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Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites who Fought for Women's Right to Vote
Johanna Neuman - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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New York City's elite women who turned a feminist cause into a fashionable revolution In the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their names - Astor, Belmont, Rockefeller, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Whitney and the like... |
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African Europeans: An Untold History
Olivette Otele
Format: Hardcover
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Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a long history of Europeans of African descent. From the third century, when the Egyptian Saint Maurice became the leader of a Roman... |
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Technical Services, The Corps of Engineers, The War Against Japan
Karl C Dod - Department of the Army
Format: Hardcover
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An original contribution to knowledge in the highly technical areas of Engineer problems, organization, supply, administration, and operations. This volume covers Engineer operations in support of the U.S. Army in the war against Japan. The story begins with the defense build-up in 1939... |
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1947: Where Now Begins
Elisabeth A?sbrink - Other Press
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning writer captures a year that defined the modern world, intertwining historical events around the globe with key moments from her personal history.The year 1947 marks a turning point in the twentieth century. Peace with Germany becomes a tool to fortify the West against the threats... |
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The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution
D C B Lieven - Viking
Format: Print book
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"Lieven has a double gift: first, for harvesting details to convey the essence of an era and, second, for finding new, startling, and clarifying elements in familiar stories. This is history with a heartbeat, and it could not be more engrossing." - Foreign AffairsOne of the world's... |
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Havana: A Subtropical Delirium
Mark Kurlansky - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to know over more than thirty years. Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes, historic engravings, photographs, and Kurlansky's own pen-and-ink drawings... |
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Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise
Scott Eyman - Thorndike Press Large Print; Large type / Large print edition
Format: Library Binding
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Born Archibald Leach in 1904, he came to America as a teenaged acrobat to find fame and fortune, but he was always haunted by his past. His father was a feckless alcoholic, and his mother was committed to an asylum when Archie was eleven years old. He believed her to be dead until he was informed... |
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