9011 books (451 pages) in this category
The Civil War and Nineteenth-Century America
by Jonathan Daniel Wells
<p>Consolidating one of the most complex and multi-faceted eras in American History, this new edition of Jonathan Wells’s <em>A House Divided</em> unifies the broad and varied scholarship on the American Civil War. Amassing a variety of ...
ISBN: 9781317352334
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eBookThe History of Worthy Park 1670-1970
by Michael Craton & James Walvin
<p>Worthy Park has archives covering much of its three-hundred year history. Using these records, the authors have written the first complete history of a West Indian sugar estate. However, this is not just the story of a single Jamaican ...
ISBN: 9781487596491
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eBookby John Hildreth Atkins
<p>There has never been a book about the assassination of JFK on the market that exposed so much of the truth that has been hidden from us for so long. This writer is a genius who deserves the chance to prove it. Everything that most people ...
ISBN: 9780359091928
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eBookA Joosr Guide to... First Women by Kate Brower: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies
by Joosr
<p>In today's fast-paced world, it's tough to find the time to read. But with Joosr guides, you can get the key insights from bestselling non-fiction titles in less than 20 minutes. Whether you want to gain knowledge on the go or find the books ...
ISBN: 9781785673825
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eBookA Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan, 1841-2
by Florentia Sale
ISBN: 1230000845403
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eBookA Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama 1497-1499
by E.G. Ravenstein
<p>THE discovery of an ocean route to India, in 1497-98, marks an epoch in the history of geographical exploration no less than in that of commerce. It confirmed the hypothesis of a circumambient ocean, first put forward by Hecataeus, but ...
ISBN: 1230000284379
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eBookA Journey Through Kelly Country
by Anthony John Dodd
<p>"There's no icon that stands the test of time through Australian history better than Ned Kelly.</p> <p>The words <em>"Such is life"</em> uttered by Ned when facing his demise at the 'Old' Melbourne Goal is synonymous with ...
ISBN: 9780646985893
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eBookThree Mines, Four Men, and One Hundred Years, 1887-1997
by Charles Caldwell Hawley
<p>While copper seems less glamorous than gold, it may be far more important. Copper proved vital to the industrial revolution and indispensable for electrification of America. Kennecott Copper Corporation, at one time the largest producer of ...
ISBN: 9781607813712
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eBookby Harry Coghill Watson Bishop
<p>Excerpt: "TO THE MEMORY OF ALL THOSE BRITISH AND INDIAN OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE KUT GARRISON WHO HAVE SUFFERED AND DIED IN CAPTIVITY THIS BOOK IS REVERENTLY DEDICATED"</p> ...
ISBN: 9783962727703
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eBookA Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
by Isabella L. Bird
Lake Tahoe—Morning in San Francisco—Dust—A Pacific mail-train—Digger Indians—Cape Horn—A mountain hotel—A pioneer—A Truckee livery stable—A mountain stream—Finding a bear—Tahoe. LAKE TAHOE, September 2. I have found a dream of beauty at which ...
ISBN: 9781465536921
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eBookThe Southwest and the Nation in the Twentieth Century
by Flannery Burke
<p><strong>Winner, Spur Award for Best Contemporary Nonfiction (Western Writers of America)</strong></p> <p><em>A Land Apart</em> is not just a cultural history of the modern Southwest—it is a complete rethinking and recentering of the key ...
ISBN: 9780816536184
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eBookAppropriation and the Evolution of Colorado's Landscape, Ditches, and Water Institutions
by Robert R. Crifasi
<p><em>A Land Made from Water</em> chronicles how the appropriation and development of water and riparian resources in Colorado changed the face of the Front Range—an area that was once a desert and is now an irrigated oasis suitable for the ...
ISBN: 9781607323822
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eBookA Large-Scale Slave Society of the Early Middle Ages
Slaves and their Families in Early Medieval Bavaria
by Carl I. Hammer
<p>This book is divided into three parts. The first two chapters provide an introduction to the historical problem of early medieval slavery and a short history of Bavaria to provide background information. The next six chapters deal with a ...
ISBN: 9781351962322
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eBookThe African American Community of West Medford
by Edited by: Kristen Johnson & Ann Noling
West Medford, Massachusetts has been home to a thriving African American community, where families have lived for generations since the end of the Civil War. The stories of its residents have been fading as elders die and families move away. ...
ISBN: 9781468563689
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eBookA Letter On the Affairs of America
by Edmund Burke
<p>This letter is a critical examination of the laws passed by the British Parliament against Colonies during the American Revolution.</p> ...
ISBN: 9781329385177
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eBookA Life in Each Decade of the 20Th Century
Autobiography of Charles George Theleman
by Joan Theleman Sisson
<p>As the 20th century approached the 1990s, Dad mentioned that if he could live that long he would have lived in each decade of the century. He often commented on the vast changes hed seen as they developed. He marveled at the first cars he saw
ISBN: 9781465327086
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eBookA Literary History of the Fourteenth Century
Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio A Study of Their Times and Works (Storia Letteraria del Trecento) Translated with a Foreword by Vincenzo Traversa
by Natalino Sapegno
<p>Any one wishing to investigate the literary development of the golden century of early Italian literature, the <em>Trecento,</em> must read Natalino Sapegno’s extensive writings on the subject, in particular his <em>Storia Letteraria del ...
ISBN: 9781454189299
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eBookby H.V. Nelles
This lively and opinionated history is a whirlwind tour of the Canadian land and inhabitants from the earliest human occupation to the present. The country has undergone several fundamental changes - from Indigenous occupation, to French and ...
ISBN: 9780199028788
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eBookA Long Walk Through a Short History
by Ian Hamilton
<p>In the summer of 1981 Will Traverse set out to walk across the city of Brisbane; a journey that took him from an Aboriginal bora ground in the Samford valley west of the city, through the city centre, and on to a midden on Stradbroke Island. ...
ISBN: 9781514497616
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