Douglas: 4895 books
Defectives in the Land
Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Immigration history has largely focused on the restriction of immigrants by race and ethnicity, overlooking disability as a crucial factor in the crafting of the image of the “undesirable immigrant.” Defectives in the Land, Douglas C. Baynton’s groundbreaking new look at immigration and disability,...
by Douglas A. Howard
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Covering the full history of the Ottoman Empire, from its genesis in post-Mongol Eurasia to its dissolution after the Great War in Europe, this textbook takes a holistic approach, considering the Ottoman worldview - what it was, how it came together, and how it fell apart. Douglas A. Howard stresses...
Dream West
Politics and Religion in Cowboy Movies
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
While political liberals celebrated the end of “cowboy politics” with the election of Barack Obama to the presidency, political conservatives in the Tea Party and other like-minded groups still vociferously support “cowboy” values such as small government, low taxes, free-market capitalism, and...
Former People
The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Epic in scope, precise in detail, and heart-breaking in its human drama, Former People is the first book to recount the history of the aristocracy caught up in the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin's Russia. Filled with chilling tales of looted palaces and burning estates,...
by Douglas E. Litowitz
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
The legal system is often denounced as “Kafkaesque”—but what does this really mean? This is the question Douglas E. Litowitz tackles in his critical reading of Franz Kafka’s writings about the law.
Going far beyond Kafka’s most familiar works—such as The Trial—Litowitz assembles...
Counterinsurgency
Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Counterinsurgency has staked its claim in the new century as the new American way of war. Yet, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have revived a historical debate about the costs - monetary, political and moral - of operations designed to eliminate insurgents and build nations. Today's counterinsurgency...
Voices from the Dark Years
The Truth About Occupied France 1940-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
The clearest picture yet of what life was really like in German-occupied France during World War II, using previously unpublished first-person accounts of ordinary men and women who lived through this extraordinary and dangerous time Using new, meticulously researched material, Douglas Boyd tells...
by Douglas L. Heath, Alison C. Simcox
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
One of the earliest mill communities in the Massachusetts Bay Colony formed along Spot Pond Brook, a few miles north of Boston. Thomas Coytmore built the first mill in 1640 at the brook's downstream end in "Mistick Side" (present-day Malden). Other mills sprang up along the brook as well. Today, most...
Warrior's Rage
The Great Tank Battle of 73 Easting
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
On 26 February 1991, cavalry troops of “Cougar Squadron,” the 2nd Squadron of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, charged out of a sandstorm during Operation Desert Storm and caught Iraq’s Republican Guard Corps in the open desert along the North-South grid line of a military map referred to as the...
He Shall Go Out Free
The Lives of Denmark Vesey
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2004
On July 2, 1822, Denmark Vesey was hanged in Charleston, S.C., for his role in planning one of the largest slave uprisings in the United States. During his long, extraordinary life Vesey played many roles—Caribbean field hand, cabin boy, chandler's man, house servant, proud freeman, carpenter, husband,...
Death or Liberty
African Americans and Revolutionary America
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
In Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in the Seven Years' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800. While American slavery is usually identified with antebellum cotton plantations,...
Littleton Washington's Journal
Life in Antebellum Washington, Vigilante San Francisco & Confederate Richmond
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2001
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Born in the District of Columbia to one of the First Families of Virginia, Littleton Q. Washington attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, before securing...
Roots of Conflict
British Armed Forces and Colonial Americans, 1677-1763
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
This lively book recounts the story of the antagonism between the American colonists and the British armed forces prior to the Revolution. Douglas Leach reveals certain Anglo-American attitudes and stereotypes that evolved before 1763 and became an important factor leading to the outbreak of the Revolutionary...
The Hotel Tacloban
The Explosive True Story of One American's Journey to Hell in a Japanese POW Camp
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
A “very dramatic [and] compelling” World War II story of murder, mutiny, and a military cover-up, from the author of The Phoenix Program (The New York Times).
Captured by the Japanese while on patrol in the fetid jungles of New Guinea, Douglas Valentine’s father, who’d enlisted in the...