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 Warfare in the Renaissance World 
 Author: Paul Brewer Warfare in the Renaissance World (History of Warfare) Raintree Steck-Vaughn Company 1999 Format: PDF Pages: 88 Language: English Size: 14.7 MB Describes the widespread changes in the conduct of war that occurred in the 200 years between the beginning of the sixteenth century and the end of the seventeenth century.
English Costume from the Seventeenth Through the Nineteenth Centuries
 Author: Iris Brooke , James Laver English Costume from the Seventeenth Through the Nineteenth Centuries Dover Publications 2000 Format: PDF Language: English Size: 65 MB Outstanding reference spans 300 years of fashion history — from the extravagant costumes of the Stuart period to such innovations as cycling knickerbockers for late 19th century women. Over 400 illustrations (including 28 plates in full color) provide important details of hair styles, beards, hats, and cravats.
Russia's Steppe Frontier: The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800
 Author: Michael Khodarkovsky Russia's Steppe Frontier: The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800 Indiana University Press 2002 Pages: 295 Format: PDF Size: 124 Mb Language: English Anyone familiar with the author’s first book Where Two Worlds Met (1992) must look forward to reading this new volume, which is a comprehensive study of Moscow’s relations with the steppe nomads from the emergence of a Russian empire until the closing of the frontier 300 years later. He will not be disappointed. In the author’s own words, this book is about the transformation of a dangerous frontier into a part of the empire and of its peoples into subjects. Certainly more controversial is his determination to show that Russia was no less a colonial empire than any of the other western powers.
Counter-Thrust: From the Peninsula to the Antietam
 Author: Benjamin Franklin Cooling Counter-Thrust: From the Peninsula to the Antietam University of Nebraska Press 2008 ISBN: 0803215150 Format: PDF Size: 12,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 385 During the summer of 1862, a Confederate resurgence threatened to turn the tide of the Civil War. When the Union’s earlier multitheater thrust into the South proved to be a strategic overreach, the Confederacy saw its chance to reverse the loss of the Upper South through counteroffensives from the Chesapeake to the Mississippi. Benjamin Franklin Cooling tells this story in Counter-Thrust, recounting in harrowing detail Robert E. Lee’s flouting of his antagonist George B. McClellan’s drive to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond and describing the Confederate hero’s long-dreamt-of offensive to reclaim central and northern Virginia before crossing the Potomac.
The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870
 Author: Hugh Thomas The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870 Simon & Schuster ISBN: 0684835657 1997 Format: EPUB Size: 40,8 МБ Language: English Pages: 912 After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, he describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures in all of history. Between 1492 and 1870, approximately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses. The Slave Trade is alive with villains and heroes and illuminated by eyewitness accounts. Hugh Thomas's achievement is not only to present a compelling history of the time but to answer as well such controversial questions as who the traders were, the extent of the profits, and why so many African rulers and peoples willingly collaborated. Thomas also movingly describes such accounts as are available from the slaves themselves.
The Aristocracy in Europe 1815-1914
 Author: Dominic C.B. Lieven The Aristocracy in Europe 1815-1914 Columbia University Press 1993 Format: PDF Pages: 308 Size: 221 Mb Language: English The book surveys the wealth, economic activities, manners and morals, everyday life, culture, values, occupations and political roles of aristocracy in Europe's three most powerful monarchies. The enobled upper class in the 19th century viewed the Industrial Revolution and (in Britain) the expansion of the franchise in quite a different light from the middle classes. To them, increased educational and occupational opportunities were an economic and social threat to their power and right to rule. This book investigates their "strategies" and the ways they responded to the danger. What Lieven finds, not surprisingly, is that each national group responded in its own way to the challenge from the lower classes in its own country.
Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes
 Author: Christopher Hibbert Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes W.W. Norton & Company 1990 Format: PDF Pages: 424 Language: English Size: 63.8 MB The story of this war has usually been told in terms of a conflict between blundering British generals and their rigidly disciplined red-coated troops on the one side and heroic American patriots in their homespun shirts and coonskin caps on the other. In this fresh, compelling narrative, Christopher Hibbert portrays the realities of a war that raged the length of an entire continent—a war that thousands of George Washington's fellow countrymen condemned and that he came close to losing. Based on a wide variety of sources and alive with astute character sketches and eyewitness accounts, Redcoats and Rebels presents a vivid and convincing picture of the "cruel, accursed" war that changed the world forever.
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War 1890-1914
 Author: Barbara W. Tuchman The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War 1890-1914 Random House 2011 Format: EPUB Size: 6,7 МБ Language: English Pages: 608 The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman’s classic histories of the First World War era During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was “heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate.” In The Proud Tower, Barbara W. Tuchman brings the era to vivid life: the decline of the Edwardian aristocracy; the Anarchists of Europe and America; Germany and its self-depicted hero, Richard Strauss; Diaghilev’s Russian ballet and Stravinsky’s music; the Dreyfus Affair; the Peace Conferences in The Hague; and the enthusiasm and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized by the assassination of Jean Jaurès on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close.
The Oxford History of the British Empire. Volume II: The Eighteenth Century
 Author:Edited by P. J. Marshall The Oxford History of the British Empire. Volume II: The Eighteenth Century Oxford University Press 1998 Format: pdf Size: 37.61 MB Language: English Volume II of the Oxford History of the British Empire examines the history of British worldwide expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a crucial phase in the creation of the modern British Empire. This is the age of General Wolfe, Clive of India, and Captain Cook. The international team of experts deploy the latest scholarly research to trace and analyse development and expansion over more than a century. They show how trade, warfare, and migration created an Empire, at first overwhelmingly in the Americas but later increasingly in Asia. Although the Empire was ruptured by the American Revolution, it survived and grew into the British Empire that was to dominate the world during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power 1799-1815
 Author: Philip Dwyer Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power 1799-1815 (Napoleon Vol.2) Yale University Press 2013 Format: epub/pdf Size: 11.3 Mb Language: English In this second volume of Philip Dwyer’s authoritative biography on one of history’s most enthralling leaders, Napoleon, now 30, takes his position as head of the French state after the 1799 coup. Dwyer explores the young leader’s reign, complete with mistakes, wrong turns, and pitfalls, and reveals the great lengths to which Napoleon goes in the effort to fashion his image as legitimate and patriarchal ruler of the new nation. Concealing his defeats, exaggerating his victories, never hesitating to blame others for his own failings, Napoleon is ruthless in his ambition for power. Following Napoleon from Paris to his successful campaigns in Italy and Austria, to the disastrous invasion of Russia, and finally to the war against the Sixth Coalition that would end his reign in Europe, the book looks not only at these events but at the character of the man behind them. Dwyer reveals Napoleon’s darker sides—his brooding obsessions and propensity for violence—as well as his passionate nature: his loves, his ability to inspire, and his capacity for realizing his visionary ideas. In an insightful analysis of Napoleon as one of the first truly modern politicians, the author discusses how the persuasive and forward-thinking leader skillfully fashioned the image of himself that persists in legends that surround him to this day.
Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Presidents and Their Times
 Author: David Rubel Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Presidents and Their Times Scholastic Inc. 1994 Format: PDF Pages: 228 Language: English Size: 48.4 MB In 1789, George Washington became the first president of the United States. More than forty others have followed him. The ninth president, William Henry Harrison, served less than a month. Franklin Roosevelt, the thirty-second president, served for twelve years. During Roosevelt's term, which spanned the Great Depression and World War II, the country changed a great deal. But the same can be said for almost any president. Each president's term in office is usually shaped by important events both inside and and outside the United States.
Napoleon and the Struggle for Germany: The Franco-Prussian War of 1813
 Napoleon and the Struggle for Germany: The Franco-Prussian War of 1813 Author: Michael V. Leggiere Cambridge University Press 2015 Pages: 610 ISBN: 1107080541, 9781107080546 Format: PDF Size: 15 mb Language: English Cambridge Military Histories
Sino-Japanese Naval War 1894-1895
 Author: Piotr Olender Sino-Japanese Naval War 1894-1895 (Maritime Series 3105) Mushroom Model Publications Maritime Series 3105 ISBN: 8363678309 2014 Format: EPUB Pages: 180 Size: 10 Mb Language: English The First Sino–Japanese War (1 August 1894 – 17 April 1895) was fought between Qing Dynasty China and Meiji Japan, primarily over control of Korea. After more than six months of continuous successes by the Japanese army and naval forces, as well as the loss of the Chinese port of Weihai, the Qing leadership sued for peace in February 1895.
The Apache Wars. The final resistance.
 Author: Joseph C.Jastrzembski The Apache Wars. The final resistance. Chelsea House Publisher 2007 Format: Pdf Size: 37 Mb Language: English
Little Bighorn: Winning the Battle, Losing the War
 Author: Michael L. Lawson Little Bighorn: Winning the Battle, Losing the War. Chelsea House 2007 Format: Pdf Size: 37 Mb Language: English
A History of Eastern Europe 1740-1918: Empires, Nations and Modernisation
 Author: Ian D. Armour A History of Eastern Europe 1740-1918: Empires, Nations and Modernisation, 2d edition Bloomsbury Academic 2013 Format: PDF Size: 1.9 Mb Language: English A History of Eastern Europe 1740-1918: Empires, Nations and Modernisation provides a comprehensive, authoritative account of the region during a troubled period that finished with the First World War. Ian Armour focuses on the three major themes that have defined Eastern Europe in the modern period - empire, nationhood and modernisation - whilst chronologically tracing the emergence of Eastern Europe as a distinct concept and place. Detailed coverage is given to the Habsburg, Ottoman, German and Russian Empires that struggled for dominance during this time. In this exciting new edition, Ian Armour incorporates findings from new research into the nature and origins of nationalism and the attempts of supranational states to generate dynastic loyalties as well as concepts of empire. Armour's insightful guide to early Eastern Europe considers the important figures and governments, analyses the significant events and discusses the socio-economic and cultural developments that are crucial to a rounded understanding of the region in that era. Features of this new edition include: - A fully updated and enlarged bibliography and notes - Eight useful maps - Updated content throughout the text A History of Eastern Europe 1740-1918 is the ideal textbook for students studying Eastern European history.
The American Story - Settling the West
 Author: Collective The American Story - Settling the West Time-Life Books 1996 Format: PDF Pages: 198 Language: English Size: 42.7 MB Covering the period of westward expansion, from 1860 to 1900, an extensively illustrated history describes the settlers, miners, and others who ventured west to seek new lives, capturing the cowboys, gold-seekers, lawmen, outlaws, railroad builders, and others who transformed the American frontier.
Annie Oakley
 Annie Oakley Author: Rachel A. Koestler-Grack Chelsea House Publications Legends of the Wild West 2010 ISBN: 1604135948 Pages: 101 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 3,4 MB Born Phoebe Ann Mosey on August 13, 1860, on the rural western border of Ohio, Annie Oakley began hunting at age 9 to support her siblings and widowed mother. She became so skilled at selling the hunted game that she was able to pay off the mortgage to her mother's farm when she was 15. In 1885, she joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West show where she became one of the top acts, along with Sitting Bull. In fact, she even traveled to Europe and performed for Queen Victoria and other crowned heads of state. At the request of the Prince of Prussia, she shot the ashes off a cigarette.
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