Description: As the U.S. Army shrinks, a private army steps into the breach. A Bloody Business offers an unprecedented look behind the scenes and into the ranks of this mercenary force (numbering as many as 15,000...
Author: Schumacher, Gerry Publisher: Zenith Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As the U.S. Army shrinks, a private army steps into the breach. A Bloody Business offers an unprecedented look behind the scenes and into the ranks of this mercenary force (numbering as many as 15,000...
Author: N/A Publisher: Hakluyt Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Transcript of the manuscript dedicated to Henry VIII (Royal mss. 18 B. XXVIII), with a pedigree of Barlow, edited with an introduction and notes. Barlow's translation of Enciso's Suma de geographia, w...
Author: Weitz, Eric D. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Why did the twentieth century witness unprecedented organized genocide? Can we learn why genocide is perpetrated by comparing different cases of genocide? Is the Holocaust unique, or does it share cau...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to 19th-Century America is an authoritative overview of current historiographical developments and major themes in the history of nineteenth-century America. Twenty-seven scholars, all spe...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain presents 33 essays by expert scholars on all the major aspects of the political, social, economic and cultural history of Britain during the late Georgian and...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to American Technology is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that analyze the hard-to-define phenomenon of “technology” in America. 22 original essays by expert sch...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to Contemporary Britain covers the key themes and debates of 20th-century history from the outbreak of the Second World War to the end of the century. Assesses the impact of the Second Wor...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This Companion brings together 32 new essays by leading historians to provide a reassessment of British history in the early twentieth century. The contributors present lucid introductions to the lite...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This authoritative Companion introduces readers to the developments that lead to Britain becoming a great world power, the leading European imperial state, and, at the same time, the most economically...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This Companion contains 31 essays by leading international scholars to provide an overview of the key debates on eighteenth-century Europe. Examines the social, intellectual, economic, cultural, and p...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume brings together a distinguished group of international scholars to discuss the major debates in the study of early twentieth-century Europe.Brings together contributions from a distinguish...
Description: This volume brings together a distinguished group of international scholars to discuss the major debates in the study of early twentieth-century Europe.Brings together contributions from a distinguish...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to Europe Since 1945 provides a stimulating guide to numerous important developments which have influenced the political, economic, social, and cultural character of Europe during and sinc...
Description: A Companion to Franklin D. Roosevelt presents a collection of historiographical essays by leading scholars that provides a comprehensive review of the scholarship on the president who led the United S...
Description: This companion offers an overview of Lyndon B. Johnson's life, presidency, and legacy, as well as a detailed look at the central arguments and scholarly debates from his term in office.Explores the le...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This Companion provides an overview of European history during the 'long' nineteenth century, from 1789 to 1914.Consists of 32 chapters written by leading international scholarsBalances coverage of po...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to the American Revolution is a single guide to the themes, events, and concepts of this major turning point in early American history. Containing coverage before, during, and after the wa...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to the American South surveys and evaluates the most important and innovative writing on the entire sweep of the history of the southern United States. Contains 29 original essays by leadi...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume brings together 29 new essays by leading international scholars, to provide an inclusive overview of recent work in Reformation history.Presents Catholic Renewal as a continuum of the Prot...
Description: A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt is the first comprehensive anthology to encompass Roosevelt as whole, highlighting both his personality and his skilled diplomacy.Revitalizes and internationalizes sc...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt is the first comprehensive anthology to encompass Roosevelt as whole, highlighting both his personality and his skilled diplomacy.Revitalizes and internationalizes sc...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to Tudor Britain provides an authoritative overview of historical debates about this period, focusing on the whole British Isles.An authoritative overview of scholarly debates about Tudor ...
Author: Oakley, Ann Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Barbara Wootton was one of the extraordinary public figures of the twentieth century. She was an outstanding social scientist, an architect of the welfare state, an iconoclast who challenged conventio...
Author: Murphy, John Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is a narrative history of how and why Australia built a distinctive welfare regime, from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century. It places the development of a welfare state in the 19...
Author: Patterson, David Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Based on extensive scrutiny of primary sources from Nazi and Jihadist ideologues, David Patterson argues that Jihadist anti-Semitism stems from Nazi ideology. This book challenges the idea that Jihadi...
Author: Najemy, John M. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this history of Florence, distinguished historian John Najemy discusses all the major developments in Florentine history from 1200 to 1575.Captures Florence's transformation from a medieval commune...
Author: Fulbrook, Mary Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The third edition of A History of Germany traces the dramatic social, cultural, and political tensions in Germany since 1918. Offers a persuasive interpretation of the dynamics of twentieth-century Ge...
Author: Gardiner, W. Lambert Publisher: Trafford Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This history of media is organized around four generations. The first (memory & speech) anchors history within pre-history; the second (print & film), third (telephone & television), and fourth (multi...
Author: N/A Publisher: Hakluyt Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The text of the 1699 edition, with slight changes, and additional material, edited with introduction, notes and appendices. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first publishe...
Author: Collins, Peter M. Publisher: University Press of America Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Twentieth-Century Collision explores intellectual culture in the United States during the twentieth century, a topic which cannot be understood without attention to the gradual narrowing of the scop...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume presents the results of a fifth and final conference on the history of total war. It is devoted to the Second World War, which many scholars regard as the paradigmatic instance of total wa...
Author: Goldfield, David Publisher: Bloomsbury Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In this spellbinding new history, David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom. Where past scholars have limned the ...
Author: Smith, Tony Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The strength and prestige of democracy worldwide at the end of the twentieth century are due in good measure to the impact of America on international affairs, argues Tony Smith. Here for the first ti...
Author: Freyer, Tony Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: By the 1930s, Americans feared that big business exceeded the government's capacity to impose accountability, engendering the most aggressive antitrust campaign in history. Meanwhile, big business had...
Author: Dick, Lehr / Gerard, O'neill Publisher: Public Affair Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Two boys - John Connolly and James "Whitley" Bulger - grew up together on the streets of South Boston. Decades later, in the mid-1970s, they would meet again. By then, Connolly was a major figure in t...
Description: Two boys - John Connolly and James "Whitley" Bulger - grew up together on the streets of South Boston. Decades later, in the mid-1970s, they would meet again. By then, Connolly was a major figure in t...
Author: Cooper, Leon Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The lives of twenty-four American aviators became forever intertwined in the skies over Ploesti, Rumania, in 1944, when a pair of bomber crews, an aerial photographer, and a fighter pilot engaged in s...
Author: N/A Publisher: Hakluyt Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In addition to the main text, with introduction and notes, there is 'added Burnell's narrative of his adventures in Bengal, With an Introduction by Sir William Foster, and Notes by Sir Evan Cotton, C....
Author: Gertzman, Jay Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This first examination of the trade in erotica during the 1920s and '30s provides an understanding of the evolution of both obscenity law and sexual explicitness in literature, and raises fascinating ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book offers a comprehensive overview of Britain's development since the end of the Second World War. It comprises 23 contributions from leading authorities and newer scholars, set in context with...
Author: Bogus, Carl T Publisher: Bloomsbury Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: William F. Buckley Jr., was the foremost architect of the conservative movement that swept the American political landscape from the 1960s to the early 2000s. When Buckley launched National Review in ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Hakluyt Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The voyage of the Dolphin. Includes the secret instructions by the Admiralty, a list of the crew, and transcripts of documents relating to the voyage. The appendix, on the Patagonians, includes 'The P...
Author: N/A Publisher: Hakluyt Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Derived from the abstract retained by Philip Carteret after his voyage and the journal he compiled from it and other papers in about 1773. Based on Carteret's MS. journals and letters in the Dixson Li...
Author: N/A Publisher: Hakluyt Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A collection of documents, 1756-1811, relating to the preparations, to the voyage itself, and to its aftermath. The main pagination of this and the preceding volume (Second Series 124) is continuous. ...
Author: Diner, Dan Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Cataclysms is a profoundly original look at the last century. Approaching twentieth-century history from the periphery rather than the centers of decision-making, the virtual narrator sits perched on ...
Author: Totten, Samuel Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Through powerful first-person accounts, scholarly analysis, and compelling narrative, this book details the causes and ramifications of the genocides perpetrated in the twentieth century and into the ...
Author: Brett, Annabel S. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is a book about the theory of the city or commonwealth, what would come to be called the state, in early modern natural law discourse. Annabel Brett takes a fresh approach by looking at this poli...
Author: Lary,Diana Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Twenty-first century China is emerging from decades of war and revolution into a new era. Yet the past still haunts the present. The ideals of the Chinese Republic, which was founded almost a century ...
