Mcfarland: 2486 books
American Amphibious Gunboats in World War II
A History of LCI and LCS(L) Ships in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
As the United States began its campaign against numerous Japanese-held islands in the Pacific, Japanese tactics required them to develop new weapons and strategies. One of the most crucial to the island assaults was a new group of amphibious gunboats that could deliver heavy fire close in to shore...
American Golf in the Great Depression
The Pros Take to the Grapefruit Circuit
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2014
This account of professional golf during the Great Depression begins with a look at the “roaring 1920s” and how the game developed during this exciting decade. What a contrast to the Depression era—in which golf at all levels suffered but survived. The Depression years in general are covered...
Pearl Harbor Survivors
An Oral History of 24 Servicemen
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
On December 7, 1941, Japan waged a surprise attack on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. It was a major victory for the Japanese Navy, which in less than two hours destroyed 188 American planes, damaged another 159, and sunk or seriously damaged 18 U.S. warships. The battleships Arizona...
Shipmates
The Men of LCS 52 in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
In late 1944, 78 U.S. Navy sailors and officers climbed aboard a ship just 150 feet long and 23 feet wide, and headed toward the sound of gunfire. One of a class of gunboats known as “mighty midgets,” LCS 52 carried an arsenal equal to ships twice its size. Yet its shallow draft enabled it to...
by Thomas Mackaman
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Millions of immigrants from eastern and southern Europe were by 1914 doing the dirtiest, most dangerous jobs in America’s mines, mills and factories. The next decade saw major economic and demographic changes and the growing influence of radicalism over immigrant populations. From the bottom rungs...
by Benjamin L. Huggins
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2016
In the 1820s, young congressman Willie Mangum imbibed the political philosophy of North Carolina’s senior senator Nathaniel Macon, the “prophet of pure republicanism.” From his election in 1824, Mangum was at the epicenter of national and state government. In the 1830s, he emerged as leader...
Colonial Cinema in Africa
Origins, Images, Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
In recent decades historians and film scholars have intensified their study of colonial cinema in Africa. Yet the vastness of the continent, the number of European powers involved and irregular record keeping has made uncovering the connections between imagery, imperialism and indigenous peoples difficult....
Sex and the Scientist
The Indecent Life of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (1753-1814)
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
One of the preeminent natural philosophers of the Enlightenment, Benjamin Thompson started out as a farm boy with a practical turn of mind. His inventions include the Rumford fireplace, insulated clothing, the thermos, convection ovens, double boilers, double-paned glass and an improved sloop. He...
Honus Wagner and His Pittsburgh Pirates
Scenes from a Golden Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Honus Wagner’s spectacular baseball career spanned 21 seasons from 1897 through 1917. Widely considered the greatest shortstop in baseball history, Wagner won eight National League batting titles and helped win the pennant four times for his hometown Pittsburgh Pirates. This book assembles the many...
Refuting the Anti-Israel Narrative
A Case for the Historical, Legal and Moral Legitimacy of the Jewish State
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
In recent decades, Israel has come under sustained diplomatic pressure from the West. According to the press and the policy establishment, she acts aggressively and with disregard for civilian lives in pursuit of an unnecessary and illegal occupation of Palestinian territory. Others view the country...
Speculative Freemasonry and the Enlightenment
A Study of the Craft in London, Paris, Prague, Vienna and Philadelphia, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Freemasonry began with stonemasons in the Middle Ages experiencing the decline of cathedral building. Some guilds invited honorary memberships to boost their numbers. These usually highly educated new members practiced symbolic or “speculative Freemasonry.” The new Masonic lodges and learned societies...
Radio After the Golden Age
The Evolution of American Broadcasting Since 1960
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
What became of radio after its Golden Age ended about 1960? Not long ago Arbitron found that almost 93 percent of Americans age 12 and older are regular radio listeners, a higher percentage than those turning to television, magazines, newspapers, or the Internet. But the sounds they hear now barely...
Three Knots to Nowhere
A Cold War Submariner on the Undersea Frontline
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
This book follows the author’s experiences in the United States Navy from 1966 through 1972. They include a personal background, boot camp, electrician’s school, the U.S. Naval Nuclear Program, assignment to the USS Henry Clay during an overhaul in Charleston, South Carolina, subsequent transit...
Irish Masculinity on Screen
The Pugilists and Peacemakers of John Ford, Jim Sheridan and Paul Greengrass
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Examining images of gender and violence, this book analyzes selected works of three influential artists of the Irish cinema—Ford, Sheridan and Greengrass—whose careers, taken together, span the period from 1939 to the present. These three explore fundamental questions about identity, patriarchy...