History - Essays

Author Joseph Conrad described, in his essay collection The Mirror of the Sea (1906) and his novel The Arrow of Gold (1919), having, during his time in Marseilles, France, smuggling arms to Spain for the Carlist supporters of Carlos de Borb n y de...

An exploration of the Italian references and inspirations found across the writings of Thomas Jefferson."We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty,...

Genocide isn't past tense and the Nazi and Bosnian eras are not yet closed. The demonising of people as 'unworthy' and expendable is ever-present and the consequences are all too evident in the daily news. These fourteen essays by Australian scholars confront the issues:...

Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. This collection demonstrates how individuals, their curatorial practices, and intellectual and political agendas influenced the development of a variety of museums across the globe.Author:...

World War II and the Caribbean focuses on one of the most exciting periods in the history of the region as the Caribbean territories faced incredible upheaval and opportunity during the war years. Local operations, cultural mores and the region's international image were forever...

This collection of interviews with local residents offers a glimpse of life from pre-World War II through the 1980s in a small Hudson River Valley hamlet, located between Rhinebeck and Hyde Park, New York. The narrators recall what is was like to work on...

A collection of 28 poems and 28 essays along with a selection of historical photos, sketches, and quotes that are dedicated to the lost and forgotten of the Civil War, by award winning author, Lisa G. Samia. Selections within this work earned her the...

Liberty is contested because it is complex. It is not merely a concern of political science or economy, an abstract philosophical concept, or a theological doctrine. It is all those things and many things besides; it is, as Lord Acton said, "the delicate fruit...

Award-winning journalist Alec Russell was in South Africa to witness the fall of apartheid and the remarkable reconciliation of Nelson Mandela's rule; and returned in 2007-2008 to see Mandela's successor, Thabo Mbeki, fritter away the country's reputation. South Africa is now perched on a...

MacArthur's supremacy as a true conversationalist is readily documented. This work on the wisdom and sayings of MacArthur is presented as a new-classicist document in that almost every item listed came from the mouth of General MacArthur and from his writings. He wrote almost...

This volume provides an historical overview of the relationship between Germany, German speakers, and successive waves of German colonists with their eastern neighbors over the period from the Middle Ages to the present. The collection of essays by 28 leading experts includes the most...

Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule is devoted to studies of the political culture of the Russian monarchy as it influenced aspects of historical development such as law, representations of family, and concepts of nation and empire. The articles show how the narratives described in...

The best from twenty years of a noted intellectual historian's work Placing the South offers a selection of work published between 1985 and 2005 by one of the most incisive historians and literary critics of the South. The pieces seek to situate the South...

First published in 1979 as a tribute to the late Professor J.C. Beckett, this volume of original essays on the history of 18th-century Ireland was conceived both as an exercise in revision, challenging accepted orthodoxies, and as an attempt to open up new areas...

Old, yellowed, mouse-chewed letters can be fascinating reading as they open the door to the past, to a time which can usually only be visited in the history books. "A Journey of Voices: Chasing the Frontier" is the end product of a fifteen-year search...

"Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" is an 1895 essay by Mark Twain, written as a satire and criticism of the writings of James Fenimore Cooper. Drawing on examples from The Deerslayer and The Pathfinder from Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, the essay claims Cooper is guilty of...

In this third and last installment of the Morpheus Trilogy, W. E. Gutman heeds the dream maker's entreaty to "wake up, go beyond the dreams, and remind [the reader] of the paradoxes, the aberrations, the deceptions, and the monstrosities that define man and mark...

In this unintended sequel to MORPHEUS POSSESSED, W. E. Gutman warns that being dependent on-or forced to submit to-someone else's dreams (dogmas, decrees, laws) is a form of slavery, whereas freedom (which is inseparable from justice) means having no master-earthly or heavenly. In MORPHEUS...

At H-Hour on D-Day-June 6, 1944-the 4th Infantry Division landed on Utah Beach, becoming the first Allied division to land on the shores of Normandy, France. For the next eleven months, the 4ID fought across France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany until the war in...

Mountain Echoes is a compilation of stories, all results of a sifting through the history of Haywood County in Western North Carolina. Some are specific to the setting while others capture the essence of most anywhere in the Southern Appalachians. Taming a wilderness and...

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801-1809) and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776). Jefferson was one of the most influential Founding Fathers, known for his promotion of the ideals...

When Baker received a MakeWork grant to write about Chattanooga's unheard voices, Sybil Baker had no idea that her project would take her from the homes of Chattanooga's refugees in "Landings" to what Critical Flame calls a "Sebaldian travelogue through the Syrian migration route"...

Oswald Mosley was possibly the most controversial politician of the twentieth century. Many believe he was the greatest thinker of his age, he was certainly the finest orator of his generation. After service in the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War, he...

"The only way my books can help to bring to a resolution such problems as the U.S.-North Korean enmity is to be read and taken seriously . . . If 'denuclearization' is to be achieved, I believe, it ought not to be through the...

What does it mean to be an American? In Europe and elsewhere, it has been the prolonged association between the populous and the land that has constructed national identities. In Scotland there are Scots, in Poland there Poles, in Switzerland, there are the Swiss,...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1878 Edition.Author: Abraham FornanderISBN-10: 1498193889ISBN-13: 9781498193887Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 260Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.55d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1880 Edition.Author: John Waddell Van SickleISBN-10: 1498191983ISBN-13: 9781498191982Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.51d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1823 Edition.Author: G. RobertsISBN-10: 1498191819ISBN-13: 9781498191814Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 234Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.49d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1902 Edition.Author: David Lufkin MansfieldISBN-10: 1498189415ISBN-13: 9781498189415Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 206Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.44d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1916 Edition.Author: Henry Disston and SonsISBN-10: 1498177581ISBN-13: 9781498177580Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 68Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.14d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1911 Edition.Author: Madison C. PetersISBN-10: 1498175910ISBN-13: 9781498175913Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 44Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.16lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.09d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1850 Edition. In Nova Scotia And P. E. Island.Author: Silas Tertius ISBN-10: 1498175627ISBN-13: 9781498175623Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 42Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.09d

""History Of The American Negro And His Institutions: Georgia Edition"" by A. B. Caldwell is a comprehensive account of the history of African Americans in the state of Georgia. The book covers a wide range of topics, including slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1883 Edition. In The Northern And Border States On Account Of Their Political Opinions During The Late Civil War V2.Author: John a. MarshallISBN-10: 1498087868ISBN-13: 9781498087865Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 458Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1858 Edition.Author: S. F. DunlapISBN-10: 1498072763ISBN-13: 9781498072762Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.22lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.85d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1841 Edition. Including Narratives Of The Most Remarkable Encounters That Have Taken Place From The Earliest Period To The Present Time V1.Author: J. G. MillingenISBN-10: 1498071066ISBN-13: 9781498071062Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 414Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 9.02h...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1814 Edition.Author: Edward BaldwinISBN-10: 1498036880ISBN-13: 9781498036887Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.01w x 0.70d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1907 Edition.Author: L. L. PriceISBN-10: 1497984254ISBN-13: 9781497984257Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 214Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.45d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1670 Edition.Author: William PennISBN-10: 1497937957ISBN-13: 9781497937956Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 62Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.13d

The History And Practice Of Magic by Paul Christian is a comprehensive guide to the history, theory and practice of magic. The book covers a wide range of topics, from the origins of magic in ancient Egypt and Greece, to the modern-day practices of...

This is a new release of the original 1950 edition.Author: John Dickinson KnoxISBN-10: 1494115298ISBN-13: 9781494115296Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 506Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.48lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.02d

This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.Author: Georg Kolbe, Margaret M. GreenISBN-10: 1494093596ISBN-13: 9781494093594Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 354Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.81lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.74d

This is a new release of the original 1935 edition.Author: David LamsonISBN-10: 1494093065ISBN-13: 9781494093068Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.73d

This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.Author: James W. LesueurISBN-10: 1494089610ISBN-13: 9781494089610Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 342Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.71d

This is a new release of the original 1951 edition.Author: Henry St George TuckerISBN-10: 1494075814ISBN-13: 9781494075811Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 300Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.63d

This is a new release of the original 1924 edition.Author: Herbert S. GormanISBN-10: 1494057182ISBN-13: 9781494057183Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.52d

This is a new release of the original 1947 edition.Author: M. I. McCreightISBN-10: 1494044684ISBN-13: 9781494044688Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 210Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.44d

This is a new release of the original 1945 edition.Author: Edgar L. Hewett, Bertha P. DuttonISBN-10: 1494036460ISBN-13: 9781494036461Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.40d

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the...

The amount of attention focused on Apollo 11 was enormous. Sending a man to the Moon was not simply an American achievement, but an achievement for the entire world. By Apollo 17, the space race was over and the fascination with the Apollo mission...