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Confederate Military History is a 12-volume series of books written and/or edited by former Confederate general Clement A. Evans that deals with specific topics related to the military personalities……続きを見る

A good description of the fashions in vogue along the African Coast during the mid nineteenth century. Written for an American audience in 1868. Illustrated続きを見る

Includes pictures of the battle's important generals and locations.Includes several maps of the battle.Includes accounts of the fighting written by important generals like McDowell, Longstreet, Sher……続きを見る

Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize A landmark and collectible volumeーbeautifully produced in duotoneーthat canonizes Frederick Douglass through historic photography. Commemorating the bi……続きを見る

"How would you like to ship with me?" Dick regarded me with a look of mingled surpise and inquiry. "To be explicit: I have been thinking of making the tour of New England in search of sport and adve……続きを見る

This book is an account of a trial related to the "Great Stock Exchange Fraud of 1814". According to Wikipedia: "The Great Stock Exchange Fraud of 1814 was a hoax or fraud centered on false informat……続きを見る

*Includes 25 pictures of Davis and important people, places and events in his life.*Includes Table of ContentsJefferson Davis (1808-1889) holds a unique place in American history, as the man best re……続きを見る

Though he had served with distinction during the Civil War, it was Porter Alexanders memoirs that have kept his name alive today. Though many prominent officers on both sides wrote memoirs, Porter A……続きを見る

A small, insignificant-looking intellectual with absurdly long legs, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a veritable Hans Christian Andersen caricature of a man. A strange combination of witty cosmopo……続きを見る

Thomas Rowlandson was one of the most productive and influential artists of Britain's Regency years. He worked hard and enjoyed the company of friends and fellow artists, and his client base was imm……続きを見る

John Myers Myers authored sixteen books, including Doc Holliday and Tombstone's Early Years, also available as Bison Books. 続きを見る

Biographie des frères Goncourt par Alidor Delzant qu a profité entre autres textes, du fameux Journal encore inédit à l'époque. Admirateur inconditionnel des Gonco……続きを見る

In this lucid and stimulating new book, Peter Burger, one of the foremost literary critics in Germany today, addresses the relationship between art and society, from the emergence of bourgeois cultu……続きを見る

Nel 1812-13 Lord Bentinck, comandante in capo britannico del Mediterraneo e di fatto padrone incontrastato della Sicilia, organizzò un suo esercito italiano su 3 reggimenti. Il corpo ebbe il ……続きを見る

Seconda parte del racconto dettagliato ed in prima persona dei principali avvenimenti del Risorgimento Italiano, raccontati da uno che si trovava sul campo. Soldiershop riprende il coproso lavoro di……続きを見る

Racconto dettagliato ed in prima persona dei principali avvenimenti del Risorgimento Italiano, raccontati da uno che si trovava sul campo. Soldiershop riprende il coproso lavoro di Elia in versione ……続きを見る

Winner, ISHS Superior Achievement Award, 2016 Although they inhabited different political, social, and cultural arenas, Abraham Lincoln and the pioneer generation of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, s……続きを見る

Nella battaglia del Volturno trovò la morte Giuseppe Garibaldi, e con essa tutti i sogni di fare un Italia unica e unita...Il Regno delle due sicilie continuerà a esistere, non solo, nel 1912 ci sar……続きを見る

The notions of culture and civilization are at the heart of European self-image. This book focuses on how space and spatiality contributed to defining the concepts of culture and civilization and, c……続きを見る

If you're a history nerd, you will love this book. It's a firsthand account of the battle at Gettysburg from the perspective of a Young 14-year-old resident who tried to flee the inevitable battle b……続きを見る

As new networks of railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global proble……続きを見る

Ricco e variegato volume di una serie di tre dedicato alla storia e alle uniformi del Regno Italico. In questi tempi celebriamo i centocinquant'anni dell'unità d'Italia, avvenuta come noto il 17 mar……続きを見る

Gli Italiani con Napoleone sono il soggetto di questa bella raccolta di figurini dell’artista piemontese. Dedicati alle repubbliche figlie della rivoluzione, la nascita del tricolore, il Regno Itali……続きを見る

Fanny was quite a girl, but also a writer of considerable talent. Maligned by some of her contemporaries because she didn't quite fit in with the Victorian image of what a 'lady' should be, she did ……続きを見る

Blood curdling account of the Seige of Lucknow in 1857 India.A fascinanting and shockingly testimony. This is the personal diary of Julia Selina Inglis, the wife of Major-General Sir John Eardley In……続きを見る

Les images les plus belles et les plus significatives jamais réunies sur l'Empereur. Sur un texte clair et séduisant de Thierry Lentz, retraçant en chapitres thématiques les différents traits de la ……続きを見る

The notion of sexual sadism emerged from nineteenth-century alienist attempts to imagine the pleasure of the torturer or mass killer. This was a time in which sexuality was mapped to social progress……続きを見る

Dans la lignée des livres d'Erik Larson, une formidable reconstitution de l'Exposition Universelle de 1889 et de la construction de la tour Eiffel. Quand Gustave Eiffel remporte le concours lui perm……続きを見る

Oper, Museen, Kaffeehäuser und Life Ball - nur einige der internationalen Symbole für die facettenreiche Geschichte und die schillernde Gegenwart Wiens. Sie alle befinden sich an der Wiener Ringstra……続きを見る

Napoléon maître de guerre. De tous les chefs de guerre passés à la postérité ‒ Alexandre le Grand, Jules César, Frédéric II de Prusse ‒, seul Napoléon est universellement connu. Aujourd'hui encore, ……続きを見る