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by Dr Robert Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Revolutionary Ireland, 1912-25 analyses the main events in Ireland from the initial crisis over the Third Home Rule Bill in 1912 to the consolidation of partition Ulster with the settling of the boundary issue in 1925.
Written with particular reference to the needs of students in further and...
Luck and the Irish
A Brief History of Change from 1970
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
Roy Foster is one of Ireland's leading historians, the author of the much acclaimed two-volume biography of Yeats as well as the definitive history Modern Ireland, which has been hailed as "dazzling" (New York Times Book Review) and "elegant, erudite, wise, witty" (Irish Times)....
Pirates of Barbary
Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
The stirring story of the seventeenth-century pirates of the Mediterranean-the forerunners of today's bandits of the seas-and how their conquests shaped the clash between Christianity and Islam.
It's easy to think of piracy as a romantic way of life long gone-if not for today's frightening...
Vodka Politics
Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian history and politics. In Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrence Schrad argues that debilitating societal alcoholism is not hard-wired...
Attlee's War
World War II and the Making of a Labour Leader
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2011
As deputy prime minister of Britain's coalition government during World War II, Clement Attlee became one of the most powerful figures in British politics and subsequently played a crucial role in the reshaping of the post-war party-political landscape. The architect of Labour's entry into the wartime...
by David Hirsch, Dan Van Haften
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Almost nobody noticed. In January 2011, President Obama completely changed the structure of his speeches. A few people, like Peggy Noonan in The Wall Street Journal and Gustav Niebuhr in The Huffington Post, figured out something was up. But neither could pin it down.
Now the complete story...
by Doug West
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Whether you are talking on your cell phone, watching your favorite television program, surfing the web, or using your GPS to guide you on a trip, these are all modern conveniences that were made possible by the foundational work of the nineteenth-century Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell. Though...
by Doug West
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
The twenty-five-year old Charles A. Lindbergh climbed into his single-engine monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis, and took off for Paris determined to win the $25,000 Orteig Prize promised to the first pilot to fly nonstop between New York and Paris. For the next thirty-three hours, he navigated through...
by Doug West
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Bill Clinton knew at an early age that he wanted to be in politics. Over time, his dream would become reality as he moved up the political ranks to become the 42nd President of the United States. During his college years, starting at Georgetown, then at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, and completing his...
by John Allison
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
John Dunlop Allison was a mariner from the final era of sail into the early days of steam.The hand-written account of his adventures was discovered in an attic in England a hundred years after he wrote it. His story describes extraordinary events, of wars and wives, of gold fever and greed,...
The French Revolution and Napoleon
A Sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
The upheavals, terror, and drama of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period restructured politics and society on a grand scale, making this the defining moment for modern European history.
This volume collects together a wide selection of primary texts to explain the process behind the...
Just Right
A Life in Pursuit of Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Lee Edwards has been an active player in the modern conservative movement longer than anyone else. As the Daily Caller noted in a recent profile, Edwards “has lived conservative history like none other.” And he brings that history to life in Just Right.
This memoir is full of colorful stories...
Dedan Kimathi on Trial
Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Perhaps no figure embodied the ambiguities, colonial fears, and collective imaginations of Kenya’s decolonization era more than Dedan Kimathi, the self-proclaimed field marshal of the rebel forces that took to the forests to fight colonial rule in the 1950s. Kimathi personified many of the contradictions...
The Taken
True Stories of the Sinaloa Drug War
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
A massive wave of violence has rippled across Mexico over the past decade. In the western state of Sinaloa, the birthplace of modern drug trafficking, ordinary citizens live in constant fear of being “taken”—kidnapped or held against their will by armed men, whether criminals, police, or both....