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In the spring of 1846, a little-known group of Latter-day Saint converts from northeastern Mississippi and northwestern Alabama set out on a remarkable journey west. Newly baptized into a young and ……続きを見る

Rhondda' - even now, the name evokes the turbulent times when Rhondda (actually two valleys, the Fawr and Fach) was synonymous with the deep-mining of steam coal. This is a story of pioneering deep-……続きを見る

Secret Rotherham offers a unique insight into this bustling, modern South Yorkshire town through a series of little-known and forgotten stories, facts and anecdotes from its past. The town has an en……続きを見る

In the ancient world, color was not just an aesthetic choice; it was the ultimate indicator of power, wealth, and the right to rule. And no color commanded more authority than Tyrian Purple. A hue s……続きを見る

The Monroe Doctrine was and is a justification for actions, some good, some indifferent, but the overwhelming bulk reprehensible. The Monroe Doctrine remains in place, both explicitly and dressed up……続きを見る

War Is a Lie is a thorough refutation of every major argument used to justify wars, drawing on evidence from numerous past wars, with a focus on those that have been most widely defended as just and……続きを見る

**From an award-winning historian, the definitive history of classical Greece and the rivalry between its two greatest cities. “Goldsworthy tells a timely tale of national pride, and he has much to ……続きを見る

Charles Wadsworth Camp (1879-1936) was a journalist, critic, playwright, novelist, and soldier. Born in Philadelphia and educated at Princeton University, his work appeared in publications like Coll……続きを見る

Shortly after the end of World War II, a 21-year-old Navy officer - just back after a year at war in the Pacific - was eager to return to his small hometown in eastern North Carolina for a brief hom……続きを見る

“Superb....Augustus is a first-rate popular biography by a skilled and knowing hand.” (Washington Post) Caesar Augustus created the Roman Empire and forever associated the name Caesar with power. He……続きを見る

“Paper Walls was the first scholarly book to deal with the question of America’s response to the Nazi assault on the European Jews. A revised version of my Ph.D. dissertation at Harvard University, ……続きを見る

In this first modern biography of Nathaniel P. Banks, James G. Hollandsworth, Jr., reveals the complicated and contradictory nature of the man who called himself the "fighting politician." Despite a……続きを見る

In the years after Reconstruction, racial tension soared, as many white southerners worried about how to deal with the millions of free African Americans among them -- an issue they termed the "negr……続きを見る

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chroni……続きを見る

Leader carismatico, seduttore privo di scrupoli, stratega lucido e volitivo, Gaio Giulio Cesare è stato al contempo brillante politico e genio militare, protagonista di un’ascesa vertiginosa e di al……続きを見る

In the summer of 1866, racial tensions ran high in Louisiana as a constitutional convention considered disenfranchising former Confederates and enfranchising blacks. On July 30, a procession of blac……続きを見る

Early in the Civil War, Louisiana's Confederate government sanctioned a militia unit of black troops, the Louisiana Native Guards. Intended as a response to demands from members of New Orleans' subs……続きを見る

"Intriguing . . . describes a modest but exceptional man from whom the contemporary soldier, politician, and citizen can learn how to enjoy life (and how not to)." ー The Spectator Son of the victor……続きを見る

The book offers bright glimpses of the yet undiscovered nooks of the private life of the great Swami Vivekananda, and the period of training through which the much lamented Sister Nivedita had to pa……続きを見る

Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos Major-General Ernest Swinton had already had a long and illustrious career in the British Army before th……続きを見る

This "Campaign of the Indus," book written by T. W. E. Holdsworth, readers embark on a compelling adventure through the corridors of military history, in which the writer's meticulous storytelling t……続きを見る

The New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters's Carr P. Collins Award One of Book Riot's Best Books of the Year In nineteenth-century Austin, Texas, a ruthless murderer terr……続きを見る

This is the story of the 1820 Settler, Jeremiah Goldswain, in his own words. After thirty-eight years on the eastern boundary of the Cape Colony, he sat down to write his memoirs. It is a close-up v……続きを見る

Liverpool is a unique city within the United Kingdom - in terms of its dialect, hedonism, friendliness, rejection of 'Englishness', and most pertinently, its politics. It is bastion of working-class……続きを見る

A painting, a frog cake, a landmark, a statue, a haunting newspaper photograph, a bucket of peaches, pink shorts in parliament, concert tickets, tourist maps... Kerryn Goldsworthy's Adelaide is a mu……続きを見る

La encarnada rivalidad entre dos de los mayores imperios del mundo antiguo el persa y el romano marcó el auge y el derrumbe de ambas potencias. El Imperio romano dio forma al mundo occidental en una……続きを見る

Las Guerras Púnicas son con toda probabilidad el mayor y más significativo conflicto armado de la Antigüedad. A lo largo de más de cien años, las dos naciones más poderosas del Mediterráneo lucharon……続きを見る

One of the oldest schools of physiotherapy in the United Kingdom that now operates from a university base (at Keele University) is the one founded at Baschurch in Shropshire in 1909 by Dame Agnes Hu……続きを見る

"Exceptional. If there has been a more honest, calm, and profoundly moving memoir written in the last few years, then I've missed it."ー Times Literary Supplement How would you make sense of your li……続きを見る

It took 600 men six years to build, and was one of the longest bridges in the world. On its completion in 1878, famous visitors, including the Emperor of Brazil, Prince Leopold of the Belgians and Q……続きを見る