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[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian Mutiny] 'The mutiny as seen by a Lancer's wife This account, which briefly covers life in India immediately preceding the Indian Mutiny, was originally titled A Lady's Life Before and During the Indian Mutiny. The 'red' year of 1857 was an apocalyptic one for many of the British in India and Mrs. Ouvry's account as she gives...
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In 1889, Annie Nathan Meyer, still in her early twenties, led the effort to start Barnard College after Columbia College refused to admit women. Named after a former Columbia president, Frederick Barnard, who had advocated for Columbia to become coeducational, Barnard, despite many ups and downs, became one of the leading women's colleges in the United States.
A College of Her Own offers a comprehensive and lively narrative of Barnard from its beginnings...
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From the desert vistas of Georgia O'Keeffe's New Mexico ranch to Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner's Hamptons cottage, step into the homes and studios of illustrious American artists and witness creativity in the making. Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Historic Artists' Homes and Studios program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, this is the first guidebook to the forty-four site museums in the network, located across all...
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What would you do if you were George Washington and the British Army had forced you to retreat into Pennsylvania? American colonists desperately needed a victory in their fight for independence. In the middle of a fierce winter storm, Washington daringly crossed the Delaware River to attack the British Army. Author Elaine Landau lets readers step into Washington's place along with his officers, and his enemies during that fateful winter during the...
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The Central and South American collection at the British Museum collections contains approximately 62,000 objects, spanning 10,000 years of human history. The vast majority cannot be displayed, and those objects are the subject of Untold Microcosms, a collection of ten stories from ten Latin American writers, and inspired by the narratives about our past that we create through museums, in spite of their gaps and disarticulations.
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Enter the dark and dangerous world of the medieval knight. Find out how these skilled warriors fought in bloody battles, riding on fierce warhorses trained to kick and bite their masters' enemies. See the weaponry and armor used by knights, learn how knights began their training at just 8 years old, and explore the everyday lives of these historic warriors who fought in return for castles and treasure. And for fun!
88867) Ankylosaurus
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Learn about Ankylosaurus with this easy-to-read text.
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Le Musée de la Seconde Guerre mondiale de Gdańsk incarne l'un des conflits les plus importants et dramatiques ayant ébranlé la culture européenne de la mémoire et de l'histoire publique au cours des dernières décennies. Le musée est devenu l'ennemi suprême de la droite nationaliste, accusé de « cosmopolitisme », de «pseudo-universalisme », de «pacifisme » et de « servir les intérêts étrangers ».
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This volume deals with the conscription system in the Confederacy and the conflicts which it produced between Confederate and State authorities. It was begun with a view to discovering the effect of conscription upon the course of the war and to making available the experiences of the Confederacy, hard pressed always for fighting men, in raising its armies. I have endeavored to tell a true story, as it is revealed by the Official Records, newspapers...
88870) Lost Restaurants of Denver
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Sample the hearty helpings at the Hungry Dutchman and the dainty morsels at the Denver Dry Goods Tearoom to get a taste of a tradition rich with innovation, hard work, and crazy ideas. Waitresses, chefs, owners, and suppliers bring back the restaurants of yesteryear by sharing success stories and signature recipes. Just don't be surprised by sudden cravings for savory cannolis from Carbones, rich Mija Pie from Baur's, egg rolls at the Lotus Room,...
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A Civil War historian recounts the first battle between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee-a bloody and horrifying conflict in the Wilderness of Virginia.
Known simply as the Wilderness, soldiers called the seventy square miles of dense Virginian forest one of the "waste places of nature" and "a region of gloom." Yet here, in the spring of 1864, the Civil War escalated to a new level of horror.
Ulysses S. Grant, commanding all Federal armies, opened...
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Since the 1970s, urban communities across the country have had to face the wrenching process of economic restructuring. As the media announce the latest plant closings and politicians slam each other for outsourcing jobs, events are too often framed with a kind of economic determinism that denies agency to individual communities. To what degree can industrial cities in such an era still imagine themselves as authors of their own economic fates? In...
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Are the quests for human rights and economic development compatible? In this thought-provoking book, Jean-Pierre Chauffour argues that the answer depends on the place given to freedom in both human rights and development. When freedom advances, prosperity and human rights progress. When freedom is threatened-especially economic and civil liberties-fundamental human rights are violated and economic development suffers.
Yet although the connection...
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Il y a 52 ans, en février 1971, la Communauté urbaine de Lille, aujourd'hui Métropole Européenne de Lille lançait un concours pour l'attribution du chantier du futur transport en commun qui devait relier le campus de la ville nouvelle de Lille-Est au centre-ville historique de Lille. Un demi-siècle plus tard, la simple navette d'étudiants est devenue une composante incontournable de la métropole lilloise, un moyen de transport emprunté chaque...
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There is no place in which the fact that America is a melting pot of histories, legends, and civilizations is more apparent than in the city of Winchester, Virginia. Readers of "Winchester, Virginia Comprehensive Historical Guide" can learn more in-depth about a city that has played a pivotal role in American history from the time of the colonial era through the Revolutionary and Civil Wars and up to the present. This book allows you to walk alongside...
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Petilius Cerealis is one of the few Imperial Roman officers, below the level of Emperor, whose career it is possible to follow in sufficient detail to write a coherent biography. Fortunately his career was a remarkably eventful and colorful one. With a knack for being caught up in big events and emerging unscathed despite some hairy adventures (and scandal, usually involving some local wench) he appears to have been a Roman version of Blackadder and...
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First published in 1957, this book details the important part that the sea power played in winning the Civil War."In the past few decades there has been a resurgence of interest in the Civil War reflected in an avalanche of Civil War novels, biographies, and monographs. The writers responsible for this torrent have for the most part focused attention on the battlefields, the halls of Congress, the economics of war, and the actors, big and small. The...
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An indispensable tool for high-schoolers, undergraduates, or even amateur enthusiasts, Writing World War II teaches the craft of history writing-by example. In a series of thoughtful essays, Sylvie Murray examines American involvement in World War II and how it has subsequently been portrayed by historians. Murray addresses three broad topics-the prelude to war, the war effort on the home front, and the atypical experiences of soldiers-in an effort...
88879) The Colonial Wars, 1689–1762
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A fascinating look at over seventy years of fighting in the American colonies-as France, England, and Spain tried to stake their claims in the New World.
Although the colonial wars consisted of almost continuous raids and skirmishes between the English and French colonists and their Indian allies and enemies, they can be separated into four major conflicts, corresponding to four European wars of which they were, in varying degrees, a part: King William's...
88880) A Is for Africa
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This is an alphabet book that highlights different influential historians and events in African American History with each letter. In this book, readers will:
-Gain Knowledge about African American History not otherwise taught in typical k-12 Curriculum.
-Be exposed to over 36 Black historians through the end pages.
-Read real life issues African Americans have faced in history.
-Be introduced to new vocabulary words.
-Read about empowering facts...
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