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Lorenzo de Zavala: The Pragmatic Idealist
Margaret Swett Henson · Texas Christian University Press
Pages: 146
Format: Hardcover
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In Mexico Lorenzo de Zavala was a reformer striving to empower the middle class; in Texas, he sought economic stability and hoped to restore his political career. His early death defeated both plans.Some Mexican historians praise Zavala's efforts to create a republic in Mexico and to improve... |
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Eduardo Galeano · Monthly Review Press; 25 Anv edition
Pages: 317
Format: Paperback
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Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital... |
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Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power
Michael Kranish · Scribner
Pages: 431
Format: Print book
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Authoritative, timely, and provocative, this deeply researched biography of Donald Trump provides a complex portrait of the man who - despite broad skepticism - could be the next president of the United States.
Who is Donald J. Trump? Despite decades of scrutiny, many aspects of his life... |
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A Line In The Sand: The Alamo in Blood and Memory
James N. Olson · Free Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The authors of John Wayne: American tackle another American myth, using the famous de la Pe±a diary and newly released Mexican documents to reconstruct a rich, lucid portrait of this seminal event in Western history. 50,000 first printing. |
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Robert D. Putnam · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 541
Format: Hardcover
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Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work; but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified and describes in this brilliant volume, "Bowling Alone." Drawing on vast new data from the Roper Social and Political... |
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Columbus and the Age of Discovery (The New Book Of Knowledge)
Zvi Dor-Ner · William Morrow & Co; 1st edition
Pages: 370
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of such bestselling PBS series companion volumes as The Civil War and The Story of English, here is the complement to the major seven-part series on Columbus that will air nationally throughout the fall of 1991. Sumptuously illustrated with hundreds of full-color and black-and-white... |
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The Medieval World: An Illustrated Atlas
John M. Thompson · National Geographic
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Sumptuously illustrating the vivid parade of a thousand years of history, this comprehensive historical atlas concentrates on the Mediterranean world but also shows what happened across the globe between A.D. 400 and 1500 —from the fall of Rome to the age of discovery. Every page... |
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Grant
RON CHERNOW · Penguin Press
Pages: 1104
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant.
Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman,... |
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North American Exploration
Michael Golay · Wiley
Pages: 518
Format: Hardcover
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A comprehensive, highly readable referenceThis is an authoritative, one-stop resource for essential information on the exploration of North America, from alleged pre-Columbian explorers to polar expeditions in the twentieth century. Completely up-to-date in content and historical approach,... |
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From Caledonia to Pictland : Scotland to 795
James E Fraser · Edinburgh University Press
Pages: 436
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From Caledonia to Pictland examines the transformation of Iron Age northern Britain into a land of Christian kingdoms, long before 'Scotland' came into existence. Perched at the edge of the western Roman Empire, northern Britain was not unaffected by the experience, and became swept... |
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The Rush: America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853
Edward Dolnick · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting portrait of the Gold Rush, by the award-winning author of Down the Great Unknown and The Forger's Spell.In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold... |
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