Reese - History 1

Four centuries before New York became the most diverse city on earth, the conditions for that diversity were already being set ー not by idealists or reformers, but by merchants. When the Dutch West……続きを見る

The death appeared isolated at first. A single tragedy in a wealthy district of London seemed destined for quiet resolution, handled discreetly through the institutions trusted to preserve public co……続きを見る

The sea has always been the most unforgiving stage for human ambition, incompetence, and courage ー and the doomed voyage its most enduring narrative form. In July 1816, the French frigate Méduse ra……続きを見る

Political radicalism and religious tradition often met in the same neighborhoods, libraries, and meeting halls of industrial Europe. For many Jewish intellectuals and workers, demands for social equ……続きを見る

Sicily has long been an island where ordinary life was conducted in the shadow of two powers: the state, which promised justice but rarely delivered it, and the Mafia, which delivered order but alwa……続きを見る

This book examines how a battlefield defeat became a durable story of endurance, and why that transformation mattered more than the evacuation itself. It explores the tension between military collap……続きを見る

This book investigates how climate stress, warfare, and entrenched inequality repeatedly fracture the scaffolding of complex societies, tracing the quiet mechanisms that turn growth into breakdown a……続きを見る

In the summer of 1787, while delegates in Philadelphia debated the architecture of a new republic, a quieter act of nation-building unfolded in the halls of a dying Congress. On July 13, lawmakers p……続きを見る

The prison cell has never been a neutral space. From the convict leasing systems that followed the abolition of slavery ー where Black men were arrested on fabricated charges and leased to plantatio……続きを見る

When George Washington arrived at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in July 1775 to take command of the Continental Army, what greeted him was not a fighting force ー it was a gathering of farmers, teenage ……続きを見る

Between the wire fences and stone walls of Nazi prisons, a quiet but fierce resistance endured ー not with weapons, but with prayer. Across the darkest years of the Second World War, men and women i……続きを見る

Founded in 1871 by a group of entrepreneurs from Cleveland, Akron, and Canton, the Valley Railway paralleled the Cuyahoga River Valley, stretching from southeast Cleveland to Akron and then on to Ca……続きを見る

Blanket Party In Desert Storm: From Beatdown and Spiritually Broken to Eternally Blessed is a raw, unflinching testimony of survival, faith, and the cost of saying no. As one of the only Military In……続きを見る

In this update to his landmark publication, William J. Reese offers a comprehensive examination of the trends, theories, and practices that have shaped America’s public schools over the last two cen……続きを見る

Walk in the footsteps of the Marquis de Lafayette as he makes a final trip through the young United States. Against the backdrop of a tumultuous election, a beloved hero of the American Revolution r……続きを見る

This book investigates news use patterns among five different generations in a time where digital media create a multi-choice media environment. The book introduces the EPIG Model (Engagement-Partic……続きを見る

This book skilfully probes the conflicted relationship that the Russian peoples have had with their army, most often seeing service as a burden to the individual and family, yet a necessary one to d……続きを見る

A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War, Russia 1941-44 is the haunting memoir of a young German soldier on the Russian front during World War II. Willy Peter Reese was only twenty years old whe……続きを見る

Angola to Zydeco: Louisiana Lives is a collection of creative nonfiction pieces about the lively personalities who call south Louisiana home. Originally published in newspapers based in LafayetteーT……続きを見る

This book offers a gendered perspective on leadership in war and peace, considering leadership in its complexity and presenting a practical examination of both leadership successes and failures. The……続きを見る

One of the largest and most feared military forces in the world, the Red Army was a key player in advancing the cause of Soviet socialism. Rising out of revolutionary-era citizen militias, it aspire……続きを見る

Inept leadership, inefficient campaigning, and enormous losses would seem to spell military disaster. Yet despite these factors, the Soviet Union won its war against Nazi Germany thanks to what Roge……続きを見る

'An insightful, empathetic and well-researched account of a deeply fascinating and macabre true story' KATE MOORE , New York Times bestselling author of The Radium Girls 'Compelling' TELEGRAPH 'Such……続きを見る

The purpose of this volume is to bring together, in convenient form for the use of students of zoölogy, some of the more important details of the biology, anatomy, and development of the Crocodilia.……続きを見る

A world famous psychic medium and cold case researcher unravels the history and mystery that make Georgia's capital city a center of the supernatural. Do the ghosts of Civil War soldiers still march……続きを見る

London was a target for Zeppelins and bombers during the First World War, for bombers, V1s and rockets in the Second, and for Cold War missiles and for terrorists in more recent times, yet rarely ha……続きを見る

Why did the British, then the leading nation in science and technology, fall far behind in the race to develop the aeroplane before the First World War? Despite their initial advantage, they were ov……続きを見る

General George Monck is famous for the key role he played in the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. His actions changed the course of British history, but his statesmanship in the dangerous time b……続きを見る

In the breadth of bitter-sweet Scottish history there is no more poignant, not more important, battle than Flodden. Before Scotland's disastrous defeat at the hands of the English under the Earl of ……続きを見る

With the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s Russia seems to have stepped out of time, reverting to an imperial era of conquest and expansion. But as Roger Reese points out in this comprehensive n……続きを見る