Publication date: 1947
Review Gunners: A narrative of the gunners of Southern Rhodesia during The Second World War / The Southern Rhodesian Artillery Association:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-12-30
Dewey code: 947.084092
List Price: $95.00
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Review Trotsky (Routledge Historical Biographies) / Routledge:Leon Trotsky has always aroused strong passions-historians love and hate him in equal measure. This new biography provides a full account of his political life, based upon a wealth of primary sources, including previously unpublished material. Ian D. Thatcher paints a new picture of Trotsky's standing in Russian and world history. Key myths about Trotsky's heroic work as a revolutionary, especially in Russia's first revolution of 1905 and the Russian Civil War, are thrown into question. Although Trotsky had a limited understanding of crucial contemporary events such as Hitler's rise to power, he was an important thinker and politician, not least as a trenchant critic of Stalin's version of communism. This study provides a clear and accessible introduction to Trotsky's life and thought for anyone interested in twentieth-century Russian and World History.
Publication date: 2008-10-10
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $94.99
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Review Speeches of the Honorable Jefferson Davis 1858 / IndyPublish:I have heard the resolutions read and approved by this meeting; heard the address of your candidate for Governor; and these added to the address of my old and intimate friend, Gen. Cushing, bear to me fresh testimony, which I shall be happy to carry away with me, that the democracy, in the language of your own glorious Webster, "still lives," lives not as his great spirit did, when it hung 'twixt life and death, like a star upon the horizon's verge, but lives like the germ that is shooting upward, like the sapling that is growing to a mighty tree, the branches of which will spread over the commonwealth, and may redeem and restore Massachusetts to her once glorious place in the Union.
Creator: Brian Harrison
Publication date: 2007-12-03
Dewey code: 920.041
List Price: $150.00
Price: $126.20
Review Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Index of Contributors / Oxford University Press, USA:This volume provides an alphabetical list of the 10,000 contributors to the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", and gives details of the articles they have contributed to the work.
Publication date: 1995
Price: $95.00
Review Ohio in the war: Her statesmen, generals and soldiers / Bergman Books:Her Statesmen, Generals and Soldiers, Two hardbound volumes, Vol I: The History of Ohio During the War and the Lives of Her Generals. Vol. II: The History of Her Regiments and Other Military Organizations.
Publication date: 1994-07-26
Dewey code: 305.562092241
List Price: $95.00
Price: $95.00
Review Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People From 1820s to 1920s / Routledge:"Useful Toil" focuses on the "ordinary" people of the 19th century. John Burnett has assembled 27 telling extracts from the diaries and autobiographies of working people - wheelwrights and stone-masons, miners and munition workers, butlers and kitchen maids, navvies, carpenters, potters and ship assistants, to list only a few. The men and women who speak in these pages concentrate on their working experiences, though they also write about their homes and their fears. They thus reveal, often unconsciously, the essence of their attitudes, values and beliefs. The majority of these writings were previously unpublished. Burnett's broad and sympathetic introductions focus and contextualize the wealth of material. These stories provide the antithesis of "great name" history, yet they constantly touch on human experiences that are timeless and universal. Burnett's other works include: "Plenty and Want: A Social History of Diet in England From 1815 to the Present"; "A History of the Cost of Living" (1969); "The Challenge of the Nineteenth Century" (1970); "Destiny Obscure" (1982, 1994); and "Idle Hands: The Experience of Unemployment, 1790-1990".
Creator: Barbara B. Oberg
Publication date: 1998-12-11
Dewey code: 973.30924
List Price: $100.00
Price: $94.99
Review The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 34: Volume 34: November 16, 1780, through April 30, 1781 (The Papers of Benjamin Franklin Series) / Yale University Press:This is the first volume to come from a great scholarly undertaking, the assembly and editing of Benjamin Franklin's complete writings and correspondence. It contains more than three times as much material as the Smyth edition for this period, from Franklin's birth in 1706 to the end of 1734. It shows the young Franklin of Boston and Philadelphia as a man of letters-essayist, journalist, pamphleteer-and as a rising young printer.
Creator: Michael Hurd
Edition: Revised 2000 an
Publication date: 2001-07-26
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $95.00
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Review Letters of Gerald Finzi and Howard Ferguson (Music) / Boydell Press:The letters that passed, on an almost daily basis, between the composers Howard Ferguson and Gerald Finzi provide not only a fascinating commentary on the British musical scene of the period 1926-1956, but also what amounts to a unique dual-biography of two remarkable, though very different, personalities. Their lives, their loves, their enthusiasms and their prejudices are laid bare with a rare degree of candour, so that we learn not only what it was like to be witness to an art that was enjoying an unprecedented explosion of creative vitality, but also how they came to explore and consolidate their own exceptional talents. Biographical background narratives provide links that make clear what intimate correspondents inevitably take for granted, and explanations are given for references that the passage of time has made obscure. Their lives are thus revealed in all their diversity - tragedy and comedy, achievement and frustration, justifiable pride and unreasoning prejudice playing equal parts in this absorbing tale of two outstanding musical personalities of the twentieth century.
Publication date: 2005-07
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Review The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 / IndyPublish.com:
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2004-08-26
Dewey code: 900
List Price: $95.00
Price: $94.96
Review Emperor Constantine (Lancaster Pamphlets in Ancient History) / Routledge:"Emperor Constantine" provides a convenient and concise introduction to one of the most important figures in ancient history. Taking into account the historiographical debates of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Hans A. Pohlsander: * describes the Roman world into which Constantine was born * assesses Constantine's ability as a soldier and statesman * emphasizes the significance of Constantine as Rome's first Christian emperor * discusses the importance of the establishment of the new capital of Byzantium * gives an even-handed assessment of Constantine's achievements. This second edition is updated throughout to take into account the latest research on the subject. Also included is a revised introduction and an enlarged bibliography.
Publication date: 2008-09-11
List Price: $94.99
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Review Thomas Hariot / IndyPublish:Thomas Hariot was the author of ' Briefe and true report of the new foundland of Virginia. London, 1588, 4.
Publication date: 2008-07-17
Dewey code: 942.7105092
List Price: $95.00
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Review Humphrey Newton (1466-1536): an early Tudor Gentleman / Boydell Press:The public and political lives of the fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century gentry have been extensively studied, but comparatively little is known of their private lives and beliefs. Humphrey Newton of Pownall, Cheshire, offers a rare and fascinating opportunity to redress the balance, thanks to the fortunate survival of a commonplace book he compiled c. 1498-1524. Drawing upon this unique manuscript, this interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional study of Newton explores his family life, landed estate, legal work, piety, and his literary skills (he composed nearly twenty courtly love lyrics). It charts his social advancement and the self-fashioning of his gentle image, while placing him in the context of current discussions of gentry culture. What makes Newton even more noteworthy is that he was among the unsung and little known stratum of English society historians have labelled the 'lesser' gentry. As such, this book provides the first comprehensive biography of an early Tudor gentleman.
Publication date: 1989
Price: $95.00
Review Lee and Longstreet at high tide: Gettysburg in the light of the official records / Broadfoot Pub. Co:
Publication date: 2008-10-10
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $94.99
Price: $94.99
Review Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope / IndyPublish:
Publication date: 2007-03-19
Dewey code: 283.092
List Price: $109.95
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Review William Montgomery Brown (1855-1937): The Southern Episcopal Church Bishop Who Became a Communist / Edwin Mellen Press:This study focuses on the background, life and personality of Episcopal Bishop William Montgomery Brown to explain why he became a materialist and a communist. Born to poor but industrious parents near Orrville, Ohio in 1855, he pursued the ordained ministry in the Episcopal Church. Following the publication of his "The Church for Americans" in 1895, he was chosen as the episcopal successor to the Rt. Rev. Henry Niles Pierce, Bishop of Arkansas. He went on to write some works which proved controversial, causing friction within and outside of his diocese, leading him to move back to his native Ohio where, following a crisis of faith, he became a materialist and communist. Then, following the publication of his "Communism and Christianism: Banish Gods from Skies and Capitalists from Earth!", he was tried for heresy and deposed in 1925. He spent the remaining years of his life advancing communism and advocating a symbolic, non-supernatural Christianity, up until his death in 1937.
Authors
- Lynda Lasswell Crist
- Haskell M. Monroe
- Mary Seaton Dix
- Jefferson Davis
- James T. McIntosh
- Kenneth H. Williams
Publication date: 1995-01
Dewey code: 973.713092
List Price: $95.00
Price: $95.00
Review The Papers of Jefferson Davis 1862 (Papers of Jefferson Davis) / Louisiana State University Press:
Creator: Harold Orlans
Publication date: 1993-07
Dewey code: 820.9
Price: $47.50
Review Lawrence of Arabia, Strange Man of Letters: The Literary Criticism and Correspondence of T. E. Lawrence / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press:T. E. Lawrence read prodigiously, translated French find Greek works, wrote Seven Pillars of Wisdom and The Mint, book reviews and introductions, advised publishers, and met and corresponded with many literary figures. This book presents a generous selection of Lawrence's literary correspondence and all of his introductions, book reviews, and literary ephemera.
Authors
- William Kalush and Larry Sloman
Publication date: 2007-10-31
List Price: $95.00
Price: $95.00
Review The Secret Life of Houdini Laid Bare - 2 Volume Boxed Set / Conjuring Arts Research Center & Magic Words:The Secret Life of Houdini by William Kalush and Larry Sloman is perhaps the most controversial book ever written about Harry Houdini. The authors have now compiled all of their notes and sources into a beautiful companion volume to the biography. The Secret Life of Houdini Laid Bare provides a fascinating peek into the voluminous files that were collected from all parts of the world. Plus, all of the material that was edited out of the biography appears in Houdini Laid Bare for the first time. And scattered throughout this new book are more than seventy rare photographs relating to the career of the Great Houdini. Fans of magic history will find that reading both books together will bring each one to life. This limited edition set includes: * 1st printing, 1st edition of The Secret Life of Houdini, the biography with a special color frontispiece signed and numbered by both authors * A copy of the beautifully produced and illustrated 333 page hardbound volume of footnotes, The Secret Life of Houdini Laid Bare, which also includes a full color frontispiece signed and numbered by both authors. * Both volumes come in a fine cloth, foil stamped, deep blue slip case Only 1000 of these special box sets exist, so order now and don't miss your chance to own this piece of Houdini history.
Edition: 3-Volume Set
Dewey code: 324.623092
List Price: $128.95
Price: $95.00
Review Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony / Beaufort Books:A biography written during the lifetime of the subject is unusualbut to the friends of Miss Anthony it seemed especially desirable because the reform in which she and her contemporaries have been engaged has not been given a deserved place in the pages of history and the accounts must be leaned very largely from unpublished records and personal recollections.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-01-01
Dewey code: 851.1
List Price: $95.00
Price: $95.00
Review A New Life Of Dante / University of Exeter Press:
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Gunners: A narrative of the gunners of Southern Rhodesia during The Second World War, Trotsky (Routledge Historical Biographies), Speeches of the Honorable Jefferson Davis 1858, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Index of Contributors, Ohio in the war: Her statesmen, generals and soldiers, Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People From 1820s to 1920s, The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 34: Volume 34: November 16, 1780, through April 30, 1781 (The Papers of Benjamin Franklin Series), Letters of Gerald Finzi and Howard Ferguson (Music), The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825, Emperor Constantine (Lancaster Pamphlets in Ancient History), Thomas Hariot, Humphrey Newton (1466-1536): an early Tudor Gentleman, Lee and Longstreet at high tide: Gettysburg in the light of the official records, Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope, William Montgomery Brown (1855-1937): The Southern Episcopal Church Bishop Who Became a Communist, The Papers of Jefferson Davis 1862 (Papers of Jefferson Davis), Lawrence of Arabia, Strange Man of Letters: The Literary Criticism and Correspondence of T. 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