Category: History

1863

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Time Life Education : January 1998

Seller ID: 63573

ISBN-13: 9780737000283

Drawing on materials from Voices of the Civil War, here is an eyewitness chronicle of the battles of 1863 -- the most pivotal year of the Civil War. Introduction by James McPherson.
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A Guidebook to Old and New Urbanism in the Baltimore/Washington Region

Price: $35.00

Publisher: [Congress for the New Urbanism] : January 2003

Seller ID: 66055

ISBN: B000HZH9MK

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A Holocaust Reader (Library of Jewish Studies)

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Behrman House : June 1976

Seller ID: 66997

ISBN-13: 9780874412369

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

A Royal Family The Story of Christian IX and his European Decendants

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Aschehoug

Seller ID: 33607

ISBN-13: 9788715109577

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

American Revolutionary War [5 volumes]: A Student Encyclopedia

Price: $199.00

Publisher: ABC-CLIO : October 2006

Seller ID: 7755

ISBN-13: 9781851098392

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Based on the latest information, American Revolutionary War: A Student Encyclopedia is designed specifically to engage its student audience while addressing all core topics in the standard curriculum. Ranging from the end of the French and Indian War in 1763 to the ratification of the Constitution in 1789, it provides essential information for understanding the drive to independence, the day-to-day course of the war, and the nation that emerged from it.With over 1,200 entries and essays and a separate documents volume, American Revolutionary War covers every battle and campaign, every politica...
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Arctic Security in an Age of Climate Change

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : May 2013

Seller ID: 61438

ISBN-13: 9781107673670

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

This is the first book to examine Arctic defense policy and military security from the perspective of all eight Arctic states. In light of climate change and melting ice in the Arctic Ocean, Canada, Russia, Denmark (Greenland), Norway, and the United States, as well as Iceland, Sweden, and Finland, are grappling with an emerging Arctic security paradigm. This volume brings together the world's most seasoned Arctic political-military experts from Europe and North America to analyze how Arctic nations are adapting their security postures to accommodate increased shipping, expanding naval presenc...
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Bethel to Sharpsburg in Two Volumes (A History of North Carolina in the War Between the States, Volumes I-II)

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Edwards & Broughton Co.

Seller ID: 33788

ISBN: B007BP328O

Binding: Library Binding

Condition: Used - Very Good

Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era

Price: $3.00

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press : August 2004

Seller ID: 78378

ISBN-13: 9780807827413

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Inspired and informed by the latest research in African American, military, and social history, the fourteen original essays in this book tell the stories of the African American soldiers who fought for the Union cause. An introductory essay surveys the history of the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) from emancipation to the end of the Civil War. Seven essays focus on the role of the USCT in combat, chronicling the contributions of African Americans who fought at Port Hudson, Milliken's Bend, Olustee, Fort Pillow, Petersburg, Saltville, and Nashville. Other essays explore the recruitment of black tr...
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Can It Happen Again?: Chronicles of the Holocaust

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal : January 1995

Seller ID: 67041

ISBN-13: 9781884822261

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

A collection of over 100 eyewitness accounts, memoirs, documentary materials, and selections from eminent writers about the Holocaust and genocide.
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Challenging Authoritarianism in Mexico: Revolutionary Struggles and the Dirty War, 1964-1982

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Routledge : December 2011

Seller ID: 81381

ISBN-13: 9780415889049

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

The Cold War in Latin America spawned numerous authoritarian and military regimes in response to the ostensible threat of communism in the Western Hemisphere, and with that, a rigid national security doctrine was exported to Latin America by the United States. Between 1964 and 1985, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uraguay experienced a period of state-sponsored terrorism commonly referred to as the "dirty wars." Thousands of leftists, students, intellectuals, workers, peasants, labor leaders, and innocent civilians were harassed, arrested, tortured, raped, murdered, or 'disappe...
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Colonial Discourse/ Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Columbia University Press : January 1994

Seller ID: 81393

ISBN-13: 9780231100205

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Equally suitable for undergraduates and specialists in the humanities, this collection provides an in-depth introduction to debates within post-colonial theory and criticism. The readings are drawn from a diverse selection of Third World and Western thinkers, both historical and contemporary. "Post-colonialism" is taken by the editors to include Third World and diasporic experience; like "colonialism," it is understood to contain a complex set of cultural, ethnographic, political, and economic processes and conflicts. This volume explores such issues as the nature of colonized cultures and ant...
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Command Decisions (Lessons Learned of the Conflicts of the United States Army During World War II) [Includes Battlefield Maps]

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Center of Military History : January 1990

Seller ID: 61664

ISBN: B008VG4BG4

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Owner's name on front flyleaf; otherwise in excellent condition.
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Crucible of the Civil War: Virginia from Secession to Commemoration

Price: $5.00

Publisher: University of Virginia Press : September 2006

Seller ID: 66966

ISBN-13: 9780813925523

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Crucible of the Civil War offers an illuminating portrait of the state's wartime economic, political, and social institutions. Weighing in on contentious issues within established scholarship while also breaking ground in areas long neglected by scholars, the contributors examine such concerns as the war's effect on slavery in the state, the wartime intersection of race and religion, and the development of Confederate social networks. They also shed light on topics long disputed by historians, such as Virginia's decision to secede from the Union, the development of Confederate nationalism, and...
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Dictionary of British Women's Organisations, 1825-1960 (Woburn Education Series)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Routledge : March 2001

Seller ID: 82483

ISBN-13: 9780713040456

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

This dictionary is the first attempt to identify systematically the large heterogeneous group of women's organisations that grew up from the early 19th century up to the beginning of the modern women's movement, from women abolitionists and Chartists through Social workers, nurses, suffragists and sexual reformers to women pilots, journalists and cricketers. The work brings together over 500 separate entities on a wide variety of societies, associations, clubs, unions and other professional, social and political bodies organised by women or for men.
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