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Demonstrates how the colonies developed into the first nation created under the influences of nationalism, modern capitalism and Protestantism. " A brilliant interpretation of Colonial society on the eve of the Revolution." --David Herbert Donald, Commentary " A brilliant interpretation of Colonial society on the eve of the Revolution." --David Herbert Donald, Commentary " A brilliant interpretation of Colonial society on the eve of the Revolution." --David Herbert Donald, Commentary America at 1750: A Social Portrait ...

This is the first book that offers a you-are-there look at the American Revolution through the eyes of the enlisted men. Through searing portraits of individual soldiers, Bruce Chadwick, author of George Washington's War, brings alive what it was like to serve then in the American army. With interlocking stories of ordinary Americans, he evokes what it meant to face brutal winters, starvation, terrible homesickness and to go into battle against the much-vaunted British regulars and their deadly Hessian mercenaries.The reader lives through the experiences of those terrible and heroic ...

This is a substantial second collection (after One More Time) by the quintessential urban columnist as he witnessed the 1960s through the 1990s, preserving with a keen eye his obsessions, rages and lonely ethical crusades. Royko (author of Boss, an infamous critique of Chicago's late Mayor Richard Daley) embodies a journalistic archetype once synonymous with Chicago (cf. The Front Page), but now nearly extinct: chauvinistic and old-fashioned, yet fiercely imbued with a sense of time and place, and with courage enough, as Roger Ebert recalls in his warm foreword, to denounce the newspapers ...

Ruth Paine befriended Marina Oswald and found Marina's husband, Lee Harvey, a job in the Texas State Book Depository. Thomas Mallon's Mrs. Paine's Garagerevisits the brief intersection of these three lives--what he calls a "collision of innocent intentions and unforeseen enormities." Mallon details the nine-month Paine/Oswald friendship and its rapid post-assassination disintegration. He then sketches Paine's life since (from her testimony before various congressional committees to her current low-profile residence in Florida) and summarizes Paine's place in the churning, ...

"This book clearly deserves to become a model for modern research in American Indian Studies. Without any waving of banners and shouting of slogans it leaps far ahead of earlier acculturation studies by shifting the focus to strategies of ethnic survival."-E. Adamson Hoebel, "Plains Anthropologist" The Northern Arapahoes of the Wind River Reservation contradict many of the generalizations made about political change among native plains people. Loretta Fowler explores how, in response to the realities of domination by Americans, the Arapahoes have avoided serious factional divisions and ...

Charles Phillips is a contributing author to the Chronicle of the Royal Family, and is author of The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Tartan, the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aztec & Maya, and The Aztec and Maya World (all also published by Lorenz Books). He is an established writer of popular history, and a contributor to Cassell's Dictionary of Modern Britain, and to The Chronicle of Britain. He has a keen interest in British history and the story of the Royal Family, and was a key writer on Time Life's Myth and Mankind series, which blends mythology with the art of history of ancient ...

Latin America and Its People, Single Volume Edition, Second Edition Cheryl Martin and Mark Wasserman Offering a balance of social, political, environmental, and cultural history, Latin America and Its People examines the whole of Latin America in a thematic rather than country-by-country approach. This engaging textbook emphasizes the stories of the diverse people of Latin America, their everyday lives, and the issues that affect them. Written by two of the leading scholars in the field, Cheryl Martin and Mark Wasserman, Latin America and Its People presents a fresh ...

In September 1999, some 500 American WWII veterans filed suit against five Japanese corporations (including Mitsubishi and Kawasaki), seeking reparation for having been used as slave laborers during the war. According to the plaintiffs, these corporations built their postwar success on a foundation of American forced labor. The companies say they have been wrongly targeted, because the modern conglomerates have no relation to the wartime entities accused of these practices, prohibited now as then under the rules of the Geneva Convention. Holmes (4,000 Bowls of Rice), a respected historian ...

Israeli journalist and ex-detective Svoray pulled off a stunning investigative coup by penetrating Germany's neo-Nazi movement in 1992-93, and this extraordinary report, coauthored by Taylor (Sins of the Father), makes urgent reading. Posing first as an Austrian journalist, and later as a neo-Nazi sympathizer promising to funnel U.S. funds to German ultra-rightists, Svoray met several of Germany's leading neo-Nazis and toured a clandestine skinhead training camp. With assistance from the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, he exposed close links among various German neo-Nazi groups, ...

"Ringer's excellent book certainly belongs among those which set themselves the task of explaining 'why Germany was different'"--Jurgen Habermas, Minerva"Indispensable reading for all students of modern German history"--Kenneth D. Barkin, Journal of Modern History"An ambitious attempt to describe and analyze the political, social, and intellectual attitudes of the German academic community under William II and the Weiman republic. Mr. Ringer deserves a good deal of credit for his wide and thoughtful reading in this field of intellectual history, which is not easily surveyed, and for his ...