texas State Historical Assn:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1971-09-01
Dewey code: 301.44930924
List Price: $160.00
Price: $159.91
Review Uncle Tom's Story of His Life: An Autobiography 1789-1876 (Islam and the Muslim World) / Routledge:First published in 1877, Henson was thought to be the inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowes character "Uncle Tom". He recounts his work against slavery in the manual trade movement aimed at rehabilitating escaped Negroes in Canada.
Publication date: 2000
Review Captain Cook's World / Random House New Zealand Ltd:James Cook, sailor, surveyor, cartographer, and explorer, was born in 1728 in Yorkshire. In the course of his illustrious career, he sailed into every ocean and was one of the first, if not the first, British explorers to set foot on most of the world's major continents. He was also the first to cross both the Arctic and Antarctic Circles. Captain Cook's World is an atlas, chronology, and biography of the life and voyages of this celebrated explorer. A set of 128 specially drawn maps and accompanying text give a detailed overview of his life, including his early years in England, his time in the North Sea coal trade and with the Royal Navy in Canada, and his three great voyages around the world in HMB Endeavour and HMS Resolution. Included on the maps are locations visited, named, or surveyed by Cook; the routes of his voyages; and sites that have been marked in his honor, such as monuments. Based on meticulous scholarship but aimed at a general audience, Captain Cook's World is a fascinating and accessible record of Cook's life and travels.
Publication date: 2004-11-25
Review Magus: The Invisible Life of Elias Ashmole / Signal Publishing:
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