Horne: 311 books
Donald Horne
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
One of Australia’s leading thinkers for close to fifty years, Donald Horne was probably the best Australian non-fiction writer of his generation.
This definitive collection of Horne’s writing, thoughtfully selected by his son, Nick, tells the story of his life and intellectual development....
by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
A College Girl is a fictional novel written by Mrs George de Horne Vaizey. Darsie's humdrum life takes a left turn when an ailing elderly aunt invites her to move in. Along the way, Darsie becomes fast friends with an upper-crust family in town, leading to many madcap adventures. After her aunt passes...
by Mrs George de Horne Vaizey
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
A College Girl is a fictional novel written by Mrs George de Horne Vaizey. Darsie's humdrum life takes a left turn when an ailing elderly aunt invites her to move in. Along the way, Darsie becomes fast friends with an upper-crust family in town, leading to many madcap adventures. After her aunt passes...
Breach of Faith
Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2006
Hurricane Katrina shredded one of the great cities of the South, and as levees failed and the federal relief effort proved lethally incompetent, a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe. As an editor of New Orleans’ daily newspaper, the Pulitzer Prize—winning Times-Picayune, Jed Horne...
Confronting Black Jacobins
The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
The Haitian Revolution, the product of the first successful slave revolt, was truly world-historic in its impact. When Haiti declared independence in 1804, the leading powers—France, Great Britain, and Spain—suffered an ignominious defeat and the New World was remade. The island revolution also...
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Virtually no part of the modern United States—the economy, education, constitutional law, religious institutions, sports, literature, economics, even protest movements—can be understood without first understanding the slavery and dispossession that laid its foundation. To that end, historian Gerald...
Dying
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
This unique book is the last work of one of Australia's most respected and influential thinkers. On learning that his illness was terminal, Donald Horne began dictating his experiences of dying, and his resulting journal is full of courage, honesty, insight and humour. Ever the intellectual, he also...
Dying: a Memoir
a Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
This unique book is the last work of one of Australia's most respected and influential thinkers.� On learning that his illness was terminal, Donald Horne began dictating his experiences of dying, and his resulting journal is full of courage, honesty, insight and humour.� Ever the intellectual,...
by Mrs George de Horne Vaizey
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
22 works of Mrs George de Horne Vaizey English writer (1857-1917)
This ebook presents a collection of 22 works of Mrs George de Horne Vaizey. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.
Table of Contents: - A College Girl - A Girl in Spring-Time...
Negro Comrades of the Crown
African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
While it is well known that more Africans fought on behalf of the British than with the successful patriots of the American Revolution, Gerald Horne reveals in his latest work of historical recovery that after 1776, Africans and African-Americans continued to collaborate with Great Britain against...
by Alistair Horne
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2004
The age of Napoleon transformed Europe, laying the foundations for the modern world. Now Alistair Horne, one of the great chroniclers of French history gives us a fresh account of that remarkable time.
Born into poverty on the remote island of Corsica, he rose to prominence in the turbulent...
Hubris
The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
“EMINENTLY PROVOCATIVE AND READABLE.”—THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Sir Alistair Horne has been a close observer of war and history for more than fifty years and in this wise and masterly work, he revisits six battles of the past century and examines the strategies, leadership, preparation,...
A Social Laboratory for Modern France
The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2002
As a nineteenth-century think tank that sought answers to France’s pressing “social question,” the Musée Social reached across political lines to forge a reformist alliance founded on an optimistic faith in social science. In A Social Laboratory for Modern France Janet R. Horne presents the...
Race War!
White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Japan’s lightning march across Asia during World War II was swift and brutal. Nation after nation fell to Japanese soldiers. How were the Japanese able to justify their occupation of so many Asian nations? And how did they find supporters in countries they subdued and exploited? Race War! delves...