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The Devil and Mr. Casement
One Man's Battle for Human Rights in South America's Heart of Darkness
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
THE STORY OF AN IMPERIAL TRAGEDY THAT SENT SHOCKWAVES AROUND THE WORLD
In September 1910, the activist Roger Casement arrived in the Amazon jungle on a mission for the British government: to investigate reports of widespread human-rights abuses in the forests along the Putumayo River. Accusations...
by George Goodwin
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Flodden 1513: the biggest and bloodiest Anglo-Scottish battle. Its causes spanned many centuries; its consequences were as extraordinary as the battle itself.
On September 9, 1513, the vicious rivalry between the young Henry VIII of England and his charismatic brother-in-law, James IV of Scotland,...
Emperor of Japan
Meiji and His World, 1852-1912
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2005
When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogun and the daimyos, who ruled over the country's more than 250 decentralized domains and who were, in the main, cut off from the outside world, staunchly antiforeign, and committed to the traditions of...
The Holy Boys
A History of the Royal Norfolk Regiment and the Royal East Anglian Regiment 1685-2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
The Royal Norfolk Regiment is one of the oldest and most distinguished fighting forces in the British army. Its line of descent can be traced back for over three centuries, all the way from modern Afghanistan to Monmouth’s rebellion in 1685.
Throughout these years, and many campaigns, the...
by Peter J. Ling
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
A lively, concise and cutting-edge biography of one of the towering figures of 20th-century history. Of all the US presidents of the post-Second World War period, John F. Kennedy is the most clearly idolized. There is a well-documented gulf between the public’s largely positive appraisal of this...
1616
The World in Motion
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
“A stunning overview of the nascent modern world through a thematic exploration of the year 1616 . . . with dozens of fabulous illustrations” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
The early 17th century was a time of enormous change in most regions of the world. The advent of maritime globalism...
by Hedrick Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Russians, a “lively and provocative”* analysis of the Soviet Union in its twilight years.
*The New York Times Book Review
Even from afar, the transformation in the Soviet Union held a special fascination...
by Prof. Edward J Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Mustafa Kemal was one of the 20th century's greatest combat commanders. Born in Salonika to a middle–class family, this book follows the life of a great commander who served in the Italo–Turkish War of 1911–12 and the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 before taking command of the 19th Division based in...
by William A. Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
“The recent rediscovery of Rebel Private: Front and Rear, effectively lost for decades, marks an authentic publishing event in the literature of the Civil War. A rare insight into the conflict from the point of view of a Confederate army enlisted man, this compelling memoir has been hailed by historians...
Fractured Times
Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois fin de siècle culture and myriad new movements and ideologies, from communism and extreme nationalism...
Thirteen Days in September
The Dramatic Story of the Struggle for Peace
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
A dramatic, illuminating day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when President Jimmy Carter convinced Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to sign a peace treaty--the first treaty in the modern Middle East, and one which endures to this day.
With...
by Anna Winterbottom
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World presents a new interpretation of the development of the English East India Company between 1660 and 1720. The book explores the connections between scholarship, patronage, diplomacy, trade, and colonial settlement in the early modern world. Links...
The Historical Uncanny
Disability, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Holocaust Memory
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
The Historical Uncanny explores how certain memories become inscribed into the heritage of a country or region while others are suppressed or forgotten. In response to the erasure of historical memories that discomfit a public’s self-understanding, this book proposes the historical uncanny as that...
The Acadian Diaspora:An Eighteenth-Century History
An Eighteenth-Century History
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Late in 1755, an army of British regulars and Massachusetts volunteers completed one of the cruelest, most successful military campaigns in North American history, capturing and deporting seven thousand French-speaking Catholic Acadians from the province of Nova Scotia, and chasing an equal number...