Creator: George Evans
Publication date: 1991-12-01
Dewey code: 811.54
Price: $30.00
Review Charles Olson & Cid Corman: Complete Correspondence, 1950-1964, Volume 2 / National Poetry Foundation:
Publication date: 1998-06
Price: $18.95
Review Yo, Vincent Van Gogh / Editorial Planeta, S.A. (Barcelona):
Publication date: 1972-01
Price: $112.00
Review Wellington: Pillar of State / Books on Tape:A full picture of Wellington's mature years as a diplomat and influential statesman.
Creator: Dawn Blow
Edition: Facsim.of 1944 Ed
Publication date: 1995-12-01
Review Clippie (Adam Gordon Reprints) / Adam Gordon:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1998-10-01
Dewey code: 973.737
Price: $29.95
Review The Burning : Sheridan's Devastation of the Shenandoah Valley / Howell Press Inc.:Gen. U. S. Grant's order to cripple the ability of the Shenandoah Valley to supply the CSA with food and fodder affected the civilian population as did no other act of war, including Sherman's march through Georgia. Packed with the firsthand accounts of victims and perpetrators alike, this book brings history alive.
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 1989-03-10
Review Gladstone / Palgrave Macmillan:
Publication date: 1943
Review There's a German just behind me / The Right Book Club:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2004-06-18
Dewey code: 937.060922
List Price: $105.00
Price: $103.04
Review Emperors Don't Die in Bed / Routledge:Very few of the Roman emperors died a natural death. The insane Caligula was murdered after leaving the theatre; Caracalla while he was relieving himself. Caesar was stabbed twenty-three times and Otho was dragged into the Tiber with a flesh-hook. However great an emperor's power, danger was ever present. This fresh and engaging book looks at each of the Roman emperors from Julius Caesar in 44BC to Romulus Augustulus in AD 476, illuminating not only the manner of their deaths but what their final days tell us about their lives. We also hear how the most powerful position in the history of the Western world held a permanent appeal, despite its perils, with eager candidates constantly coming forward to seize the throne. Emperors Don't Die in Beds provides a clear history of the imperial succession as well as a compelling depiction of the intrigue and drama of Roman imperial politics.
Creator: Jon L. Wakelyn
Publication date: 1998-11-30
Dewey code: 973.70922
List Price: $129.95
Price: $103.96
Review Leaders of the American Civil War: A Biographical and Historiographical Dictionary / Greenwood Press:Covering both the great military leaders and the critical civilian leaders, this book provides an overview of their careers and a professional assessment of their accomplishments. Entries consider the leaders' character and prewar experiences, their contributions to the war effort, and the war's impact on the rest of their lives. The entries then look at how history has assessed these leaders, thus putting their longtime reputations on the line. The result is a thorough revision of some leaders' careers, a call for further study of others, and a reaffirmation of the accomplishments of the greatest leaders. Analyzing the leaders historiographically, the work shows how the leaders wanted to be remembered, how postwar memorists and biographers saw them, the verdict of early historians, and how the best modern historians have assessed their contributions. By including a variety of leaders from both civilian and military roles, the book provides a better understanding of the total war, and by relating their lives to their times, it provides a better understanding of historical revisionism and of why history has been so interested in Civil War lives.
Publication date: 2003-06-30
Review My Very Dearest Sweet Heart or: Boswell Before Boswell / Oxmuir Script:
Publication date: 2003-03
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $103.99
Price: $103.99
Review The Life of John of Barneveld, 1609-23 / IndyPublish.com:
Publication date: 1992-05-29
Price: $55.00
Review Napoleonic War Journ Of / RH Canada UK Dist:
Publication date: 2000-03
Dewey code: 941.081092
Price: $18.00
Review Helena: Princess Reclaimed : The Life and Times of Queen Victoria's Third Daughter / Begell House Publishers:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1997-03-14
Dewey code: 938.108092
List Price: $120.00
Price: $103.88
Review Antigonus II Gonatas: A Political Biography / Routledge:Blunt, honest and tenacious, Antigonus II Gonatas assumed the title King of Macedonia in 283 BC and reigned for more than forty years. Pragmatic and occasionally ruthless, he was a well-educated man with a keen interest in philosophy. He gathered about him poets, philosophers and historians; his long reign, despite vicissitudes, re-established Macedonia as a nation. Janice J. Gabbert portrays the eventful life of this enigmatic king in a lively and engaging manner. Her aim is to trace the political career of a man about whose life almost no official records survive. Taking into account the most recent epigraphical evidence, the author brings to life a fascinating political figure. This is the first study entirely devoted to Antigonus for over eighty years.
Publication date: 1997-08-01
Dewey code: 266.0092271
List Price: $124.00
Price: $102.62
Review The Missionary Lives: A Study in Canadian Missionary Biography and Autobiography (Studies in Christian Mission) (Studies in Christian Mission) / Brill Academic Publishers:This book is a survey of the life writings by and about Canadian missionaries at home and abroad, over the last one hundred and thirty years. A general missionary history of Canada appears first, to introduce separate chapters on the forms and themes of this body of literature. The critical problems presented by writing that has resisted modern and post-modern developments are discussed. Partial and fictional life writing, as well as marginal forms, are also explored. The book concludes with general statements about the whole of this literature and its effects. The first attempt at a comprehensive bibliography of Canadian missionary life writing is appended.
Creator: Kevin Theakston
Publication date: 2004-09-15
Dewey code: 320.9410904
Price: $36.95
Review Winston Churchill and the British Constitution / Politicos:A detailed account of Churchill's constitutional thinking and of his impact on the British constitution during the longest and most extraordinary political career in 20th-century Britain.
Publication date: 2000-06
Dewey code: 810.9492
Price: $59.95
Review Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities (Cultural Studies of the United States) / University of North Carolina Press:In the 1920s, black janitor Sylvester Long reinvented himself as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, and Elizabeth Stern, the native-born daughter of a German Lutheran and a Welsh Baptist, authored the immigrant's narrative I Am a Woman—and a Jew; in the 1990s, Asa Carter, George Wallace's former speechwriter, produced the fake Cherokee autobiography, The Education of Little Tree. While striking, these examples of what Laura Browder calls ethnic impersonator autobiographies are by no means singular. Over the past 150 years, a number of American authors have left behind unwanted identities by writing themselves into new ethnicities. Significantly, notes Browder, these ersatz autobiographies have tended to appear at flashpoints in American history: in the decades before the Civil War, when immigration laws and laws regarding Native Americans were changing in the 1920s, and during the civil rights era, for example. Examining the creation and reception of such works from the 1830s through the 1990s—against a background ranging from the abolition movement and Wild West shows to more recent controversies surrounding blackface performance and jazz music—Browder uncovers their surprising influence in shaping American notions of identity.
Publication date: 2004-04-30
Dewey code: 305.6899071
List Price: $104.95
Price: $104.95
Review Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse / UBC Press:The Doukhobors, Russian-speaking immigrants who arrived in Canada in 1899, are primarily known to the Canadian public through sensationalist images of them as nude protestors, anarchists, and religious fanatics - representations largely propagated by government commissions and the Canadian media. In Negotiating Memory, Julie Rak examines the ways in which the Doukhobors have employed autobiographical strategies to retell and reclaim their own history in the face of such images. Drawing from oral interviews, court documents, government reports, prison diaries, and journalism, Rak demonstrates how the Doukhobors used both "classic" and alternative forms of autobiography to communicate their views about communal living, vegetarianism, activism, and spiritual life, as well as to pass on traditions to successive generations. More than a historical work, this book brings together recent theories of subjectivity, autobiography, and identity, and shows how Doukhobor autobiographical discourse forms a series of ongoing negotiations for identity and collective survival which at times is successful in gaining visibility within dominant discourses of the subject, and at times is not. An innovative study, Negotiating Memory will appeal to those interested in autobiography studies, historians, literary critics, and students and scholars of Canadian cultural studies. Using aspects of cultural studies and autobiography studies, this book examines how the Doukhobors of Canada employed standard and alternative forms of autobiography to create and sustain their own subjectivity and identity.
Publication date: 1953-01
Price: $56.00
Review Seven Years in Tibet / Books On Tape:This real-life adventure is the story of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian who, during World War II, escaped from a British internment camp in India and walked across the Himalayas. Harrer eventually arrived in Tibet, where he spent seven years with the Dalai Lama. This fascinating audiobook coincides with the release of the feature film starring Brad Pitt. October publication date. 2 cassettes. Originally published in 1953, this adventure classic recounts Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer's 1943 escape from a British internment camp in India, his daring trek across the Himalayas, and his happy sojourn in Tibet, then, as now, a remote land little visited by foreigners. Warmly welcomed, he eventually became tutor to the Dalai Lama, teenaged god-king of the theocratic nation. The author's vivid descriptions of Tibetan rites and customs capture its unique traditions before the Chinese invasion in 1950, which prompted Harrer's departure. A 1996 epilogue details the genocidal havoc wrought over the past half-century.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1997-02-01
Dewey code: 813.3
List Price: $103.95
Price: $103.92
Review CENTENARY ED WORKS NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE: VOL. XXI, THE ENGLISH NOTEBOOKS, 1853185 (Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne) / Ohio State University Press:
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