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A richly detailed and valuable portrait of an American community in the making . . . Few historians have been more diligent than Paul Bourke and Donald DeBats in reconstructing an American community by linking together a mass of data on its citizens, mapping its neighborhoods, and analyzing political life.
An Illustrated History of Neighborhoods in the Nation's Capital
Washington, D.C., conjures images of marble monuments, national memorials, and worldclass museums. To many, the world beyond the National Mall is invisible. Yet within an area of only 68 square miles lies a residential city of diversity, beauty, and charm. In the longawaited update of her 1988 classic Washington at Home, Kathryn Schneider Smith ......
The bold lines and decorative details of Art Deco have stood the test of time since one of its first appearances in the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris in 1925. Reflecting the confidence of modern mentalitystreamlined, chrome, and glossy blackalong with simple elegance, sharp lines, and cosmopolitan ......
Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire
The 1763 Treaty of Paris ceded much of the continent east of the Mississippi to Great Britain, a claim which the Indian nations of the Great Lakes, who suddenly found themselves under British rule, considered outrageous. Unlike the French, with whom Great Lakes Indians had formed an alliance of convenience, the British entered the upper Great ......
American World War I literature has long been interpreted as an alienated outcry against modern warfare and government propaganda. This prevailing reading ignores the US army's unprecedented attempt during World War I to assign men'except, notoriously, African Americans'to positions and ranks based on merit. And it misses the fact that the ......
Conflict, Strategy, and the Return of a Fractured World
The war in Ukraine has altered the course of global history. These authors explore how. When Vladimir Putin's forces sought to conquer Ukraine in February 2022, they did more than threaten the survival of a vulnerable democracy. The invasion unleashed a crisis that has changed the course of world affairs. This conflict has reshaped alliances, ......
''A brilliant survey of the history of warfare . . . the best yet produced anywhere.''--B. H. Lidell-Hart From the Renaissance to the Cold War, the definitive survey of the social, political, military, and technological aspects of modern warfare returns to print in a new paperback edition. Topics include land and sea warfare from the Renaissance ......
