Aspects of Cultural and Demographic Politics 1815-2001
Considered one of the most intractable and complex border disputes in modern European history, the sixty mile border between a small kingdom and a growing, belligerent would - be world power caused several wars in the Bismarckian era and lead to several crises in the post World War I and post World War II eras. Professor Berdichevsky skillfully ......
The Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Post-Revolutionary France
Since his conversion from Judaism, Charles Rich has sought to lead a contemplative life while still in world. He has shared the results of his meditations with a few intimate friends. It is these that make up this book-short, pithy reflections on a unique spiritual life.
The American Revolutionary Conquest of the Iroquois
The American Revolution was a struggle not only for independence, but for the lands of American Indians. This is an account of the events surrounding the scorched-earth campaign against the Iroquois of New York and the eastern territories in 1779.
100 Inventions That Shaped the Victorian Age, from Aspirin to the Zeppelin
The Victorian age was a period of enormous technological progress in communications, transport and many other areas of life. This book chronicles the history of the 100 most important, innovative and memorable inventions of the 19th century.
In the annals of American criminal justice, two prisons stand out as icons of institutionalized brutality and deprivation: Alcatraz and Sing Sing. This book takes us on a disturbing and poignant tour of Sing Sing's legendary death house, and introduces us to those whose lives Sing Sing claimed.
White Women and Racial Patriarchy in the Early American Republic
Examining the lives of three women - Mercy Otis Warren, Abigail Smith Adams, and Judith Sargent Murray, this book explains how their public and private actions represent the conflict of being a white woman, of being the recipient of both privilege and discrimination. It sheds light on the race and gender relations in the early American Republic.
The Harvest Story depicts the life of rural American threshermen. This collection of first-person narratives chronicles the eyewitness accounts of people who threshed grain with steam engines. The book selects anecdotes from over 50 volumes of material published in The Iron-Men Album Magazine from 1946 until 2001 and arranges them in a coherent ......
'An extremely accessible, well structured and imaginative reading of market and social theory in terms of the myth of the Wild West frontier' New Formations This book, written by the author of the celebrated volume Six Guns and Society, explains why the myth of the Wild West is popular around the world. It shows how the cultural icon of the ......
Robert Martin shows that the history of the free and open press is in many ways the story of the emergence and first real expansions of the early American public sphere and civil society itself.
