Creator: Roger Turvey
Publication date: 2002-09
Dewey code: 941.505
List Price: $109.95
Price: $109.95
Review A Critical Edition of Sir James Perrot's the Life, Deedes and Death of Sir John Perrott, Knight (Mellen Critical Editions and Translations, V. 8) / Edwin Mellen Press:Although this book is purported to be biographical in nature it focuses almost exclusively on Sir James Perrot's activities in dealing with Queen Elizabeth's most hazardous and protracted problem, namely Ireland.
Publication date: 2008-12-19
Dewey code: 973.7092
List Price: $125.00
Price: $110.56
Review Abraham Lincoln: A Life / The Johns Hopkins University Press:In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter and reinforce current understanding of America's sixteenth president. Volume 1 covers Lincoln's early childhood, his experiences as a farm boy in Indiana and Illinois, his legal training, and the political ambition that led to a term in Congress in the 1840s. In volume 2, Burlingame examines Lincoln's life during his presidency and the Civil War, narrating in fascinating detail the crisis over Fort Sumter and Lincoln's own battles with relentless office seekers, hostile newspaper editors, and incompetent field commanders. Burlingame also offers new interpretations of Lincoln's private life, discussing his marriage to Mary Todd and the untimely deaths of two sons to disease. But through it all - his difficult childhood, his contentious political career, a fratricidal war, and tragic personal losses - Lincoln preserved a keen sense of humor and acquired a psychological maturity that proved to be the North's most valuable asset in winning the Civil War. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, this landmark publication establishes Burlingame as the most assiduous Lincoln biographer of recent memory and brings Lincoln alive to modern readers as never before.
Creator: Nancy Son Carstens
Publication date: 2004-10-30
Dewey code: 973.33092
List Price: $115.00
Price: $110.00
Review The Life of George Rogers Clark, 1752-1818: Triumphs and Tragedies (Contributions in American History) / Praeger Publishers:The year 2002 marked the 250th anniversary of the birth of General George Rogers Clark. In celebrating Clark's life, this book presents new information and new interpretations of his impact upon the settlement of Kentucky and his control of the Old Northwest Territories. The co-editors- who include traditional historians, social historians, and revisionists-include new details not previously published or found within a single source to bring "Clark research" into the new century. Thirteen experts on various aspects of Clark's life and achievements go beyond his military career as a Revolutionary War hero and frontier Indian fighter to detail the whole of his accomplishments. They address his tragedies along with his triumphs in a refreshingly balanced portrayal. Specific topics of interest include Clark's settlement at Fort Jefferson, the myths surrounding his love life, his management of the Kentucky/Ohio Valley frontier, and a collection of portraiture art never before gathered in one volume.
Creator: Russell C. White
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 1993-01-01
Dewey code: 973.74
List Price: $30.00
Price: $110.00
Review The Civil War Diary of Wyman S. White, First Sergeant of Company F, 2nd United States Sharpshooter Regiment, 1861-1865 / Butternut and Blue:
Publication date: 2000-05-19
Review Churchill (British History in Perspective) / Palgrave Macmillan:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-01-16
Dewey code: 940
List Price: $125.00
Price: $110.55
Review Belsen: The Liberation of a Concentration Camp (Routledge Twentieth Century European History) / Routledge:Belsen is a superbly researched account of Bergen Belsen in its last days as a concentration camp and its liberation by the British. The author includes survivor testimony and sources to show both the liberation experience and the politics of the immediate post-war world.
Authors
- Michael Jaeger
- T. S. C. Lowe
- Carol, Ph.D. Lauritzen
Dewey code: 973.73
List Price: $109.95
Price: $109.95
Review Memoirs of Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, Chief of the Aeronautic Corps of the Army of the United States During the Civil War: My Balloons in Peace and War (Studies in American History (Lewiston, N.Y.), V. 53.) / Edwin Mellen Press:Although Thaddeus Lowe is a known figure to some historians, his scientific contributions such as the portable gas generators that filled his balloons and the compression ice machine that introduced "artificial" ice to the world, remain largely hidden. Ironically, it is very possible to find literature that references his work and his Civil War experiences, yet it is nearly impossible to read the book that this related literature is based upon - Lowe's autobiography. This book has been painstakingly prepared from one of the only known copies of Lowe's difficult-to-decipher text. This amplified autobiography includes photographs of the inventor and his balloons as well as photos of artifacts such as correspondences (including a handwritten note from President Lincoln) and receipts. It also contains relevant maps and supplementary information to enhance understanding of Lowe's journeys and the battles he participated in.
Publication date: 2002-10-03
Dewey code: 938.007202
List Price: $163.50
Price: $113.88
Review The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison / Oxford University Press, USA:Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) was renowned for her work on Greek art and religion. In her application of anthropology to classical studies, she stirred up controversy among her academic colleagues, while, at the same time, influencing many writers, including Yeats, D. H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf. This, the first substantial biographical study of Harrison, chronicles the life and work of the first woman in modern England to make a name as a classical scholar, her involvement in controversy throughout her life, and her remarkable influence.
Publication date: 1998-10-31
Review Big Fellow, Long Fellow / Gill & Macmillan Ltd:This is the only comparative biography of Eamon de Valera and Michael Collins, and as such has established itself as a standard work. Prolific historian Dwyer provides a fair and dispassionate comparison between the backgrounds of the two historical figures, and offers a well-rounded picture of the relationship between them.
Publication date: 2001-05-01
Dewey code: 286.1092
List Price: $148.00
Price: $116.88
Review Erroneous and Schismatical Opinions: The Question of Orthodoxy Regarding the Theology of Hanserd Knollys (C. 1599 - 1691 (Studies in the History of Christian ... in the History of Christian Thought) / Brill Academic Publishers:England in the mid-17th-century saw the emergence of numerous religious sects, one of which were the Calvinistic Baptists. During this revolutionary era this group was often accused of heresy by their Reformed contemporaries. At that time Hanserd Knollys, one of the key spokesmen for this body, was personally charged with holding heterodox beliefs, in particular, Antinomianism, Anabaptism and Fifth Monarchism. In addition, subsequent historians have been compelled to defend Knollys against the charge of hyper-Calvinism. All of these charges are serious, and consequently bring into question Knollys' basic orthodoxy. This work systematically examines each of these charges against Knollys by looking at them in their broader historical context, and then comprehensively examining them from Knollys' writings to determine if they are indeed valid. Along the way Knollys' soteriology, ecclesiology and eschatology receive vital and needed elucidation.
Publication date: 2002-10
Dewey code: 920
Price: $16.95
Review Queen Elizabeth II and the Royal Family in Canada (Golden Jubilee / Stewart House Publishing (Canada):Featured are treasured photographs and stories for the archives of the Canadian Press, golden moments from 50 years of following the Queen and her family in Canada.
Creator: H.A.Patchett- Martin
Publication date: 1995-08-01
Price: $115.00
Review An Aide-de-Camp of Napoleon / Worley Publications:
Creator: George E. Carter
Publication date: 2001-07
Dewey code: 973.7471092
List Price: $129.95
Price: $129.95
Review The Story of Joshua D. Breyfogle, Private, 4th Ohio Infantry (10th Ohio Cavalry) and the Civil War (Studies in American History) / Edwin Mellen Press:At the age of 54, Joshua Breyfogle, a tailor from a small town in Central Ohio, left his wife and six children and enlisted in the Union Army, serving four years as a solider in infantry and cavalry units both in the Eatern and WEstern theatres of the conflict. THese letters and account books are gems in terms of detailed and descriptive accounts of what was happening to him and to his sons all through the War, providing an excellent source for a social history of the United States in the 19th century, as well as shedding new light on the Civil War soldier as an individual.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2009-01-30
Dewey code: 930
List Price: $120.00
Price: $110.38
Review JULIUS CAESAR: The Colossus of Rome (Roman Imperial Biographies) / Routledge:"Julius Caesar" offers a lively, engaging, and thoroughly up-to-date account of Caesar's life and times. Richard Billows' dynamic and fast paced narrative offers an imaginative recounting of actions and events, providing the ideal introduction to Julius Caesar for general readers and students of classics and ancient history. The book is not just a biography of Caesar, but an historical account and explanation of the decline and fall of the Roman Republican governing system, in which Caesar played a crucial part. To understand Caesar's life and role, it is necessary to grasp the political, social and economic problems Rome was grappling with, and the deep divisions within Roman society that came from them. Caesar has been seen variously as a mere opportunist, a power-hungry autocrat, an arrogant aristocrat disdaining rivals, a traditional Roman noble politician who stumbled into civil war and autocracy thanks to being misunderstood by his rivals, and even as the ideal man and pattern of all virtues. Billows argues that such portrayals fail to consider the universal testimony of our ancient sources that Roman political life was divided in Caesar's time into two great political tendencies, called 'optimates' and 'populares' in the sources, of which Caesar came to be the leader of one: the 'popularis' faction. Billows suggests that it is only when we see Caesar as the leader of a great political and social movement, that had been struggling with its rival movement for decades and had been several times violently repressed in the course of that struggle, that we can understand how and why Caesar came to fight and win a civil war, and bring the traditional governing system of Rome to an end.
Creator: Philip S. Borba
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1988-10-31
Dewey code: 368.41011
List Price: $154.00
Price: $122.49
Review Workers Compensation Insurance Pricing: Current Programs and Proposed Reforms (Huebner International Series on Risk, Insurance and Economic Security) / Springer:
Creator: Holger Helbig
Edition: Bilingual
Publication date: 2007-03-30
Dewey code: 016.833914
List Price: $109.95
Price: $109.95
Review Hubert Fichte: Eine Kritische Auswahlbibliographie / Edwin Mellen Press:
Creator: Lorna (Narrator)
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2009-01-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $110.00
Price: $110.00
Review Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy (Library) / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:Lucrezia Borgia was a shrewd woman who used her beauty and intelligence to secure a key role in the political struggles of her day. Bradford brings to life the dangerous politics of the Renaissance world she helped to create.
Creator: Gene Marshall
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-08
Dewey code: 920
Price: $20.99
Review The Memoirs of Jean Laffite / Xlibris Corporation:Jean Laffite, famous for aiding Andrew Jackson during the Battle of New Orleans, is largely a man of mystery before and after that event. His recollections of a raider's life before the War of 1812 and his adventures after his expulsion from Galveston, Texas, are now recounted in this English translation from the original French of the words of an old man living with his new, young family in St. Louis, Missouri, in the 1840's.
Creator: Stefan (Narrator)
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2009-02-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $110.00
Price: $110.00
Review Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power (Library) / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:Carwardine examines Lincoln both as a rising politician and as president. As a defender of national unity, a leader in war, and the emancipator of slaves, Abraham Lincoln lays ample claim to being the greatest of our presidents.
Publication date: 2000-01-12
Review Gladstone (British History in Perspective) / Palgrave Macmillan:
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A Critical Edition of Sir James Perrot's the Life, Deedes and Death of Sir John Perrott, Knight (Mellen Critical Editions and Translations, V. 8), Abraham Lincoln: A Life, The Life of George Rogers Clark, 1752-1818: Triumphs and Tragedies (Contributions in American History), The Civil War Diary of Wyman S. White, First Sergeant of Company F, 2nd United States Sharpshooter Regiment, 1861-1865, Churchill (British History in Perspective), Belsen: The Liberation of a Concentration Camp (Routledge Twentieth Century European History), Memoirs of Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, Chief of the Aeronautic Corps of the Army of the United States During the Civil War: My Balloons in Peace and War (Studies in American History (Lewiston, N.Y.), V. 53.), The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison, Big Fellow, Long Fellow, Erroneous and Schismatical Opinions: The Question of Orthodoxy Regarding the Theology of Hanserd Knollys (C. 1599 - 1691 (Studies in the History of Christian ... in the History of Christian Thought), Queen Elizabeth II and the Royal Family in Canada (Golden Jubilee, An Aide-de-Camp of Napoleon, The Story of Joshua D. Breyfogle, Private, 4th Ohio Infantry (10th Ohio Cavalry) and the Civil War (Studies in American History), JULIUS CAESAR: The Colossus of Rome (Roman Imperial Biographies), Workers Compensation Insurance Pricing: Current Programs and Proposed Reforms (Huebner International Series on Risk, Insurance and Economic Security), Hubert Fichte: Eine Kritische Auswahlbibliographie, Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy (Library), The Memoirs of Jean Laffite, Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power (Library), Gladstone (British History in Perspective)Top headlines: Real Estate: Keeping Tabs On 'This Old House': Now in its 28th year, 'This Old House' has helped transform dozens of houses. But what does it really cost to be part of this DIY club? ›17:21 9 Oct, Tue Interview: Susan Faludi on 9/11 Myths: In her new book, Susan Faludi examines the cultural impact of the 9/11 terror attacks. 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