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by Jill A. Grunenwald
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Founded in 1799 as part of the Connecticut Western Reserve, Hudson maintains its charm by simultaneously highlighting its historic attributes and thriving as a contemporary community. For its first 150 years, Hudson was a quiet village, but the population grew when the Ohio Turnpike opened in the...
Adorno's Modernism
Art, Experience, and Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Theodor W. Adorno's aesthetics has dominated discussions about art and aesthetic modernism since World War II, and continues to inform contemporary theorizing. Situating Adorno's aesthetic theory in the context of post-Kantian European philosophy, Espen Hammer explores Adorno's critical view of art...
Souvenirs of the Old South
Northern Tourism and Southern Mythology
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
"Written in a clear, accessible, and lively style, Souvenirs of the Old South will be the foundational work for subsequent scholars and readers interested in tourism in the New South."--W. Fitzhugh Brundage, author of The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory "This study of southern...
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Where Now Begins
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
**“One of the best books, certainly the best nonfiction book, that I've read recently.” —Nancy Pearl on NPR’s Morning Edition
“An extraordinary achievement.” —New York Times Book Review
An award-winning writer captures a year that defined the modern world, intertwining...
Hannah's Dress
Berlin 1904 - 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Hannah's Dress tells the dizzying story of Berlin's modern history. Curious to learn more about the city she has lived in for over twenty years, journalist Pascale Hugues investigates the lives of the men, women and children who have occupied her ordinary street during the course of the last century....
by Stanley Hutton
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Contained within this book is a vintage guide to the English cities of Bath and Bristol. It offers the reader a range of information on the subject, including historical details and descriptions of the people and customs, as well as notable events and achievements related to the areas. This book is...
Mountains of Spirit
The Story of the Royal Bakwena ba Mogopa of the North West, South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
A detailed account of the rich history and resilience of the Bakwena ba Mogopa, one of the most important traditional communities in South Africa. This seminal and lucid work depicts the scope of social, political and economic change of the community from its earliest beginnings as the Kwena tribe...
by Charles L. Mee Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2019
World War I and the Versailles Treaty that followed produced the most serious upheaval in a long and stormy course of modern world history. Four great empires - Austria-Hungary, Germany, Russia, and Turkey - were part of the war's rubble. Far from restoring order, the diplomats who met in 1919 at...
Shakespeare's Restless World
Portrait of an Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 100 Objects brings the world of Shakespeare and the Tudor era of Elizabeth I into focus
We feel we know Shakespeare’s characters. Think of Hamlet, trapped in indecision, or Macbeth’s merciless and ultimately self-destructive...
by Christopher Orlebar
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
From her first commercial flight in 1976, and throughout 27 years of service, Concorde was hailed as a technological wonder. The only passenger airliner capable of maintaining speeds in excess of Mach 2 for more than two hours at a time, she became one of the most iconic aircraft ever built.
Drawing...
The Other Women's Movement
Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
American feminism has always been about more than the struggle for individual rights and equal treatment with men. There's also a vital and continuing tradition of women's reform that sought social as well as individual rights and argued for the dismantling of the masculine standard. In this much...
Prague Winter
A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Drawing on her own memory, her parents’ written reflections, interviews with contemporaries, and newly-available documents, former US Secretary of State and New York Times bestselling author Madeleine Albright recounts a tale that is by turns harrowing and inspiring.
Before she turned twelve,...
Hockey Night Fever
Mullets, Mayhem and the Game's Coming of Age in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
A wildly evocative chronicle of the decade that changed hockey forever.
"Lady Byng died in Boston" read a sign in the Garden arena in 1970, a cheery dismissal of the NHL trophy awarded the game's most gentlemanly player. A new age of hockey was dawning. For 30 years, hockey...
by Martyn Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
In this concise and accessible biography, Martyn Bennett examines the life of Oliver Cromwell – one of the most controversial figures in world history. This study challenges long-held perceptions of Cromwell and the Commonwealth, arguing that they need to be placed at the core of early Modern British...