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It’s 1860 in the State of Missouri. When all the votes are counted, three men have been elected that will change the state forever. Claiborne Fox Jackson becomes the state’s Governor. Frank Blair is……続きを見る

It’s the summer of 1861 and the Missouri State Guard has just won a fight with Federal volunteers from Missouri in the Battle of Carthage. Having been driven to the extreme southwestern part of Miss……続きを見る

The compelling first book in the beloved classic series from 'one of the nation's favourite saga author' (Lancashire Post) in the grand tradition of Katie Flynn, Dilly Court and Josephine Cox. Jenni……続きを見る

Les soeurs de Napoléon ont eu une influence beaucoup plus grande qu'on ne le croit généralement sur la marche des événements pendant le règne de leur frère. « Tout parti périt par les femmes », a di……続きを見る

Les soeurs de Napoléon ont eu une influence beaucoup plus grande qu'on ne le croit généralement sur la marche des événements pendant le règne de leur frère. « Tout parti périt par les femmes », a di……続きを見る

Custer's death at Little Big Horn is verified, but his widow is curiously drawn to an Indian survivor with ambition. 続きを見る

In his last book, the late William Carr provides a masterly account of the origins and impact of the three major wars fought by Prussia in creating the Bismarckian Reich of 1871. He begins with a st……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur William McKinley en moins d’une heure ! 25e président des États-Unis, William McKinley est aujourd’hui relativement peu connu du grand public. Or, c’est……続きを見る

The period 1870 - 1914 in France saw the consolidation of republican government and the recovery of national self-confidence. Though political crises such as the Dreyfus Affair threatened to tear it……続きを見る

The Wilhelmine period is a crucial period of German history and the focus of great historical controversy; greater understanding of this period is also vital to explain the rise of the Third Reich. ……続きを見る

This new edition of the seminal and best selling history of Europe's century of global ascendancy includes a new introduction and bibliography. The carefully drawn discussions are pulled together an……続きを見る

Written for the layman as well as the economic historian this famous and much-used book not only presents a general synthesis of the pattern of European industrialisation; it also provides material ……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur James Monroe en moins d’une heure ! Élu en 1816 à la présidence, James Monroe profite de la relative prospérité que connaissent les États-Unis pour agra……続きを見る

Among the pressing concerns of Americans in the first century of nationhood were day-to-day survival, political harmony, exploration of the continent, foreign policy, and--fixed deeply in the collec……続きを見る

Volumes I, II, and III of Baltimore: Its History and Its People were originally published in 1912 by the Lewis Historical Publishing Company of New York and Chicago as a collaboration of several his……続きを見る

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and heroism in the Gilded Age from the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers. • “A splendid book i……続きを見る

Named one of “the year’s best gardening books” by The Spectator (UK, Nov. 2014) The 1890s saw a revolution in advertising. Cheap paper, faster printing, rural mail delivery, railroad shipping, and c……続きを見る

William McKnight was a member of the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry from September 1862 until his death in June of 1864. During his time of service, McKnight penned dozens of emotion-filled letters,……続きを見る

A True Crime Shortie of 5,000 words... about the length of a long magazine article Carlyle Harris and Dr. Robert Buchanan had several things in common. Both worked in the medical field, with Harris ……続きを見る

A stranger has come To share my room in the house not right in the head, A girl mad as birds – Dylan Thomas, ‘Love in the Asylum’ With the advent of ‘care in the community’ for the mentally afflicte……続きを見る

Who invented the flying machine? Was the Titanic really the first ‘unsinkable’ ship? How would one use a phonoscope? Using old Victorian documents, Caroline Rochford takes the reader on a guided tou……続きを見る

A collection of historic writings from the slave-owner-turned-abolitionist sisters portrayed in Sue Monk Kidd’s novel The Invention of Wings Sarah and Angelina Grimké’s portrayal in Sue Monk Kidd’s ……続きを見る

This eloquent study describes the complex process of assimilation that occurred among multi-ethnic groups in Wachovia, the evangelical community that settled a 100,000-acre tract in Piedmont North C……続きを見る

Histoire politique des États-Unis - Édouard Lefebvre de Laboulaye Depuis les premiers essais de colonisation jusqu’à l'adoption de la constitution fédérale, de 1620 à 1789. Ce livre comprend l'éditi……続きを見る

On May 4, 1886, in the first days of a nationwide strike for the eight hour workday, a dynamite bomb was thrown into a police phalanx in the final minutes of a labor protest meeting in downtown Chic……続きを見る

Nineteenth-century France was a society of apparent paradoxes. It is famous for periodic and bloody revolutionary upheavals, for class conflict and for religious disputes, yet it was marked by relat……続きを見る

Als Folge von Eroberung, Säkularisierung und Bedeutungsverlust wurden zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts in Salzburg gewohnte Verhältnisse tiefgreifend umgestaltet. Entsprechend nachhaltig waren die Kon……続きを見る

**From the bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women, here is the true story of the one-hundred-year-odyssey of the author’s Chinese-American family, combining years of research with “fascinatin……続きを見る

On the cusp of the American Civil War, a new generation of reformers, including Theodore Parker, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Martin Robison Delany and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, took……続きを見る

Weaving Indian and Euro-American histories together in this groundbreaking book, Sami Lakomäki places the Shawnee people, and Native peoples in general, firmly at the center of American history. The……続きを見る