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 The Tide: of War The 1814 Invasions of Upper Canada 
 The Tide: of War The 1814 Invasions of Upper Canada Author: Richard Feltoe Dundurn 2014 ISBN: 1459714105 Pages: 160 Language: English Format: EPUB Size: 6 MB Throughout 1812 and 1813, Upper Canada had been the principle target for a succession of American invasions and attacks. Fortunately they all had been repulsed, but at a high cost in lives and the devastation of property on both sides of the border. By the beginning of 1814, both sides were determined to bring the war to an end with a decisive victory through an escalated commitment of men and military resources. Continuing the story already detailed in The Call to Arms, The Pendulum of War, and The Flames of War, The Tide of War documents the first six months of 1814 and the ongoing fight for the domination and control of Upper Canada.
Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico
 Author: Hugh Thomas Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico Simon & Schuster ISBN: 0671511041 1995 Format: EPUB Size: 24,8 МБ Language: English Pages: 832 Drawing on newly discovered sources and writing with brilliance, drama, and profound historical insight, Hugh Thomas presents an engrossing narrative of one of the most significant events of Western history. Ringing with the fury of two great empires locked in an epic battle, Conquest captures in extraordinary detail the Mexican and Spanish civilizations and offers unprecedented in-depth portraits of the legendary opponents, Montezuma and Cortés. Conquest is an essential work of history from one of our most gifted historians.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Imperial Germany
 втор: Matthew Jefferies The Ashgate Research Companion to Imperial Germany Ashgate ISBN: 1409435512 2015 Format: PDF Size: 3,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 576 Germany's imperial era (1871-1918) continues to attract both scholars and the general public alike. The American historian Roger Chickering has referred to the historiography on the Kaiserreich as an 'extraordinary body of historical scholarship', whose quality and diversity stands comparison with that of any other episode in European history. This companion is a significant addition to this body of scholarship with the emphasis very much on the present and future. Questions of continuity remain a vital and necessary line of historical enquiry and while it may have been short-lived, the Kaiserreich remains central to modern German and European history. The volume allows 25 experts, from across the globe, to write at length about the state of research in their own specialist fields, offering original insights as well as historiographical reflections, and rounded off with extensive suggestions for further reading. The chapters are grouped into five thematic sections, chosen to reflect the full range of research being undertaken on imperial German history today and together offer a comprehensive and authoritative reference resource. Overall this collection will provide scholars and students with a lively take on this fascinating period of German history, from the nationa (TM)s unification in 1871 right up until the end of World War I.
Second to None Coldstream Guards 1650-2000
 Author: Julian Paget Second to None Coldstream Guards 1650-2000 Pen & Sword Books Ltd 2001 ISBN: 0850527694 Format: EPUB Size: 19,0 МБ Language: English Pages: 254 Distinguished British historians and past members of the regiment celebrate the 350th anniversary of this famous British guard regiment with a lavishly illustrated account of its history in war and peace.
War on the Mississippi - Grant's Vicksburg Campaign
 Author: Jerry Korn War on the Mississippi - Grant's Vicksburg Campaign (The Civil War Series) Time Life Books 1985 Format: PDF Pages: 184 Language: English Size: 36.7 MB This volume looks at the 1862-1863 Mississippi campaign, an operation designed to take the fortress-city of Vicksburg, the lynchpin between the bulk of the Confederacy and its far eastern states. Union General Ulysses S. Grant, who had made a name for himself over the previous year, launched several attempts to bypass Vicksburg in order to link up with General Butler's forces, which were moving upriver from New Orleans. None of these worked, but they served to keep the Federal troops engaged in operations rather than inactive in winter quarters. Grant would come up with a strategy which would allow him to outmaneuver the Confederates, place Vicksburg under siege and capture it, marking the beginning of the end for the CSA. Discusses the Battles of Chickasaw Bluffs, Champion's Hill, Raymond, Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and Big Black, as well as Grierson's Raid. Richly illustrated with maps, photos of artifacts, contemporary photos and artwork. Includes sidebars on the Pearl River POW "camp," a photo essay of prewar Vicksburg, a series of antebellum paintings of the Mississippi River, A Gallery of Western Cavalrymen, Port Hudson and the Union's Homespun Hero.
What Was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe
 What Was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe Author: Anthony Grafton Cambridge University Press 2007 Pages: 331 Format: PDF Size: 13 Mb Language: English From the late-fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering works - which often take surprisingly modern-sounding positions - grew from complex early modern debates about law, religion, and classical scholarship. In this book, based on the Trevelyan Lectures of 2005, Anthony Grafton explains why so many of these works were written, why they attained so much insight - and why, in the centuries that followed, most scholars gradually forgot that they had existed.
The First Americans
 The First Americans Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books Author: Time-Life Books 1992 Pages:183 Language:English Format: pdf Size:27,6 Mb History, customs, mythology, and lore of the continent's first inhabitants are inter-woven in this rich new look at our Native American heritage. Lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs, paintings, drawings, and artifacts.
The Way of the Warrior
 The Way of the Warrior Author:Editors of :Time-Life Books Cahners Business Information, Inc THE AMERICAM INDIANS 1993 Language:English Format:pdf Size:36 mb Pages:184 To the American Indian, there were but two paths to honor: as a shaman, or healer, and as a warrior. 'The Way of the Warrior' will take you far beyond the stereotypes of cowboy-and-Indian lore to a deeper understanding of the warrior ethic in Native American societies.
Architectural Temperance - Spain and Rome, 1700-1759
 Architectural Temperance: Spain and Rome, 1700-1759 Routledge; 1 edition Routledge Research in Architecture Author:Victor Deupi October 9, 2014 Pages:232 Language:English Format: pdf Size:7,7 Mb Architectural Temperance examines relations between Bourbon Spain and papal Rome (1700-1759) through the lens of cultural politics. With a focus on key Spanish architects sent to study in Rome by the Bourbon Kings, the book also discusses the establishment of a program of architectural education at the newly founded Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. Victor Deupi explores why a powerful nation like Spain would temper its own building traditions with the more cosmopolitan trends associated with Rome; often at the expense of its own national and regional traditions. Through the inclusion of previously unpublished documents and images that shed light on the theoretical debates which shaped eighteenth-century architecture in Rome and Madrid, Architectural Temperance provides readers with new insights into the cultural history of early modern Spain
Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan
 Author: Hugh Thomas Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan Random House Trade Paperbacs 2004 ISBN: 0375502041 Format: EPUB Size: 18,5 МБ Language: English Pages: 720 From one of the greatest historians of the Spanish world, here is a fresh and fascinating account of Spain’s early conquests in the Americas. Hugh Thomas’s magisterial narrative of Spain in the New World has all the characteristics of great historical literature: amazing discoveries, ambition, greed, religious fanaticism, court intrigue, and a battle for the soul of humankind.
Rafael Carrera and the Emergence of the Republic of Guatemala, 1821-1871
 Author: Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. Rafael Carrera and the Emergence of the Republic of Guatemala, 1821-1871 University of Georgia Press 1993 Pages: 648 Format: PDF Language : English Size: 35 mb Quality: Good Rafael Carrera (1814-1865) ruled Guatemala from about 1839 until his death. Among Central America’s many political strongmen, he is unrivaled in the length of his domination and the depth of his popularity. This “life and times” biography explains the political, social, economic, and cultural circumstances that preceded and then facilitated Carrera’s ascendancy and shows how Carrera in turn fomented changes that persisted long after his death and far beyond the borders of Guatemala.
Beginnings of Russian Industrialization 1800-1860
 Author: William L. Blackwell Beginnings of Russian Industrialization 1800-1860 Princeton University Press 1968 Format: PDF Pages: 484 Size: 336 Mb Language: English Beginnings of Russian Industrialization 1800-1860
Gettysburg - The Confederate High Tide
 Author: Champ Clark Gettysburg - The Confederate High Tide (The Civil War Series) Time Life Books 1985 Format: PDF Pages: 184 Language: English Size: 29.5 MB Time-Life's Civil War series devotes an entire volume to the Battle of Gettysburg, a topic which many books have been written either in part or on one aspect of the fight. In this case they have done a great job of concentrating on this one campaign which culminated in the so-called "high tide of the Confederacy."
War in European History
 Author: Michael Howard War in European History Oxford University Press 1979 Format: PDF Pages: 180 Language: English Size: 16 MB Wars have often determined the character of society. Society in exchange has determined the character of wars. This is the theme of Michael Howard's stimulating book. It is written with all his usual skill and in its small compass is perhaps the most original book he has written. Though he surveys a thousand years of history, he does so without sinking in a slough of facts and draws a broad outline of developments which will delight the general reader.
The Coast Guard Along the North Atlantic Coast
 Author: Dr. Dennis Noble, Kenneth Arbogast The Coast Guard Along the North Atlantic Coast Coast Guard Historian's Office 1988 Format: PDF Pages: 28 Language: English Size: 22.4 MB From the craggy coast of Maine, to New Jersey’s sandy beaches, the Atlantic coast is speckled with legends, like sea shells. Legends told by sailors and flatlanders alike, of wonderful sailing ships, fierce blizzards and terrible wrecks; legends that are the lore and lure of the sea. Storytellers still recount the adventures of the surfmen who braved the gale to rescue to the victims of shipwrecks, or the lonely vigil of the lighthouse keeper. The Revenue Cutters first sailed from New England ports, and their battles against smugglers and pirates are epic. The first lighthouse in the country was built in Boston, and the first ship of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Services, the Massachusetts, was built in Newburyport, Mass. The federal government built a series of huts along the New Jersey coast to shelter shipwrecked mariners, and the U.S. Life-Saving Service performed its first rescue there in 1850. Those three agencies; the Lighthouse Service, the Life-Saving Service and the revenue Cutter Service were later joined, so in truth, the history of the U.S. Coast Guard began on shores of the North Atlantic.
Amateurs, to Arms!: A Military History of the War of 1812
 Author: John R. Elting Amateurs, to Arms!: A Military History of the War of 1812 Algonquin Books ISBN: 0945575084 1991 Format: PDF Size: 11,1 МБ Language: English Pages: 353 Begun in ignorance of the military facts of life, fought with raw troops, mostly incompetent officers, and inadequate logistics, the War of 1812 was a near disaster for the fledgling United States. This new volune in Algonquin's Major Battles and Campaigns series tells how our country's most unmilitary war was fought and almost lost. 12 pages of illustrations. 16 maps.
The Mughal Empire
 The Mughal Empire (The New Cambridge History of India) Author: John F. Richards Cambridge University Press 1993 Pages: 337 Language: English Format: pdf Size: 21.2 Mb The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralized states in the premodern world and this volume traces the history of this magnificent empire from its creation in 1526 to its breakup in 1720. Richards stresses the dynamic quality of Mughal territorialexpansion, their institutional innovations in land revenue, coinage and military organization, ideological change and the relationship between the emperors and Islam. He also analyzes institutions particular to the Mughal empire, such as the jagir system, and explores Mughal India's links with the early modern world.
Channel Islands: Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark
 Author: George Forty Channel Islands: Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark Pen and Sword Battleground Europe 2002 Format: EPUB Pages: 192 Size: 49 Mb Language: English The book follows in photographs, captions and text the German Army's presence in Flanders from its arrival in September 1914 until the summer of 1916.It looks at the Kaiser's Army's battles with the French, Belgians and British, concentrating mostly on the latter and the battles for Ypres (1st Ypres - 1914 and 2nd Ypres - 1915 and the gas attacks). The book is arranged in four sections; detailed text; around 50.000 photos (that are interspersed into the text with captions); a chronological order of events in Flanders and a section on the German divisions that fought there. Where relevant material from the German home front is included.Each phase and aspect of the period is described from the German point of view using primary and secondary sources from both Germany and Britain.
The Battle for York - Marston Moor 1644
 Author: John Barratt The Battle for York - Marston Moor 1644 Tempus Publishing 2002 Format: PDF Pages: 184 Language: English Size: 53 MB Fought a mere 6 miles from the center of York, Marston Moor was the largest and bloodiest battle of the English Civil War. On July 2, 1644, 18,000 Royalists led by Prince Rupert, Charles I's nephew, fought 27,000 Parliamentarians in an attempt to relieve the Royalist force besieged at York. He failed. The defeat was catastrophic and the north was lost to the Royalists.
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