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Balanced and in-depth military coverage (all theaters, North and South) in a non-partisan format with detailed notes, offering meaty, in-depth articles, original maps, photos, columns, book reviews, and indexes.
126th NY Infantry at Harpers Ferry — First Confederate Regiment from Santa Rosa to Chickamauga — Long road to Bentonville — Book reviews — complete list of contents and index for Volume One.
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"A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Andrew Jackson" by Various. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers...
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For at least two centuries, the South's economy, politics, religion, race relations, fiction, music, foodways and more have figured prominently in nearly all facets of American life. In A New History of the American South, W. Fitzhugh Brundage joins a stellar group of accomplished historians in gracefully weaving a new narrative of southern history from its ancient past to the present. This groundbreaking work draws on both well-established and new...
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What If... ? Every Civil War armchair general asks the question. Possibilities unfold. Disappointments vanish. Imaginations soar. More questions arise. "What if... " can be more than an exercise in wistful fantasy. A serious inquiry sparks rigorous exploration, demands critical thinking, and unlocks important insights. The Great "What Ifs" of the American Civil War: Historians Tackle the Conflict's Most Intriguing Possibilities is a collection of...
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University and university students of various disciplines (health, technology and engineering, humanities, social sciences or basic sciences) have set their sights on certain cultural references to return them to the citizenry and invite us to reflect on these manifestations of collective and diachronic solidarity, of how those people in the past did or created things that have contributed to our welfare, but that above all-, they are manifestations...
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The dominant culture of industrial civilization is highly materialistic, holding up Western-style, consumer lifestyles as the path to happiness and fulfilment. But consumer lifestyles are failing to satisfy the human craving for meaning, and they are degrading our planet in ways that are grossly unsustainable and unjust. We desperately need to explore or rediscover less materialistic, 'simpler' ways of living. 'Simple living' refers to ways of life...
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Summary of First Women by Kate Andersen Brower | Includes Analysis Preview: Kate Andersen Brower's First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies examines how women from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama have negotiated the personal and political challenges of being married to the president of the United States. The women who have served as first lady in the modern era have been very different. Jackie Kennedy was a style icon; Lady...
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Francisco Franco murió el 20 de noviembre de 1975 tras casi cuarenta años de dictadura. Esta obra colectiva ofrece una visión alejada de los tópicos al uso sobre el 20 de noviembre de 1975, el día que con la muerte del dictador Francisco Franco se abrió un horizonte de incertidumbre y de esperanza, aunque solo la perspectiva histórica haya permitido vislumbrar en su complejidad los cambios que se iban a producir. Los trabajos agrupados, trece...
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El castillo-palacio de Alaquàs es una de las obras más destacadas de la arquitectura renacentista valenciana. En el centenario de su declaración como Bien de Interés Cultural (1918), este libro acoge una serie de estudios sobre algunos de los aspectos históricos, culturales, arquitectónicos y artísticos que enmarcan y establecen la singularidad de este inmueble. El volumen aborda los rasgos que caracterizaron la nobleza valenciana durante la...
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The five hundredth anniversary of Columbus's first transatlantic voyage has provoked an outpouring of scholarship on how European exploration and colonization affected America. This book of eleven essays from leading scholars in the fields of intellectual and cultural history reverses that trend by focusing on the ways in which contact with the Americas transformed European thought. The result of an international conference sponsored by the John Carter...
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Universitarios y universitarias de diversas disciplinas (salud, tecnología e ingenierías, humanidades, ciencias sociales o básicas) han fijado su mirada en determinadas referencias culturales de la ciudad para invitarnos a reflexionar sobre cómo las gentes que la habitaban en el pasado crearon elementos que han contribuido a nuestro bienestar, pero que, sobre todo, son manifestaciones del empuje personal y colectivo por mejorar sus condiciones...
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Desde hace dos o tres décadas la historia cultural ocupa un lugar preferente en la escena historiográfica, aunque con desfases cronológicos y distintas modalidades dependiendo de las circunstancias nacionales y, en este sentido, se impone una aproximación comparativa. El presente volumen pretende inscribirse en esta perspectiva, preguntándose por la realidad de un «giro cultural» en la historiografía mundial. Los numerosos colaboradores han...
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"A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Thomas Jefferson" by Various. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers...
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This anthology includes essays, photographs, and reflections from individuals who participated in or were inspired by the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) student strike in 1969 that led to the establishment of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley.
Multiracial solidarity was established through the coming together of African American, Asian American, Chicano and Native American students to form the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) along with support...
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Uwe Heins erzählt aus seinem bunten Seemannsleben Er fuhr als Moses und Jungmann auf großen Motorschiffen nach Afrika, Japan, in die Karibik und durch den Panamakanal zur US-Westküste. Später war er als Leichtmatrose und Bestmann auf Kümos zwischen Skandinavien und England unterwegs. Wie der Junge aus einfachen Verhältnissen sich durch den Alltag kämpft und lernt, sein Leben zu bewältigen, erzählt er mit einem Schuss Selbstironie in diesem...
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"A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: George Washington" by Various. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all...
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This book is volume four of eight volumes. It covers mainly the air war. The volume covers the 2nd half of 1915 and starts into 1916. The Edith Cavell incident is truly tragic. To paraphrase the quote from the volume, "It wasn't so much a crime as a blunder." The story of the German battleship "Möwe" is told in detail. She ends up being sunk by British fighters in 1945. The fall of Serbia, Montenegro and Albania is described in great detail. This...
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"A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: James Monroe" by Various. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers...
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