2,647円 Wyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West’s most notorious range war. Having delved more deeply than previous writers into land and census records, newspapers, and trial transcripts, Davis has produced an all-new interpretation. He looks at the conflict from the perspective of ...

661円 Excerpt CHAPTER I. HOW THE TERRITORY WAS ACQUIRED In San Francisco in the early fifties, there was a house on the northeast corner of Stockton and Washington, of considerable architectural pretensions for the period, which was called the "Government Boarding House." The cause of this appellation ...

164円 Confederate Military History is a 12-volume series of books written and/or edited by former Confederate general Clement A. Evans that deals with specific topics related to the military personalities, places, battles, and campaigns in various Southern United States, including those of the Confeder...

1,243円 After the Civil War, the building of the transcontinental railroad was the nineteenth century's most transformative event. Beginning in 1842 with a visionary's dream to span the continent with twin bands of iron, Empire Express captures three dramatic decades in which the United States effectivel...

348円 This book contains the complete collection of all 716 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in Arkansas at the time of the Great Depression in the United States. The narratives in this varied collection include stories of life as a slave, life af...

1,691円 The first president born after America's independence ushers in a new era of no-holds-barred democracy The first "professional politician" to become president, the slick and dandyish Martin Van Buren was to all appearances the opposite of his predecessor, the rugged general and Democratic champio...

164円 Though he had served with distinction during the Civil War, it was Porter Alexanders memoirs that have kept his name alive today. Though many prominent officers on both sides wrote memoirs, Porter Alexanders were among the most insightful and often considered by historians as the most evenhanded....

661円 This edition features a linked Table of Contents. CONTENTS (abridged list) PART FIRST. INTRODUCTION. THE OBJECT OF THIS WORK. CHAPTER I. ORIGIN OF POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS. ... CHAPTER XVII. BANISHMENT OF POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS. PART SECOND. MIRACLE IN SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS. PERSONS TRAINED BY A...

164円 John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 8 May 1873) was a British philosopher, economist and civil servant. An influential contributor to social theory, political theory, and political economy, his conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control. He wa...

439円 Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. The American Civil War started when eleven southern ‘slave’ states declared their independence from the United States of America. Abraham Lincoln’s Republican government were strongly against slavery and fought to abolish it and keep the coun...

3,150円 "This is cultural history of the first order, and it is liberal and humane history at its very best."ーDavid Cannadine An essential work for anyone who wishes to understand the social history of the nineteenth century, Schnitzler's Century is the culmination of Peter Gay's thirty-five years of sc...

2,642円 This account, penned by a noted British military historian of the late nineteenth century, remains one of the best narratives of a nineteenth century battle yet published. Henderson based this detailed and considered account of one of the opening battles of the Franco-Prussian War upon not only G...