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The National Tribune Civil War Index
A Guide to the Weekly Newspaper Dedicated to Civil War Veterans, 1877-1943
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
The National Tribune was the premier Union veterans’ newspaper of the post-Civil War era. Launched in 1877 by a New York veteran to help his comrades and sway Congress to pass better pension laws, a short time later the National Tribune began publishing firsthand accounts penned by the veterans...
Sensor Technologies for Civil Infrastructures, Volume 2
Applications in Structural Health Monitoring
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Sensors are used for civil infrastructure performance assessment and health monitoring, and have evolved significantly through developments in materials and methodologies. Sensor Technologies for Civil Infrastructure Volume II provides an overview of sensor data analysis and case studies in assessing...
by Gopal Madabhushi
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Solve Complex Ground and Foundation Problems
Presenting more than 25 years of teaching and working experience in a wide variety of centrifuge testing, the author of Centrifuge Modelling for Civil Engineers fills a need for information about this field. This text covers all aspects of centrifuge...
Crossing the Deadlines
Civil War Prisons Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
The "deadlines" were boundaries prisoners had to stay within or risk being shot. Just as a prisoner would take the daring challenge in "crossing the deadline" to attempt escape, Crossing the Deadlines crosses those boundaries of old scholarship by taking on bold initiatives with...
by Ian Finseth
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The Civil War Dead and American Modernity offers a fundamental rethinking of the cultural importance of the American Civil War dead. Tracing their representational afterlife across a massive array of historical, visual, and literary documents from 1861 to 1914, Ian Finseth maintains that the war dead...
The National Tribune Civil War Index
A Guide to the Weekly Newspaper Dedicated to Civil War Veterans, 1877-1943
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
The National Tribune was the premier Union veterans’ newspaper of the post-Civil War era. Launched in 1877 by a New York veteran to help his comrades and sway Congress to pass better pension laws, a short time later the National Tribune began publishing firsthand accounts penned by the veterans...
Life Cycle Analysis and Assessment in Civil Engineering: Towards an Integrated Vision
Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE 2018), 28-31 October 2018, Ghent, Belgium
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
This volume contains the papers presented at IALCCE2018, the Sixth International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE2018), held in Ghent, Belgium, October 28-31, 2018. It consists of a book of extended abstracts and a USB device with full papers including the Fazlur R. Khan lecture,...
Transformation of Civil Justice
Unity and Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
National civil justice systems are deeply rooted in national legal cultures and traditions. However, in the past few decades they have been increasingly influenced by integration processes at the regional, supra-national and international level. As a by-product of the emergence of economic and political...
Terry's Texas Rangers: The 8th Texas Cavalry Regiment In The Civil War
Civil War Texas Rangers & Cavalry, #2
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
"Terry's Texas Rangers: The 8th Texas Cavalry Regiment In The Civil War" by Leonidas B. Giles is a short history of this Texas cavalry regiment during the Civil War. Giles was a member of Company D of this famous cavalry unit so it is told from his frontline prospective in that company.
Terry's...
by Luis Díez-Picazo, Antonio Gullón
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 3, 2015
El Sistema de Derecho civil que han elaborado los profesores Díez-Picazo y Gullón Ballesteros es una obra que pretende, en sus cuatro volúmenes, dar una visión sistemática y ordenada del Derecho civil, sobre el presupuesto del Código civil. Dicho cuerpo legal sigue siendo, pese a la proliferación...
The Civil War: A Narrative
Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
This first volume of Shelby Foote's classic narrative of the Civil War opens with Jefferson Davis’s farewell to the United Senate and ends on the bloody battlefields of Antietam and Perryville, as the full, horrible scope of America’s great war becomes clear. Exhaustively researched and masterfully...
Hearts Touched by Fire
The Best of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
In July 1883, just a few days after the twentieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, a group of editors at The Century Magazine engaged in a lively argument: Which Civil War battle was the bloodiest battle of them all? One claimed it was Chickamauga, another Cold Harbor. The argument inspired...
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
This “lively biography” (The New Yorker) is the first to tell the story of Julia Ward Howe as a powerful feminist pioneer.
Julia Ward (1819-1910) was an heiress who married a handsome accomplished doctor who worked with the blind and deaf. But Samuel Howe wasted her inheritance, mistreated...
The War That Forged a Nation
Why the Civil War Still Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
More than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had "uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, and wrought so profoundly upon the entire national character that the influence cannot be measured...