Publication date: 1993-07-01
Dewey code: 946
List Price: $125.00
Price: $179.58
Review History and the Historians of Medieval Spain / Oxford University Press, USA:This is a study of medieval Spain and its historians, from the chroniclers of the middle ages to the revisionists of the post-Franco era. The history of medieval Spain has long been perceived as a tale of original sin followed by a long-drawn-out process of atonement. History and the Historians of Medieval Spain traces the development of that perception. It is a formidably researched tour de force which reveals history in the making during the eight hundred years which separated the end of the Roman period from what is now described as the birth of the modern state.
Publication date: 1999-07
Dewey code: 910.91634
Price: $30.00
Review Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth / Johnson Books:When Margaret Tobin Brown arrived in New York City shortly after her perilous night in Titanic’s Lifeboat Six, a legend was born. Through magazines, books, a Broadway musical, and a Hollywood movie, she became "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," but in the process her life story was distorted beyond recognition. Even her name was changed—she was never known as Molly during her lifetime. Kristen Iversen’s "Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth" is the first full-length biography of this American icon, and the story it tells is of a passionate and outspoken crusader for the rights of women, children, mine workers, and others struggling for their voice in the early twentieth century. In the end, the real "Molly" Brown was far more fascinating than her myth, and Kristen Iversen has captured her in all her brilliance.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-08-15
Dewey code: 954.16505092
List Price: $190.00
Price: $158.08
Review Zapuphizo / Taylor and Francis:This is the first biography of Angami Zapuphizo, the great patriot leader of Nagaland in the north-eastern hills of South Asia, who died in exile in England in 1990. A central figure in the turbulent recent history of the region, Zapuphizo was the mastermind behind the Nagas' Demand for sovereign independence in 1947, the year when the British government transferred control to India and Pakistan. Steyn's book focuses on Zapuphizo's life, looking at his collaboration with the Japanese in World War II, his fight against India's military suppression of the nationalist Naga army, and his lifelong struggle to secure Magaland's independence. Zapuphizo: Voice of the Nagas also offers a fascinating look at a little known culture very different from those of the Hindus and Muslims of the area. In the years before Britain quit the Indian subcontinent, the Nagas of the far Northeast were held to exemplify an exotic and quixotic society; radically different in culture and beliefs from the better-known Hindus and Muslims of the plains, they were renowned for their spirited independence and diversity. Along with a historical perspective of the Naga people, Steyn surveys the condition of the region today and its prospects for the future.
Publication date: 2001-05-01
Dewey code: 709.2
List Price: $65.00
Price: $160.56
Review The Prime Minister of Taste: A Portrait of Horace Walpole / Yale University Press:In this intriguing book, Morris Brownell offers a fresh account of the career and influence of Horace Walpole (1717-1797), the great English man of letters and art historian. Rejecting both the traditional view of Walpole as a trifling collector of curiosities and the more recent assessment of him as a sober social historian and connoisseur, Brownell argues that Walpole grew to become a serious patron, collector, and historian of the arts - "the Prime Minister of Taste". Drawing on vast Walpole archival materials and on his astonishing forty volumes of letters, Brownell describes the formation of young Walpole's taste and interest in the visual arts. Brownell argues that England's leading portrait engraver, George Vertue, converted Walpole from Grand Tour taste in painting to a life-long study of English portraits. The book discusses the significance of Walpole's collection of English historical portraits and French portraits of the ancien regime, and it analyses Walpole's fascination with portraiture, comparing the painted portraits Walpole collected and wrote about to the literary portraits he penned in his letters. Walpole's passion for the art of portraiture was not the trifling pastime he pretended, Brownell says, in fact it was the source of his greatest literary achievement - a gallery of literary portraits of the English aristocracy as fine as the painted portraits of Reynolds and Gainsborough.
Creator: David Starkey
Publication date: 1998-12-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $168.00
Price: $142.80
Review The Inventory of King Henry VIII: Transcript of the Inventory (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History, 23) (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History, 23) / Harvey Miller:This vast catalogue of the possessions of the Henry VIII on his death in 1547 contains c. 18,000 entries; these range from the Crown jewels to bandages for the kings ulcerated leg! The Inventory provides a huge amount of information for historians on the material success of Henry and his forebears, as well as being of practical help in identifying surviving objects as the king's or otherwise. The transcript is accompanied by a historical introduction, notes on the transcription and an exhaustive index. It will be followed in the future by Volumes II and III, which will contains essays on the contents of the inventory.
Publication date: 1986-07
Price: $12.50
Review Saga of Aaron Burr / Behrman House Publishing:
Publication date: 1998-09
Dewey code: 468
Price: $16.95
Review Ernesto Guevara, también conocido como el Che / Editorial Planeta, S.A. (Barcelona):Che Guevara, the preeminent Latin-American revolutionary of the late twentieth century, was the symbol of radical egalitarianism and the war against social injustice. Gunned down in the jungles of southeastern Bolivia in 1967, his death is surrounded by questions that remain unanswered. Paco Ignacio Taibo II probes Che's life with a storyteller's pen and an historian's judgment, delving into the mystery and myth surrounding Che's life, careers, and ideals. Taibo has access to archives open to few researchers, and he has reached a range of insiders who worked with, and fought beside, Che during the time of his revolutionary activity in Mexico, Cuba, Africa, and South America. Also at Taibo's unique disposal is a previously unknown manuscript written by Che Guevara himself, describing his experiences in the Congo during the "missing year" in his life. Finally, Taibo offers up a solution to the mystery of Che's final days and death.
Edition: Facimile
Publication date: 1997
Price: $144.98
Review Lew Wallace: An autobiography / Archive Society:This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.
Publication date: 1987-09
List Price: $25.00
Price: $144.99
Review Four Years in the Saddle / Stan Clark Military Books:
Publication date: 1999-12-01
Dewey code: 929.72
List Price: $39.95
Price: $143.12
Review A Power in the Land: The Percys / Tuckwell Press, Ltd.:This 'warts and all' account of a great family tells the story of all the earls and dukes of Northumberland, including such memorable characters as Henry Hotspur, immortalized by Shakespeare, the 'Wizard' earl, and Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke and founder of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. The narrative fairly buzzes along with political intrigue, battles, executions, the great accumulations and disastrous losses of land and power over much of the last millennium. It is a story of heroism, duplicity, great judgement and equally great lack of it, of warriors, politicians, academics and the women who played vital roles in the fortunes of a dynasty. The Percys were on the brink of disaster so many times, and yet managed to survive and thrive by determination, or by sheer good luck. Their story is carried right up to present-day developments at Alnwick and Syon.
Edition: Facsimile ed
Publication date: 1974
Review History of Columbia County, New York / J.B. Lippincott & Co & Sachem Press:
Authors
- Robert Crocker
- Richard Ward
- Sarah Hutton
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-01-31
Dewey code: 192
List Price: $217.00
Price: $142.26
Review The Life of Henry More - Parts 1 and 2 (ARCHIVES INTERNATIONALES D'HISTOIRE DES IDEES/) / Springer:The Cambridge Platonist, Henry More (1614-1687), was a dominant figure on the seventeenth-century intellectual scene. His life spanned both the political revolutions of the English Civil War and its aftermath and the intellectual revolution in seventeenth-century science and philosophy. More was highly regarded in his own day as a metaphysician, although the combination of receptivity to the new (such as his admiration of Galileo, Descartes and Boyle) and defence of traditional thinking (notably his belief in witchcraft) makes him a difficult figure to assess today. The heterodoxy of his theological views notwithstanding, More was an important spokesman for moderation within the Anglican Church after the Restoration, and a key figure in the Latitudinarian movement. Richard Ward's Life of Henry More is the only biographical account of him by one of his contemporaries. Ward's almost hagiographical tone is ample testimony to the high regard in which More was held by his admirers. Ward's Life is an important document of intellectual and cultural history which testifies to the continuing impact of More's ideas in the Enlightenment. Among other topics, Ward's biography registers the impact of Quakerism in the late seventeenth century and includes important details about More's `heroine pupil', Anne Conway. The present edition prints both the only modern edition of the printed part of Ward's Account first published in 1710, together with the manuscript Account of More's writings which is published here for the first time.
Publication date: 2001-07
Dewey code: 973.713092
Price: $30.00
Review Two Stars in the Southern Sky: General John Gregg C.S.A. and Mollie / Reprint Company Publishing:
Creator: David Preest
Publication date: 2005-10-27
Dewey code: 942.038
List Price: $145.00
Price: $143.53
Review The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham (1376-1422) / Boydell Press:Winner of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award Translated by David Preest with introduction and notes by James G. Clark Thomas Walsingham's Chronica maiora is one of the most comprehensive and colourful chronicles to survive from medieval England. Walsingham was a monk at St Albans Abbey, a royal monastery and the premier repository of public records, and therefore well placed to observe the political machinations of this period at close hand. Moreover, he knew the monarchs and many of the nobles personally and is able to offer insights into their actions unmatched by any other authority. It is this narrative, transmitted through the popular Tudor histories of Hall, Stow and Holinshed, which provides the principle source for Shakespeare's sequence of history plays. Covering almost fifty years, the narrative provides the most authoritative account of one of the most turbulent periods in English history, from the last years of Edward III (1376-77) to the premature death of Henry V (1422). Walsingham describes the many dramas of this period in vivid detail, including the Peasants' Revolt (1381), the deposition and murder of Richard II (1399-1400), The Welsh revolt of Owain Glyn Dwr (1403) and Henry V's victory at Agincourt (1415); they are brought to life here in this new translation.
Publication date: 1998-09-03
Dewey code: 622.3420983
Price: $90.00
Review Mining In Chile's Norte Chico: Journal Of Charles Lambert, 1825-1830 (Dellplain Latin American Studies) / Westview Press:Charles Lambert (1793–1876) was a Franco-British entrepreneur who made a fortune in copper and silver mining—and smelting—in nineteenth-century Chile. Sent to Chile by a British mining company that soon afterward failed, and with which he quarreled acrimoniously, Lambert developed his own independent business interests with remarkable success. His introduction of new copper-smelting technology had a decisive impact on the Chilean mining industry, which enjoyed a long boom in the mid-nineteenth century, prior to its takeover in the early twentieth century by large U. S. corporations. Lambert’s personal journal from 1825 to 1830 came to light in Chile in 1975. It is an extraordinary day-to-day record of the first stage of a successful businessman’s career, starting with an account of his arduous journey from England to Chile in 1825. It covers the disagreements with his British employers, his final dismissal by the directors, and the great variety of deals that accompanied his move into independent entrepreneurship. The journal gives us a fascinating from-the-ground-up picture of how business was done in the Norte Chico of Chile in the 1820s and chronicles Lambert’s relationships with miners, traders, landowners, and politicians, his connections with the British trading community, and his occasional political roles. The manuscript of the journal has been edited and annotated by two experts on nineteenth-century Chile, Dr. [+]John Mayo and Professor Simon Collier, who also set the scene in a substantial introduction. This book will be of interest not merely to scholars of nineteenth-century Latin America but also to historians of mining and business.
Creator: Kenneth T. Jackson
Publication date: 2006-10-27
Dewey code: 920.073
List Price: $181.00
Price: $181.00
Review The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: 2003-2005 (Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives) / Gale Cengage:
Publication date: 1997-11-30
Review Doubts and Certainties: Life of Alexander Leeper / Melbourne University Press:The first full biography of a paradoxical, controversial and complex man who was responsible for the founding of Trinity College, the first of the residential colleges affiliated with the University of Melbourne. His insistence that residence should be provided for women as well as men was most unusual at that time.
Publication date: 1996-03
Dewey code: 016.9
List Price: $120.00
Price: $149.40
Review A Bibliography for History, History Curatorship and Museums / Scolar Press:A guide to literature sources on history making within the personal and public domains, with specific reference to history museums and collections. The central section of this book is a detailed bibliography concluding with reviews of those works which are particularly recommended.
Publication date: 1999-01
Price: $9.95
Review Jose Marti: A Biography / Senda Nueva de Ediciones, Incorporated:
Creator: H. C. G. Matthew
Publication date: 1990-04-26
Dewey code: 941
List Price: $232.43
Price: $231.21
Review The Gladstone Diaries: With Cabinet Minutes and Prime-Ministerial Correspondence Volume X: January 1881-June 1883 (Gladstone Diaries) / Oxford University Press, USA:The tenth and eleventh volumes of Gladstone's diaries cover 1881 to 1886, the years of Gladstone's highly dramatic second and third administrations. In addition to the daily text of Gladstone's private diaries (maintained almost without a break), the volumes also feature all of his never before published Cabinet Minutes and 1400 of his letters. Altogether, the material provides an invaluable inside look at some of the best known and most controversial events in Gladstone's political career: the Irish Land League, the Phoenix Park murders, Majuba and the "scramble for Africa," and the Home Rule crisis.
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History and the Historians of Medieval Spain, Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth, Zapuphizo, The Prime Minister of Taste: A Portrait of Horace Walpole, The Inventory of King Henry VIII: Transcript of the Inventory (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History, 23) (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History, 23), Saga of Aaron Burr, Ernesto Guevara, también conocido como el Che, Lew Wallace: An autobiography, Four Years in the Saddle, A Power in the Land: The Percys, History of Columbia County, New York, The Life of Henry More - Parts 1 and 2 (ARCHIVES INTERNATIONALES D'HISTOIRE DES IDEES/), Two Stars in the Southern Sky: General John Gregg C.S.A. and Mollie, The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham (1376-1422), Mining In Chile's Norte Chico: Journal Of Charles Lambert, 1825-1830 (Dellplain Latin American Studies), The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: 2003-2005 (Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives), Doubts and Certainties: Life of Alexander Leeper, A Bibliography for History, History Curatorship and Museums, Jose Marti: A Biography, The Gladstone Diaries: With Cabinet Minutes and Prime-Ministerial Correspondence Volume X: January 1881-June 1883 (Gladstone Diaries)Top headlines: Grass lawns shrink in Calif. drought: California's ever-growing population and the threat of a prolonged drought could kill the concept of the traditional lush lawn in the Golden State. ›21:18 20 Nov, Thu Burmese Battle Spiritual and Economic Ills: Businesses are struggling, prices are rising and residents are facing a spiritual crisis. 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