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The Annotated Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. Montgomery, Margaret Anne Doody, Wendy E. Barry, Mary E. Doody JonesISBN 0195104285 (0-19-510428-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Anne of Green Gables'Book summary:Since its publication in 1908, Anne of Green Gables has been a continuous international best-seller, enjoying successful television adaptations on PBS and The Disney Channel, and captivating children and adults alike with the irresistible charms of its remarkable heroine, Anne Shirley. This wildly imaginative, red-headed chatterbox tries to fit into the narrow confines of Victorian expectations, but her exuberant spirit keeps leaping delightfully beyond the bounds. Indeed, when Maud Montgomery decided to reject the sermonizing formulas of the children's books of her day, she brought to life a character much closer to Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, and Tom Sawyer--also orphans, like Anne--than to the self-sacrificing, conformist heroines then in demand. In doing so, Montgomery subtly questioned the values of her society--the stifling restraints of its religion and most especially its treatment of women--while giving readers all the pleasures of her considerable story-telling gifts.
Now, in this first fully annotated edition of Anne of Green Gables, readers will appreciate more clearly than ever before the scope and depth of this extraordinary novel. Editors Margaret Anne Doody, Mary Doody Jones, and Wendy Barry provide a richly illustrated, completely revised text, along with hundreds of notes describing the real-life characters and settings Anne encounters, the autobiographical connections between Anne and Maud Montgomery, and the book's astonishing range of literary, biblical, and mythological references. Additional essays offer fascinating background information on such topics as the geography and settlement of Prince Edward Island (where Anne takes place); the education, orphanages, music, and literature of Anne's time; and the horticulture, homemade artifacts, and food preparation that are so prevalent in the story. Margaret Anne Doody supplies a comprehensive introduction, which situates the novel in its literary and social contexts, explores those aspects of Montgomery's life most relevant to the story, examines revisions in the manuscripts, and provides an overall sense of both the impulses that drove Montgomery to write Anne of Green Gables and the larger concerns it dramatizes so compellingly. This edition also contains a chronology of Montgomery's life, an extensive bibliography, songs and poems that appear in the text, and a selection of original reviews of the book. This wealth of material enables readers to grasp the marvelous multi-layeredness of the novel and to understand more fully its place in both its own time and in ours.
Elegantly and beautifully designed, with generous illustrations from previous editions, photographs of the places the novel inhabits, and explanatory drawings that reproduce the texture of Anne's world, The Annotated Anne of Green Gables is a major event in the publishing history of one of the world's most charming stories. [via]More editions of The Annotated Anne of Green Gables:
The Ascent of Scienceby Brian L. SilverISBN 0195134273 (0-19-513427-3)
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The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperorby Wheeler M. Thackston, BaburISBN 0195096711 (0-19-509671-1)
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Baseball: The Early Yearsby Harold SeymourISBN 0195059123 (0-19-505912-3)
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Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945by George J. SanchezISBN 0195096487 (0-19-509648-7)
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The Bible in History: How the Texts Have Shaped the Timesby David William KlingISBN 0195130081 (0-19-513008-1)
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Brown V. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacyby James T. PattersonISBN 0195127161 (0-19-512716-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brown V. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy'Book summary:In one of the most explosive legal decisions of the century, Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that racial segregation in America's public schools was unconstitutional. The chief attorney for the African American families who initiated the legal challenge was Thurgood Marshall, who later became the first black person to serve as a Supreme Court Justice. In this brief, detailed book, historian James Patterson reconstructs the complex history of the watershed 1954 case, from its legal precursors to its troubling legacy. "To be sure, Brown called for changes that the Court itself could not enforce," he writes. "In time, however, some of those changes came to pass, even in schools, those most highly sensitive of institutions."
Patterson outlines the stories of several influential pre-Brown cases and details the thinking and exploits of the legal minds involved with Brown, including Marshall and Chief Justice Earl Warren. He also follows the various responses to the decision by those most affected by it, including bigoted Arkansas governor Orval Faubus as well as President Dwight Eisenhower. More than a simple chronology, Brown v. Board of Education raises many questions about America's unfinished business of truly democratizing its educational system once and for all. Both instructive and disturbing, this book calls for us to question whether we will turn back the clock or demand movement forward. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Communities of Dissent: A History of Alternative Religions in Americaby Stephen J. SteinISBN 0195158253 (0-19-515825-3)
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A Concise History of Postersby John BarnicoatISBN 0195201310 (0-19-520131-0)
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Kurt VonnegutISBN 0195101413 (0-19-510141-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'Book summary:A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is one of Twain's best-loved tales. A pioneering work of science fiction, it vibrates with slapstick comedy and serious social commentary as well. In this complex and ambitious tour de force, an inventive nineteenth-century resident of Hartford named Hank Morgan travels back in time to sixteenth-century England where he tries to introduce modern technology and political ideas. Along the way he founds the first tabloid, the Camelot Weekly Hosannah and Literary Volcano, organizes a game of baseball between armor-clad knights, and "keeps up a steady fire of flippancies, so frequent that no reader registers all of them on the first go-around," as Louis Budd reminds us in his introduction. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is Twain's most complex and disturbing meditation on technology, as well as a powerful consideration of politics and power. The original illustrations by Dan Beard, chosen by Twain himself to illustrate the book, brilliantly mix buffoonery with sharp social satire in an effective counterpoint to the text. By turns side-splittingly funny and somberly thought-provoking, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is Twain at his finest. [via]
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889by Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher FishkinISBN 0195114108 (0-19-511410-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889'Book summary:One of Twain's best-loved stories next to his classic tales of Huck and Tom, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court vibrates with slapstick comedy and serious social commentary. While Hank Morgan, Twain's time-displaced Yankee traveler, keeps up a steady stream of flippancies, founding the first tabloid, the Camelot Weekly Hosannah and Literary Volcano, and organizing a game of baseball between armor-clad knights, he also keeps up a steady commentary on the social mores of King Arthur's court, criticizing the hereditary social classes and state church still strong in the Victorian England of Twain's own day, and championing women's suffrage and union labor organization. Widely regarded as one of the first science fiction novels, this edition also features an introduction by Kurt Vonnegut, our own twentieth century master of satiric social commentary and science fiction. It also features the original illustrations by Dan Beard, chosen by Twain himself to illustrate the book, whose drawings brilliantly mix buffoonery with sharp social satire: sharp-eyed readers, for instance, will spot that the model for Merlin, Hank's nemesis, is none other than Tennyson, whose Idylls of the King made the romantic vision of King Arthur's court nearly a sacred Victorian cult. By turns side-splittingly funny and somberly thought-provoking, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is Twain at his finest. [via]
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Cuba: Between Reform and Revolutionby Louis A. PerezISBN 0195179129 (0-19-517912-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution'Book summary:Spanning the history of the island from pre-Columbian times to the present, this highly acclaimed survey examines Cuba's political and economic development within the context of its international relations and continuing struggle for self-determination. The dualism that emerged in Cuban ideology--between liberal constructs of patria and radical formulations of nationality --is fully investigated as a source not only of national tension but of competing notions of liberty, equality, and justice which would eventually determine the form and function of Cuban mobilization. Perez integrates local and provincial developments with issues of class, race, and gender to give students a full and fascinating account of the Cuban history of struggle for nationality. The new, second edition includes the latest research on Cuba, adding a new chapter on the political and economic changes that have occurred since the Soviet Union stopped subsidizing for the Cuban economy. [via]
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The Divided Nation: A History of Germany, 1918-1990by Mary FulbrookISBN 0195075714 (0-19-507571-4)
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Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American Historyby Ted SteinbergISBN 0195140109 (0-19-514010-9)
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The Evolution of the Bookby Frederick G. KilgourISBN 0195118596 (0-19-511859-6)
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Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Warsby George Lachmann MosseISBN 0195071395 (0-19-507139-5)
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The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Ageby Beatrice GottliebISBN 019509056X (0-19-509056-X)
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The Fiery Cross: The Ku Klux Klan in Americaby Wyn Craig WadeISBN 0195123573 (0-19-512357-3)
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Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florenceby Michael RocksISBN 0195122925 (0-19-512292-5)
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Hail to the Chief: The Making and Unmaking of American Presidentsby Robert DallekISBN 0195145828 (0-19-514582-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hail to the Chief: The Making and Unmaking of American Presidents'Book summary:The Presidency of the United States is our nation's most challenging position. It has subjected many men to public vilification, condemned numerous others to historical obscurity, and exalted a few to lofty positions in our nation's history. But what is it that separates the revered from the reviled? Now, in Hail to the Chief, Robert Dallek offers an engaging examination of presidential excellence and failure.
For some of our chief executives, great crisis meant great opportunity, as can be seen in the lasting legacies of Washington, Lincoln, and FDR. But what of presidents such as Ronald Reagan, who succeeded despite having served during relatively benign times? And what of luck? Isn't it possible that the onset of The Great Depression doomed a competent and intelligent Herbert Hoover to failure? In answer to these questions, Robert Dallek investigates the five qualities--vision, pragmatism, consensus, charisma, and trust--that have defined our most effective presidents. The product of meticulous research, the book presents numerous examples of these qualities in action, and also details the failures that accompany their absence.
From Washington's masterful efforts at nation building to Lincoln's leadership through the greatest crisis in the country's history; from the beneficent paternalism of FDR to Lyndon Johnson's tragic miscalculations in Vietnam and his achievements in advancing civil rights, Dallek offers a penetrating analysis of the presidency, the personalities who have defined it, and the strategies that led to their triumphs and defeats. [via]More editions of Hail to the Chief: The Making and Unmaking of American Presidents:
Handbook To Life In Ancient Greeceby Lesley Adkins, Roy A. AdkinsISBN 019512491X (0-19-512491-X)
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A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar Americaby Harvard Sitkoff, William Henry ChafeISBN 0195066162 (0-19-506616-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar America'Book summary:This popular and comprehensive anthology presents cogent, provocative articles from differing political perspectives on major issues in postwar America. In addition to articles by leading historians, the editors have assembled first-person accounts of various issues by those who have contributed to the shaping of America's rich history, including Joseph McCarthy and Bill Clinton, as well as Robin Morgan, Anne Moody, and Phyllis Schlafly. For this edition, Chafe and Sitkoff have collaborated with a new coeditor, Beth Bailey, to give this classic text a fresh outlook. The sixth edition has been extensively revised to incorporate new documents and the most up-to-date articles, covering such recent events as the September 11 attacks. With lively and enlightening introductions to each section and headnotes providing a context for the articles, A History of Our Time helps students make sense of the past fifty years of America's sometimes tumultuous but always fascinating history. [via]
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A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar Americaby William H. Chafe, Harvard Sitkoff, William Henry ChafeISBN 019508277X (0-19-508277-X)
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimensionby Michio Kaku, Robert O'KeefeISBN 0195085140 (0-19-508514-0)
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Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-De-Siecle Cultureby Bram DijkstraISBN 0195056523 (0-19-505652-3)
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The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empireby Leslie P. PeirceISBN 0195086775 (0-19-508677-5)
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In Churchill's Shadow: Confronting the Past in Modern Britainby David CannadineISBN 019517156X (0-19-517156-X)
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Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19Th-Century Americaby Ronald TakakiISBN 019513737X (0-19-513737-X)
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Joyous Greetings: The First International Women's Movement, 1830-1860by Bonnie S AndersonISBN 0195143973 (0-19-514397-3)
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From Seneca Falls in upstate New York to the barricades of revolutionary Paris, from the Crystal Palace in London to small towns in the German Rhineland, early feminists united to fight for the cause of women. At the height of the Victorian period, they insisted their sex deserved full political equality, called for a new kind of marriage based on companionship, claimed the right to divorce and to get custody of their children, and argued that an unjust economic system forced women into poorly paid jobs. They rejected the traditional view that women's subordination was preordained, natural, and universal. In restoring these daring activists' achievements to history, Joyous Greetings passes on their inspiring and empowering message to today's new generation of feminists. [via]More editions of Joyous Greetings: The First International Women's Movement, 1830-1860:
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The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusementsby Woody RegisterISBN 0195167325 (0-19-516732-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements'Book summary:Fred Thompson (1873-1919) was a pioneering entrepreneur who encouraged Americans, especially American men, to have fun and stop feeling guilty about it. He designed and built Luna Park, which in 1903 transformed Coney Island from an area so tawdry it was known as "Sodom by the Sea" into a respectable venue for middle-class recreation. He created the Hippodrome, the world's largest theater when it opened in 1905, and filled it with lavish spectacles at affordable ticket prices. He moved on to become "the boy-wonder of Broadway producers," responsible for such popular hits as Brewster's Millions and Little Nemo. His financial acumen never equaled his showmanship (he lost control of both Luna Park and the Hippodrome to better businessmen), but he seems to have thoroughly enjoyed spending vast sums of money to make fantasy and luxury accessible to the masses. Woody Register, professor of American Studies at Sewanee, explores Thompson's life and career as a paradigm for the sea change in commercial culture that took place in the early years of the 20th century, when the Victorian emphasis on educational, elevating entertainment was challenged by a more hedonistic attitude that valued pleasure for its own sake. Gender theory and other currently trendy academic disciplines inform the author's point of view without detracting unduly from his well-written and well-paced narrative. Register could have eased up on the Peter Pan metaphors, but he convincingly links Thompson to present-day innovators who've made a bundle by refusing to grow up, such as director Steven Spielberg and the whiz kids who created the personal computer and Internet revolutions. This is a nice example of a scholarly work that reaches beyond its core audience to appeal to the general public. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Lone Star Justice: The First Century of Texas Rangersby Robert M. UtleyISBN 0195127420 (0-19-512742-0)
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Making Sense of the Molly Maguiresby Kevin KennyISBN 0195116313 (0-19-511631-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Making Sense of the Molly Maguires'Book summary:Twenty Irish immigrants, suspected of belonging to a secret terrorist organization called the Molly Maguires, were executed in Pennsylvania in the 1870s for the murder of sixteen men. Ever since, there has been enormous disagreement over who the Molly Maguires were, what they did, and why they did it, as virtually everything we now know about the Molly Maguires is based on hostile descriptions of their contemporaries.
Arguing that such sources are inadequate to serve as the basis for a factual narrative, Making Sense of the Molly Maguires examines the ideology behind the contemporary evidence to explain how and why a particular meaning came to be associated with the Molly Maguires in Ireland and Pennsylvania. At the same time, this book examines new archival evidence from Ireland that establishes that the American Molly Maguires were a rare transatlantic strand of the violent protest endemic in the Irish countryside.
Combining social and cultural history, Making Sense of the Molly Maguires offers a new explanation of who the Molly Maguires were, as well as why people wrote and believed such curious things about them. In the process, it vividly retells one of the classic stories of American labor and immigration. [via]More editions of Making Sense of the Molly Maguires:
Manhood in America: A Cultural Historyby Michael S. KimmelISBN 0195181131 (0-19-518113-1)
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Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchaseby Roger KennedyISBN 0195176073 (0-19-517607-3)
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Kennedy reveals how the Louisiana Purchase had a major impact on land use and the growth of slavery. He examines the great financial interests (such as the powerful land companies that speculated in new territories and the British textile interests) that beat down slavery's many opponents in the South itself (Native Americans, African Americans, Appalachian farmers, and conscientious opponents of slavery). He describes how slaveholders' cash crops (first tobacco, then cotton) sickened the soil and how the planters moved from one desolated tract to the next. Soon the dominant culture of the entire region--from Maryland to Florida, from Carolina to Texas--was that of owners and slaves producing staple crops for international markets. The earth itself was impoverished, in many places beyond redemption.
None of this, Kennedy argues, was inevitable. He focuses on the character, ideas, and ambitions of Thomas Jefferson to show how he and other Southerners struggled with the moral dilemmas presented by the presence of Indian farmers on land they coveted, by the enslavement of their workforce, by the betrayal of their stated hopes, and by the manifest damage being done to the earth itself. Jefferson emerges as a tragic figure in a tragic period. [via]More editions of Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase:
Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American Historyby Philip JenkinsISBN 0195145968 (0-19-514596-8)
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Without ignoring genuine instances of aberrant behavior, Mystics and Messiahs goes beyond the vast edifice of myth, distortion, and hype to reveal the true characteristics of religious fringe movements and why they inspire such fierce antagonism. [via]More editions of Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History:
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The New Testament and Other Early Christian Writings: A Readerby Bart D. EhrmanISBN 0195154649 (0-19-515464-9)
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This reader presents, for the first time in one volume, every Christian writing known to have been produced during the first hundred years of the church (30-130 C.E.). In addition to the New Testament itself, it includes other, noncanonical Gospels, Acts, Epistles, and Apocalypses, as well as additional important writings, such as those of the Apostolic Fathers. Each text is provided in an up-to-date and readable translation (including the NRSV for the New Testament), and introduced with a succinct and incisive discussion of its author, date of composition, and overarching themes. This second edition adds The Martyrdom of Polycarp, an important text that will enhance the collection's utility in the classroom. It also features Ehrman's new, accessible translations of many of the noncanonical works and provides updated introductions that incorporate the most recent scholarship.
With an opening overview that shows how the canon of the New Testament came to be formulated--the process by which some Christian books came to be regarded as sacred Scripture whereas others came to be excluded--this accessible reader will meet the needs of students, scholars, and general readers alike. An ideal primary text for courses in the New Testament, Christian Origins, and Early Church History, it can be used in conjunction with its companion volume, the author's The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, 3/e (OUP, 2003). [via]More editions of The New Testament and Other Early Christian Writings: A Reader:
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Nicholas II: Last of the Tsarsby Marc Ferro, Brian PearceISBN 0195093828 (0-19-509382-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nicholas II: Last of the Tsars'Book summary:One of the world's preeminent historians, Marc Ferro is a leading member of the Annales School of France and a recognized authority on early twentieth-century European history. For well over two decades, in volumes such as The February Revolution of 1917 and October 1917, he has demonstrated an unsurpassed skill in capturing the social and political forces that led to the Russian Revolution. Now Ferro turns his considerable talents to the biography of one of the pivotal figures of that era, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia.
For this important new biography, Ferro has searched extensively in Russian archives to illuminate Nicholas's character. What emerges is a vivid portrait of a reluctant leader, a young man forced by the death of his father into a role for which he was ill-equipped. A conformist and traditionalist, Nicholas admired the order, ritual, and ceremony identified with the intangible grandeur of autocracy, and he hated everything that might shake that autocracy--the intelligentsia, the Jews, the religious sects. His reign, as Ferro documents, was one of continual trouble: a humiliating war with Japan; the 1905 revolution that forced Nicholas to accept a constitutional assembly, the Duma; the international crisis of 1914, leading to World War I; and finally the Revolution of 1917, forcing his abdication. Throughout, we see a Tsar who was utterly opposed to change and to the ferment of ideas that stirred his country, who felt it was his duty to preserve intact the powers God had entrusted in him. Ferro also provides an intimate portrait of Nicholas's personal life: his wife Alexandra; his four daughters, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia, sisters so close they signed letters "OTMA," the initials of their Christian names; his son and heir Alexis, who suffered from hemophilia; and the various figures in the court, most notably Rasputin, whose ability to revive the frequently ailing Alexis made him indispensable to the Tsaritsa. (Ferro recounts that, when Alexandra heard of Rasputin's murder, she collapsed in anguish, certain her son was lost; but when Nicholas heard the news while with the army, he simply walked off whistling cheerfully.) Perhaps most intriguing is Ferro's chapter on the fate of the Tsar and his family, examining all the rumors and contradictory testimony that swirl around this still cloudy event. Ferro concludes that Alexandra and her daughters may have survived the revolution, and the woman who later surfaced in Europe claiming to be Anastasia may well have been so.
This authoritative biography by one of the world's great historians shines a bright light on an ordinary man raised to an extraordinary station, who carried an unwanted burden, which crushed him. [via]More editions of Nicholas II: Last of the Tsars:
Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teamsby Robert PetersonISBN 0195076370 (0-19-507637-0)
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Our Natural History: The Lessons of Lewis and Clarkby Daniel B. BotkinISBN 0195168291 (0-19-516829-1)
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Past Time: Baseball As Historyby Jules TygielISBN 0195146042 (0-19-514604-2)
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People's China: A Brief Historyby Craig DietrichISBN 0195106296 (0-19-510629-6)
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The Pope's Daughter: The Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovereby Caroline P. MurphyISBN 0195182685 (0-19-518268-5)
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Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836by William W. FreehlingISBN 0195076818 (0-19-507681-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836'Book summary:When William Freehling's Prelude to Civil War first appeared in 1965 it was immediately hailed as a brilliant and incisive study of the origins of the Civil War. Book Week called it "fresh, exciting, and convincing," while The Virginia Quarterly Review praised it as, quite simply, "history at its best." It was equally well-received by historical societies, garnering the Allan Nevins History Prize as well as a Bancroft Prize, the most prestigious history award of all. Now once again available, Prelude to Civil War is still the definitive work on the subject, and one of the most important in ante-bellum studies.
It tells the story of the Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, describing how from 1816 to 1836 aristocratic planters of the Palmetto State tumbled from a contented and prosperous life of elegant balls and fine Madeira wines to a world rife with economic distress, guilt over slavery, and apprehension of slave rebellion. It shows in compelling detail how this reversal of fortune led the political leaders of South Carolina down the path to ever more radical states rights doctrines: in 1832 they were seeking to nullify federal law by refusing to obey it; four years later some of them were considering secession.
As the story unfolds, we meet a colorful and skillfully drawn cast of characters, among them John C. Calhoun, who hoped nullifcation would save both his highest priority, slavery, and his next priority, union; President Andrew Jackson, who threatened to hang Calhoun and lead federal troops into South Carolina; Denmark Vesey, who organized and nearly brought off a slave conspiracy; and Martin Van Buren, the "Little Magician," who plotted craftily to replace Calhoun in Jackson's esteem. These and other important figures come to life in these pages, and help to tell a tale--often in their own words--central to an understanding of the war which eventually engulfed the United States.
Demonstrating how a profound sensitivity to the still-shadowy slavery issue--not serious economic problems alone--led to the Nullification Controversy, Freehling revises many theories previously held by historians. He describes how fear of abolitionists and their lobbying power in Congress prompted South Carolina's leaders to ban virtually any public discussion of the South's "peculiar institution," and shows that while the Civil War had many beginnings, none was more significant than this single, passionate controversy.
Written in a lively and eminently readable style, Prelude to Civil War is must reading for anyone trying to discover the roots of the conflict that soon would tear the Union apart. [via]More editions of Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836:
Presidential Wivesby Paul F. BollerISBN 0195121422 (0-19-512142-2)
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Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929by Maury KleinISBN 0195158016 (0-19-515801-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929'Book summary:The first major history of the Crash in over a decade, Rainbow's End tells the story of the stock market collapse in a colorful, swift-moving narrative that blends a vivid portrait of the 1920s with an intensely gripping account of Wall Street's greatest catastrophe.
The book offers a vibrant picture of a world full of plungers, powerful bankers, corporate titans, millionaire brokers, and buoyantly optimistic stock market bulls. We meet Sunshine Charley Mitchell, head of the National City Bank, powerful financiers Jack Morgan and Jacob Schiff, Wall Street manipulators such as the legendary Jesse Livermore, and the lavish-living Billy Durant, founder of General Motors. As Klein follows the careers of these men, he shows us how the financial house of cards gradually grew taller, as the irrational exuberance of an earlier age gripped America and convinced us that the market would continue to rise forever. Then, in October 1929, came a "perfect storm"-like convergence of factors that shook Wall Street to its foundations. We relive Black Thursday, when police lined Wall Street, brokers grew hysterical, customers "bellowed like lunatics," and the ticker tape fell hours behind. This is followed by the even worse Bloody Tuesday, when an irrational desire to sell at any price gripped the market and even blue chip stocks plummeted precariously.
This compelling history of the Crash--the first to follow the market closely for the two years leading up to the disaster--illuminates a major turning point in our history. [via]More editions of Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929:
Reinterpreting Russian History: Readings 860-180sby Daniel H. Kaiser, Gary MarkerISBN 0195078586 (0-19-507858-6)
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The Right Moment: Ronald Reagan's First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politicsby Matthew DallekISBN 0195174070 (0-19-517407-0)
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The Rise of Modern Chinaby Immanuel C.Y. HsuISBN 0195125045 (0-19-512504-5)
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A Rumor About the Jews: Antisemitism, Conspiracy, and the Protocols of Zionby Stephen Eric BronnerISBN 0195169565 (0-19-516956-5)
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The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship: Sources and Methods for the Study of Early Liturgyby Paul F. BradshawISBN 0195080513 (0-19-508051-3)
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Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolutionby John E. FerlingISBN 0195150848 (0-19-515084-8)
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A Short History of Philosophyby Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen M. HigginsISBN 0195101960 (0-19-510196-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Short History of Philosophy'Book summary:Philosophy is a singularly expansive enterprise, a fascinating outgrowth of a human nature that demands we question who and why we are. In A Short History of Philosophy, the most accessible concise portrait of philosophy in seventy years, Robert Solomon and Kathleen Higgins meet the challenge of accurately and engagingly describing it all, revelling in philosophy as "the art of wonder," the search for meaning, a gripping, dramatic endeavor.
Here is the entire history of philosophy--ancient, medieval, and modern, from cultures both East and West--described in its historical and cultural context. "The concepts that lie at the heart of philosophy antedate history by thousands of years," the authors write in their introduction, noting that the ancient concept of immortality, prehistorical ideas about magic, and the complex set of beliefs implied by the practice of human sacrifice all exhibit philosophic underpinnings. Solomon and Higgins chart the profound development of philosophical thought around the world and through the centuries from the first stirrings of speculation and wonder to the rise of distinct (and often antithetical) philosophical traditions, moral constructs, and religious practices. From the early Greek and Asian philosophers and the mythological traditions that preceded them, to the great Greek, Indic, and Chinese philosophers, to the drama of the great religious philosophies, the authors have spun a marvelous tale that leads to the development and decline of modernity. Along with the major characters, such as Aristotle, Kant, and Confucius, Solomon and Higgins draw engaging portraits of less well-known alchemists, mystics, rebels, eccentrics of all sorts, including figures often ignored in philosophy--figures such as Teresa of Avila, who contributed to the mystical traditions of Catholicism; al-Razi, a contrarian Persian philosopher within the Arabic tradition who described the philosophical life as "godlike;" and Erasmus, the Dutch philosopher who parodied the foolishness of man in his praise of folly.
With a clear, witty style and a flair for making complex ideas accessible, the authors also convincingly demonstrate the relevance of philosophy to our times, emphasizing the legacy of the revolutions wrought by science, industry, colonialism, and sectarian warfare, and the philosophical responses to the traumas of the twentieth century (including two world wars and the Holocaust): existentialism, positivism, postmodernism, feminism, and multiculturalism among them. But Solomon and Higgins go beyond merely retelling the rich history of philosophy; the authors provide their own twists and interpretations of events, resulting in a story that reveals the continuing complexity and diversity of a richly textured and nuanced intellectual tradition. All who are "lovers of wisdom" will find much to reward them in this book. [via]More editions of A Short History of Philosophy:
A Short History of the Jewish People: From Legendary Times to Modern Statehoodby Raymond P. ScheindlinISBN 0195139410 (0-19-513941-0)
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Six Days or Forever? : Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopesby Ray GingerISBN 0195197844 (0-19-519784-4)
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The South Vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil Warby William W. FreehlingISBN 0195156293 (0-19-515629-3)
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Stalin and the Kirov Murderby Robert ConquestISBN 0195063376 (0-19-506337-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stalin and the Kirov Murder'Book summary:On December 1, 1934, a lone gunman shot and killed Sergei Kirov, Secretary of the Central and Leningrad Party Organization, member of the Moscow Politburo, and once considered Joseph Stalin's possible successor. As one of the most significant crimes of the century, the assassination not only sealed the fates of thousands--and, indirectly, millions--of people spuriously connected to the killer, but it eliminated the second most powerful man in Russian politics and gave Stalin free rein to dominate Soviet policy.
Written by the highly acclaimed author of The Harvest of Sorrow, Stalin and the Kirov Murder presents the first book-length examination of the case. Robert Conquest chronicles the details of the Kirov affair and all of its astonishing consequences. He tells us that now, fifty-five years after Kirov's murder, glasnost has prompted a new examination of this singular crime--one that will perhaps reveal the truth about the case for the first time. Based on all the available evidence, including official documents as well as the reports of numerous Russian defectors, Conquest has written a fascinating, at times chilling, account of the murder and its aftermath. He firmly establishes that Stalin not only sanctioned Kirov's assassination, but used it as a justification for the terror that culminated in 1937 and '38. [via]More editions of Stalin and the Kirov Murder:
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Strategies Of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold Warby John Lewis GaddisISBN 019517447X (0-19-517447-X)
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He concludes, provocatively, that Reagan more effectively than any other Cold War president drew upon the strengths of both approaches while avoiding their weaknesses. A must-read for anyone interested in Cold War history, grand strategy, and the origins of the post-Cold War world. [via]More editions of Strategies Of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War:
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Stuffed Animals & Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museumsby Stephen T. AsmaISBN 0195163362 (0-19-516336-2)
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I stepped into the foulest, most pestiferous stench you can imagine ... Inside each tank were thousands of dermestid beetles, otherwise known as flesh-eating beetles, blissfully chewing the meaty chunks and strands off the bones. Each bug was no bigger than a watermelon seed, but en masse they could strip a skeleton clean in two short days.
To Asma's credit, the bulk of the text is less a gross-out festival than a consideration of the hard, sometimes obsessive work of the men and women behind the displays. He examines the role of museums and collectors in the great evolutionary debates of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the future of these institutions as they come more and more to depend on corporate largesse. Equally enlightening and entertaining, Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads is a perfectly exhibited specimen. --Rob Lightner [via]More editions of Stuffed Animals & Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums:
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Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Natural History Museumsby Stephen T. AsmaISBN 0195130502 (0-19-513050-2)
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I stepped into the foulest, most pestiferous stench you can imagine ... Inside each tank were thousands of dermestid beetles, otherwise known as flesh-eating beetles, blissfully chewing the meaty chunks and strands off the bones. Each bug was no bigger than a watermelon seed, but en masse they could strip a skeleton clean in two short days.
To Asma's credit, the bulk of the text is less a gross-out festival than a consideration of the hard, sometimes obsessive work of the men and women behind the displays. He examines the role of museums and collectors in the great evolutionary debates of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the future of these institutions as they come more and more to depend on corporate largesse. Equally enlightening and entertaining, Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads is a perfectly exhibited specimen. --Rob Lightner [via]More editions of Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Natural History Museums:
Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial Americaby Patricia BonomiISBN 0195162188 (0-19-516218-8)
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The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Homeby Reid MitchellISBN 0195096436 (0-19-509643-6)
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The War of the Fists: Popular Culture and Public Violence in Late Renaissance Veniceby Robert C. DavisISBN 0195084047 (0-19-508404-7)
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War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imaginationby H. Bruce FranklinISBN 0195066928 (0-19-506692-8)
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Warpaths: Invasions of North Americaby Ian K. SteeleISBN 0195082230 (0-19-508223-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Warpaths: Invasions of North America'Book summary:In 1513, only a few years before Cortes conquered the Aztec empire, Juan Ponce de Leon and three shiploads of conquistadores landed just south of what is now St. Augustine, Florida. The Spanish adventurers, however, were quickly driven away by the Timucua people; further landings were similarly defeated by the extraordinary archers of the Calusa, who ultimately took the lives of Hernandez de Cordoba and Ponce de Leon himself. Clearly, the European experience in North America would be a far cry from their swift victories over the Aztecs and Incas.
A panoramic history of the numerous European invasions of North America, this book paints a dramatic new portrait of the centuries of warfare that shook the continent. From the defeat of Ponce de Leon in 1513 to a negotiated peace with the British in 1765, Steele's fascinating account destroys the old image of technologically advanced Europeans overrunning primitive savages, and reveals how Amerindians rose to the challenge of each successive invasion with martial and diplomatic skill. In war after war, the Amerindians and Europeans battled in a precarious balance, adapting each other's technology and tactics and seeking each other out as allies and supply sources for food and weapons. Steele follows the experience of the Spanish at San Agustín, the English at Jamestown and Plymouth, the French at Québec, and the Dutch at Albany, revealing the vast range of Amerindian strategies for coping with the invaders.
The conflicts that erupted with the European arrival have long been distorted by myth and self-congratulatory folklore. Warpaths offers students of American history and Native American studies a startling new look at this pivotal era, combining social, cultural, and military history to provide a more nuanced portrait of the violence that gave birth to modern North America. [via]More editions of Warpaths: Invasions of North America:
When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Centuryby Carolyn MarvinISBN 0195063414 (0-19-506341-4)
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