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Celts: The History and Legacy of One of the Oldest Cultures in Europe
Martin J Dougherty · Amber Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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"They cut off the heads of enemies slain in battle and attach them to the necks of their horses... They embalm the heads... [and]... display them with pride to strangers." - Diodorus Siculus. Before the Vikings, before the Anglo-Saxons, before the Roman Empire, the Celts dominated... |
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A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War
Williamson Murray · Princeton University Press
Pages: 616
Format: Print book
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The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced... |
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Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero
Cate Lineberry · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"Be Free or Die makes you want to stand up and cheer. Cate Lineberry has done us all a great service by telling this incredibly moving, thrilling, and important story about an American hero who deserves to be remembered, and admired." -- Candice Millard, author of Hero of the EmpireFacing... |
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Dimestore: A Writer's Life
Lee Smith · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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For the inimitable Lee Smith, place is paramount. For forty-five years, her fiction has lived and breathed with the rhythms and people of the Appalachian South. But never before has she written her own story. Set deep in the mountains of Virginia, the Grundy of Lee Smith's youth was a place... |
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
Stephanie Coontz · Basic Civitas Books
Pages: 576
Format: Print book
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Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the 'male breadwinner marriage' is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault were far higher in the 1970s than they are today. In The Way We Never Were, acclaimed historian... |
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Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
Claire Lisa Evans · Portfolio
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The history of technology you probably know is one of men and machines, garages and riches, alpha nerds and brogrammers. But the little-known fact is that female visionaries have always been at the vanguard of technology and innovation--they've just been erased from the story. Until now.Women... |
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The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine
Ben Ehrenreich · Penguin Press
Pages: 428
Format: Print book
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From an award-winning journalist, a brave and necessary immersion into the everyday struggles of Palestinian life Over the past three years, American writer Ben Ehrenreich has been traveling to and living in the West Bank, staying with Palestinian families in its largest cities and its smallest... |
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The Seminole Wars: America's Longest Indian Conflict
John Missall · Univ Pr Of Florida
Pages: 280
Format: Print book
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"In this insightful book the conflicts known as the Seminole Wars are placed in the larger context of American history. Twenty-first-century Seminole Indians and all other Floridians have been shaped in part by those nineteenth-century events."--Jerald T. Milanich, Florida Museum... |
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A Bloody Business: America's War Zone Contractors and the Occupation of Iraq
Gerry Schumacher · Zenith Press; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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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 today) who guard supply convoys, train foreign soldiers, provide security for foreign... |
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Jack London: A Writer's Fight for a Better America
Cecelia Tichi · The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. A onetime child laborer, London led a life of poverty in the Gilded Age before rising to worldwide... |
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The Duchess: Camilla Parker Bowles and the Love Affair That Rocked the Crown
Penny Junor · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In the first in-depth biography of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall - the infamous other woman who made the marriage of Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana "a bit crowded" - esteemed royal biographer Penny Junor tells the unlikely and extraordinary story of the woman reviled... |
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Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
Devery S. Anderson · University Press of Mississippi
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath. It tells the story of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago brutally lynched for a harmless... |
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Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
DEBORAH CADBURY · PublicAffairs
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother.By the 1890s, Queen Victoria had over thirty grandchildren, and to maintain and increase British royal power she was determined to maneuver them into... |
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