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To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party
Heather Cox Richardson · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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When Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on the eve of the Civil War, his goal was to promote economic opportunity for all Americans, not just the slaveholding Southern planters who steered national politics. Yet while visionary Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight... |
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Beyond Bratwurst: A History of Food in Germany
Ursula Heinzelmann · Reaktion Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Thanks to Oktoberfest and the popularity of beer gardens, our thoughts on German food are usually relegated to beer, sausage, pretzels, and limburger cheese. But the inhabitants of modern-day Germany do not live exclusively on bratwurst. Defying popular perception of the meat and potatoes... |
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The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity
Peter Brown · Harvard University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Marking a departure in our understanding of Christian views of the afterlife from 250 to 650 CE, The Ransom of the Soul explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul that occurred around the time of Romes fall. Peter Brown describes how this shift transformed the Churchs... |
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Silence of war : an old marine in a young marine's war
Terry Mcgowan · Berkley Pub Group
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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With a Foreword by Bill O'Reilly, here is the incredible memoir of a former Marine who returns to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan three decades after leaving the Corps.Terry McGowan had been a beat cop, a Marine captain, and a Special Agent for the FBI before retiring at the age of fifty.... |
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The King's Revenge Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History
Don Jordan · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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When Charles I was executed, his sonCharles II made it his role to seek out retribution, producing the biggestmanhunt Britain had ever seen, one that wouldspan Europe and America and wouldlast for thirty years. "We shall pursue and bring to their due punishment those bloody traitors... |
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We March Against England: Operation Sea Lion, 1940–41
Robert Forczyk · Osprey Publishing (UK)
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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In May, 1940, Nazi Germany was master of continental Europe, the only European power still standing was Great Britain--and the all-conquering German armed forces stood poised to cross the Channel. Following the destruction of the RAF fighter forces, the sweeping of the Channel of mines,... |
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A new history of Asian America
Shelley Sang-Hee Lee · Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
Pages: 365
Format: Print book
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"A New History of Asian America is a fresh and up-to-date history of Asians in the United States from the late eighteenth century to the present. Drawing on current scholarship, Shelley Lee brings forward the many strands of Asian American history, highlighting the distinctive nature... |
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Toxic Exposures: Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States
Susan Livingston Smith · Rutgers University Press
Pages: 187
Format: Hardcover
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Mustard gas is typically associated with the horrors of World War I battlefields and trenches, where chemical weapons were responsible for tens of thousands of deaths. Few realize, however, that mustard gas had a resurgence during the Second World War, when its uses and effects were widespread... |
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Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777-1865
Patrick Rael · University of Georgia Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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Why did it take so long to end slavery in the United States, and what did it mean that the nation existed eighty-eight years as a "house divided against itself," as Abraham Lincoln put it? The decline of slavery throughout the Atlantic world was a protracted affair, says Patrick... |
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Third Reich
Robert Gellately · Oxford University Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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At age thirty in 1919, Adolf Hitler had no accomplishments. He was a rootless loner, a corporal in a shattered army, without money or prospects. A little more than twenty years later, in autumn 1941, he directed his dynamic forces against the Soviet Union, and in December, the Germans were... |
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The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
Michael Wallis · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Cutting through 160 years of mythmaking, best-selling historian Michael Wallis presents the ultimate cautionary tale of America's westward expansion."WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!"In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper... |
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Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation
LIZA FEATHERSTONE · OR Books
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
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An engaging, accessible history of the focus group, Featherstone's survey shows how the primary purpose of the focus group has shifted from determining what we want, to selling us things we don't. The focus group, over the course of the last century, became an increasingly vital... |
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