Category: History

Southern Strategies: Why the Confederacy Failed

Price: $34.95

Publisher: University Press of Kansas : June 2021

Seller ID: 200344

ISBN-13: 9780700632183

Condition: New

Southern Strategies is the first-ever analysis of Confederate defeat using the lenses of classical strategic and leadership theory. The contributors bring over one hundred years of experience in the field at the junior and senior levels of military leadership and over forty years of teaching in professional military education. Well-aware that the nature of war is immutable and unchanging, they combine their firsthand experience of this truth with solid scholarship to offer new theoretical and historical perspectives about why the South failed in its bid for independence. The contributors ident...
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Symphony in the Flint Hills Fifth Anniversary Concert 2010 Volume II

Price: $10.00

Publisher: : January 2010

Seller ID: 195168

ISBN: B00RW0TXH2

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - Very Good

Sharp covers, solid binding, reading ribbon and menu note intact, a very nice copy.
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The 'History of the Kings of the Persians' in Three Arabic Chronicles: The Transmission of the Iranian Past from Late Antiquity to Early Islam (Translated Texts for Historians LUP)

Price: $39.95

Publisher: Liverpool University Press : September 2018

Seller ID: 215758

ISBN-13: 9781786941473

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

This book translates the sections on pre-Islamic Persia in three Muslim Arabic chronicles, those of Ahmad al-Ya'qubi (d. ca. 910), 'Ali al-Mas'udi (d. ca. 960) and Hamza al-Isfahani (d. ca. 960s). Their accounts, like those of many other Muslim historians on this topic, draw on texts that were composed in the period 750-850 bearing the title 'The History of the Kings of the Persians'. These works served a growing audience of well-to-do Muslim bureaucrats and scholars of Persian ancestry, who were interested in their heritage and wished to make it part of the historical outlook of the new civil...
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The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition)

Price: $5.75

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : July 2004

Seller ID: 20090515156909

ISBN-13: 9780393326710

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Good to very good. Spine creased, a few dog ears, a nice copy.
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The American record: Images of the nation's past

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Knopf : January 1988

Seller ID: 20090501155740

ISBN-13: 9780394356211

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

Very good. Professional review copy has light shelf wear, very clean & solid.
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The Ascent of Man: Sources and Interpretations

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Little, Brown : May 1975

Seller ID: 20080515141035

ISBN: 991153413

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

good/--. No marks to text, tight binding. Cover is somewhat rubbed. 8vo.
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Warner Books : January 2001

Seller ID: 218908

ISBN-13: 9780446676502

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Light cover wear, owner name, solid & unmarked text.
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The Battle of Lepanto (The I Tatti Renaissance Library)

Price: $36.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press : April 2014

Seller ID: 203966

ISBN-13: 9780674725423

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The defeat of the Ottomans by the Holy League fleet at the Battle of Lepanto (1571) was among the most celebrated international events of the sixteenth century. This volume anthologizes the work of twenty-two poets from diverse social and geographical backgrounds who composed Latin poetry, often modeled on Vergil and other Roman poets, in response to the news of the battle, the largest Mediterranean naval encounter since antiquity. Among the poems included is the two-book Austrias Carmen by the remarkable Juan Latino, a black African former slave who became a professor of Latin in Granada. The...
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The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Beacon Pr : January 1992

Seller ID: 222667

ISBN-13: 9780807055014

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Firm binding and like-new exterior, with previous owner name and frequent underlining.
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The Civil Rights Reader: American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation

Price: $26.95

Publisher: University of Georgia Press : January 2009

Seller ID: 209516

ISBN-13: 9780820332253

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

This anthology of drama, essays, fiction, and poetry presents a thoughtful, classroom-tested selection of the best literature for learning about the long civil rights movement. Unique in its focus on creative writing, the volume also ranges beyond a familiar 1954-68 chronology to include works from the 1890s to the present. The civil rights movement was a complex, ongoing process of defining national values such as freedom, justice, and equality. In ways that historical documents cannot, these collected writings show how Americans negotiated this process--politically, philosophically, emotiona...
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The Civil War In The West: From Stones River to Chattanooga

Price: $79.99

Publisher: University of Illinois Press : October 1996

Seller ID: 20070928124045

ISBN-13: 9780252022364

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Part of the Civil War trilogy, this is a 3-volume set.
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The Classic Slave Narratives

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Signet : January 2012

Seller ID: 223774

ISBN-13: 9780451532138

Binding: Trade

Condition: New

A seminal volume of four classic slave narratives, including Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The History of Mary Price: A West Indian Slave, Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl, and The Life of Olaudah Equiano. Before the end of the Civil War, more than one hundred former slaves had published moving stories of their captivity and escape, joined by a similar number after the war. No group of slaves anywhere, in any other era, has left such prolific testimony to the horror of bondage and servitude. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of America's top experts in African American studies, pr...
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The Domostroi: Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Cornell University Press : September 1995

Seller ID: 220390

ISBN-13: 9780801496899

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Knowledgeably referenced and gracefully translated, Pouncy's book is clearly intended for both the academic and non-academic reader. The meaning of the word ''domostroi'' is ''house order,'' and the purpose of this sixteenth-century Russian book is to specify the actions and attitudes which make for an ordered home. Included are subjects as diverse as ''how one should love God with one's whole heart and one's brother also'' to ''what to cut out and how you should keep the scraps and snippets'' when supervising the domestic servants' sewing. The father of the household is instructed concerning ...
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The Emperor Nero: A Guide to the Ancient Sources

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press : July 2016

Seller ID: 202174

ISBN-13: 9780691156514

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Nero's reign (AD 54-68) witnessed some of the most memorable events in Roman history, such as the rebellion of Boudica and the first persecution of the Christians--not to mention Nero's murder of his mother, his tyranny and extravagance, and his suicide, which plunged the empire into civil war. The Emperor Nero gathers into a single collection the major sources for Nero's life and rule, providing students of Nero and ancient Rome with the most authoritative and accessible reader there is. The Emperor Nero features clear, contemporary translations of key literary sources along with translations...
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The First One Hundred Years (As Recorded In The Pages Of The Wichita Eagle And The Beacon Since 1872)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: The Wichita Eagle & Beacon : December 1971

Seller ID: 221048

ISBN: B000PG0IH4

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Collectible - Very Good

Very little external wear, due mostly to a mildly creased rear cover corner; binding solid, text pristine.
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The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora in America

Price: $22.95

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press : February 1999

Seller ID: 217533

ISBN-13: 9781558491731

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Between 1845 and 1855, nearly 1.5 million Irish women, men, and children sailed to America to escape the Great Famine, triggered by successive years of potato blight. The famine and resulting emigration had a profound impact not only on the history of Ireland, but on that of England and North America as well. This volume of original essays commemorates the 150th anniversary of these epochal events and sheds new light on both the consequences of the famine and experience of the Irish in America.
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The Human Tradition in Imperial Russia (The Human Tradition around the World series)

Price: $25.95

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers : January 2009

Seller ID: 219636

ISBN-13: 9780742537378

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

This compelling set of essays presents richly human stories of individual and group experiences, as well as of key events in the history of Imperial Russia. Beginning with Peter I's dress reforms in the early eighteenth century and concluding with poets arising out of a stratified and largely urban working class between the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the essays introduce readers to many of the major changes in Imperial Russian history and their consequences. We see the effects of reforms; the consequences of an economy and society built on serfdom; as well as the development of a civil soci...
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The Legacy

Price: $6.75

Publisher: Beacon Press : February 1992

Seller ID: 20090410155220

ISBN-13: 9780807054017

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

Very good minus. Previous owner name marked on fore edge & text block, light cover creasing, a sharp, bright, very solid copy.
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THE MOUNTAIN ARABS

Price: $19.50

Publisher: Chilton Book Company

Seller ID: 217566

ISBN: B002A41K1M

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Firm binding; light wear to textblock,boards and jacket; previous owner embossing to front endpaper - interior otherwise pristine. Overall very good condition.
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The Oxford Companion to United States History (Oxford Companions)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : July 2001

Seller ID: 210091

ISBN-13: 9780195082098

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Here is a volume that is as big and as varied as the nation it portrays. With over 1,400 entries written by some 900 historians and other scholars, it illuminates not only America's political, diplomatic, and military history, but also social, cultural, and intellectual trends; science, technology, and medicine; the arts; and religion. Here are the familiar political heroes, from George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, to Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. But here, too, are scientists, writers, radicals, sports figures, and religious leaders, with incisive portraits ...
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Category: History