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 The Reservations 
 The Reservations Author:Editors of :Time-Life Books Cahners Business Information, Inc THE AMERICAM INDIANS 1995 Language:English Format:pdf Size:30 mb Pages:192 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 Industrial Revolution
 Author: Lee T. Wyatt III The Industrial Revolution (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events 1500-1900) ISBN-10: 0313337691 Greenwood November 30, 2008 Format: PDF Size: 1,99 mb Goloboy's volume incorporates biographies in the chapters that cover the individual's lifetime, whereas Wyatt offers more detailed biographies in a separate section. Both books detail the lifestyle changes that characterized the era and offer numerous viewpoints on it. They are worthy general purchases depending on need. While Goloboy focuses on the Industrial Revolution in the United States, Wyatt also looks at the period prior to it and addresses global ramifications.
The Nation Reunited - Wars Aftermath
 Author: Richard Murphy The Nation Reunited - Wars Aftermath (The Civil War Series) Time-Life Books 1987 Format: PDF Pages: 184 Language: English Size: 25.8 MB Another excellent book in the Time-Life series on the Civil War. This volume looks at Reconstruction and its aftermath, the impeachment of President Johnson, the rise of capital in America, the corrupt presidency of Grant and the westward shift of Americans to the West. Filled with photos, period illustrations and photos of artifacts it is an excellent resource for understanding post-Civil War America. Includes sidebars on Jefferson Davis, the Grand Review, Lee, the frontier army, Thomas Nast, life for the freedmen after the War and the veterans' reunions.
The Twilight of Imperial Russia
 Author: Richard Charques The Twilight of Imperial Russia ISBN-10: 0195197879 Oxford University Press October 3, 1974 Format: PDF Size: 14,92 mb This books explains the last 23 years of Imperial Russia and why Nicholas II and the Romanov family lost their throne. At several points in his rule, if Nicholas had changed his methods, Imperial Russia may have survived and evolved into something like Great Britain. However, Nicholas made many mistakes and as a result lost both his life and that of his family. What the author does is state what Nicholas could have done in several instances and what was the likely outcome. In fact, before the beginning of WWI, the Menosheviks, Bolsheviks, and SRs were battling among themselves and were not credible as an opponent. However, Nicholas made stupid decisions (or let his wife make them) and this resulted in an autocracy that was no longer a ruling force for most Russians.
The Atlanta and Savannah Campaigns, 1864 (The U.S. Army Campaigns of the Civil War)
 Author: J. Britt McCarley The Atlanta and Savannah Campaigns, 1864 (The U.S. Army Campaigns of the Civil War) Center of Military History 2014 Format: PDF Pages: 84 Language: English Size: 11.7 MB In 1864, as the Civil War entered its fourth year, the most devastating conflict in American history seemed to grind on with no end in sight. In order to break the stalemate, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant general in chief of the U.S. Army and nominated him for promotion to lieutenant general, which Congress duly confirmed on 2 March. As the North’s most successful field commander, Grant had built his reputation in the Western Theater, which stretched from the Appalachian Mountains in the east to the Mississippi River in the west and from the Ohio River in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in the south. His impressive résumé included victories at Forts Henry and Donelson, Tennessee; Shiloh, Tennessee; Vicksburg, Mississippi; and Chattanooga, Tennessee. Before heading east to assume his new duties, Grant designated his most trusted subordinate, Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, to succeed him as commander of the Military Division of the Mississippi, a sprawling geographic command that spanned most of the Western Theater.
The Archaeology of Clothing and Bodily Adornment in Colonial America
 The Archaeology of Clothing and Bodily Adornment in Colonial America Author: Diana DiPaolo Loren University Press of Florida 2011 ISBN: 0813038030 Pages: 140 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 70 MB "Highly readable but also innovative in its approach to a broad array of material from diverse colonial contexts."- Carolyn White, University of Nevada, Reno "Loren brings together a sampling of the extensive literature on the archaeology of clothing and adornment to argue that artifacts of the body acquire their meaning through cultural practice. She shows how dress serves as social discourse and a tool of identity negotiation."- Kathleen Deagan, Florida Museum of Natural History Dress has always been a social medium. Color, fabric, and fit of clothing, along with adornments, posture, and manners, convey information on personal status, occupation, religious beliefs, and even sexual preferences. Clothing and adornment are therefore important not only for their utility but also in their expressive properties and the ability of the wearer to manipulate those properties. Diana DiPaolo Loren investigates some ways in which colonial peoples chose to express their bodies and identities through clothing and adornment.
The North American Indian
 Author: Edward Sheriff Curtis The North American Indian Northwestern University 1907-1930 Format:jpeg Size:138 mb Language:English
Sir William Congreve annd the Rockets Red Glare
 Author: Donald E Graves Sir William Congreve annd the Rockets Red Glare Museum Restoration Service Historical Arms Series №23 ISBN: 0919316239 1970 Format: PDF Pages: 34 Size: 21 Mb Language: English This is Historical Arms Series No. 23, a monograph on the experiments of Sir William Congreve with rockets as a military weapon. The British army and navy eventually made rather wide use of them, notably, as this booklet details, in the Chesapeake campaign in North America in 1814. Included are contemporary drawings and models of Congreve's various designs.
A Concise History of the Civil War
 Author: William C Davis A Concise History of the Civil War (National Park Civil War Series) Eastern National Park 1994 Format: PDF Pages: 59 Language: English Size: 36.8 MB Part of the National Park Civil War Series. In 1861, the North and South, wedded by bonds of history, blood, and sacrifice, simply could no longer make this union forged by the Founding Fathers work. Irreconcilable differences emerged based on politics, geography, philosophy and economy. When it was over, after countless losses on countless battlefields, the citizens of this fractured nation had to decide for themselves if the result justified the sacrifice. Win or lose, living or dead, soldier or civilian, they had participated in something that set America apart and sent it on the path to world power.Eastern National - National Park Civil War Series - A Conci... .pdf
The Curse of the Romanovs
 Author:Angelo Solomon Rappoport The Curse of the Romanovs: A Study of the Lives and the Reigns of Two Tsars Paul I and Alexander I of Russia: 1754-1825 Chatto & Windus 1907 Format: PDF Size: 15.63 MB Language:English The eyes of Europe are directed towards Russia, the European China, where the scion of the house of Romanov is seated on his tottering throne, frightened at the phantom of an approaching Revolution. Convulsively he is clinging to the throne of his ancestors, reluctant to give up what he considers his right. But has Nicholas II a right to the Russian throne? Yes, the right of the usurper! Michael Romanov was elected Tsar of Russia by the voice of the nation, but Peter I, his grandson, was the son of an unknown parent. The Tsar himself knew that he was not the son of Alexis, and one day he asked Count Yaguzhinsky to tell him whether he was his father. The Count, however, replied that it was difficult to say, as the Tsaritza had so many lovers. Elizabeth may or may not have been the daughter of Peter the Great. She was in any case the daughter of Catherine I, a former Livonian servant. The legitimacy of Paul I is doubtful, and if one is to believe the confessions of Catherine 11 he was not a Romanov. For nearly three centuries these so-called Romanovs have ruled over Russia, but they have remained strangers to the people under the sway of their sceptre.
Chasseyrs of the Guard
 Author: Peter Young Chasseyrs of the Guard (Men-ar-Arms 11) Osprey Publishing Ltd 1971 Format: Pdf Size: 19 Mb Language: English
Napoleon's Egyptian Campaigns 1798-1801
 Author: Michael Barthorp Napoleon's Egyptian Campaigns 1798-1801 (Men-at-Arms 79) Osprey Publishing Ltd 1978 Format: Pdf Size: 16 Mb Language: English
The Civil War Almanac
 Author: John S Bowman The Civil War Almanac Bison Books 1983 Format: PDF Pages: 408 Language: English Size: 67 MB This book is the most comprehensive single-volume reference work on the War Between the States ever published. Here you will find described—and, wherever possible, illustrated—all the key events, personalities and lethal weapons that, together, produced the most tragic of all American wars. There are three sections in the book. The main body of the text is the day-to-day chronology of political and diplomatic events and all the major land and sea campaigns, which traces events from the early rumblings of the abolitionists through the whole period of the war and the immediate postwar period, culminating with the end of the era of the carpetbaggers.
New York : a pictorial history
 New York : a pictorial history New York : Scribner Author:Davidson, Marshall B 1977 Language:English Format: pdf Size:89,3 Mb In the first comprehensive pictorial history of New York ever to be published, Marshall B. Davidson combines immense learning and a vivid writing style to show the richly varied history of the Empire State from Indian times to the present. He has chosen 750 historical pictures, some never published before, to document the story of the state that is home to almost one in every ten Americans. The illustrations show life upstate and life in the world's greatest city. They depict the development of New York's farms and factories, the building of the Erie Canal, and the phenomenal growth of the port of New York; they show the warriors—Indian, English, French, and American—who have battled over its land and waterways, and notable figures in the state's history, from Peter Stuyvesant to Fiorello LaGuardia. Above all, they convey the wonderfully varied mixture of population that makes New York a microcosm of the nation as a whole.
The communards of Paris, 1871
 Author: Edwards, Stewart The communards of Paris, 1871 Cornell University Press 1973 Documents of Revolution Format: pdf Size: 29,6 mb Language: English The spirit of an event consecrated in anarchist legend is captured in these documents. Eyewitness reports, accounts of participants, and archival documents are used by Dr. Edwards to illustrate the many facets of the seventy-three-day Paris Commune of 1871, the largest urban insurrection in modern history. Each section of the book is preceded by an explanatory note, and footnotes clarify contemporary references. The introduction to the documents provides a general survey of the origins and events of the Commune
The Second Battle of Manassas
 Author: Wilson Greene The Second Battle of Manassas Eastern National Park 1995 Format: PDF Pages: 56 Language: English Size: 33.2 MB The Second Battle of Bull Run or Second Manassas was fought August 28–30, 1862 in Prince William County, Virginia, as part of the American Civil War. It was the culmination of an offensive campaign waged by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia against Union Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia, and a battle of much larger scale and numbers than the First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) fought in 1861 on the same ground.
Spies, Scouts and Raiders - Irregular Operations (The Civil War Series)
 Author: Collective Spies, Scouts and Raiders - Irregular Operations (The Civil War Series) Time-Life Books 1985 Format: PDF Pages: 184 Language: English Size: 30.5 MB During the Civil War both North and South employed irregular forces and spies to try to gain advantage over the enemy. This volume looks at these various elements: Confederate spy rings, the Pinkerton agency, Morgan's raiders, Mosby, etc. This book has great photos of artifacts, contemporary photos, and artwork. A fascinating read on how special operations and intelligence-gathering were conducted because these two functions became formalized parts of modern military establishments. It includes sidebars on secret weapons, photos of some of Quantrill's most notorious raiders, U.S. Military Railroads, the General Raid, codes and ciphers and Confederate operations from Canada.
Handbook to life in Renaissance Europe
 Author: Sandra Sider Facts On File, Inc. 2000 1286 Format: pdf Size: 17 mb Language: englich The period covered by the Renaissance varies, depending on the geographic region or subject under discussion. The Renaissance began in northern Italy in the latter 14th century, culminating in England in the early 17th century. Consequently the present book spans two centuries, c. 1400–c. 1600, emphasizing the pervasive influence of Italian sources on the development of the Renaissance in other parts of southern Europe as well as in the north. Although the ideal of the Renaissance individual was exaggerated to the extreme by 19th-century critics and historians, there was certainly a greater awareness of an individual’s potential by the 16th century. Emphasis on the dignity of man (though not of woman) distinguished the Renaissance from the relatively humbler attitudes of the Middle Ages. In the love poetry of Petrarch and the great human scheme of Dante’s Commedia, individual thought and action were prevalent.
The Cambridge Economic History of the United States
The Cambridge Economic History of the United States /
Cambridge University Press
2008
Pages: 2588
Format: PDF
Language: English
Size: 31,67mb
There are 3 titles in this series...
The Cambridge Economic History of the United States
Volume 1, The Colonial Era.
Edited by Stanley L. Engerman, Robert E. Gallman.
Volume 2, The Long Nineteenth Century.
Edited by Stanley L. Engerman, Robert E. Gallman.
Volume 3, The Twentieth Century.
Edited by Stanley L. Engerman, Robert E. Gallman.
This volume surveys the economic history of British North America, including Canada and the Caribbean, and of the early United States, from early settlement by Europeans to the end of the eighteenth century. The book includes chapters on the economic history of Native Americans (to 1860), and also on the European and African backgrounds to colonization. Subsequent chapters cover the settlement and growth of the colonies; British mercantilist policies and the American colonies; and the American Revolution, the Constitution, and economic developments through 1800.
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