|
Fighting over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution
Andrew Schocket · NYU Press
Format: Hardcover |
|
The American Revolution is all around us. It is pictured as big as billboards and as small as postage stamps, evoked in political campaigns and car advertising campaigns, relived in museums and revised in computer games. As the nations founding moment, the American Revolution serves as a source... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade
Randy J Sparks · Harvard University Press
Pages: 309
Format: Hardcover |
|
Annamaboe was the largest slave trading port on the eighteenth-century Gold Coast, and it was home to successful, wily African merchants whose unusual partnerships with their European counterparts made the town and its people an integral part of the Atlantic's webs of exchange. Where... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947
Bruce Hoffman · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover |
|
A landmark history, based on newly available documents, of the battles between Jews, Arabs, and the British that led to the creation of IsraelAnonymous Soldiers brilliantly re-creates the crucial period in the establishment of Israel, chronicling the three decades of growing anticolonial... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Frozen Chosen: The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir
Thomas McKelvey Cleaver · Osprey Publishing
Pages: 296
Format: Print book |
|
The Frozen Chosen is an account of the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea by the First Marine Division from November to December 1950, following the intervention of Red China in the Korean War. Fought during the worst blizzard in a century, it is considered by the United... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Maria Theresa
Edward Crankshaw · Viking Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
|
When Edward Crankshaw's Maria Theresa was published in 1969, it was the first full length study of Maria Theresa to be written in English for sixty years. Called to the throne in 1740, at the age of twenty-three, Maria Theresa was wholly unprepared for the events that were to confront... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Good Catholics: The Battle over Abortion in the Catholic Church
Patricia Miller · University of California Press |
|
Good Catholics tells the story of the remarkable individuals who have engaged in a nearly fifty-year struggle to assert the moral legitimacy of a pro-choice position in the Catholic Church, as well as the concurrent efforts of the Catholic hierarchy to suppress abortion dissent and to translate... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Dream of the Great American Novel
Lawrence Buell · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 567
Format: Book |
|
The idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or obsolete. In this landmark book, the first in many years to take in the whole sweep of national fiction,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
