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The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
Ned Sublette · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 752
Format: Hardcover
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The American Slave Coast offers a provocative vision of US history from earliest colonial times through emancipation that presents even the most familiar events and figures in a revealing new light. Authors Ned and Constance Sublette tell the brutal story of how the slavery industry made... |
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The Holocaust: A New History
LAURENCE REES · PublicAffairs
Pages: 552
Format: Hardcover
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n June 1944, Freda Wineman and her family arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous Nazi concentration and death camp. After a cursory look from an SS doctor, Freda's life was spared and her mother was sent to the gas chambers. Freda only survived because the Allies won the war--the Nazis... |
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The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle against Imperial Japan
Stephen Harding · Da Capo Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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In the early hours of July 5, 1943, the destroyer USS Strong was hit by a Japanese torpedo. The powerful weapon broke the destroyer's back, flooded her engine room, killed dozens of sailors, and sparked raging fires. While accompanying ships were able to rescue most of Strong's surviving... |
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American Home Cooking: A Popular History
TIM MILLER · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 228
Format: Hardcover
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American Home Cooking provides an answer to the question of why, in the face of all the modern technology we have for saving time, Americans still spend time in their kitchens cooking.Americans eat four to five meals per week in a restaurant and buy millions of dollars' worth of convenience... |
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Women in Penn's Woods : a history of women in Pennsylvania
Robyn S Young · Queen's Perch
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Women in Penn's Woods was written to introduce the reader to the 1852 Women's Rights Convention and 175 women who made a difference in Pennsylvania's history. The book includes women's history contributions through the 20th century -- |
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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
Nikolaus Wachsmann · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pages: 880
Format: Hardcover
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In March of 1933, a disused factory surrounded by barbed wire held 223 prisoners in the town of Dachau. By the end of 1945, the SS concentration camp system had become an overwhelming landscape of terror. Twenty-two large camps and over one thousand satellite camps throughout Germany and Europe... |
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First Fourth of July
First 4th of July
Liberty's kids (Television program)">
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The Hippies: A 1960s History
John Moretta · McFarland
Pages: 420
Format: Paperback
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Among the most significant subcultures in modern U.S. history, the hippies had a far-reaching impact. Their influence essentially defined the 1960s--hippie antifashion, divergent music, dropout politics and "make love not war" philosophy extended to virtually every corner of the world... |
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The Fog of Peace: A Memoir of International Peacekeeping in the 21st Century
Jean-Marie Guéhenno · Brookings Institution Press
Format: Hardcover
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No small number of books laud and record the heroic actions of those at war. But the peacekeepers? Who tells their stories?At the beginning of the 1990s, the world exited the cold war and entered an era of great promise for peace and security. Guided by an invigorated United Nations, the international... |
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Reinventing Dixie: Tin Pan Alley's Songs and the Creation of the Mythic South
John Bush Jones · LSU Press
Format: Hardcover
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Tin Pan Alley, once New York Citys songwriting and recording mecca, issued more than a thousand songs about the American South in the first half of the twentieth century. In Reinventing Dixie, John Bush Jones explores the broad impact of these songs in creating and disseminating the imaginary... |
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The Last Days of Pompeii
Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton · Palala Press
Pages: 434
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright... |
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Traces of Vermeer
JANE JELLEY · Oxford University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Johannes Vermeer's luminous paintings are loved and admired around the world, yet we do not understand how they were made. We see sunlit spaces; the glimmer of satin, silver, and linen; we see the softness of a hand on a lute string or letter. We recognise the distilled impression of a moment... |
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