Gordon Brown: 35 books

Book cover of The Captain Who Burned His Ships

The Captain Who Burned His Ships

Captain Thomas Tingey, USN, 1750-1829

by Gordon Brown
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013

This is the first biography of Captain Thomas Tingey, who was a key figure in the development of the early U.S. Navy. Having come to America after a short service in the Royal Navy, Tingey contributed importantly to the growth of the American Navy, but was then obliged to burn the Washington Navy Yard...
Book cover of Scenari scozzesi. Voci pro e contro l’indipendenza della Scozia dal Regno Unito
by Francesco Cancellato, Alex Salmond, David Cameron
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 18, 2014

Il referendum scozzese è una tragedia, scrive l’“Economist”. È una tragedia per i 5 milioni di scozzesi ed è una tragedia per i 59 milioni di abitanti del resto del Regno Unito. Potrebbe essere anche un bel grattacapo per l’Europa, dove c’è bisogno di tutto fuorché di un periodo di...
Book cover of Sketch-Books - The Collection
by Hoffmann, Joseph Pike, D. S. Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017

Ampleforth College; A Sketch-Book by Joseph Pike Bath and Wells; A Sketch-Book by D. S. Andrews Bristol; A Sketch-Book by Dorothy E.G. Woollard Bruges; A Sketch-Book by Joseph Pike Cambridge; A Sketch Book by Walter M. Keesey Canterbury; A Sketch Book by Walter M. Keesey Cardiff; A Sketch-Book by Douglas...
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Authoritarianism

Three Inquiries in Critical Theory

by Wendy Brown, Peter E. Gordon, Max Pensky
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018

Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, xenophobia, and paeans to “traditional values,” in brazen bids for electoral support. How are we to understand this move to the mainstream of political policies and platforms that lurked only...
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Toussaintâ??s Clause

The Founding Fathers and the Haitian Revolution

by Gordon S. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005

In its formative years, America, birthplace of a revolution, wrestled with a volatile dilemma. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and many other founding fathers clashed. What was to be the new republic's strategy toward a revolution roiling just off its shores? From 1790 to 1810,...
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Thanksgiving Tales for Children

40+ Tales in One Volume: Mrs. November's Party, A Dear Little Girl's Thanksgiving Holidays, Millionaire Mike's Thanksgiving, The White Turkey's Wing, A Mystery in the Kitchen and many more

by Lucy Maud Montgomery, Amy Ella Blanchard, Louisa May Alcott
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018

e-artnow presents to you a collection of the most beloved and touching tales of Thanksgiving: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) The First Thanksgiving (Albert F. Blaisdell, Francis K. Ball) Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy Maud Montgomery) The Genesis of the Doughnut Club (Lucy...
Book cover of Counting Our Blessings: Wonderful Thanksgiving Tales for Children

Counting Our Blessings: Wonderful Thanksgiving Tales for Children

44 Stories: The First Thanksgiving, The Thanksgiving Goose, Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner, A Mystery in the Kitchen, The Genesis of the Doughnut Club, The Thanksgiving of the Wazir...

by Susan Coolidge, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017

It's that time of the year again when families get together to celebrate, laugh, enjoy, and bond over yummy food! So, come along with us and relish the magic of these Thanksgiving classics for a wholesome holiday mood: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner...
Book cover of Thanksgiving: Heart-Warming Stories for Children

Thanksgiving: Heart-Warming Stories for Children

An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner, The Queer Little Baker Man, The Genesis of the Doughnut Club, The Thanksgiving of the Wazir, A Turkey for the Stuffing...

by Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Eleanor H. Porter
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017

This carefully selected and edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy Maud Montgomery) The Genesis of the Doughnut Club (Lucy Maud Montgomery) An English...
Book cover of Of Gratitude & Happiness - The Thanksgiving Storybook

Of Gratitude & Happiness - The Thanksgiving Storybook

60+ Holiday Tales & Poems: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, The Genesis of the Doughnut Club, The Purple Dress, Thankful, The Kingdom Of Greedy, The Night before Thanksgiving, The Master of the Harvest…

by Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, O. Henry
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018

Enjoy this meticulously edited collection, dedicated to the holiday of gratefulness and forgiveness: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy Maud Montgomery) The Genesis of the Doughnut Club (Lucy Maud Montgomery) Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen (O....
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Antidemocracy in America

Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk

by Michelle Wilde Anderson, Lisa Wade, Thomas J. Sugrue
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019

On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences...
Book cover of Innovation and Future Technology
by Thomas Cooper, Eva Burton, Alfie Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017

Innovation and Future Technology accepts scientifically rigorous research, regardless of novelty. Innovation and Future Technology’s broad scope provides a platform to publish primary research, including interdisciplinary and replication studies as well as negative results. This publication...
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The Civil War in Georgia

A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion

by Albert Churella, Barton A. Myers, Brad Wood
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
Book cover of Latin American Rebels and the United States, 1806-1822
by Gordon S. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015

When separatist revolts erupted in Spain’s American colonies in the early 1800s, opinion in the United States was undecided as to what position to take. Proximity and America’s own anti-colonial ethos favored sympathy with the rebel cause, yet U.S. strategic interests during the tumultuous Napoleonic...
Book cover of Energy and Society

Energy and Society

A Critical Perspective

by Gavin Bridge, Stewart Barr, Stefan Bouzarovski
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018

Energy and Society is the first major text to provide an extensive critical treatment of energy issues informed by recent research on energy in the social sciences. Written in an engaging and accessible style it draws new thinking on uneven development, consumption, vulnerability and transition together...
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