Shirley - History 1

A Welsh sniper’s journey in Afghanistan, facing deadly combat, brotherhood, and enduring the effects of PTSD. The war in Afghanistan had grown to its most violent of times, and Helmand Province had ……続きを見る

In the turbulent decades that shaped America's destiny, one man's voice rose above the cacophony of civil war and reconstruction to become the defining spirit of North Carolina. Zebulon Vance emerge……続きを見る

"We must have walked a thousand miles," wrote my grandfather, Ernst Oscar Werner, about his family's journey from Siberia to Danzig in 1918–1919. This ethnic German family, who had lived in Ukraine ……続きを見る

In September 1918 Elizabeth Kalb boarded a train to Washington, DC to fight for voting rights for women. For over two years, Elizabeth lived and worked at the National Woman's Party headquarters a b……続きを見る

"A fine history of a French family that enjoyed great influenceーand deservedly soーin the early trans-Mississippian West" from a Pulitzer Prize–winning author ( Kirkus Reviews ). "If not for evocat……続きを見る

How the legacy of the Civil Warーas presented by writers, poets, and artists of the timeーhas shaped American visions of democracy In Haunted by the Civil War, Shirley Samuels explores the work of W……続きを見る

Two centuries ago, native New Yorker Washington Irving exploded onto the literary scene of Europe with the publication of his breakout collection of stories, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent……続きを見る

In The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South, Wayne A. and Shirley A. Wiegand tell the comprehensive story of the integration of southern public libraries. As in other efforts to i……続きを見る

By virtue of being both black and female in antebellum America, black women abolitionists confronted a particular set of tensions. Whether they supported the movement directly or indirectly, coopera……続きを見る

As law enforcement officer and game manager for the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Lt. Tom Shirley was the law in one of the last true frontiers in the nation--the Florida Everglades.……続きを見る

Revealing the forgotten ideas and philosophy behind early naturopathic osteopathy, Shirley Murray Strachan presents a reoriented historical view of Thomas Ambrose Bowen and his work, breaking from t……続きを見る

By the 1970s, the Brooklyn piers had become a wasteland on the New York City waterfront. Today, they have been transformed into a stunning park that is enjoyed by countless Brooklynites and visitors……続きを見る

"Very occasionally a tragedy turns into a triumph. This wonderful, searing book is such a moment. Rush to read it & be thankful." – Miriam Margolyes Last night Ben phoned from Bermuda, collect as us……続きを見る

New York Times-Bestselling Author: This account of Ronald Reagan's political comebackーand rescue of the GOPーis "an engrossing, richly detailed saga" ( Booklist). Includes a foreword by Pulitzer Pr……続きを見る

The Mother of the Father of our Country. Mary Ball Washington was an unlikely candidate to be the mother of history's most famous revolutionary. In fact, George Washington's first fight for independ……続きを見る

Step into the extraordinary life and mind of Andrew Carnegie, one of the wealthiest and most influential individuals of his time. In this captivating book, the spirit of Andrew Carnegie shares his t……続きを見る

Have you ever wondered about the circle inscribed on the face of the deep mentioned in the book of Proverbs? Or questioned the biblical account of creation and how it aligns with science as we know ……続きを見る

Women have been struggling for thousands of years for equality in their many relationships. “Before Their Time – Women Who. Dared” takes an historical look at the secondary roles women have played t……続きを見る

It began with a key. One afternoon in 1956, in the home of the Hitchings family in Battersea, south London, a small silver key appeared on Shirley Hitchings' bed. This seemingly insignificant event ……続きを見る

Bognor Regis is situated on the south coast of Britain, overlooking the English Channel. On 18 January 1787 the resort's founder, Sir Richard Hotham, laid the first stone marking the town as a 'publ……続きを見る

This vivid portrait of everyday life in the medieval Arab world draws on thirteenth century miniatures from collections as far afield as St Petersburg and Istanbul. The wide range of topi covers eve……続きを見る

South Cambridgeshire has some of the richest arable land in England and has been cultivated for millennia. By the turn of the nineteenth century industrialisation and massive population growth had r……続きを見る

The centennial of Dwight D. Eisenhower's birth in 1990 came amid a reappraisal of this American Hero's eight years in the White House. Among the many tributes to President Eisenhower's memory, perha……続きを見る

This book assesses the nature and extent of the project of deracialisation required to counter the contemporary dynamics of racialisation across four varieties of modernity: Sweden, South Africa, Br……続きを見る

"Examines the complicated, dynamic relations between these two regions [and] offers a new perspective to understand the root cause of the dilemma." ー China Review China and Taiwan share one of the ……続きを見る

Born in Guadeloupe in 1897, Stephanie St. Clair entered the United States thirteen years later. By 1923 at the age of twenty-six she would create and manage a highly lucrative policy bank in Harlem ……続きを見る

Wind Walker has dreamed for seasons of a better place for his starving tribe. Once proud Bison Hunters, they must find another way to live in order to survive. Driven north by drought, they search f……続きを見る

The first book-length critical study of the black experience in the Vietnam War and its aftermath, this text interrogates the meaning of heroism based on models from African and African American exp……続きを見る

The Kentucky slave trade is in its darkest days. Cassius is a young virile black man who does not want to die like so many others in the surrounding plantations. Tanglewood offered him a safe home. ……続きを見る

How Rabbi Stephen S. Wise changed the trajectory of American Reform Judaism over the course of the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first In 1922, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, a leader of the Zi……続きを見る