Creator: Allan Nevins
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1988-09
Dewey code: 974.71030924
Price: $35.00
Review The Diary of George Templeton Strong / University of Washington Press:
Publication date: 1994
Review Lenin Life and Legacy / HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited:
Publication date: 1993-09
List Price: $34.95
Price: $99.41
Review Brotherhood to Nationhood: George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement / Between the Lines:George Manuel was a prominent leader of Canada's modern Indian movement and an internationally acclaimed spokesperson for native rights. His story is not just of one individual but of the rise of native power and consciousness in Canada and throughout the world.
Publication date: 1990-01
Dewey code: 370.195
Price: $22.95
Review Education of a Survivor: From the School of Hard Knocks to a Doctoral Degree / Univ of Hawaii Pr:
Publication date: 1996-07
Dewey code: 355
List Price: $25.00
Price: $99.45
Review A Lieutenant of Cavalry in Lee's Army / Stan Clark Military Books:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-01-22
Dewey code: 938.504092
List Price: $125.00
Price: $99.78
Review Perikles and His Circle / Routledge:This book traces Pericles' development from a somewhat hesitant, though left-leaning politician, to a mature statesman fully committed to expanding Athens' maritime empire and using the material benefits of that empire to improve the ordinary lives of Athenian citizens. Anthony J. Podlecki depicts Pericles actions and interactions with a large and varied circle of friends, acquaintances, and political adversaries and demonstrates how his circle advised and influenced his development as a leader.
Publication date: 1998-01
Review William of Orange: A Dedicated Life, 1650-1702 / Education Committee of Grand Orange Lodge of:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-01-16
Dewey code: 193
List Price: $160.00
Price: $133.12
Review Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience / Routledge:In this major reinterpretation, Howard Caygill argues that all of Benjamin's work is characterized by its focus on a concept of experience derived from Kant but applied by Benjamin to objects as diverse as urban experience, visual art, literature and philosophy. The book analyzes the development of Benjamin's concept of experience in his early writings showing that it emerges from an engagement with visual experience, and in particular the experience of colour. By representing Benjamin as primarily a thinker of the visual field, Caygill is able to bring forward previously neglected texts on inscription and the visual field and to cast many of his more familiar texts, for instance the Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction in a new light.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-09-13
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $110.00
Price: $99.74
Review Galerius and the Will of Diocletian (Imperial Biographies) / Routledge:"Galerius and the Will of Diocletian" is the first key study of the emperor Galerius, presenting clearly how he interacted with his co-emperor the great Diocletian and how their policies were developed. Leadbetter argues that Diocletian's apparent reforms to the imerial office, with the invention of what is commonly called a 'tetrarchy', are inventions of modern historiography. Rather, he sought to fashion a new political dynasty out of the empire's emerging military elite.
Creator: Nicholas Horsfall
Publication date: 1990-01-25
Dewey code: 938.00992
Price: $17.95
Review Cornelius Nepos: A Selection, including the Lives of Cato and Atticus (Clarendon Ancient History Series) / Oxford University Press, USA:This book, the flagship of the new Clarendon Ancient History Series, provides a complete translation of and historical commentary on the most important works of Cornelius Nepos (c. 99-c. 24 B. C. ). In addition to Nepos's biographies of Cato and Atticus, the book includes the Preface to the Foreign Generals, Fragments, and the Letters of Cornelia.
Authors
- Elizabeth Darracott Wheeler
Dewey code: 941.050922
List Price: $99.95
Price: $99.95
Review Ten Remarkable Women of the Tudor Courts and Their Influence in Founding of the New World, 1530-1630 (Mellen Lives, Vol 11) / Edwin Mellen Press:The remarkable women studied in this work include: Lady Jane Grey; Mary Queen of Scots; Margaret, Countess of Cumberland; Bess Throckmorton Raleigh; and Eleanor White Dare.
Authors
- Russell F. Bryant
- F. Russell Bryant
- H. A. L. Fisher
Dewey code: 941.083092
List Price: $99.95
Price: $99.95
Review The Coalition Diaries And Letters of H.a.l. Fisher, 1916-1922: The Historian in Lloyd George's Cabinet (Studies in British History) / Edwin Mellen Press:HAL Fisher was the only professional historian to sit in the British Cabinet and was a member of the first genuine coalition in modern British history. He was an academic who recorded the great events in history, and his diaries and letters attest to his remarkable career as an educator, public servant, and scholar.
Creator: John Stuart Batts
Publication date: 1997-10
Dewey code: 709.2
List Price: $99.95
Price: $99.95
Review The Diary of English Art Critic Eric Newton: On a North American Lecture Tour in 1937 / Edwin Mellen Press:
Publication date: 1991-10
Dewey code: 954.035
List Price: $120.00
Price: $117.00
Review Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, a Historic Partnership (1916-1948) / South Asia Books:
Authors
- Kay Phillips
- Mostafa Rejai
Dewey code: 973.41092
List Price: $99.95
Price: $99.95
Review The Young George Washington in Psychobiographical Perspective / Edwin Mellen Press:George Washington appears from two personality standpoints: pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary. This work focuses on pre-revolutionary Washington and his strengths, weaknesses and foibles, and the conditions and events that shaped his personality and drove him to action.
Creator: Harvard S. Heath
Edition: Limited
Publication date: 1997-11
Dewey code: 328.73092
List Price: $100.00
Price: $99.95
Review In the World: The Diaries of Reed Smoot (Significant Mormon Diaries) / Signature Books:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-08-09
Dewey code: 943.08092
List Price: $100.00
Price: $54.99
Review Bismarck (Routledge Historical Biographies) / Routledge:Arguably one of the most important figures in nineteenth-century European history, Otto von Bismarck is well known for being the architect of the German Empire and for his fiery speechs. In addition, this dynamic statesman is also credited with developing for Germany a common currency and central bank, a single code of commercial and civil law and introducing the world's first modern welfare scheme to provide benefits to the sick, accident victims and the elderly. This new biography, brings Bismarck alive as a person, as well as analyzing his significance as a historical figure. It traces his development from a typical junker, a reactionary and conservative, into the so-called white revolutionary who recast European affairs more drastically than anyone since Napoleon. A political genius, Bismarck had a wonderful command of language, which might have made him a literary figure of distinction. But most of the time the more poetic side of his personality was overshadowed by his brutalwill to power, modified only by his legendary ability to calculate political risks and make alliances. This book will leave the reader with a strongly etched portrait of one of the significant characters of the modern age.
Publication date: 2000-06-22
Dewey code: 944
List Price: $111.00
Price: $99.95
Review Louis XVI: The Silent King (Reputations) / A Hodder Arnold Publication:Louis XVI was at the center of the French Revolution, one of the major turning points in world history, but he remains relatively little known, often portrayed only as the weak, lazy, and treasonous king dominated by Marie-Antoinette. This new investigation by John Hardman, a leading expert on the French Revolution, challenges this stereotype. Drawing on new evidence from Louis XVI's letters and from a large body of new research, Hardman provides the first detailed reconstruction of the king's political thought and sheds new light on the king's character and personality. Ideal for students and scholars of modern history, Louis XVI is an important reconsideration of key aspect of the French and a lively introduction to this willfully enigmatic man.
Creator: Mary S. Millar
Publication date: 1997-12-27
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $134.00
Price: $99.80
Review Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1852-1856 (Letters of Benjamin Disraeli) / University of Toronto Press:Benjamin Disraeli, Queen Victoria's favourite prime minister, was, in the words of Robert Blake, 'the best letter-writer among English statesmen. 'This, the latest volume in the critically acclaimed Letters of Benjamin Disraeli series, contains or describes 951 letters (784 previously unpublished) written by Disraeli between 1852 and 1856. These years cover his first cabinet post, as chancellor of the exchequer, his attempts as House leader to unify the Conservative party, and his opposition to the Crimean War, both in the House and in his newspaper, The Press. Included are significant runs of correspondence, such as 63 letters (34 previously unpublished) to the 14th Earl of Derby, and 75 letters (none previously published) to Lord Stanley, the future 15th Earl of Derby, as well as more personal ones, such as 59 letters to the eccentric Mrs Brydges Willyams, the 'female Croesus' who offered Disraeli a substantial legacy. These illuminate anew both his public and private life, and show the strength of his resolve to reshape party policies to suit the age of industrialism and free trade. New light is also thrown on other matters, such as the supposed plagiarism in his panegyric on the Duke of Wellington. Ten appendices include full cabinet lists, Disraeli's own reminiscences of the period, and Stanley's remarkable verbatim notes of intimate conversations with Disraeli at Hughenden Manor. At any time, Benjamin Disraeli would have been a remarkable man; during the time in which he lived, he was extraordinary. At various times a solicitor, a speculator, a journalist, and a politician, Disraeli was also a writer. In fact, his early publishing success, with such novels as Vivian Grey, The Young Duke, and Alroy, offset his political defeats as he attempted to gain a seat in the British parliament. [+]Of course, today Disraeli is better remembered as one of England's greatest prime ministers than as a writer-an injustice that Benjamin Disraeli Letters will hopefully do much to correct. In this sixth volume of the great man's correspondence, as in the previous five, all of Benjamin Disraeli's many talents (and flaws) are on display. In addition to his political acuity, these letters demonstrate why "Diz" is so much quoted, even today, as he brings a novelist's merciless eye and facility with language to the wild and woolly world of British politics. Historians will be especially pleased with this collection, filled as it is with the business of running a government, but even more casual readers can take pleasure in the vivid portrait of the Victorian era that Disraeli so entertainingly evokes.
Publication date: 2002-02
Dewey code: 945.5106
List Price: $43.95
Price: $99.36
Review Debts, Dowries, Donkeys: The Diary Of Niccolo Machiavelli's Father, Messer Bernardo, In Quattrocento Florence (Dialoghi/Dialogues : Literatur Und Kultur Italiens Und Frankreichs, Volume 5) / Peter Lang Publishing:
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The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Lenin Life and Legacy, Brotherhood to Nationhood: George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement, Education of a Survivor: From the School of Hard Knocks to a Doctoral Degree, A Lieutenant of Cavalry in Lee's Army, Perikles and His Circle, William of Orange: A Dedicated Life, 1650-1702, Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience, Galerius and the Will of Diocletian (Imperial Biographies), Cornelius Nepos: A Selection, including the Lives of Cato and Atticus (Clarendon Ancient History Series), Ten Remarkable Women of the Tudor Courts and Their Influence in Founding of the New World, 1530-1630 (Mellen Lives, Vol 11), The Coalition Diaries And Letters of H.a.l. Fisher, 1916-1922: The Historian in Lloyd George's Cabinet (Studies in British History), The Diary of English Art Critic Eric Newton: On a North American Lecture Tour in 1937, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, a Historic Partnership (1916-1948), The Young George Washington in Psychobiographical Perspective, In the World: The Diaries of Reed Smoot (Significant Mormon Diaries), Bismarck (Routledge Historical Biographies), Louis XVI: The Silent King (Reputations), Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1852-1856 (Letters of Benjamin Disraeli), Debts, Dowries, Donkeys: The Diary Of Niccolo Machiavelli's Father, Messer Bernardo, In Quattrocento Florence (Dialoghi/Dialogues : Literatur Und Kultur Italiens Und Frankreichs, Volume 5)Top headlines: Revving up the race for fuel efficiency: New research suggests that impressive increases in fuel economy could be obtained by integrating innovative devices into the nations fleet of gas-guzzling vehicles. ›13:39 Bush, first lady mark World AIDS Day: President Bush says his presidential initiative has already met its goal of treating two million people with the deadly AIDS disease in sub-Saharan Africa. ›15:53 What a relief! 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