Slavery existed long before the United States of America was founded, but so did opposition to slavery. Both flourished after the founding of the country, and the anti-slavery movement was known as ……続きを見る
著者:Teena Purohit
出版社: Harvard University Press
発売日: 2012年10月31日
An Arab-centric perspective dominates the West’s understanding of Islam. Purohit presses for a view of Islam as a heterogeneous religion that has found a variety of expressions in local contexts. Th……続きを見る
Marianne, Louise and Cassandra Knight were nieces of the great 19th century novelist who gave us Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Jane knew the girls well, reading and sewing with them……続きを見る
著者:Bob Alexander
出版社: University of North Texas Press
発売日: 2009年12月15日
Ira Aten (1862-1953) was the epitome of a frontier lawman. At age twenty he enrolled in Company D during the transition of the Rangers from Indian fighters to topnotch peace officers. This unitand A……続きを見る
Le Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène est l'œuvre majeure du comte de Las Cases, où il a consigné jour après jour, tout ce qu'a dit et fait Napoléon durant le temps où il a partagé son exil à Sainte-Hélène. ……続きを見る
著者:Charles Sellers
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
In The Market Revolution, one of America's most distinguished historians offers a major reinterpretation of a pivotal moment in United States history. Based on impeccable scholarship and written wit……続きを見る
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS (abridged list)
CHAPTER I.
Origin of the Sac and Fox Indians, Removal to Green Bay, Their subjugatio……続きを見る
著者:Caleb Smith
出版社: Harvard University Press
発売日: 2013年04月01日
Caleb Smith explores the confessions, trial reports, maledictions, and martyr narratives that juxtaposed law and conscience in antebellum America’s court of public opinion and shows how writers port……続きを見る
著者:William Rathmell
出版社: University of North Texas Press
発売日: 2009年12月15日
The story of the five Marlow brothers and their tribulations in late nineteenth-century Texas is the stuff of Old West legend (and served to inspire the John Wayne movie, The Sons of Katie Elder). V……続きを見る
著者:J. Carter Wood
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2004年07月31日
This book illuminates the origins and development of violence as a social issue by examining a critical period in the evolution of attitudes towards violence. It explores the meaning of violence thr……続きを見る
This edition features illustrations.
Excerpt
CAUSES OF THE WAR
Since neither France nor Great Britain would accept the opportunity to make a friend of the United States, the captures went on; and En……続きを見る
著者:Various
出版社: Lost Leaf Publications
発売日: 2013年07月24日
Preface:
Preface
This little book will interest the Pittsburgher of 1916 chiefly because the parts and pieces of which it is made were written by men who were living here or who passed this way in……続きを見る
Miguel Antonio Otero served as the first Hispanic governor of the U.S. Territory of New Mexico, from 1897 to 1906. He was appointed to the office by President William McKinley. Long after his retire……続きを見る
Opening with the military preparations before Paris was besieged by the invading German army in September 1870, Alistair Horne's compelling account of this dramatic episode takes the reader through ……続きを見る
First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. With active Table of contents. Hundreds of former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Cong……続きを見る
The fierce battle over identity and patriotism within Cherokee culture that took place in the years surrounding the Trail of Tears
Though the tragedy of the Trail of Tears is widely recognized today……続きを見る
著者:Robert M. Owens
出版社: University of Oklahoma Press
発売日: 2011年12月04日
Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before becoming the ninth president of the United States in 18……続きを見る
著者:Monte Reel
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年03月12日
In 1856, Paul Du Chaillu ventured into the African jungle in search of a mythic beast, the gorilla. After wild encounters with vicious cannibals, deadly snakes, and tribal kings, Du Chaillu emerged ……続きを見る
He gained renown as the sidekick of Butch Cassidy, but the Sundance Kidーwhose real name was Harry Alonzo Longabaughーled a fuller life than history or Hollywood has allowed.
A relative of Longabaug……続きを見る
著者:Ronald C. White
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年08月03日
The fact that Abraham Lincoln is now universally recognized as America’s greatest political orator would have surprised many of the citizens who voted him into office. Ungainly in stature and awkwar……続きを見る
著者:A H Guernsey
出版社: Folly Cove 01930
発売日: 2012年08月27日
June 26 to July 1, 1862, from Mechanicsville to Malvern Hill details the Seven Days Battles on the Peninsular as McClellan Changed his base to the James River. This essay draws heavily on the offic……続きを見る
An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush
Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure……続きを見る
著者:Carol Sheriff
出版社: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
発売日: 2000年01月01日
Rediscover the Gems of Antiquity in The Artificial River
Woven from a rich tapestry of research, The Artificial River is more than just a historical account of the Erie Canalーit encapsulates a pivo……続きを見る
著者:Win Blevins
出版社: Tor Publishing Group
発売日: 2005年11月29日
Stunningly portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the Golden Globe Award-winning and twelve-time Academy Award nominated film The Revenant.
Mountain man Hugh Glass’s harrowing journey 300 miles to civili……続きを見る
著者:David Dary
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年12月18日
A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West.
Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the earl……続きを見る
著者:Edward Everett
出版社: Charles River Editors
発売日: 2012年03月09日
When the crowd came to Gettysburg in November 1863 to commemorate the battle fought there 4 months earlier, they came to hear a series of speeches about the Civil War and the events of that battle. ……続きを見る
著者:Judy Nolte Temple
出版社: University of Oklahoma Press
発売日: 2011年11月28日
The story of Baby Doe Tabor has seduced America for more than a century. Long before her body was found frozen in a Leadville shack near the Matchless Mine, Elizabeth McCourt “Baby Doe” Tabor was th……続きを見る
Bernadotte et Napoléon, deux grands hommes, deux destins croisés... presque deux rivaux.
Bernadotte a épousé Désirée Clary, la fiancée que Bonaparte a délaissée pour Joséphine. Le frère de Napoléon,……続きを見る