History and Archaeology

More than 5,000 North Carolina slaves escaped from their white owners to serve in the Union army during the Civil War.

These essays pose new questions concerning the social and political origins of the Revolution in the South, the social disorder indiced by the war, and the impact of the conflict and its ideologies on blacks and women.

This is the second and final volume of the Wickwires' definitive biography of Cornwallis.

Stark examines the importance of publishers and the book industry in the rise of twentieth-century Germanys radical right-wing cultural movements.

This incisive book traces the attack on American provincialism that ended the myth of the Happy Village.

Ranum analyzes the canons of writing history and describes the lives and achievements of the royal French historiographers.

This is an intensive examination of the financial and political considerations that shaped North Carolinas public financial policy during the confederation.

In the spring of 1864, in the vast Virginia scrub forest known as the Wilderness, Ulysses S.

The Oratorio in the classical Era is the third volume of Howard Smithers monumental History of the Oratorio, continuing his synthesis and critical appraisal of the oratorio.

This broad, comparative study examines the social, economic, and legal contexts of crime and authority in two vastly different states over a one hundred year period.

The Maryland campaign of September 1862 ranks among the most important military operations of the American Civil War.

A variety of important but lesser-known dimensions of the Chancellorsville campaign of spring 1863 are explored in this collection of eight original essays.

With this book, Allan Kulikoff offers a sweeping new interpretation of the origins and development of the small farm economy in Britains mainland American colonies.

Wilhelm II (18591941), King of Prussia and German Emperor from 1888 to 1918, reigned during a period of unprecedented economic, cultural, and intellectual achievement in Germany.

David Cecelski chronicles one of the most sustained and successful protests of the civil rights movement the 196869 school boycott in Hyde County, North Carolina.

A number of arguments have been made to explain the relative weakness of the American Left.

The Clinton administrations failed health care reform was not the first attempt to establish government-sponsored medical coverage in the United States.

Between 1845 and 1855, 2 million Irish men and women fled their famine-ravaged homeland, many to settle in large British and American cities that were already wrestling with a complex array of urban problems.

Wilhelm II (18591941), King of Prussia and German Emperor from 1888 to 1918, reigned during a period of unprecedented economic, cultural, and intellectual achievement in Germany.

In the mountains of western North Carolina, the Civil War was fought on different terms than those found throughout most of the South.

World War II coincided with cinemas golden age.

Although North Carolina was a home front state rather than a battlefield state for most of the Civil War, it was heavily involved in the Confederate war effort and experienced many conflicts as a result.

James McPhersons classic book For Cause & Comrades explained “why men fought in the Civil War”—and spurred countless other historians to ask and attempt to answer the same question.

When Katherine Miller was first asked to train chefs to be advocates, she thought the idea was ludicrous.

Every book published in the modern world carries within its identity a sequence of digits beginning with 978.

When Katherine Miller was first asked to train chefs to be advocates, she thought the idea was ludicrous.

In the nineteenth century, Manhattan's streets were so choked with pedestrians, horses, vehicles, and vendors that a trip from City Hall to Central Park could take hours.

From the American Civil War to the Meiji Restoration, one ironclad warship shaped the fate of three nations across four decades of global conflict.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Natalie Livingstone's deeply researched, unfailingly fascinating book gives the many extraordinary women at or near the centre of the Nuremberg trials their proper, important, and often ignored place in history' Salman Rushdie'Brilliant .

This book provides a detailed account of foreigners who performed military service in the Principality of Transylvania over almost one-and-a-half centuries.

For too long, Native American people in the United States have been stereotyped as vestiges of the past, invisible citizens in their own land obliged to remind others, ';We are still here!

100% of author royalties are being donated to the Tunnel to Towers FoundationHelicopters loom large in how we picture the Vietnam War.

A manual addressed to students rather than to teachers or researchers, Oral History: An Introduction for Students is unique among the how to books in the field, adapting some of the best methods of group oral history projects to the needs of individual students.

Combining legal and social history, Bruce Mann explores the relationship between law and society from the mid-seventeenth century to the eve of the Revolution.

The termination of the war and the fate of the Union hung in the balance in May of 1864 as Robert E.

The Civil War thrust Americans onto unfamiliar terrain, as two competing societies mobilized for four years of bloody conflict.

The tumultuous North Carolina Senate primaries of 1950 are still viewed as the most bitter chapter in the states modern political history.

Eightytwo percent of German boys and girls between the ages of ten and eighteen belonged to Hitlerjugend Hitler Youth or one of its affiliates by the time membership became fully compulsory in 1939.

The most dangerous substance ever sold as a health tonic glows faintly blue in the dark.

Originally published in 1924 and available here in English for the first time, The Enemys House Divided is Charles de Gaulles analysis of the major errors that led the Germans to disaster in World War I.

A radical revisionand worker's-eye viewof everything we thought we knew about the ancient Roman economyThe story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes.

Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Energy Systems 2 presents a comprehensive exploration of how intelligent technologies are transforming modern energy infrastructures toward a more sustainable and efficient future.

January 20 to March 14, 2025: fifty-four days that arrived faster than anyone could hold them.

As expansionist empires, socialist superpowers and authoritarian regimes, China and Russia have much in common.

A Dark, Unflinching ThrillerShadows of Your Past is a story of resilience, loyalty, and the legacies we inherit, blending psychological tension with mystical intrigue.

Keine Europäerin hat vor ihr dieses Land erblickt: Der bewegende historische Roman »Kirschblüten im Wind« von Susanne Wahl jetzt als eBook bei dotbooks.

Eine unmögliche Liebe … Der bildgewaltige historische Roman »Viking Kingdom – Der Sohn des Fjords« von Heidrun Hurst als eBook bei dotbooks.

Das größte Rätsel der ägyptischen Geschichte: Der historische Roman »Im Tal der Könige« von Cecelia Holland jetzt als eBook bei dotbooks.

En 1902 arribo a las librerias cariocas un libro titulado Os sertoes (Los sertones).